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Altair Flame

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10h
Unity literally announced the "AI makes a game for you" thing as an April fool's joke in 2012 - dunking on the creative bankruptcy of the whole concept - before announcing it with a straight face just the other day.
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Z. BoogeyMann Zilla, Semi-Pro Ghoulball @pandangit.com · 9h
You say "please" to train your empathy, a skill you train because you don't actively use it. I say "please" to the bot because I once heard Sam Altman complain how every "please" was costing him money & I figure "serves him right for invading my tools without cause or consent." We're not the same.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h
Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 7h
i refuse to be bound solely by what I can defend as a "good idea". no one else in politics functions under these constraints.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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✟ADRIANNA✟ @duelistpurrely25.bsky.social · 16h
youtu.be/Jemwr-w68K8?... OUTER DARK WITH K.O.G & OWL HOUSE VISUALS. @health.band × @glitchprod.com In special AMV tribute to @danaterrace.bsky.social ENJOY AS ALWAYS. ØØØ #KnightsofGuinevere #TheOwlHouse #NEWMUSIC
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HEALTH x TYLER BATES x DANA TERRACE :: OUTER DARK :: AMV VISUALIZER
YouTube video by †ADRIANNA†
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Marcy Nabors @shadolith.bsky.social · 13h
I wonder if more people would be into xenoblade if they knew the continent-sized giant robot from the box art is canonically a girl
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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 14h
Someone else pointed this out but RSI's can happen and fast and BAD. And I know some of you will say "that doesn't happen to me. It won't happen if you stretch and do this or that" that's *YOUR* body. Other people can do all that and it STILL HAPPENS.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
it’s what the People WANT
3 panel comic

Panel 1 is titled “AI Bros:”
An Ai Bro is standing in front of a TV wearing his default expression (SMUG)

Behind him on the TV is the axe scene from American Psycho where Patrick Bateman is wearing the transparent raincoat and standing next to his ridiculous stereo. Except in this image Christian Bale has been replaced by the AI Bro.

AI bro annoyingly says “People want to put themselves in movies”

Panel 2 and 3 are titled “People:”

Panel 2: 
A Blue Guy holds his phone up to a Yellow Guy and says “Hey! I’ve got a little video from that party”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy sees himself on the phone screen and almost cringes himself into a singularity. He is blushing and squeals “Ohh my Goddd. My FACE and VOICE”
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
news.berkeley.edu
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
when i was a kid my teachers warned us not to click links on Wikipedia because it wasn't safe
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Hell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
r/bonecollecting is currently beating the shit out of an OP who picked up a human femur because Claude told them it was a camel bone
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 10/10/2026
Elite impunity is perhaps the single greatest problem in American politics going back to Gerald Ford’s Watergate pardons. These people keep getting away with it. This needs to stop.
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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I had heard they were mass scanning background actors for AI nonsense, but if it’s already gotten to the point where they’re trying to slip in AI waivers on contracts with big names like Nicolas fucking Cage we’ve got to be even louder and angrier about how much we want all AI out of our media.
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FLAVOR FOLEY @flavorfoley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
「MIRROR MODULATION」 FLAVOR FOLEY's 2nd album is available now! An idiosyncratic symphony of self reflection. 🪞 flavorfoley.com/MM
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Marcy Nabors @shadolith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
MIRROR MODULATION IS HERE!!! In addition to my work on "Clover," I also had the privilege of contributing additional production and arrangement work to "Ballroom [ROUNDTABLE REPRISE]." Thanks so much to FLAVOR FOLEY for the opportunity, and heartfelt congratulations on the release!!! <3 <3 <3
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
variety.com
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
I knew I liked him.
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wes @funnywes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
im taking part in voice actors for palestine this year! for the uninformed, you make a donation, put in a request for any of today's available characters, and YOU get to donate to an amazing cause while getting your very own funny. lots of super talented folks in this thing, go check it out
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gamersnexus.bsky.social @gamersnexus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
DDR3 rides again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c2...
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DDR3 Rides Again, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 10/10/2026
Let me get this straight, the US told the Europeans to stop buying Russian diesel, started buying Russian diesel itself, and is now selling that diesel to the Europeans at a profit? Europe is embarrassing.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluX... HERE WE GOOOOOOOO EPISODE 2!!!!!
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KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: Ep 2 - Wolves Around The Corner
YouTube video by GLITCH
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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 09/10/2026
She's awake. Knights of Guinevere EPISODE 2 IS OUT NOW
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aly ☕ a bit of THIS & THAT @straylize.starlost.cc · 29/09/2026
banger review for dressmaker tbh
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Mike Lacher @mikelacher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/10/2026
Hundreds of protestors march from the site where an ICE agent shot a father in the Bronx on 10/8 to the hospital where he was being held. Defund and abolish ICE. Chinga la migra. 🧵 of photos...
A big crowd of protestors march in protest of an ICE agent shooting a father in the Bronx. Banner up front reads "JUSTICE FOR LORENZO, JOAN AND ALL VICTIMS OF ICE / Party for Socialism & Liberation." Signs read "Chinga la Migra" and "ICE OUT OF NYC"
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Emmeryn 🏳️‍⚧️ Medusa Terminus Out Now!! @gamemakerm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's Anti-Prime Day! What better way to stick it to amazon than to put money (semi-)directly into the pockets of marginalized creators making the horny, violent, queer stories advertisers don't want their products next to? The Gunmetal Olympus bundle, for all that and more: itch.io/b/3756/mecha...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
oh wow people are pissed huh
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
dustin Couch
@Dustinkcouch
nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted
nasa employee: what?
astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted
11:18 PM • 2018-10-29
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
$413 billion of Anthropics compute agreements are non-cancellable, and OpenAI has billions more to pay to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. @edzitron.com asks how they are possibly going to pay this money back? Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaPfdnRoZ4
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just speaking for film & TV there isn't really a job loss due to AI. It's been mostly due to successive punches of pandemic, streaming collapse, union strikes, studio consolidation and interest rates. This trend was in place way before Midjourney was pumping out pictures with 14 fingers.
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White Squirrel 📦 @whitesquirrel.com · 09/10/2026
The company Kiru Made has been exploiting artists, and (before we knew that) we helped them with a convention shipment, and they’ve ignored the invoice and reminders for six months! Just shitty behavior all around, be sure to avoid them!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Yuumei Art @yuumeiart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's mushroom season in Sweden and I've been foraging everyday while walking the floofs in the forest behind my house. My goal is to find the ultimate porcini so naturally I had to draw it 🍄‍🟫🌟 1/3 #mushroom #art #painting
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FLAVOR FOLEY @flavorfoley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
3 days until MIRROR MODULATION releases! >>FLAVOR FOLEY FILE UNLOCKED: 03. Human flavorfoley.com/FFF/hu/
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/10/2026
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are in a glorious, splendiferous, outrageous era of crap! Some call it “high-yield,” some call it “speculative-grade,” but to those of us living in the real world, we know…
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nah, I actually totally understand the puzzle, but I'm pretending I lack object permanence to fuck up their data collection on purpose. Next week I'm going to spend a whole day acting like I can do basic multiplication, then never do it again.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
*gritting my teeth as I repeatedly select the electric shock over the food reward* I bet this is going to make a REALLY funny graph.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Amazingly when you say you're going to make $70B but you actually make $50B, the $20B reduction is considered a "shave". Other words you could use if you wrote articles: * slashes * burns * massively underperforms * significantly misses target
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 09/10/2026
It's international lesbian day, which means legally you have to read my comic
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 09/10/2026
next week on Better Offline: The Hater's Guide To Bonds with @robinwigglesworth.ft.com
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Dooper @dooper.live · 09/10/2026
I fucking love my Trans friends. Fuck off with the transphobic bullshit. Suck my ass. Trans Rights. Remember to fucking vote.
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Spooky Scary Senrab @senrab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hey look it's @illusorywall.bsky.social
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