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Tombmas Spooks

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 11m

That’s a good one too

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 25m

Newest AI hater dropped

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years.

arstechnica.com

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 2h

When I struggled with something writing-wise I take a walk. And 100% of the time I end up figuring out the solution. I would never, ever, ever, ask a machine to do that for me. Wtf.

ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 2h

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1h

Saw-goo-ruh National Park

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

It’s interesting that almost all the replies are about place names when the question isn’t specifically about that.

Anyway, “Saguaro”.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

I want to unsubscribe from tech

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 2h

Her: He's coming... I think he has a gun. What should I do?

AI: Have you tried surrendering?

Her: ...What? Y-you want me to surrender to a man who broke into my house with a gun?

AI: This unexpected tactic may achieve unexpected results. The following are five key phrases from Hostages dot com...

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 13h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

buff.ly

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

Fan fictions has gone too far

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

We could try to accelerate Sam Altman to a third the speed of light, you know for science.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

Can’t speak for other people but personally my default state is always nice or more specifically kind.

Towards inanimate objects I’m neither acting nice nor mean. I don’t say please to my phone charger or call my spoon names.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in a room .

Alt: The office ugh nervous meme

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

Because it’s a human or animal :)

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

Much better

Old computers on metal storage shelves, now less crooked

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

Yeah lol, I gotta sell that thing on to someone that gives it TLC but it’s honestly too heavy and awkward to ship.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2h

I don’t think so, I think these people might just suck at being mean or you’re too awesome to be affected. :)

The criteria is _can feel emotions_ not necessarily _does feel emotions specifically because targeted_.

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 5h

The world is a better place with your paintings

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 5h

UGH what a bummer

this is one of the most useful labelers

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 7h

This labeler will be shutting down. We will first be unlabeling everyone who is labeled and then will cease to operate. As the unlabeling operation will take an unknown amount of time, we are not setting a specific timeline other than as soon as possible.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 6h

any random moderately successful small restaurant creates 20 jobs

imagine how many little businesses that $38 million could spawn if we *correctly* allocated that capital to *actual job producers* (which are always small business)

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...