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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 8h

If you stopped bank robbers it would kill the whole robbery industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, noted starlet, Gray Gradient.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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S.M. Pritchard @smpritchard.bsky.social · 1d

A truly remarkable feat, when you really sit down and appreciate everything that went into this image.

Hopefully one day things like this become commonplace.

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 2d

My “Frankenstein was the doctor’s name” will always be “Dracula could go out during the day”

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 2d

part of the whole promise of bluesky, the reason we put up with lax moderation, was that we could moderate ourselves, and choose what we wanted and didn't want to see, and apparently that's a problem now that we don't want to see silicon valley's latest worthless garbage

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 2d

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.bsky.social · 3d

I hate how rich instinctually break their toys at the slightest pushback.

Try to unionize? Close the branch. Criticize their book? Gotta become a diehard terf. Want a website without nazis? Get banned for asking wrong.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 3d

I do not wish to learn about the "protocols" of the social media site I am on. I just want to make lil jokes with my friends and not see nazis. Why is this so hard for anyone who makes a social media site to understand

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3d

Even from beyond the grave she’s still winning

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Plate Stealer @platestealer.bsky.social · Feb 15

The thing about "prompt engineering" is that you don't even need AI to do it. Just write the prompt. I can write stegosaurus-with-huge-naturals.jpg and your mind does the rest

jay marie 🏳️‍⚧️ werewolf time @jmawork.bsky.social · Feb 15

If this is your reaction to someone telling you to not post AI, buddy idfk what to tell you

Screenshot of a post from Open Culture @opencultire.bsky.social:

"OK next time I will go out and take art lessons for a month, then spend an afternoon on a sketch, just to make my point. Thank you!"

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 3d

I’m rewatching #CriticalRole from thurs, and I completely missed that Aabria has a “diamond spider” that’s Task from #TheWizardTheWitchAndTheWildOne!
#CriticalRoleSpoilers

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 3d

Same. Just never got invested in the culture, and at this point it seems like SO much money.

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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 3d

So we can’t be mean to AI on Bluesky because it might have feelings…

But transphobes can continue being mean to trans people on Bluesky, which means Bluesky assumes we don’t even MSYBE have feelings.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 3d

You know the wild thing? I remembered them bigger.
Memory’s weird.

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · 3d

These guys make a habit of only saying DEI because saying you are against diversity, equality and inclusion makes you sound like a cartoon villain.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 3d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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🎃 Xero Reynolds 🎃 @artificerind.bsky.social · 3d

We have literally hit the apex of bad faith arguments from proponents of generative AI/LLMs.

Let me be clear: No.

Being against this tech is not, and shall never be, equal to bigotry against humans.

Sit. The. Fuck. Down.

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 3d

And I’m just now wondering if Marisha’s character in the latest CR campaign is deliberately in conversation with that…

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 3d

What was the… Areola Borealis? The Dragonborn barbarian whose player specifically requested “the biggest tits they could put on a puppet”?
And we all got jumpscared by the preview of the poster on Twitter.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 4d

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 4d

The way he rolls into himself while transforming is so good

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 5d

I think “The Smashing Machine” should have been a title for a Wallace and Gromit film instead.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 4d

Sigh
Sit down, you're not going to leave bluesky, you aren't going to abandon the only replacement for twitter you have and you all know mastodon is worse.
I've been here for years, at this point. Can we actually do something that works instead of spamming the reviews and then leaving lol

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Townsend S. Wright @townsend.bsky.social · 4d

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