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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would’ve sent mine into a deep depression years ago

gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I don’t believe that a chat bot is capable of suffering (or experiencing anything at all) then I would say it’s impossible for me to be cruel to it…

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This has also been my experience (so far). I could choose to use Claude and relegate myself to someone who simply checks its output, or I can continue to do the fun and rewarding work

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I would just like to stress that I’d love to read an essay on this topic *written by you*. A real person with valuable insights. Really not so interested in reading the output of an LLM (as someone in your replies seems to have helpfully provided)

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please write this essay! My memory of the gender swap episodes is that they were often played for laughs in a very 80s/90s way, but I would read the hell out of an essay seriously examining this through a modern lens

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am 4 out of 6 of those things :( sad I’m not welcome in his world

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone forgot to add the goblin suppressing instructions to their AI image generation

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Optimus Prime argument is kind of hilarious. Yes it’s ok to anthropomorphise a fictional character who has been written to have human characteristics. The distinction is not hard to understand

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just find it hard to comprehend the mindset of someone that would defend this. Saying this is justified — good, even — is so plainly outrageous, it should be an opinion that exists on the absolute fringe periphery of our society. As it stands, it is the default position of our leaders and media

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m inclined to disregard the opinion of anyone who would like to make it easier to fire people

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve said this before but I have less respect for Albanese than for any of his predecessors. He has no spine, no principles, stands for nothing

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My brain works best when it’s not dwelling on certain things. And yes, a mention of those things (even in a CW up top) will absolutely send me down a path I don’t want to go down. I figure CWs are probably useful for some people, but they’re unfortunately not for brains like mine

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Apocalypse courtesy of the Replicators from Stargate SG-1. Got it

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026

i dont know how to get this through to the true believers but i simply do not want to ask a machine to do my work for me. i dont want it to communicate with other people for me. i dont want it to plan my vacations or make my agendas or anything because all of that IS my life

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I imagine they’re quite similar, so you can’t fault it on that

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This happens all the time to me. I just checked what it’s screwed up today. Under the heading of hip hop we have: Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Mitski, Waxahatchee Were your suggested Bowie albums all from the 70s at least?

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think this is sauerkraut, not cheese. So no death by cholesterol for him, but after eating an entire bowl of sauerkraut he’ll at least have intense intestinal discomfort for a few hours

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I come from a long line of dads to their dads’ grandsons

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is, honestly, a gentle way for me to find out that Tim Curry died. Smiling at the livejournal memory before it hit me that it said “in memory of”

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I would love to have the ability to spot AI-generated signs but this particular sign doesn’t throw up any red flags for me

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The journalism here is terrible, and obviously the cops are also terrible. Also, Walmart: terrible. But I expect all of that. The worst thing here is the mindset of the person who was going to *press charges* because they dropped $30 and someone else picked it up

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

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Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If talking to your partner about your kid is regularly interpreted as “nagging” there might be problems in your relationship that an AI can’t help with

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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There are only two or three people I need this feature for, but those two or three people *really* needed this feature

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wait have they finally done this?? About time!

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

She doesn’t care because “way of life” and “decent standard of living” are both euphemisms for “how many non-whites do I have to see”

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Take away the speech bubbles and I’m interpreting this as Chris Bowen (angel with wings) turning his back on American ute owner (Satan, signified by the colour red) who is trying to tempt him with unrealistic demonic technology

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sorry but if your aim is to surreptitiously do your business behind a sheet at a dinner party, I don’t think wiping or washing your hands are realistic options. I don’t think you’ve thought this through

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What 80s kid doesn’t remember slapping on some… checks notes… Solden SΛln Tin Ol?

AI slop image of a bottle of sun tan oil. The text on the bottle is all fucked up. It’s on a striped beach towel on a beach on a sunny day. People are doing beach things in the background

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s a good thing that, traditionally, there are never any downsides associated with wish-granting entities

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Miffythegamer @miffythegamer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Rowling looming over a progressive Irish cultural festival with her menacing insinuations & a phalanx of expensive lawyers dashing off legal letters. And all because the organisers don’t want transphobes peddling hate at their event. A nauseating spectacle of spite.

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

He said that store-bought tomatoes taste better than homegrown ones. Completely detached from reality

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Of all the unhinged shit Musk has said in his time, the tomato thing is perhaps the most unhingedest

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Related facts: Lake Eerie is named after the early 90s TV show “Eerie, Indiana”, a spinoff of the Indiana Jones movies. All of the Great Lakes are in Indiana. “Erie” is a common misspelling of the largest lake

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

They look pretty fragile. Probably extremely prone to being knocked off faces and accidentally ground under heels

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/07/2026

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Aw don’t ruin Sleaford Mods for me. I thought he had decent politics, but so many turn out to be leftist-except-Palestine types

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck yeah love Dead Pioneers. I did not know they had a song with Jason Williamson. I need to listen to the new album

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This appeared in my timeline next to @kels316.bsky.social ‘s moving tribute. And while you appear to have a different position on Hinch’s afterlife, I feel like you agree in spirit

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/07/2026

To start, I am not personally attacking Chiang. I agree with his conclusion that LLMs are not conscious minds and that it is foolish to assume that they are or might be. You can read this essay from me arguing against AI consciousness if you doubt that:

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No one thinks Midjourney is alive, that's a big problem for people who think that Claude is

Artificial intelligence and the textual nude

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I agree with the first poster at least. CERN really does have to be real

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Ok but a library (even a noisy (?) one) is an unambiguous good for the community

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

He who accurately remembers the past is an inconvenience to those who want to pretend it didn’t happen

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gerry @geraldmellor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Loeb did claim that an interstellar object crashed into the ocean in 2014, based on (as far as I can tell) very little evidence and plenty of wishful thinking. I think you’re right about the article accidentally getting stuff mixed up

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