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Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 4h

Every single fucking day, my inbox looks like this in the morning:

A list of resource usage and down notifications for Anime Herald, caused entirely by the rise of Generative AI scraper bots

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Jonathan Davis @jonathansdavis.bsky.social · 2h

In San Francisco, my friends called the dot-com boom "The Liberal Arts Major's Full Employment Act of 1997." Fine Arts BA? Design job! English BA? Get paid to write! Philosophy major (me)? I learned the basics of HTML in a few days and literally doubled what I'd been making at my shitty temp job.

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tpoms.bsky.social @tpoms.bsky.social · 5h

As a card-carrying Old, I can confidently say that I didn't know a single person who hated the internet. I was young then, so maybe older folks? But I can also say that I don't know anyone, of any age, who loves AI.

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Steven Toth @toths.info · 5h

I was on the internet before the web and it was glorious. The web only made it even better.

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Alana of the Greene @alanaofthegreene.bsky.social · 5h

Gods, the Internet was such a miracle in the 90s. What do you mean I can load Ask Jeeves on a Netscape browser, and the Encyclopedia Britannica would just be there? Each new x86 or modem was a tangible step forward. It all felt like magic. The garbage today does not.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h

And they sometimes criticize executives, which you almost never see in the tech press (very recent but still inconsistent editorial changes at Wired and The Verge notwithstanding)

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

The only difference between the entertainment press and the tech press is the entertainment press understands the industry it covers

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Silicon Valley wasn't solely a shell game until the tech media started calling idiots like Musk and Zuckerman geniuses, two guys who notoriously didn't create shit. But they didn't know that because they were idiots too who shouldn't have been reporting on things they didn't understand.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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prismaticjacket.bsky.social @prismaticjacket.bsky.social · 4h

for a certain type of voter, after all. I think once you get to the people who actually work in politics even the ignorance has to go away. That’s where you get the Rand Paul types, who actually seem to believe some of what they profess, and I have to wonder how they see their alleged fellows

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prismaticjacket.bsky.social @prismaticjacket.bsky.social · 4h

I think given the trajectory of the Republican Party since Obama’s election (which is at best towards contrarian spiteful grifts with no interest in governing), someone would have to be profoundly ignorant or delusional to miss the true nature of their fellow conservatives - but they *have* selected

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Marble 🔞 (COMMS OPEN) @marbletemples.bsky.social · 4h

funny fish who im normal about even after all these years

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 4h

I'll admit I've only seen an episode or two of the show itself, for which see @landofobscusion.bsky.social's write-up here:

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 4h

4 October marks the 30th anniversary for the start of the adaptation of Those Who Hunt Elves. Or you could argue that *conceptually* the anniversary fell yesterday, since I gather the show aired at 25:15 (1.15 AM). Which's the significance of the anniversary: the start of modern late-night anime.

The magic sigil from the start of the Those Who Hunt Elves OP.

Junpei and Celcia fight, while Ritsuko and Airi look on.

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Yllande @yllande.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aya Brea 🩵 #パラサイトイヴ

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h

Here’s a sample of the translation, it’s a great piece.

"Everywhere I looked, I saw companies that shouldn't exist. Companies built around misleading their customers, saying Al could do all sorts of things it couldn't do. And I hate people getting rich by conning people."
Zitron vented his incendiary monologues on
¡HeartRadio, America's largest radio publisher.
"The people at the radio company told me to lean into who I am. It helped me grow as a person."
It also spread his disgust and contempt for Silicon Valley. In Zitron's view, tech executives are trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes: claiming that Al will acquire godlike powers and pose a threat, while insisting that development must move so quickly that nobody has time to think. That, according to Zitron, is "the oldest trick in the con artist's book." In a recent podcast episode, he told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to shut up twelve times.
"That was fun. I'm proud of that episode," he says with a smile.

But somewhere along the way, he has also grown into a new role - that of a serious commentator. And he is careful to point out that there are reasons for his anger. Focusing on the anger, he says, is a way of sidestepping the real issue.
"It's easier to see an angry man than to deal with a complex, uncomfortable truth."
His answers come quickly. Talking to him is both entertaining and mildly dizzying. Zitron is engaged, articulate and full of metaphors. He also mixes categorical pronouncements — such as the claim that Al almost exclusively makes people stupider - with a barrage of hard data.
For example, he points to OpenAl and Anthropic's spending, which is set to rise next year as computing capacity they have ordered becomes ready to come online. Claims like this, along with his reporting that hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs are sitting unused in warehouses, have led outlets including the Financial Times to quote directly from Zitron's blog, Where's Your Ed At.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Got interviewed by one of the largest Swedish newspapers and they led with the best headline/photo (translates to “it’s easier to see an angry man than the truth”) www.svd.se/a/pB7E0G/ed-...

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”Lättare att se en arg man än sanningen”

Han har kallats galen, bett en AI-vd att hålla käften – och i åratal varnat för en börskrasch. Nu har den högljudda outsidern tagit klivet in i finrummen. Ändå känner sig Ed Zitron fortfarande behandl...

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Dear Mr. Cox: Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters. Very truly yours, CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP. James N. Bailey, General Counsel

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 11h

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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かとら @katoraman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

本日は惣流・アスカ・ラングレーさんをアップするのす

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 03/10/2026

CG iCupid [シージーアイキューピッド] Vol. 06 (June 2001) has been scanned and archived, please enjoy! archive.org/details/CG-i...

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viewfrommyoffic.bsky.social @viewfrommyoffic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

LEEEEERRRRROOOOOYYYYYYY JENKINS 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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DocDeezWhat @docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To Valhalla

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SnowyAria (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧🏳️‍⚧️ @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games · 03/10/2026

Oh, didn't see someone actually had an example of it further in the discussion bsky.app/profile/yuki...

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SnowyAria (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧🏳️‍⚧️ @snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games · 03/10/2026

Yeah, it felt like they could only show one line at a time, so whenever a name had to be subtitled, the actual dialogue line would disappear. This led to entire lines that were just not subbed, was really bad

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Balsa @balsamaster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I dunno if you've seen the new Apothecary Diaries episode, but the subs were absolutely terrible. Aside from all this, they were mistimed on several lines and I think a line or two was outright missing.

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Taedirk @taedirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If subtitles, the biggest selling point feature of running your own streaming service, is getting shat upon to make them easier to resell to other sites, why even bother with the service in the first place?

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

These new OOONA subs are not as catastrophically bad as the fully Netflix-compatible subs Crunchyroll was serving to users a year ago, but they still represent a significant downgrade in especially typesetting quality. Numpad notation positioning only, with no colors used. Plus issues like this too.

Screenshot from Vertex Force anime episode 1, showing a line of dialogue on top, with two overlapping lines of sign translation in the middle of the screen that are impossible to read properly because they overlap

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

I heard about this possibly happening from a couple sources at the start of the season, and well, it sure didn't take very long to get confirmation for it. I will be writing a new longer post for this. bsky.app/profile/daiz...

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 03/10/2026

Remember when Crunchyroll tried to make their subtitles significantly worse a year ago? They backtracked on it at the time, but I suspected they were just delaying their plans to shift from Aegisub to OOONA, and sadly, it seems I was right: Crunchyroll is actively pushing OOONA subs to users now.

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for #I'm Looking For a Zombie episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

Screenshot of Crunchyroll English subtitle metadata for Vertex Force episode 1, showing "Exported from Ooona Tools" and "Internal Delivery"

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 04/10/2026

Netflix is so rigid, it makes some things impossible, and I genuinely don't know how they expect people to do what they're asking. They want subtitles strictly timed to shot changes, but if the shot with the Forced Narrative is less than 24 frames, you have do do insane juggling.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Especially for Netflix, where the spec is God. Other VOD vendors sometimes may be a wee bit more flexible, but not big red. Here's Netflix's spec, in case anyone wants to check it out for themselves: partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/art...

partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com

Timed Text Style Guide: General Requirements

To get help on DTT topics, visit this support form. Any timed text created specifically for Netflix – Originals or non-Originals – should follow the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide, unless otherw...

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 04/10/2026

So often these platforms also have strict timing rules, too. Like, usually they have to be on screen for a full second (24 frames). Some of the quickest I've seen has been 20 frames. In an example like this one, that would be literally impossible.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's a fun story from when we were preparing a show for a now kinda-sorta-but-not-really defunct VOD channel. The reps insisted on SRT subs which were bottom-center only. We begged to let us do burn-ins. Back & forth ensured. Finally, I sent them this example. They quickly said YIKES, and agreed.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...with rare exceptions for "force narratives" (sign translations) that can sometimes be moved top-center, so long as they don't overlap the thing it's translating. And never can the FNs be onscreen at the same time as a subtitle.

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T. Williams @xstylus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This. I work at a studio that does subtitling. ASS is very much a special snowflake that does custom positioning that _nobody_ else supports except CR. The major VOD sites (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes) are STRICT in that all subs must primarily be bottom center...

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starseeker @starseeker-omachi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's for compatibility with Amazon etcs shitty subtitle renderers.

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 03/10/2026

if I was running any kind of SVOD platform, I would be trying to make broad, native support of .ass subtitles happen as hard as possible. I only handle simple captions for internal business meetings, and only occasionally, but aegisub is SO easy to use and produces SUCH good results...!! idgi

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 03/10/2026

i'm watching turn A gundam and enjoying the thought of how each side would react in their different social forums

a digital illustration in the style of an old political cartoon, labelled "the dark side of the moon". there is a WaDom holding a chunk of "Amerian Land", saying "won't you extend the olive branch?" the WaDom is drawn with cloven hooves and a pointed tail. an earther woman remarks "they are great only in size"

a fake social media post by a user named "Lieutenant Ord's left lens" (handle: "memesaber"). it's a meme with a badass guy holding two rifles surrounded by explosions, captioned "how earther soldiers feel right before being turned into a smell by a mega particle cannon"

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Mike Toole @miketoole.com · 04/10/2026

almost done with this one, and it just gets crazier and crazier. @darylsurat.bsky.social this show is FULL of craziest deaths, if you're updating the program for late 2026/2027

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 03/10/2026

Bryan is scheduled to play again at Gillette tonight. So far no response from the Krafts and no changes to the plans for the show. Remains to be seen if he wears the shirt a second night in a row.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 03/10/2026

Zach Bryan came out saying FREE PALESTINE in the first show at Gillette Stadium since Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft silenced Macklemore, AND he played a new, still unreleased anti-AI song and some of y’all are still sleeping on the liberatory potential of Americana

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La Médiathèque @mediatheque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Problem is, Lichtenstein didn’t rip off just Heath—he plagiarised something like 30 or 40 comic artists, including the likes of Irv Novick, Tony Abruzzo and John Romita. David Barsalou has spent decades tracking down the copies RL has refused to acknowledge. www.flickr.com/photos/decon...

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Mikey C 2000 @amazingmikeyc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Genuinely never realised he just copied existing panels rather than making up his own

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd never seen this Roy Lichtenstein painting before, but it's incredible how he manages unfailingly to make his copies worse than the original comics he's ripping off.

A drab pop art painting of a sinister man driving a car, watching a stoic blonde in leopard print fur. The proportions of the guy's face are off

The original image, from Girls' Romances 78 by Tony Abruzzo. The guy has a more sinister leer, while the woman has heavier mascara and feels both sadder and more determined. A caption reads "I vowed to myself I would NOT miss my appointment -- that I would NOT go riding with him--yet before I knew it..."

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spooky sky ✨🌙✨ @sky-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hi! 🩷 i need some medication pretty urgently and the cost is beyond my means. Please consider sharing or, if you're secure and can swing it, helpin' out. i haven't really talked about some of this stuff publicly before, but this is no time for me to be nervous to ask for help. thank you!!

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Donate to Help sky get urgently needed medication!, organized by Scott Leaton

Hi! My name is Sky. I’m a trans woman living in Chicago, Illinois, and i’m cur… Scott Leaton needs your support for Help sky get urgently needed medication!

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TAPE_W0RM @telebluecable.com · 02/10/2026

Hey gang. This is rlly out of character for me but I'm in a lot of financial hardship rn. My car is in disrepair rn and it's taking away from my ability to work. Any bit of money sent my way will help me buy groceries n pet food for my dog n cat. I'm really sorry to e-beg but I'm not ok rn.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Disabled people tried to warn you. We were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. Fascists will always come for the “useless eaters”. They want to institutionalize us. Hide us away from the rest of society. Remove our supports so we either die or disappear. It’s eugenics.

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