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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

EG fell for it too. :( The Capcom presentation contains a slide with "AI世代のゲームエンジンへ" - the article omits the "へ", for one, but the issue is that while 世代 means 'generation', it's in the 'console generation' sense, not like GenAI. Without へ, translation software gets it totally wrong.

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JesterJamble @jesterjamble.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My handful of shots on the most recent episode of #monkeywrench ! @zeurel.bsky.social and the whole crew were so fantastic I’m very excited to see how the show progresses! Go check out ep 6 if you haven’t yet!! Music: Ockeroid

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed

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LightBox Expo @lightboxexpo.com · 01/10/2026

Read this exclusive interview from Carlos Aguilar about LightBox Expo from our co-founders, Bobby Chiu and Jim Demonakos on Cartoon Brew! Check it out here: www.cartoonbrew.com/festivals/li... Or visit the link in our bio!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 02/10/2026

Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military, as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as a top negotiator for Trump on Gaza.

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Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military

Kushner’s private equity company is the biggest shareholder in a Tel Aviv firm that invests heavily in arms makers.

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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 02/10/2026

Please help Juniper. She's behind on fundraising due to bad luck and illness, and her landlord is really strict. If she loses her home she doesn't even have a working car she could live in. And she's taking care of kids too.

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What’s in the Cornell lawsuit?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026

Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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ExtremesAndBreakdowns @awesometania.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seems good, safe, and freedom adjacent.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 27/09/2026

sorry i really hate asking but if anybody needs promo art, concept art, books or album covers, anything, please consider hiring me

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: LLms are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Someone making a ton of money off of AI: “ai is the future and it’s inevitable” Someone not making any money off of AI: “this looks like shit”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026

SUPER excited for this, after a year of chasing the angle, 30 minutes of waddling around up and down a parking garage, and over 6 hours of editing: A murder of crows flies towards the camera, in front of the full Moon, set to Blind Guardian's "Nightfall" and the sound of the crows themselves. 🪶 🐦‍⬛

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are people who don’t listen to modern pop country better than people who do listen to modern pop country? Yes, obviously.

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MARCY BONES! 🎃 @marcybones64.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

internalized cruelty like this is how our masters keep us down by turning us into prison guards

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 17/09/2026

The government acquired over six months of phone records belonging to Georgia Fort without a judge's approval. Congress must pass the PRESS Act to block federal agencies from seizing reporters' records.

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Georgia Fort Phone Records DHS Investigation

DHS used an obscure tariff law to secretly obtain journalist Georgia Fort's phone records.

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Alexis Royce @alexisroyce.ink · 15/11/2024

Daily affirmations.

A screenshot from Lupin the third. Subtitle: I’m strong, I’m smart and I am good looking. And I have a cute face.

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🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟‍♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You ever think about how Art programs were added to schools because as labor technology advanced people thought that the next gen needed to learn how to have hobbies if they ended up working less And then boomers left a world where we work more than ever and AI is destroying hobbies/interests 🫠

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It *is* a little unsettling that she exists somewhere on the Don Bluth Mouse Girl Compass

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are legally obligated to post this message announcing the recall of InfoWars Cats For Men™ Cat Food For Men™.

The image is a recall notice for "Cats For Men™ Cat Food For Men™" products, showing a can and a bag of the cat food. The notice states that the FDA found the packaging misleading, suggesting human consumption, and announces the product's recall and removal from the InfoWars Store.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

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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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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old. This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare. slate.com/technology/2...

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We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.

His doctors agree that this care is right for him.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The new "Magic of Disney Animation Experience" puts a real bad taste in my mouth. A massive amount of the companies profits comes from nostalgia for past animated films and merchandising of modern ones yet Disney treats its artists/creatives like shit, glamorizing their careers as they lay them off.

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bells ! @skelebells.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

having eyes is a gateway drug to spending hundreds of dollars

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Emily Abele @zemthings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They were right.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/09/2026

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They hollow out the industries by stealing content, then are being forced into use by corporations that are firing people thinking they can be replaced. Its a jobs killer If it was so great there wouldn’t be forced consumption. AI results in monoculture and monoculture is death of innovation.

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ExtremesAndBreakdowns @awesometania.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This video has raised ~80k and has 30 hours left to reach a $100k goal for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?... There are other, more pressing causes, but if you've got some change to spare.

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Yes, she really was That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Animation Workers Ignited @aworkersignited.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Stand with the Disneyland Entertainment Cast Members! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st... . Disney is unsurprisingly treating their parade and cast members like dirt in their first negotiations 😤😤 sign and spread the word! #workersrightsarehumanrights #payupdisney

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Stand with the Disneyland Entertainment Cast Members!

Sign your name today and show your solidarity with the Cast Members of Disneyland! By signing your name, you let the workers know that we have your support and you let the Disneyland management know t...

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Crash Tako | Indie Animator @crashtako.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sometimes I do think the fans of the indie animation community have gotten a bit too comfortable with providing unsolicited criticism/harsh words to free,accessible art made by individuals/small creators and not directing that same energy at bigger studios with budget 😭✨

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ExtremesAndBreakdowns @awesometania.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Animation. Is. Not. A. Fucking. Genre.

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/08/2026

Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying. www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-i...

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Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case

Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Four decades of animation and VFX history are up for sale this weekend as Phil Tippett closes his legendary Berkeley studio. 'Star Wars' models, 'Starship Troopers' miniatures, 'Mad God' artwork, storyboards, prototypes, and much more. “Everything goes.” www.cartoonbrew.com/auctions/tip...

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Phil Tippett Closes Berkeley Studio After Nearly 40 Years

The Oscar-winning animation and VFX pioneer is selling off decades of artifacts, but doesn't plan to retire anytime soon: “I will die with my sword in my hand.”

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BJ Weinman @bjweinman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Functional unemployment" nearing 25% in U.S., analysis finds youtu.be/-y2gKIGFTns?...

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"Functional unemployment" nearing 25% in U.S., analysis finds

YouTube video by CBS News

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