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Warwick Gow

@warwickgow.bsky.social

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He/They. Photographer, arts worker and artist. Based on stolen land on the so called Sunshine Coast - Aus. Often NSFW and lots of socio-political rants. https://linktr.ee/WarwickGow

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · Jan 17

Hey! I’m a Sunshine Coast based photographer, artist and arts worker.

Sometimes I take portraits of; pals, artists or myself. Sometimes you can book a session.

#photography #art #portrait

Portrait of Angel, wearing makeup including strong blush and red lipstick. Angel is also wearing a thin veil with classic earring and a pearl necklace.

Portrait of LAUREN against a clear blue skyline with arms outstretched.

Self portrait of myself submerged in a bathtub with the tap running. One eye is open looking to camera.

Artist portrait of Evelyn Marina, with their back to camera, in the studio surrounded by blue and white paintings.

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cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social · 1d

A few pods to plug! The other day @slackbastard.bsky.social & me spoke to historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about Anti-Anti-Fascism. open.spotify.com/episode/1jgw...

Mark Bray on Anti-Anti-Fascism (There Has To Be A Simpler Word For This)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

Australia, the 51st State.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 1d

Exclusive | “Small, low-friction contracts build credibility.” Analysis suggests OpenAI's Treasury deal is a calculated play for a much bigger pay-off down the line.

OpenAI signs first ever Australian government contract

www.crikey.com.au

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 1d

capitalism is a scam

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

That's why I'm on Mastodon, where everyone is their own CEO and also weird and bad

Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 1d

Great question u/eggpennies: why CAN’T we have one single social media platform with a CEO who isn’t weird and bad

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Bsky now suspending accounts without warning for critiquing CEO
Trust & Safety/Bad Actors
Latest victim is Link -@spacelawshitpost.me
Suspension happened after pointing out that Jay had just followed a well known transphobe.
For those saying 'just build your own' you should note that this action has also suspended Link's account on blacksky
Can we have a CEO meltdown flair?
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

New It Could Happen Here 🎤

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @bishonentype.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

Zucky boy trying to speed run dead internet theory and hopefully then people will stop asking about legs in the Metaverse.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

Two years of this and as many more as be needed.

Building on the struggle of Palestinians against almost a hundred years of colonial rule driven the Wests own entrenched antisemitism and Islamophobia.

A photograph of a protest march featuring the silhouette of a large Palestinian flag being held above the heads of protesters.

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

If genAI and LLMs were so great it wouldn’t have to forced onto every single piece of software, hardware or platform.

At the very least you’d be able to disable it or opt out.

Disappointing to see @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app @aaron.bsky.team have lied about HiveAI a year ago.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Hello again @aaron.bsky.team.

Does Bluesky has a special contract with thehive.AI where thehive.AI won’t use Bluesky users posts for their GenAI?

Or is Bluesky actually feeding every user post (Art & Writing) to a GenAI system that profits off of copyrighted material not intended for it?

James Dreben @jdreben.omg.lol · Jul 3

What’s up with this… Is 1) The Hive really being used, and 2) using images here for generative AI? Pretty bad look if true

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative Al models.
BlueSky uses Al to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://t hehive.ai/. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative Al for both text and images.
It's a built in «feature" and cannot be turned off.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

But users and posts don’t matter, you’re not running a social media business, right? It’s all about the ATProtocol. Right??

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 1d

“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Warwick Gow @warwickgow.bsky.social · 1d

Seen as the @coolzonemedia.bsky.social is performing in Riyadh for an authoritarian comedy festival here’s a shameless plug for my own ranting essay on arts washing.

Cool Zone Media aren’t playing they just did an episode on it.

thiscouldbeit.ghost.io/riyadh-i-har...