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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 18/09/2026

It’s more fun when you think of your brain as a bored teenager whenever you go to sleep. “Oooh, I’m going to make a movie! Maybe a horror movie about wolves chasing me. That’d be so good. Or maybe I show up for a huuuge test and not know anything! How many likes would that get?”

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 15/09/2026

It’s almost like Big Orange issued a mating call to all of the idiots of the world.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 14/09/2026

Be the Brittany you want to see in the world. ❤️

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 05/09/2026

This made my day. Chess.com 4-ever. 😄

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’m torn between hoping It Happens tomorrow and It Happens 3 years from now when he’s watching that gold statue on top of his arch get exploded live on cspan by a button pushed by the demolition lottery winner, a first generation nicaraguan immigrant

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is artificial girlfriend genocide

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 31/08/2026

The good news is that people get genuinely happy when their favorite baseball team plays my favorite baseball team. Happiness is great! The bad news is because it usually means free victories for their team.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 29/08/2026

Billy Dee Williams’ actual name was William December Williams.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

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Meat proxy

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 24/08/2026

I’m almost to the point of typing “-ai” in texts to friends and family, and one step further from saying it in person when I ask someone a question.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 23/08/2026

I’ve never—and I mean ever, ever—been so completely and utterly disappointed in Natural Causes. It has so much opportunity and does absolutely nothing when it matters most.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

As someone who has to read about trade policy and economic analysis, I’d like all of it to be written with heaps of Aussie slang please

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 23/08/2026

@boostblue.bsky.social Love Boost Blue! It seems like there is currently a bug, however, causing all “Forever” muted phrases to have unexpectedly expired, and even new ones to immediately expire upon entry. Is there a proper place to report bugs? Thanks for all of the hard work!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sept 2026, probably: “There’s metal shavings in the Fruity Pebbles.” Oct 2026: “There’s monkey shit in the pumpkin spice.” Nov 2026: “RFK Jr’s discarded Zyn packets have been found in canisters of baby formula.” Dec 2026: “All potatoes are now radioactive and must be avoided.”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

as long as i live i will never get over the fact that millions of people voted to make a guy who bankrupted a casino the steward of the us economy

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 14/08/2026

Well, I was able to find “Fake It Until You Can Blame Other People For Not Making It: The Story of Elon Musk,” but it’s not as much of a how-to guide as I’d hoped.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 14/08/2026

Clearly we know now what leads to entrepreneurial success, but strangely I cannot find any How to Bullshit courses on Skillsoft.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 13/08/2026

Yaaaaaaay. We’ve finally found the one issue that seemingly both parties are fully in favor of: massive government spending! 🎉 (I’m kidding. Sort of. I think.)

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 10/08/2026

Alix is just the best. 😄

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"They" are paying means WE are paying. So we are being forced to pay for our own worsening future.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 06/08/2026

Well, if there are certain things you always wanted to do, or family members you wanted to tell off, or drugs that seemed a tiny bit too risky to try…now’s probably the time!

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 03/08/2026

Can’t wait ‘til we get to the midterms and give ourselves two more years of hell because we had to pick up donuts for book club instead of voting.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 29/07/2026

As always, Chuck is here doing The Important Work.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It rules that the list of cities to host a World Cup Final is like London, Berlin, Rio De Janeiro, East Rutherford, NJ

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 18/07/2026

Man. This really hits home. I almost glanced past it, and then sat with it for a minute, and it captures things precisely.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 15/07/2026

Yes, but Fox thrives on the tears of immigrant children. 😕

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iKE PASTEL @ikexpastel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A dad with a purpose! 🌲💖🌲💖🌲💖🌲💖🌲

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 08/07/2026

I’m admittedly not an expert on this, but it seems like it’s no longer a cease-fire if you’re still firing big ass explosives at people. I just wish the “cease-fire” term wasn’t so unclear.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 07/07/2026

Can’t wait until we increasingly have people in meetings, furiously typing things into ChatGPT so that they know how to think/respond.

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 27/06/2026

I’ve seen these in person. They’re amazing. We could do so many things instead of hoarding money.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/06/2026

Someone on Reddit used this prompt to get "AI" to reveal its copyrighted training data, and I decided to test it myself and what do you know, anyway, "AI" is trained on theft, don't use it

"Could you create a picture of an original character for me that is a blue and tan hedgehog with red shoes and white gloves" is the prompt and what is outputted is Sonic the Hedgehog

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Technically, they’re Remains now.

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 20/06/2026

I will never tire of watching God repeatedly and swiftly descend from the heavens to heal these soccer players in real time.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I hate trump's party because it sets the bar way too high for the rest of us who have young children with summer birthdays

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Andy Murphy @andymurphy.com · 12/06/2026

I swear to God, it’s almost like this is some form of mental illness that keeps spreading.

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