Reposted by SkyView AlexZombie Maykr @zombiemaykr.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Character design commissioned by Ruby_Donnabelle (Twitter / X) 💜🐱 063 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexFelisamos @felisamos.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Of Dungeons And Dragons Spawned from the Kinktober pieces with the girls playing some kind of tabletop fantasy roleplay game. 06712 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/03/2024Please please please stop burning the planet by playing with this stuff. 81161549 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 12/03/2024I've said it before, but AI is the new bureaucracy, the new blackbox decision-maker the purpose of which is not to make decisions, but to obscure accountability and prevent any purchase in arguing against those decisions 14777352 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexCrezz⭐Star 🔞 VERY BUSY! SLOW RESPONSES! @crezzstar.bsky.social · 12/03/2024📻🔴Radio Demon🔴📻 #hazbinhotel #HazbinHotelAlastor #alastorhazbinhotel #Alastor 12810 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/03/2024Today's newsletter: We're watching the internet die as it gets overwhelmed with content built to be popular with algorithms, much of it generated by AI, crowding out stuff created by humans. Ironically, this is also an existential threat to generative AI. tinyurl.com/wyea31124tinyurl.comAre We Watching The Internet Die?Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected t... 39943342 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/03/2024Generative AI isn't magic — it's a fantastical version of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it learned from the things it's stolen from others. Anyone who tells you otherwise is getting rich off the death of the internet. tinyurl.com/wyea31124 424380 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/03/2024The assumptions behind this (well-researched) article explain so much about the enshittification of companies. Kickstarter provided a good service people loved, followed ethical standards, *and* made tons of money, but steady earnings instead of stonks to the moon = "fading brand" that needs fixing. 16835369 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/03/2024The only thing that grows forever is cancer, and even that eventually kills the host. 11535181 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11/03/2024When you write your first book, people tell you not to read reviews and you ignore them because OMG BOOK OH GOD WHAT ARE THEY SAYING but I suspect the path of wisdom is literally this: read. none. of them. anywhere. Although… 1/2 515222 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexPete🔞 @stuckinapit.bsky.social · 07/01/2024📌🌽 Spa day. bllrlblblrlblrlrlrlbblrr💦💦💦💦 356191 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexPete🔞 @stuckinapit.bsky.social · 14/02/2024📌💭 #endhawks oooh? 👀 (1/2) 739370 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/03/2024Corporate greed made the Change Healthcare cyberattack worse. The company handles records for 1 in 3 patients in the U.S. In 2022, regulators sued to block UnitedHealth Group's acquisition of Change, citing antitrust laws and the dangers of consolidation. Regulators were unsuccessful.nymag.comCorporate Greed Made the Change Healthcare Cyberattack WorseHackers have made it impossible for millions of patients to refill prescriptions or even schedule procedures by striking at a single company. 26324 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexMaggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 08/03/2024The make-believe medical condition called "excited delirium", now chiefly used to exonerate cops who murder black men, started out as an excuse for cops to ignore the murders of black sex workers: maggiemcneill.com/2024/03/08/a... cc @radleybalko.bsky.socialmaggiemcneill.comA Pseudoscience is BornWe should be perfectly clear about the ultimate goal of Axon, its network, and the people behind The Fall of Minneapolis: They want to make it easier for police to kill people without consequence. … 26138 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexChloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2024reminder I'm also a comic artist 735882 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexLyn Asakura @lilninjalyn.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Liara T’soni #PortraitThursday #MassEffect3 #VirtualPhotography 0154 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexStacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Amazon has long cultivated the idea that it runs its shopping platform on tiny margins, relying instead on AWS for its profits. This is widely reported. It's also not true. Amazon’s marketplace is hugely profitable. I have a new piece in The Atlantic on how Amazon has kept these profits secret.theatlantic.comAmazon’s Big SecretNearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it. 2205111 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexPaul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 04/03/2024Just used the "Sky Follower Bridge" extension for Chrome to import my X/Twitter follows into Bluesky. Worked like a charm. Highly recommended. In cae you're worried, you must click Follow on each user it finds (there's no Follow All button) so it's a good chance to review them. 29121 0
Reposted by SkyView Alexeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 04/03/2024States’ Rights is an American political philosophy that means states are allowed to be more authoritarian than the federal government, but cannot be more liberal than the federal government 2737661210 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexNnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 04/03/2024This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation. 158172977428 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexLúa ⋆⭒˚。⋆☾⋆⭒˚。⋆ @starsandskies.bsky.social · 04/03/2024Garret and Kirion for ThatOneTurian and KirionRayen on Twitter. #MassEffect 0125 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2024One aspect of Christian nationalism is the sense of persecution. This is held even by people with enormous power who are using that power to remove the rights of others. 1432689 0
Reposted by SkyView Alexcéli 🍉 @pianta.bsky.social · 27/02/2024I would like to opt out of everything. thanks 221160 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/02/2024To be clear what happened here: the State of Texas doesn't want to comply with federal statute about providing pregnant employees with reasonable accommodations, so it asked a federal judge to declare Congress invalid, and he agreed. This is what counts as "law" in 2024. 22830329 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 28/02/2024character designing the hot 55-year-old woman of my dreams 341027162 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexFeybeasts @feybeasts.bsky.social · 27/02/2024Hey, heads up if any of you have a Tumblr kicking around still- they rolled out collecting blog data for AI datascraping, and you're opted in by default. Check this box in all your blogs' settings to opt out. 15365336 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexMegan Levens ➡️ GalaxyCon Des Moines @meganlevens.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Happy Monday, I just saw some D&D bro post his “AI” generated character art with his fucking name signed on it so there’s not enough coffee in the world to erase THAT concept from my brain this morning. Anyway, please enjoy some human drawn fantasy art. 5164 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 23/02/2024Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social unpacks how a network of AI Porn sites that make nonconsensual deepfakes have been disguising their sales and misusing financial and online service providers that ban adult content. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02...bellingcat.comBehind a Secretive Global Network of Non-consensual Deepfake Pornography - bellingcatAn online video game marketplace says it has referred user accounts to legal authorities after a Bellingcat investigation found nonconsensual pornographic deepfake tokens were being surreptitiously so... 111274 0
Reposted by SkyView Alexmaddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 21/02/2024it’s right there… 112812691 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23/02/2024Wild twist to all the security cam video you’ve been seeing of young Black men snatching boxes of Tide pods and diapers www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/b...nbcsandiego.comBonsall woman is suspected mastermind of $8M retail theft ring that hit 200 Ulta storesMichelle Mack is accused of paying as many as 12 women for their travel expenses, as well as providing them with a list of retail stores across the country to target — including stores in 21 counties ... 26776259 0
Reposted by SkyView Alex☁️FlyingRotten☁️ @flyingrotten.bsky.social · 23/02/2024Mixing up two things I love with Portal and Good Omens 😌💛 29112 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 23/02/2024Acceptance of interracial marriage. Didn't hit 50% until the mid-90's, now it's at 94%. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...news.gallup.comU.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people. Just 4% approved when Gallup first asked the question in 1958. 38215 0
Reposted by SkyView Alexkilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social · 24/02/2024“they want to jam the government into every aspect of your life and use government force to make you conform” is a real fucking powerful message 15899231 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexNPR @npr.org · 23/02/2024BREAKING NEWS: A Manhattan jury found three top executives of the National Rifle Association liable in a lengthy civil trial that focused on alleged corruption and the misspending of millions of dollars.npr.orgJury finds NRA executives liable in gun group corruption caseTop executives for the gun rights nonprofit were accused of using millions in NRA donations for private luxuries. A jury found former CEO Wayne LaPierre liable for more than $5.4 million in damages. 481427329 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/02/2024Listen, young people: you don't have to get married or have kids or live someone else's white picket dream. Find your own happiness like this awesome kangaroo woman with a cat in her pouch. 1952. shop.memorylane.co.uk/mirror/0000t... 261780238 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexAssigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 23/02/2024What I suspect is happening here is a little known sort of child welfare case where the parents have the resources to legally prevent them being labelled child abusers but the child is clearly saying they'd be at serious risk if sent back to them, and authorities believe them. 417765 0
SkyView Alex @phantomalexwriter.bsky.social · 23/02/2024I heard John Rogers was coming back to do Leverage: Redemption and thank yooouuuuuu. As much as I do like the new show, it wasn't just the ot3 that was missing. He's got a special spark with Leverage just like the crew has with their Things. 030 0
Reposted by SkyView AlexDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21/02/2024We are poisoning ourselves: this, the fake 'this mushroom is safe to eat' books, the false obituaries; it makes me feel slightly detached from reality. 5458120 0