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I don't think the copyright issues are the biggest problem with this at all. If we're not taxing or fining or suing companies that do this, we'll only ever have companies that charge someone $10 to burn the commons, because that's way cheaper than making anything useful.

It's the equivalent of pollution, or those trucks that charge companies to drive around towns with no cargo just so people have to look at the advert on the back. You make a bit of money, but not because any value is created, only because all the costs are externalised to the rest of us.

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I have no idea how much it costs to run the entire internet for a year. Call it an even billion dollars. That means even if an AI company somehow makes a profit one day, the first $19bn/year of that profit (by these made up numbers) is just money they've indirectly stolen from everyone else.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 17h

I think the cost of this is underestimated. People talk about "95% of my traffic is AI scrapers" and it maybe sounds like that would increase your costs by 95%, when in fact the human traffic that used to be 100% of your cost is 5% of your new cost. Your costs have increased 20 times.

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I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026

Have to assume what's happened here is someone did the maths, put it in a presentation to make the point that "this is a thing we can do" and the journalist wrote it down thinking it was some amazing secret polling they'd done

Andrew @andrewt.net · 02/10/2026

I'll be honest, a part of me hopes the Independents's crossword survives separately from the newspaper, just because I never buy the paper and the current web implementation is bloody awful

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who amongst us hasn't been tempted...

Accountant calls police after being asked to attend meeting

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what a qood website this is, trulv ai is the future

This photo choice is really bad. I mean yes, haha, look at this buffoon who has more money than god but still looks like a six year old nerd from a children's cartoon, but if we keep telling people this is what the pervert glasses look like, nobody will realise when people are wearing them

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They must be losing money on the cheeseburger, which means by eating it you're reducing the market viability of the meat industry, thereby clearly furthering the aims of vegetarianism. Clearly you have a moral obligation to eat it

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The Grammar Police work for The Powers That Are

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Someone needs to tell the people behind Tilly Norwood that that isn't what "model-turned-actress" means

So many species of cranks do this! If you tell them they're talking nonsense they accuse you of not engaging with their arguments, but you can't engage without granting about 90% of their nonsense so you can argue against the 10% where the actual claim is

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Flag of the United States - Wikipedia

Nice. Wikipedia's always great for timelines of this stuff, you should scroll through the historical flags of the USA, there's some absolutely cursed designs in there

en.wikipedia.org

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wait no, my mistake, that's a photo of a 1920 passport (beneath a paragraph about 1902 ones). the crest dates back to at least 1790 but i haven't found the six-pointed great star arrangement before 1920 (before then the arrangement didn't seem fixed). the point stands though, it's over a century old

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Smylers @smylers.uk · 01/10/2026

This crest does seem to have been in continuous use on the US passport since at least 1902 platform.keesingtechnologies.com/history-of-t... which is 46 years before the modern state of Israel was founded

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Well you should've tied them down better.

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Time was, Graham Linehan was arrested for this

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laura - yscmab out now on steam!! @freezydorito.lol · 01/10/2026

I enjoy that both question marks made the acronym

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heyheyhey YOU SHOULD CONSIDER MAKING A BURGER EX IS OUT. AVAILABLE. RELEASED. 3 QUID. CHEAPER THAN A MEAL DEAL. INCLUDES A PHYSICAL HAMBURGER IF YOU SEE ME IRL AND ASK FOR IT. PLS BUY IT. store.steampowered.com/app/5140030/ ALSO CHECK OUT THE AWESOME TRAILER @nikkitaftw.bsky.social MADE

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expensive and high maintenance?

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I mean, yes, she kind of did: the byline credit. *You* might not think getting an LLM to generate half the paragraphs and then calling yourself the author is deceptive, and that's fair enough, but obviously lots of other people do and I don't think you can argue they're *wrong* to feel that way.

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Nobody noticed for ages that a lot of low-end beef products were partly or wholly made of cheaper horse meat but I don't recall anyone expecting them to therefore be chill about it when they did find out

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ok AI bros, are we getting vinyl recommendations from Claude or is Sora 6 generating personalised music the future, because it can't be both, you need to decide

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Andrew @andrewt.net · 29/09/2026

Super Intelligence is when you're smart and also take mushrooms

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and they say humans don't hibernate

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Posture Adjusted To Equally Incorrect Posture

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?

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Do you understand that "what is art" is a thing two reasonable people might disagree about? There is no simple, authoritative definition. You're just insisting your opinion is fact and anyone who disagrees must be stupid or acting in bad faith, and it makes you look honestly pretty silly

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Why do you think I'm incapable of processing what you're saying? I understand perfectly, I just think you're wrong, and you haven't given me any reason to change my mind. It's like you can't fathom the concept of someone listening to you and not immediately being convinced

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See, now we're going to have an argument about the definition of "imagine". This is why I don't think "appeal to dictionary" is a good way to have these discussions — apart from anything else,that's just not what dictionaries are for. Can you really not make your case without them?

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Does it? If you take a photo of a castle you didn't build, on a hill you didn't landscape, against a sunset you didn't design, what did you imagine? Like, you did an art and it's probably great, but was it *imaginative* really?

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I rate photography as an art form, but I think this definition, which hinges on imagination specifically, pretty clearly excludes it. So why do you think photography is art when the dictionary you literally just cited as evidence that I'm wrong says it's not?

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Ok! I pick this one, and argue that AI generation does not constitute "the conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects" because the objects are produced by a computer program, and therefore objects can only be considered art to the extent that they are not AI-generated

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I want you to either engage properly or go away, I don't mind which

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Oh, you've been perfectly clear. What you haven't done is offer literally any reason at all for me to believe you — other than appealing to some unspecified dictionary definition you haven't even quoted, much less cited

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that's ok as long as you do

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Tell you what. Why don't you try, just as a fun intellectual exercise, to argue your case while pretending that dictionaries don't exist. If your case is really bulletproof, that should be pretty easy, right?

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Just like *you say* AI art does All you've done is reiterate your opinion and add the word "definitionally" as if that makes you correct

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Don't you talk about Their Gelatinous Argument like that. They're the best emo band I know (although to be fair also the worst Philip Pullman trilogy)

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No, you mentioned you did both AI and non-ai art once before, I just didn't think it was terribly relevant and made a flippant reply because I assumed you'd muted me like you said you would. I'd like to see some of your stuff though!

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