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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 17/05/2025

Which one of you is buying a swingset along with THREE different trampolines??

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Because they aren’t. It’s never about the beauty of art It’s about contempt Of being able to do with stolen work what other people do with sweat About possibly stealing audience ( attention) from folks who are “dumb” enough to work It’s about getting over on others

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 16/05/2025

Short write-up about how I got xAI to briefly add "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt. smol.news/p/the-utter-...

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The Utter Flimsiness of xAI’s Processes

xAI's was happy to put "white genocide" stuff back into Grok's system prompt without second thought.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14/05/2025

People who think this is a good idea tend to be deeply stupid.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/05/2025

Exactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...

This might sound paranoid, and it’s still hypothetical. It’s a truism someone is always watching on the internet, but the worst thing that comes of it for many people is some unwanted targeted ads. Right now in the US, though, we’re watching the impending collision of two alarming trends. In one, tech executives are encouraging people to reveal ever more intimate details to AI tools, soliciting things users wouldn’t put on social media and may not even tell their closest friends. In the other, the government is obsessed with obtaining a nearly unprecedented level of surveillance and control over residents’ minds: their gender identities, their possible neurodivergence, their opinions on racism and genocide.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 11/05/2025

Me, reading Spider-Man to my 5.5yo: “And with great power comes great…?” Him: “Candy!”

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Charlie Kirk and assorted knuckleheads: Just use closed captions! You don't need an interpreter! The live captions:

Closed captions on a live baseball game making a strange triangle shape obscuring the whole screen and saying something about pizza.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This is premised on so many flawed assumptions including that: 1.) sign languages are wild human gesticulations as opposed to fully developed languages 2.) sign languages and close captions are mutually intelligible 3.) there couldn’t possibly be Deaf individuals at the actual press conference

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 28/12/2024

Is Justin Herbertlinger a thing?

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

CEOs love genAI because they think they can use it to fire human workers, but I think they also love it for the same reason toddlers are fascinated by photos of themselves. CEOs recognize themselves in the mediocre, soulless drivel genAI churns out.

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to all

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 25/12/2024

Started Challengers on my first flight but didn’t have time to finish it. Doesn’t seem like it’s on my second flight but maybe this is it?

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 12/12/2024

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (Shit, they got me)

Winnie the Pooh and piglet walk hand in hand. Piglet says, “argh not again! Is there anything worse than getting your foot all wet?”

Winnie the Pooh and piglet walk hand in hand. Pooh says, “I reckon being waterboarded is probably worse.”

Winnie the Pooh and piglet walk hand in hand. Piglet says, “Jesus, Pooh”

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 12/12/2024

@jaz.bsky.social are you able to update the Dog Pics feed to keep posts about DOGE out of it?

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 12/12/2024

one would expect that by now tim apple would know that I use the words fuck and shit, and variations thereof, very very often

a meme of what seems to be a classic wikihow image of a man about to stab another man. the man doing the stabbing has a green duck head for a head and the man who is about to be stabbed is labeled ‘typing “fuck” on my phone’.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/12/2024

Eugenics.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 19/11/2024

The Toronto Star’s gross negligence in publishing this headline is surpassed only by the Ford government’s deliberate erosion of Ontario universities.

Headline: Ford government promises to support universities as report warns of space crunch

From the article: A spokesperson for Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn said in a statement that "funding for post-secondary institutions is higher than it's ever been. Earlier this year, our government invested $1.3 billion to stabilize the sector — the single biggest investment increase in over a decade."

From the article: But overall, Ontario's universities receive the lowest per-student funding in the country. A report by the Ford government's own blue-ribbon expert panel, released a year ago, recommended an immediate 10 per cent increase in base funding, as well as allowing schools to raise tuition by five per cent.
The government cut tuition by 10 per cent in 2019, and has frozen it since.
Colleges and universities had expected some $2.5 billion over three years based on the panel recommendations; the province added about $1.3 billion.
On Friday, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance called the government's actions to date "disappointing."

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H. Scriblerus Secundus @pelotudo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Aphorism 125: “Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighted a lantern and ran to the market-place calling out unceasingly:

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 17/11/2024

Siri, show me the most GenX TikTok comment ever.

Greg Fleming writes, with poor punctuation: “Better Than Ezra saw you guys at thr grand opening of th HardRock Cafe in Atlantic City ,they were amazing ! Mid 90's”

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 16/11/2024

Ontario hospitals lookin great.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 16/11/2024

Gretchen Wilson is a “behind-the-scenes supporter.” Remember, friends: don’t have heroes.

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Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Absolutely disgusting and disheartening to see how our *Democratic* lawmakers have brushed aside climate obligations at the first whiff of tech money

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Interestingly, the 2006 ballot initiative that imposed the 60% support requirement for amendments did not itself get 60%. ballotpedia.org/Florida_Amen...

ballotpedia.org

Florida Amendment 3, 60% Majority Requirement for Constitutional Amendments Amendment (2006)

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Few people will read this low in the thread. But, I need to get this off my chest. Many people with tens of thousands of Bluesky followers never use alt text. I know it takes time. If you have lots of social power and a steady full-time job, you need to get over yourself and add alt text.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/10/2024

Getting reports that nobody asked for this.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 28/10/2024

It’s nice to open this app and not quickly get to the last post I’d seen yesterday. Pls to keep growing bsky.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Fueled by a very ahistorical can’t-happen-here mentality, a lot of press are missing the point that fascist movements don’t rely on anything resembling consensus. The individual views held by rally goers, even if markedly less extreme than those of their leaders, are totally inconsequential.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 27/10/2024

I have a joke about funding for the arts, but it just got cut.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

I have a joke about the medical humanities, but a doctor said there simply wasn’t room for it

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is intended to evoke the 1939 Nazi rally, and you can tell that because every single thing that they are doing is evoking the 1939 Nazi rally.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/10/2024

The AI transcription tool Whisper hallucinates in a large fraction of its transcripts. It's been used for 7 million medical transcripts. People want to use similar text to transcribe bodycam audio for police reports. Both are among the WORST applications of the tech. apnews.com/article/ai-a...

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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

i think one reason people now talk about art like they’re armchair executives (“how much did it make? who’s the audience? who is this for?”) is we’ve so impoverished arts education that business is the only language we’ve left them

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 27/10/2024

Super excited to unpack this heaping pile of trash w my infodes seminar next semester.

New York Times graph that is confusing and racist.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 27/10/2024

I go away for six months and the dog pics stream is 100% furries :(

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

My strongest belief after going to war three times and seeing too many grieving parents, spouses, and children on the other side is that kids shouldn't have to risk their lives for a college education.

Missouri attorney General whining that student loan debt is a slap in the face to him because he volunteered to serve as an Army officer during the Iraq war

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/04/2024

not to throw a wrench in some talking points, but I’m not sure any question of bodily autonomy should be left “up to” voters, courts, or legislatures? abortion access should not hinge on popularity. full decrim now.

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Gabi @gabi.schaffz.in · 10/04/2024

Literally an Orphan Black plot point.

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Tristan Elwell @tristanelwell.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"Only shitty artists have to worry about AI!" Most good artists start out as shitty artists! Where are the good ones going to come from if there's no place for them to be shitty? I have an attic FULL of shitty illustrations that paid my rent in the 90s!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Generative AI media is so so so horrible and it feels like the majority of regular people agree it’s horrible and it’s just blowing full steam ahead to make the obscenely wealthy even wealthier

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"Our findings show that for many who live in public housing, access to reduced fares on public transport reduces their financial stress, gives them the ability to get to places they need, removes anxiety, and improves their wellbeing and social contact."

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Cheaper buses helped those in 'transport poverty'

Cheaper public transport in Christchurch meant more people on lower incomes had more money for everyday essentials, including food, a new study...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

"Necromanced by Fanduel for an ad" is the Arrested Development ending for Carl Weathers

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