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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 10h

believe it or not this is what a datacenter looked like before ai

strong bad and coach z, both cartoon characters, in front of beige computers labeled datum center

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Good to see reporters calling what's happening in San Francisco what it really is: Surveillance maximalism. The leadership of the city sees no problem they can't solve by defunding resources that prevent crime and pouring all their money, plus all the money offered by billionaires, into policing.

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‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD uses camera technology Israelis used to track Palestinians

BriefCam uses AI to analyzes hours of video inside the Real Time Investigative Center. Critics say the technology is just as invasive as facial recognition.

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does Casey Newton’s partner still work at Anthropic or nah

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plz don’t get mad at me because I mixed up Homestar Runner characters in the alt text

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believe it or not this is what a datacenter looked like before ai

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(it’s old and bad, but I tested it and it should still work)

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wait a cricut or something? I got one from Depot For Creative Reuse a while back and I use it v infrequently if you want to borrow it!

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like, this is from Time Magazine 4 days ago

"Over the course of President Trump's second term, we have seen U.S. officials engage in a sustained, multifaceted campaign of interference and destabilization in Brazil," the lawmakers said in the Sept. 24 letter, signed by
30 House Democrats and Independent Sen.
Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democratic Party.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 20h

honestly whenever I see the far right do better in an election in Latin America than expected, I can say “the CIA probably ratfucked this” and be right more than 70% of the time

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9 hours of shooting lol that was so much fun but also holy shit how exhausting

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 22h

season one finale of the x files

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 22h

it’s nice though, like I enjoy being told what to do and having someone check in

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23h

ok faking sex is surprisingly difficult and in fact harder than actually having sex in many cases?

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses

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overzealous moderation of women? that’s the Bluesky Promise™️

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

on set for this short film :) it’s always weird when someone does my makeup professionally like “oh I could look like this more often if only I was a liiiitle less lazy”

Cara in a blue mesh lingerie top, she’s smiling and her hand is across her body. She’s wearing makeup.

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"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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ahhhhh yes I’m very excited to pick his brain about some of these ideas lol

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I think the work will be stronger this way, even if it’ll be harder

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fwiw the original plan for this was to use a local multimodal LLM w layers removed for image captioning, but after talking about it w @femmeandfauna.bsky.social, I realized it would be hard to land a critique of these systems if these systems are used, even if those uses are maximally ethical

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plus this will give me an excuse to get all the old, pre-LLM-style machine learning tools running hardware-accelerated on my mac :)

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going back and forth on "do I feel ok using generated content from an LLM in my art if it's run locally and not the primary focus of the piece" and right now I'm landing on "no, but I feel okay using a CNN or GAN"

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

wanted to make a piece of art about the defamiliarization that AI induces without using an LLM directly, and I think I just found an approach that may work, v excited about it

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I've not shared this on Bluesky before, so here it is. At 1:48 PM (BST), on Friday September 7, 2018, I reached the greatest height of my posting career. This is my magnum opus. I repost it here for posterity, for future generations to enjoy.

A thread of replies on Twitter dated Sep 7, 2018.

@blanchardphd tweet: I've reviewed my share of manuscripts for scholarly journals. If I thought an author's language was ridiculous (eg, "gender assigned at birth" for "sex"), I might say so, but I never wrote that an author *must* use this language or *must not* use that.

@2damntrans reply: BOFA are particularly bad at this.

@blanchardphd reply: What does BOFA stand for?

@2damntransreply: IT STANDS FOR BOFA DEEZ NUTS IN YA MOUF U DIRTY OLD GIT

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brave lil ghoster @lizandry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

starting early, to alleviate some dread: hey hi i’m liz. i’m in poverty because i have crohn’s disease and it took 6 years to get the dx, and 3-4 more to find an effective treatment. i am actively looking for work, but need ~$4k to bridge the gap venmo, csh, pypl: $lizandry thank you!!

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I just finished playing AC7 for approx 2hrs so I may be particularly biased rn but AC rocks

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