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Michael Lauritano

@mlauritanoillos.bsky.social
75 followers 64 following 16 posts

Illustrator, Author, Adventurer

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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Also this person is just wrong??? You look great????
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Various text based gen ai programs already encourage their users to kill themselves, so the work is already done for you
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Jeleynai @jeleynai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Sort of a different version of it, was in The Last of Us season 2, when Joel’s dad has that line about “being a little better than me”
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/10/2025
In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I see her thumbnails occasionally and they feel like rage bait. Very off-putting!
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The ‘comfort blanket’ seems to match your stated positions best, imho
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This backstory reads like a very dark joke to me
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world
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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It’s global apartheid, a pyramid scheme, and landlord economics all rolled into one and it makes people lazier, less educated, and less talented, which is exactly the type of population these oligarchs need to seize and maintain control But at least we get cool profile pictures out of it, right?
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Take the openpsychometrics quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... Glenn Rhee (The Walking Dead) Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) Marcus (The Bear)
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I hear what you’re saying 100% and if they bring back the kid as a character, it will prove your point. But I also want to say, being a mother is badass. And passing on the hard lessons you learned in life to a new person is a small but vital sort of rebellion too.
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"why not use [language model] for this" well you see I take some amount of pride in having stuff to say that can't be predicted by a statistical estimate
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If someone is unable to critically engage with any work/franchise, they aren’t a real fan, just a brainless consumer.
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The taste isn’t significantly different from a lot of other seltzers. It’s the name and brand styling that gives me secondhand embarrassment. My girlfriend likes it though, so whatever.
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My fiancée, drawn from life??? 😉
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
No arguments here
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Sarah Dvojack @sarahdvojack.com · 26/02/2025
This cost $2000 please buy my book. It’s illustrated.
Welcome to Fear City
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Ben Passmore PCX table 29 @benpassmore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
www.tcj.com/i-would-pote...
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‘I would potentially sacrifice my life to strangle you’: A Sentiment Against AI Art - The Comics Journal
Ben Passmore with the case against AI art.
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Of the bridges I have used, it’s not bad at all. Not the most aesthetically pleasing though. 3/5 stars.
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I’m watching it whenever it arrives on YouTube! I can wait
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Recent gingerbread portraits of my cats
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.
An illustration of a tiger protecting cubs colored in Trans and nonbinary flag colors. Says: "protect trans & nonbinary kids!"
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Michael Lauritano @mlauritanoillos.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
Guess I'm here now. RIP twitter( or X, I guess?)?
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