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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Actors, by Carlos Almaraz, 1987, 📸 by Robert Deutsch

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Frogboi 🫒 @frogboi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Oil tanker in Bahrain

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2025

Autumn Herbert James Draper artvee.com/dl/autumn-16/

painting of a sleeping topless woman she has a crown of leaves

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Synchromy in Blue, by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, 1916, 📸 by @643studios

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Tim Platt @timplatt.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

a hug is a kiss but warmer and strong

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 31/08/2025

Doggust 30: Coton de Tulear. New painting. 🪵 #doggust #doggust2025

A small white fluffy dog with a pencil behind their floppy ear is looking down at a messy sketchbook. They're in a messy painting studio. In the background is a blank white canvas on a brown easel. There's a drawing horse stand being used as a bench in front of it. There's brushes and water in jars nearby. Many sketches of sticks on newsprint are taped to the wall behind it. Everything in the studio is covered in colorful pawprints including a cup of coffee and jar of sticks. The dog has big splotches of paint staining their pristine white fur as well. Their studio window is open, safety first!

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The Cuix (but Spooky) @thecuix.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

you're the main reason to keep on going

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Ashes II (Aske II), by Edvard Munch, 1899, 📸 via @nocontextcfb

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If you think I'm cool because of my online persona, THINK AGAIN! Ask people who know me in real life and then they will tell you I'm SUPER cool!

Tumblr user mollyjames:
If you've ever thought to yourself "I basically know who this person is" about a stranger from reading their posts or watching their youtube videos, I guarantee you're wrong. Yes, even if you've been following them for a long time. Knock it off.
Tumblr user ajaxgb:
It's possible to know a fictional character purely from the little vignettes in a story because the author has intentionally structured those moments to show every relevant facet of the character. If you finish a story, and there were two scenes where the character was nice and one where they liked rollercoasters, then that's the character! They are nice and they like rollercoasters.
REAL PEOPLE DO NOT WORK LIKE THIS.
Real people posting on social media may appear somewhat similar to a fictional character being revealed scene by scene. DO NOT FALL FOR IT. You are not being shown a curated collection of carefully authored scenes that intentionally build up to a full character! You are seeing a random assortment of moments when the person felt like posting on social media, filtered through imprecise wording, missing context, whether the person slept well the night before, and who knows how many other factors. Real people are orders of magnitude more complicated than fictional characters because they are not designed to be easily understood by an audience! If you try to interpret social media posts as a found-footage story it will lead only to ruin!

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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Lord of the Rings - Journey's End

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

www.techradar.com/computing/cy... So now that Denmark holds the EU presidency, theyre pushing Chat Control back onto the European Parliament again. That means breaking encryption & automatically scanning & flagging all private communications online. EU fam, contact your reps: fightchatcontrol.eu

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The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025

Chat Control is back on the lawmakers' table

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Tuta @tuta.com · 14/08/2025

🚨 Stop Chat Control! 🚨 The EU Council wants all your messages to be read by ominous AI. But government and military accounts will be exempt. Why? For security. 😤 Vote: October 14. Key meeting: September 12. 📢 Act now! We've got two months to stop Chat Control: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Image with an EU flag on a camera watching you while sitting in front of your computer.

Title: Stop Chat Control

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Three panel comic:

1st panel: Two crudely drawn stick men:
Stick man 1: to make art that is popular you have to be really good at drawing

2nd panel:
stick man 2: but if that’s true

3rd panel: both characters are looking at a spot beneath the comic (where the likes are)
Stick man 2: why does this comic have thousands of likes?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/08/2025

This is the end of the premium edition of wheresyoured.at - my piece on GPT-5, but I wanted to make sure the conclusion was outside the paywall.

Yet what I’m left with in writing this is how wasteful all of this is. OpenAI, a company that has already incinerated upwards of $15 billion in the last two years, has chosen to create a less-efficient way of doing business as a means of eking out a modest-at-best improvement.
In our own lives we’re continually pushed and pressured and punished if we get into debt, judged by our peers and our parents if we spend our money recklessly, and if we’re too reckless, we find ourselves less likely to receive anything from credit to housing.
Companies like OpenAI live by a different set of standards. Sam Altman intends to lose more than $44 billion by the end of 2028, and graciously told CNBC he was “willing to run at a loss” for a long time, where he was treated like this was a smart, reasonable decision, rather than to rein in his spending habits and be more mindful. The ultra-rich are rewarded more for their errant spending habits than we are for any thriftiness or austerity measures we make, and none of us are afforded the level of grace that Sam Altman has been.
“Has been” feels appropriate. ChatGPT-5 is an engineering nightmare, a phenomenally silly and desperate attempt to juice what remains of the dying innovation and excitement within the walls of OpenAI. It’s not November 2022 anymore, and, let’s be honest, there really hasn’t been anything exciting or interesting since GPT-4.
There is nothing exciting happening at this company. As many as 700 million people a week allegedly use ChatGPT, but nobody can really say why, and OpenAI, despite their massive popularity, cannot seem to stop losing billions of dollars, and they cannot seem to explain why that’s necessary other than “this shit is really expensive, dude.”
Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable?

Can anyone articulate a reason why we need to burn billions of dollars to do this? What are we even doing? Why are we doing it? Has everybody just agreed to do this until it becomes completely untenable?
Look at GPT-5! This is the, if you believe the hype, the best-funded, best-resourced company in the world with the greatest mind at its helm, and this is the best he’s got - a Large Language Model That Chooses Which Large Language Model Will Answer Your Question.
Gee fucking whiz Sam Altman, sounds dandy, and how much better is this you say? Oh you can’t really say? Fucking brilliant! Hey, does it do anything new? No? Oh what’s that, it’s actually our job to work that out for ourselves? Thanks man!
Anyway, none of this will end well. Not even the boosters seem to be having fun anymore. Everybody’s just flailing about waiting for the end. Even Sam Altman seems tired of it all.
I know I bloody well am.

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
K

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virtu @virtuware.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

rebecca from edgerunners

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✨Iana Bagryana✨ @ianabagryana.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The most vicious of the cult. #art

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mimi 🩵💛 @knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).

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