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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 22h
Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question
The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot 
Text: 
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review
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Xopher @xopher.blacksky.app · 18h
The media always talks about "class war" or "race war" as if they're not already happening. This is an example of both. Making someone pay for their imprisonment is grinding the heel in the back of their neck, just to make sure they know their place.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 23h
People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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Ivory - The Fair Duskwight @localelezen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Y'all ever see a Tweet that just ruins your fucking day top to bottom?
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goomy 🌈 @goomyloid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
small dump
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Lissette! 🐀 @lissettetxt.bsky.social · 21h
Ishgardian realizes that Ishgard sucks
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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I started out pretty AI neutral, aside from the environmental concerns, but I'm, being pushed into hating it more and more because it keeps making things I care about actively worse, and the results keep speaking for themselves in a really bad shitty way.
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Artcher| looking for work! @artcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Discounted $35 sketch portrait sale! Please DM if you'd like a spot!
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songbird @noctsilk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the world when it's my turn to be an adult
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Gavadon @gavadon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I skipped high school to buy tickets for The Phantom Menace. The following day my Dad asked ," how was school?" I replied, " It was fine " He then threw this newspaper at me and asked , " how the fuck would you know?" He was so pleased with himself that I didn't actually get in trouble.
Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name Closeup of the photo from the Newspaper where I am on the front page, in line for Star Wars tickets , having given the reporter my full government name .

As one pal put it, " a very John Conner look "Closeup of the text for the photo that says 

" Ticket wars

Left: The line of area residents waitinng for advanced ticket sales for the May 19 release of "Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace" stretched outside the Grand Central Mall's Regal Cinemas onto the sidewalk outside. Above: Inside, Jordan Baker, Joe Peyton, Mat Lyons, Josh Lemley and Steve Roberts passed time by playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit as they awaited the Lucas epic.

Photos by Tony Kemp
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koloquials @kolo.games · 02/10/2026
what once was easy, what once you loved. 💧 🌅⚗️ THE MAGICIAN — my short game in the Cartomancy Anthology, is now FREE to play! come and journey back to me. 🌊 store.steampowered.com/app/1869870/...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ATTENTION COMIC NERDS!
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SAKO 🎸 SHOP CLOSED @sakokii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
gesturing to this again
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My name is Byf @mynameisbyf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hit a 29 million damage bow shot in Warframe. It's the first time I've ever done damage in the millions ever... I think I'm starting to understand the math crack that this game can become.
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Aura @aurahack.ca · 01/10/2026
spending my entire adult life trying within my reasonable means to leave nature as i found it, to make the world a better place for those after me, only for our prime minister in one day to set back our climate progress god knows how many years or decades for nothing other than money we'll never see
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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The struggle, the cycles. It can all fade away...🌧️ Find some shelter in @rainworldgame.bsky.social : Design Works, our newest book that honours a survival game like no others. Signed Editions by the development team available only for the first 48 hours! 🔻
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Ivory - The Fair Duskwight @localelezen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This woman is a dork at heart.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘I got my money and fame! To hell with art and integrity! Screw everyone below me on the ladder!’
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𝔄𝔤𝔷𝔇𝔢𝔊𝔯𝔢𝔶🧙MCM London E-17 @agzdegrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Beoulve Brothers at Warsaw Bastion
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Apple 🍎 @frogapples.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wonder how long I could keep this going I don't have any backup plans if people stop commissioning me these 😅
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grym 🧬 whispers of the hole @grymnoire.vanadiel.network · 26/09/2026
oh my god
Dancing Wolf: Once he was satisfied with his work, Sari commanded the machine to act as civilization's mightiest guardian. And then he killed himself.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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MarcoMaps Bernardini @marcomaps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ah yes, the famous multi8-d8 and the d29.
AI slop dice on an advertising
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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm only now realizing how little awareness of this problem has escaped containment into the audience. But yeah, every youtuber you know has probably dealt with this at least once. The system has always been unfair, but man, when it tips over the edge into blatantly fraudulent. -R
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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those you don't know how this works, when a video gets copyright claimed, 100% of its revenue starts going to the claimant. The only way for a claim to be automatically removed is to trim out the claimed clip, obviously bad if the clip has original narration over it. Songs have to be muted. -R
Yeah, fraudulent copyright claims are such second nature to us Youtubers that it's easy to forget that the average viewer only knows that UMG is a blight upon the universe. And quartz, of course
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SPOOKY Girl_Poss🔞 @girlposs.hyper.wang · 15/09/2026
lezzing it up like crazy
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DaPanda @destiny-islanders @dapandabanda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
macklemore is donating to: -palestinian children's relief fund: www.pcrf.net -HEAL palestine: linktr.ee/HealP2 -gaza soup kitchen: gazasoupkitchen.org -medical aid for palestinians: linktr.ee/MedicalAidfo... -unrwa usa: linktr.ee/unrwausa -american near east refugee aid: linktr.ee/aneraorg
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
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Miss Lala ☕🍒 @misslalavt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well, it IS my birthday, and I figured a check in as overdue- the Diner is open, with a surprise, if just for tonight ♥ >> twitch.tv/misslalavt <<
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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am
A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"
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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
don’t worry guys the cop behavior (bit) only extends to naughty naughty pets
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may 👑 @fawndly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we have a general smoke shop for selling “”tobacco”” smoking accessories and i forgot they have a page on their site for people to send in pics of their pets who have broken their glass pipes and publicly shaming them lmao
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Marie @mmariesr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Finally saw this scene lmao
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
man this post hit off so big I should probably plug my website.
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"He likes to feel tall" (old sketch, not specifically related to today's reveals :p)
Samus outside of her suit letting Kirby ride where her helmet would be
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reposting this because
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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You guys like it when I draw samus, I’m getting the notion.
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🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷 @alexrochonva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bluesky, collectively, on Samus in Metroid Ravenous: “I like the kind of woman who will just fucking kill me.”
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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 09/09/2026
The House voted for a bill that could strip universities of federal funding if students call out the actions of the Israeli government. This is a massive assault on the First Amendment. We need to stand with students who have the courage to speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
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Kaban! @kaban.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Forest boy leafmaxxing
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🌶️ Motte! 🌶️🔞 @extra-spicymotte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tumblr banned porn. can't post my stuff on most social media, on Patreon, or Subscribestar. Paypal doesn't like nsfw work and will kick you in the windpipe when you draw cat ears on a twink. VGen prepares to go down that road as well. guess we'll have to go oldschool then
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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 06/09/2026
Allowing myself some petty feelings about worse essayists getting more views than me with insincere writing. Thirty minutes of permitted snobbery time this sunday night.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That's odd. I've been under the impression these are wholly unrelated systems. Wouldn't it be weird if we all just found out they were the same single thing just under different brand names at different storefronts. All 3 at once huh. Hmmm
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grym 🧬 whispers of the hole @grymnoire.vanadiel.network · 03/09/2026
he looks proud of himself
A young half-Eldite man with tan skin, blue eyes, and medium-length brown hair dressed in yellow and brown engineer attire holds up a censored object in his gloved hand, proudly showing off his handiwork. A vaguely phallic shape can be seen behind it. Behind him are the white stone streets of old Alexandria, adorned with multiple decorative potted plants.
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ddiiggss @ddiiggss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
lmao
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Announcer of Games @announcerofgames.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
He isnt done yet. But progress on the Dakkarig.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Apropos of nothing:
eu.usatoday.com
Nearly 25K pounds of frozen Buffalo chicken products recalled. See list
Nearly 25,000 pounds of frozen Buffalo chicken products are being recalled in five states due to a missed inspection.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ☃︎ ❄︎ @moxiest.art · 28/08/2026
damn, food was great. really gunna miss food. RIP food
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