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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You want to shift the goal posts a little more or come back to the actual discussion? The thing you’re describing, even if it’s real (and I disagree it is), is absolutely not something that would theoretically help more than a handful of people

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You don't need to do it but you probably should if you want to make your life easier
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Nothing about this shit could personally make my life easier or better in any way
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Because you haven't bothered to try it and don't know what it can do
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m as glad the Aces won as the rest of us but no she didn’t. Cunningham is annoyingly going to be there for a while yet, with the worst people you know pretending she’s a star

Las Vegas Aces win!!! This is why you shouldn't talk shit on tiktok. A'ja Wilson just ended Cunningham's career in the WNBA. She's done after this.
Bye Felicia!

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Literally everyone will tell you this

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Early Beatlemania was fuelled by teenage girls, but they won't tell you that.
Women and girls have always been the trendsetters and the tastemakers.”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And NY numbers show a much higher number of antisemitic hate crimes: criminaljustice.ny.gov/system/files...

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

National numbers show an even rate between black folks and Jewish people:

5 hate crime reports per 100,000 among both Jews and black Americans

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Credit where credit’s due this is a very funny own. I don’t think the nightmare amalgamation realized it was doing that tho

Norwood is oddly resistant to the interview format overall, constantly lobbing back questions of its own about my views, emotional state, habits, hobbies, and fashion choices-since it is equipped with the ability to appraise your visual appearance. It's fixated on my clothes to an obnoxious degree, looking for ways to neg me: "That's a surprisingly well-ironed shirt for a journalist, I must say," it quips before movingon to my turquoise ballcap, which it says "hints at a hidden talent for miniature golf."

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This might be the wildest have/have not split I’ve ever seen in a standings table in any sport

WNBA standings where eight teams are 24-16 or above and 7 are 16-24 or below

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Update: someone needs to do a background check on whoever wrote this

A test answer indicating the author of the quiz may have dragged a woman’s lifeless body from a pool

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is where we write our groceries and I came home to this and I can’t stop laughing

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This whole thread (which I can’t link bc qts and replies are disabled) gets at an interesting point, which is that the reason the original movies worked was the chemistry between multiple A-list actors absolutely working their ass off. The remake was a massive dud because it…did not have that

Megan E. Zombi * free Link @zombiscribe.... • 2h Rewatching Men In Black, this movie actually has astounding acting. "Yeah Megan the cast is stacked" yeah but they aren't phoning it in like it's a nothing movie
Like with K first meets J and asks "did he say when" about the world ending. Real concern in the eyes

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

First time I saw the mission load screen from Chaos Gate I started laughing hysterically

Chaos gate mission screen, it’s exactly the same layout as xcom

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you considered instead that it’s possible you’re just deeply stupid

hailey @hailey.at
its been said many times but it is absolutely insane to watch the left shoot themselves in the foot by hopping on this anti-Al train. a massive generational L awaits.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Realistically I do look a bit more like the American knockoff version

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My wife got a new lunch box and Yeah man, sure

Tag that says “hap Tim, make best bag enjoy happy time”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

. @davekarpf.bsky.social is mostly right as per usual in his excellent newsletter, but I will say this: I think it’s important to keep pushing hard against data centers *and* I think it’s important to socially stigmatize AI users as big dumb loser assholes. I have confidence in us we can do both

I'm seeing this same argument pop up a lot, particularly in techno-optimist/reactionary-centrist circles. And there are just three quick things I want to say about it:
1. The math on energy and water usage is complicated. (Read Matteo Wong, "The Truth about Al's Water Use" and Alex Reisner,
"Generative Al Is an Engineering Disaster.") It's complicated because an awful lot depends on design choices and cost calculation. You could build a data center that uses basically no water, and that is powered entirely by solar and batteries. But that would cost a lot more money and take a lot more time. The hyperscalers are treating Al as a race, and are burning cash at a phenomenal rate. So of course the actual environmental costs are much higher than the ones calculated by the industry's bloggers-of-choice.
2. Here's something that isn't complicated: the sheer, unprecedented scale of their proposed buildout. The hyperscalers are aiming to build 10 gigawatt data centers. 10 gigawatts of power is around the same energy consumption as New York City during a heat wave. That's... a lot.

Mastroianni concludes by arguing for a politics of personal responsibility. He writes:
" am a scientist and a writer, and I'm happy to use A.l. to do my job better: I'll let it write code, fetch articles for me to read or flag errors in statistical analyses for me to investigate further. A.l. is a tool.
Its purpose is to serve our purposes. If it does that well, it might be worth the water and electricity it consumes.
I refuse to let A.l. evolve from a tool into a partner. won't let it write my sentences. I don't share with it my fears, hopes or dreams the way I would with a friend or lover. I don't trust its factual claims unless I can check the sources myself. (...)
It should be humiliating to choose A.l. friendships over human ones. It should be cringe to willingly consume computer-generated slop. Trying to pass off a large language model's words as your own should be seen not just as cheating but also as loser behavior.
It might sound idealistic to suggest that every person has some influence over the future of technology. Yet this has proved true over and over again, even in the recent past. Plenty of expensive tech ventures have failed. They weren't banned, voted out or blocked by zoning laws. They failed because people refused to reward them with time and attention: The Metaverse.
Quibi. Nonfungible tokens. A.l. is unlikely to disappear, but the form it takes is up to us.

I'm going to presume this argument is made in good faith. I don't know Mastroianni. Maybe he really is deeply critical of the current trajectory of A.l., and also deeply concerned that the A.I. critics are going about things the wrong way.
But let me just say that his theory-of-change absolutely sucks. The A.I. industry is powerful and fragile. A.I. opponents have landed on a strategy that successfully generates collective action and challenges the industry where it is most vulnerable. And this guy thinks what everyone ought to do instead is focus on their own personal decisions and vague social norms.
The tactic is working. Bad, powerful people are freaked out. Don't listen to their favorite bloggers who say "well, when you think about it from just the right angle, data centers aren't any worse than golf courses."
When you have a tactic that is working, and your opponent doesn't have a good countertactic, the smart move is to keep doing it.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This remains the best line I’ve ever seen in a cartoon

Blight from Batman Beyond asking “do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down”

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Objectively the point of the American Dream, such as it exists now or really ever did, is supposed to be that anyone can come here and achieve it. It’s quite literally the entire point

A right wing dipshit saying the American Dream belongs only to Americans

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

“Hellbender” is a hell of a name for a creature that looks like it should be called the Yellow-Spotted Splort Gunch

The hellbender salamander, aka the yellow-spotted splort gunch

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If he really wanted to lean into the chaos, this would be his answer

Biscuits and gravy. Like actual biscuits rather than cookies. Look British people you have to understand it’s like of like a savory scone but also not? You guys don’t have an analogue for this. I know that concept is tough for you but this is a totally different thing, it’s not even slightly sweet, it’s basically crispy buttered bread. That’s why putting sausage gravy on it rules. We’re not putting it on cookies. I don’t know how many times I have to explain this

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This soft bitch blocked me for saying this but like…bro. The vast majority of successful leftist candidates lately are *absolutely not white men.* Platner is very obviously an outlier *and he’s one most of us warned you about for months*