iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you think of it, artificial intelligence is ableist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Marxist movement should seek to abolish it.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-themed pizzeria is facing backlash for using an AI version of Michelangelo’s voice to take orders. Customers who refuse to give the AI their payment information have reportedly been insulted by the system.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Kyrie Page @kyriepage.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GOD DAMMIT

Al Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses Al Generated Content like this:

Generative Al was used as a supplementary tool in the translation process for certain system languages in this title.

Al was utilized to help improve translation efficiency and quality. However, all final translations are reviewed and edited by the development team before being implemented.

All translated text is reviewed by human editors to ensure it is accurate, appropriate, and of high quality.

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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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Sapling 🌱 @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Woke up to this news and I’m beyond disgusted. It’s a US *constitutional right* now to create and own ‘CSAM,’ as long as it was made with AI?? AI gen images are built from real images, of real children. This directly re-exploits every single CSAM survivor. (More in 🧵) #abolition #trafficking

A federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess child sexual abuse content created using Al if it does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
On Tuesday, Judge John Z. Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th District ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual's right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home. In his ruling, Judge Lee urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue of virtual abuse material of children in the age of Al, suggesting that technological advances complicate existing legal precedent.
The case Lee ruled on came about in 2024 when the Department of Justice brought charges against Steven Anderegg, alleging that he used Al to create thousands of explicit images of children. He was accused of breaking federal obscenity laws by producing, distributing and possessing obscene visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Anderegg sought to have the possession and production charges dismissed under the First Amendment. Last year, a judge in the Western District of Wisconsin agreed to dismiss the possession charge, prompting the federal prosecutors to appeal.
Lee, in his ruling upholding the lower court's decision, cited the precedent set by Supreme Court rulings from 1969 and 2002. One held that individuals have a right to possess obscenity in the privacy of their home. The other found that "virtual" child sexual abuse material, not depicting a real person is not child pornography.

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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 26/08/2026

The Minions of Avian Intelligence Bonus speedpaint: www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFanta... #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Panel 1. Cepper, the gothic witch, is stunned to see a small army of Avian Intelligence (AI) parrots walking down the red carpet toward the university's reception room. Behind her, her own AI parrot flies overhead.
> Cepper: "What are these?"
> Parrot: "These are my minions."

Panel 2. The minions scatter throughout the celebration, attempting to join various group discussions.
> Parrot: "They're deployed in all discussions to make people love Avian Intelligence."

Panel 3. A similar shot to the previous panel, but now people are growing angry at the minion parrots who interrupted their discussions. Cepper and her AI parrot simply observe the scene.
> AI Parrot minion (1): "AI is just a tool!"
> AI Parrot minion (2): "AI learns like humans do!"
> AI Parrot minion (3): "AI is good!"
> Cepper: "...Is it working?"

Panel 4. In a similar shot, the crowd is now furious, screaming at the minions. The Parrot remains optimistic while Cepper is facepalming.
> Parrot: "No, people still hate AI. I guess I'll just deploy more minions."

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 27/08/2026

So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets for "truth" and it currently has no idea what it's doing. Posted something innocuous about Star Wars Zero Company and it essentially blocked it from all feeds.

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Rowan || Aurora || ECLIPSA @ruadhain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

-IMPORTANT- Gumroad has recently updated their website with the intention of phasing out the ability to manually edit your storefront and allowing you to only edit your storefront via AI agents. I will be dropping gumroad support entirely in the near future. More to come as I sort things out.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

lmao

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Weyland - ttv/weyland_here @weyland.live · 26/08/2026

FYI the HUGE number of AI slop at GamesCom's opening night live is not a sign that the industry has normalized AI. It's a ploy to make you believe that. These games are all by the same 3 or 4 publishers. This is a concerted effort to make consumers accept AI.

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

WildBrain has acquired child-focused generative AI startup Personality AI in a deal worth up to $69M. The company plans to use the technology across IP including ‘Teletubbies,’ ‘Degrassi,’ ‘Yo Gabba Gabba!’ and ‘Strawberry Shortcake.’

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once

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caramida (he/they) @caramida.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Um. Wow, yeah

Clara Benson

@clara.bsky.social
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAl is.
GenAl is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.
But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
ALT
Suivre
Bianca Il
@biankadonk.bsky.social
Bluesky Elder
Not just that but Tolkien also said, "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made."
Sound familiar?
Misha Loren
Just now
The analogy of the One Ring for GenAl is quite powerful, especially when you consider how it seduces users with the promise of easy power. That quote about evil being unable to create anything new feels particularly relevant to the way these models remix existing human art. It really makes you wonder if we're trading our creative soul for a shortcut.

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ngl this has me kind of mad. Someone made AI slop of my art to advertise some slop app. I’m so mad because I declined hundreds of sponsorship offers for apps that felt exploitative of vulnerable groups and ADHD-curing vitamins, I’m here feeling bad advertising my book and they just go and do this

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

dawg im fuckin dying

Filmmakers looking at a midjourney generated image of Lobo

The midjourney generayed image has been adjusted to make his hair be arranged in inscrutable dreadlocks with bells? maybe?

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

using AI to direct a movie like

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Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

YouTube is (inconsistently) demonetizing AI content, Spotify is going to stop pushing AI music, games studios are getting blasted for AI use, publishers are (inconsistently) killing book deals based on AI accusations, corpos are limiting token due to no proven ROI... But "AI's inevitable."

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"We live in a world full of AI, let's be honest with ourselves" - 1666: Amsterdam developer still using AI tools despite recent controversy, but promises again "it won't be in the final product" www.eurogamer.net/1666-amsterd...

A woman peers out moodily from behind veiled and ornate red hood.

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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026

Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...

Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more

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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TWITCH AI TRAINING IS LIVE - ON BY DEFAULT here's how to turn it off: - settings - security and privacy

twitch ai training "training for generative ai" consent screenshot

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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026

The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

youtube.com

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/08/2026

‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads:

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've never touched google gemini or whatever, but this was turned on. myactivity.google.com/product/gemini turn that shit off

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War-Bird: CEO of Freedom @warbirdactual.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

reminder that social media websites are 100% reading and recording your "private" messages

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I mean he is extremely annoying for how aggressively he tries to remain centrist/moderate on even the most black and white possible things, so I don't really know why I expected him to not use it and to value the art of learning as a human experience

a hank green tweet:

I produced this under a ton of pressure so I went and checked my process from start to finish. I did use ChatGPT for research on this script and watching it I definitely get an AI feel, so I think it’s fair to say I was relying too much on generated notes. That’s a thing I’ve been doing and it’s a bad habit at a time when I’ve overcommitted myself.

But I just went to the notes and the script for this and neither contain the “I appreciate the pushback” line, so that particular moment was an ad lib in reference to my guest pushing back on me saying that words are purely made up.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

news.com.au

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/07/2026

Canadian politician Bill Oliver has gone viral after he appeared to accidentally read AI-generated editing instructions aloud, not once, but twice, during a speech to lawmakers in early June.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What does this mean? It means the Sov AI fund is allocating taxpayer money to AI companies without checking whether they train on copyrighted work without permission. Why does this matter? Two reasons: 6/10

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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deafhobbit @deafhobbit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the actual source for this is 404 media. please give credit to actual journalists, not rando's on twitter summarizing their work without citation. www.404media.co/ai-companies...

404media.co

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 22/07/2026

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

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POCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 26/07/2026

Just your regular reminder that there are other #TTRPG alternatives to #D&D that aren't leaning on AI. You really like 5e, but don't want to support AI? Tales of the Valiant or Level Up 5e. Looking for an old school vibe without the headache of ThAC0? Basic Fantasy. Like crunch? Pathfinder. 1/3

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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have no clue why it was on that slide or who put it there, and every member of the crew I worked with is 100% against AI. Every aspect of the animation is handcrafted by real artists and I hope that people don’t use this slide as a reason to detract from how much love and labor went into the film.

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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Absolutely no AI whatsoever in the art / design process!

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☀︎☆ @sunshue.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

citing chatgpt for a character design and eren yeager is a choice???

screenshot of part of tagah's character design sheet from SDCC. text reads "face shape exploration (no hair exploration yet) (please consider that if they are East Asian, the shave + braid queue hairstyles which are specifically Mongolian/Chinese may not be a good fit. Also according to chatgpt, "In general it is not common for South East Asian cultures to emphasize or traditionally have a strong association with beards. Traditionally valued a c clean-shaven appearance or minimal facial hair grooming.")

Underneath text are three images: one a photo of eren yeager from attack on titan and two contending options of tagah's facial shape/hair design: with scruff or a fuller beard

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Rick @combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 25/07/2026

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

pch.research-recherche.ca

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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