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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did you ask him if he's suffered a serious blow to the head after he mentioned "synthetic AI focus groups"?

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another 80-year-old fossil who's trying to ruin the future she won't live to see.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You guys absolutely *leap* at the chance to capitulate to the far-right. You've thoroughly proven you're useless and can never be trusted or relied on.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whoawhoawhoa, you mean that wasn't the real John Kerry singing with George W. Bush??

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I suppose it's normal for supporting actors to be jealous of the obvious leads, but this is obsessive.

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Posted this in the bad place ages back but it is my duty to inform EVERYONE of how jealous Kelsey Grammer was of the Frasier dog

"It's widely rumored that I hate the dog, and it's kind of fun to perpetuate the myth. The truth is, I have nothing against Moose. The only difficulty I have is when people start believing he's an actor. Acting to me is a craft, not a reflex. It takes years to master, and though it does have its rewards, the reward I seek is not a hot dog. Moose does tricks; I memorize lines, say words, even walk around and stuff. But I don't need a trainer standing off-camera, gesticulating wildly and waving around a piece of meat, to know where I'm supposed to look."

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/1452879/frasier-co-star-frustrated-kelsey-grammer/

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Never, ever trust "the cloud".

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I personally wouldn't find it "humiliating" if the US were to withdraw our military from around Iran & lift sanctions. I do find it humiliating that we massacred 120 schoolchildren & no one in the US political system cares or will do anything about it.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A hideous, hideous new phase.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I read his name as "Eric Fails", which would be more appropriate.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

me every day until the day an Ellison legally has to pay $7 million a day to Warner Bros shareholders until whenever the hell a huge and complicated lawsuit is resolved:

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Homer Simpson Tells Marge to Hurry Up!

ALT: Homer Simpson Tells Marge to Hurry Up!

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I. M. Noone @ianmnoone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Amnesty report JKR doesn't want people to see. Download, distribute

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Correction: his name is Slopya.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I fully agree and couldn't have put it better.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Having tragically been sucked into the void of trying to "debate" with AI "artists", I can confirm that most of them are fueled by envy and laser-focused on quantity and speed of output. Utterly artless people.

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've definitely noticed this among "AI" "artists" who clearly see copyright as standing between them and getting to claim and monetize LLM output made up of other peoples' actual, stolen work. 🙃

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s worth emphasising: the public have reached this conclusion all by themselves, because they sure as shit weren’t told it by the US press.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I *wish* the Times would actually publish this.

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Mr. Hover Hands 👻️ @mrhands31.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The games company I was working for searched for funding for *three years* before ultimately folding because its coffers had ran completely dry

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/05/2026

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔙 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for Acclaim Entertainment, Inc’s musical sizzle reel from E3 1995

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Spent the night building up our girl gang in Yakuza Kiwami 3. I sure hope a big stupid loser baby didn't fill his diaper on live television again while I wasn't paying attention.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 06/07/2026

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Adding "try a chelada" to my to do list.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And now mom says ice cream isn’t dinner. What’s going on? What does this mean? Dinner is food and last time I checked, ice cream is food. So what’s this really all about? The answer is simple: power

A screenshot of Tucker Carlson with a filter used to make him look roughly 10 years old

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/06/2026

Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session: Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.” Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health. shorturl.at/OlnQl

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Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News

The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/06/2026

Centrist Americans being mystified by Kier Starmer's unpopularity despite him doing everything they're always telling Democrats to do is so funny. Just the biggest dumbasses around.

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 22/06/2026

Who's the seller, M. C. Escher?

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

But what was known in 1964 was largely abandoned in 2024, and what was offered instead was a questionable survivalist theory of democracy-one that proposed to erect a shield over one group while providing weaponry to destroy another.
For reasons moral, pragmatic, and perhaps mostly ancestral, the next black presidency will have to think bigger. To its list of adversaries-which include a renewed white supremacy, a rapacious billionaire class, an energetic Christian nationalism-it must add another, perhaps more formidable than them all: empire.

But for many Arab and Muslim Americans, "America before Trump" meant returning to a time when FBI informants sought to entrap them, when police agencies spied on their mosques, and calling a presidential candidate a Muslim was a slur. Seemingly blind to this trauma, the Harris campaign followed up the Democratic National Convention snub by deploying Bill Clinton to Michigan. There, in the state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, Clinton told an audience that Israel had been forced "to kill civilians" by Hamas, and that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Jewish people because "they were there first." Meanwhile, Harris welcomed her endorsement by Dick Cheney, who was not a very popular vice president but was a zealous defender of torturing Muslims.
The cumulative message was not "We don't need your vote." It was "We don't value your life

In 1965, the year of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Coretta Scott King stood before an anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden and rejected survivalist democracy:

Have you often wondered as I have, why it is that the same president Johnson who speaks so eloquently for civil rights, and who has been so moved by the struggle for the right to vote and the anguish of the poor, can be so callous about the Vietnamese and so apparently
thoughtless on foreign policy. I think it is because we permit him to be.

And that story forces a very basic question: What was the point of all this?
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer? And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? And if they did not, if they believed that the "poor and needy" meant those within the empire as well as those without, then what moral mandate does that place upon their children?
And if their children have come only to praise, not check, empire, then why have they come at all?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

israel needs a forever war. whenever peace is close, it ramps up the bombing to derail things

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

she's (accidentally) doing god's work.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Gosh, do I enjoy the FO phase.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hundreds chanting, "FUCK AI!" "Hundreds of people marched through downtown Vancouver over the weekend to protest a proposed cluster of AI data centers backed by Telus, voicing concerns about water use, electricity demand, and what that could mean for local communities." www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Watching people surrender the entire experience of human ability and artistic expression to a machine that understands nothing and expresses nothing, choosing to become a passenger in their own "creativity", is such a stupid waste.

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Bry Kotyk @brykotyk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Imagine typing prompts into a plagiarism machine instead of drawing a sketch, painting on a canvas, capturing a moment in nature with a camera, writing your own story, framing a shot and capturing human expression, making a film that's a collaboration of many different artists.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.

The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026

Satire is dead.

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