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Vincent

@vdezutti.bsky.social
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Artist, cinephile, occasional cyclist, ex-Californian in Minneapolis. www.vincentdezutti.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I know who to call when LaMelo runs me over
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 03/06/2026
68% of DFL convention voted to pass a resolution against AI deepfakes north star dawn, a super PAC in support of angie craig, is using a deepfake of peggy flanagan in an ad. their biggest donor is an AI billionaire. the convention also passed resolutions against data centers craig is out of touch
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Star Tribune Guild @startribuneguild.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Statement from the Star Tribune Guild in response to management’s plans to lay off 15% of staff, including union members in the newsroom:
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!
To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...
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Aurin Chowdhury MPLS City Council Member W12 @aurinmpls.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is all just a set up. Most productive council in history, most diverse, and people who just work really hard for our neighbors. We get made to be punching bag to tee up for the charter amendment on the ballot to strip council power and in turn constituent power. Don’t fall for it.
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🍂 Shel-leaf 🍁 Ca-pumpkin 🎃🚫🧊 [Seasonal Edition] @virtuistic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Help save Mercado Central! www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...
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Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central
Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure
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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/09/2025
I was pretty late to covering AI but seemed to get it right in February 2023 www.wheresyoured.at/degenerative...
The result will be genuine human suffering as a result of dressing a fallible, experimental intelligence up as an authoritative source of information. People will be inspired to harm themselves or others, all while their ideas and likenesses are counterfeited and monetized, all so
that wealthy executives can tell the world - and Wall Street - that their companies are "innovative."
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
One of the best shows in recent memory.
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
An airport banner with an image of a folding laptop paralleled to a hot dog that reads "feeding fans faster with AI"
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I have a set of 3 cyanotypes in this show! Opening this Friday 6:30-8:30pm at The Phipps. Really excited to see all the work and how they connect with each other.
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Move Minneapolis @moveminneapolis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📌 Reminder for all bike owners in our community: The City of Minneapolis discontinued its internal bike registry in August 2025 and all previously registered bikes need to be re-registered. The City recommends Bike Index! It is super simple and only takes a few minutes to register. 🔗 bikeindex.org
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sam Altman should be in jail. Seems to be a pattern with Stanford dropouts.
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
What a deeply cynical move by the state DFL. 1. provide no support to the local party 2. overwhelm volunteers trying to provide a fair process 3. if you don't like the results, overturn them based on the flaws you guaranteed would exist
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 09/08/2025
This is a lie. It's not even open to interpretation. Cashman was elected in 2023 - voted for historic police raises and increases to budget. The Frey PAC strategy is to scare you into electing a council majority for the rich & powerful - on all the issues that have nothing to do with police & crime.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good. Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil! “Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!
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You all going to let the idea of perfect ruin good? We need all the weapons we can muster right now to end the fascist regime. Defeat Trumpism and the GOP. Once that is done and we are moving forward I guess if you want to you can bicker about perfect.
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Leo S @yoleo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Alright, here it is. Kayla McBride going a perfect 8 for 8 from 3 in the 1st half
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A couple film photos from my recent trip to Japan. From my little Olympus XA2 point-and-shoot. Developed and scanned at home by me!
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/07/2025
Neither Gavin Newsom nor Rahm Emanuel can be allowed to become the Democratic nominee. Their willingness to deny the humanity of trans people is disqualifying, period. It indicates a willingness to throw anyone inconvenient overboard. Repulsive. Disqualifying.
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Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 20/07/2025
I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. fatehformayor.com/donate
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Why does Hidden Brain podcast always advertise for the most heinous shit. Just got ad reads for Meta AI and Amazon health insurance 🤮
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/06/2025
There's nothing "impressive" or "powerful" about AI today, other than its ability to burn billions of dollars and beguile members of the media who don't bother to look at reality. You are impressed by power and status, not achievement or innovation. It's a joke. www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-them/
Let’s even take a different tact: say you actually want these companies to “build powerful AI,” and believe they’re smart enough to do so. Say that, somehow, looking at their decaying finances, the lack of revenue, the lack of growth, and the remarkable lack of use cases, you still come out of it saying “sure, I think they’re going to do this!”

How? Why haven’t they done it yet? Why, three years in, are we still unable to describe what ChatGPT actually does, and why we need it? Take away how much money OpenAI makes for a second (and, indeed, how much it loses). Does this product actually really inspire anything in you? What is it that’s magical about this? 

And, on a business level, what is it I’m meant to be impressed by, exactly? OpenAI has — allegedly — hit “$10 billion in annualized revenue” (essentially the biggest month it can find, multiplied by 12), which is…not that much, really, considering it’s the most prominent company in the software world, with the biggest brand, and with the attention of the entirety of the world’s media. 

It has, allegedly, 500 million weekly active users — and, by the last count, only 15.5 million paying subscribers, an absolutely putrid conversion rate even before you realize that the actual conversion rate would be monthly active subscribers. That’s how any real software company actually defines its metrics, by the fucking way. 

Why is this impressive? Because it grew fast? It literally had more PR and more marketing and more attention and more opportunities to sell to more people than any company has ever had in the history of anything. Every single industry has been told to think about AI for three years, and they’ve been told to do so because of a company called OpenAI. There isn’t a single god damn product since Google or Facebook that has had this level of media pressure, and both of those companies launched without the massive amount of media (and social media) that we have today. 

Having literally everybody talking ab…When you put aside the big numbers, these are the actions of a desperate dimwit with a failing product trying to buy his way to making generative AI into a “superintelligence,” something that Meta’s own Chief AI scientist Yan LeCun says isn’t going to work.

By assuming that there is some sort of grand strategy behind these moves beyond “if we get enough smart people together something will happen,” you help boost the powerful’s messaging and buoy their stock valuations. You are not educating anybody by humouring these goofballs. In fact, the right way to approach this would be to ask why Meta, a multi-trillion dollar market cap company with a near-monopoly over all social media, is spending billions of dollars in what appears to be a totally irresponsible way. Instead, people are suggesting this is Mark Zuckerberg’s genius at work. 

Anyway, putting that aside, what exactly is the impressive part of generative AI again? The fucking code? Enough about the code, I’m tired of hearing about the code, I swear to god you people think that being a software engineer is only coding and that it’s fine if you ship “mediocre code,” as if bad code can’t bring down entire organizations. What do you think a software engineer does? Is all they do code? If you think the answer is yes, you are wrong!

Human beings may make mistakes in writing code, but they at least know what a mistake looks like, which a generative AI does not, because a generative AI doesn’t know what anything is, or anything at all, because it is a probabilistic model. 

Congratulations! You made another way in which software engineers can automate parts of their jobs — stop being so fucking excited about the idea that people are going to lose their livelihoods! It’s nasty, and founded on absolutely nothing other than your adulation for the powerful!

These models are dangerous and chaotic, built with little intention or regard for the future, just like the rest of big tech’s products. ChatGPT would’ve been a muc…
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Cuomo’s base is the same as Mayor Frey’s. They prioritize corporations over working people. Frey’s campaign isn’t about abundance. It’s about vetoing a historic city budget for workers, disinvested communities, immigrants + BIPOC residents, and unhoused residents. www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
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Minneapolis progressives swoon over Zohran Mamdani's NYC win
In Mamdani's upset, they see a roadmap for unseating Mayor Jacob Frey
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ash 🏳️‍⚧️ @rollingfor20.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
DO NOT RANK FREY. RANK DAVIS, FATEH, AND HAMPTON IN ANY ORDER!
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is what I mean when I talk about mamba mentality
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Art Sprawl @artsprawl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Check out this #zine featuring an interview with @vdezutti.bsky.social talking about his latest work from the "Bringing The Outside In" #exhibition - free download or paid color print: art-sprawl.com/2025/06/03/a... #VincentDezutti #photography #MNartist #ArtsPublishing #OxMuseum #IndeedBrewing
cover of zine printed in forest green on gray paper
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I don’t know if bugs sleep and frankly I don’t want to know. Some dumb fly taking a nap. Yeah get your rest you gross idiot, we need you at your best to ruin things
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I'm showing 5 brand new photographs (sneak peak on the last slide 👀) at Indeed! There's so much amazing art in this how. Open now through late June. Join us this Friday 6-9 for the opening during Art-a-Whirl!
AIC presents: Bringing the Outside In. May 12 - June 28. The Ox Museum at Indeed Brewing.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
i absolutely do believe that the nba is rigged on some level. just look at the game that's on right now. all the refs are there. the ball's obviously just been inflated. the goals are set up. there's a knicks logo on the floor. they've been planning to play this game for days
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Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org · 04/05/2025
Soren Stevenson is endorsed by DFL neighbors for Ward 8 with 69.4% of the vote! Congratulations to @sorenwithward8.bsky.social and also @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social on Ward Rep! — Soren Stevenson 69.4% (195 votes) — Josh Bassais 30.6% (86 votes) — No Endorsement 0.0% (0 votes) — Abstain (0)
Graphic with photo of Soren smiling and DFL logo. Breaking news: Soren Stevenson is endorsed by DFL neighbors for Ward 8
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Bsky-hive, what's the deal with the lack of bike racks at 50th & France? Was a bit of surprise seeing nothing near the cinema. Even the lamp posts seem specifically designed to be too wide for my u-lock 😅 just had to lock up on this random sign.
Sliver bike locked up to large sign with list of businesses
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I can't say it any clearer than this: I don't care what opinions, positions, or politics are held or expressed by people illegally seized, detained, or removed from this country. I DO NOT CARE. They're in this country. The Constitution applies to ALL of them as much as it applies to me. Period.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/04/2025
Refusing to eat at any buffet that doesn't have troughs of trash and broken glass
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction. Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/03/2025
www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
We are in the midst of a group delusion — a consequence of an economy ruled by people that do not participate in labor of any kind outside of sending and receiving emails and going to lunches that last several hours — where the people with the money do not understand or care about human beings.
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I think the role of culture / art to make you uncomfortable and change your mind and change your life is under extreme threat from the tidal wave of entertainment and the late-capitalist condition of artists having to commodify themselves to the hilt to survive at all
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
this place is the mines of moria for people who say “superb owl.” tread with the utmost care
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Stop showing me AI content. I'm tired of being presented objectively shitty looking images and videos and being told they're amazing. Are we looking at the same thing???
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Kinda embarrassing that my dog barks at skateboarders. I didn't realize I was raising a nimby from the 90s
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Ball Knowers @ballknowers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Napheesa Collier is the first player to reach 100 points scored in Unrivaled!
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A few pieces from my "Tettegouche Collage" series. All digital collages of 35mm photographs taken at Tettegouche State Park from around ~2018/19. I got to show the full series and do a Q&A at the visitor center in May 2022
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Watched 3 versions of the generative Eno doc - really amazing project. And I think I could listen to Brian Eno talk for hours.
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A Polaroid self portrait I made for a collage class at MCAD continuing ed a few years ago.
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Vincent @vdezutti.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Guess I have to watch Emilia Perez now lol
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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
i have not updated this in many months but: go.bsky.app/DdAVgKi
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