Joe Rosales
@joeartguy.bsky.social
I have been an artist and writer for a long time.
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So nothing they just said in that press holds any water, they are just winging it
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So nothing they just said in that press holds any water, they are just winging it
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I posted this in 2016 and I'll share it again.
November 6, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I posted this in 2016 and I'll share it again.
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This is all going to get even stupider
January 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
This is all going to get even stupider
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Here's some "Real people" studies I did a long time ago!
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Here's some "Real people" studies I did a long time ago!
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This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
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grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
![A Bluesky user based in Venezuela posted 'I live near a military air base and five earth-shaking explosions were just heart.'
User @thenordic.bsky.social (a random asshole) replied 'was it too hard for you to to [sic] add a link?' along with a link to an AP piece. Quick, don't look, what do you think the odds are that this user responded gracefully to being told that OP was on the ground and reporting firsthand?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ycbmujtxprrwbkiw3x5qsyz4/bafkreieh2ddespqvcqdhpfy4g2higsw4lfiguzpaxs3rdessztcokmww6i@jpeg)
January 3, 2026 at 8:21 AM
grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text
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It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
January 3, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
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I know several oil barons, I’ve had the oil and gas industry as clients in a past life: none of them want the Venezuelan oil, it’s dog shit quality and getting the PDVSA fields up to modern standards would take 20 years! It’s just trump being stuck in 1987
At this point the oil barons hardly even care (they can pivot to renewables too). It’s just gender and internal combustion brain
It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
January 3, 2026 at 8:05 AM
I know several oil barons, I’ve had the oil and gas industry as clients in a past life: none of them want the Venezuelan oil, it’s dog shit quality and getting the PDVSA fields up to modern standards would take 20 years! It’s just trump being stuck in 1987
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Officially announcing my new game:
GARBAGE COUNTRY.
A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world.
feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.
GARBAGE COUNTRY.
A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world.
feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.
June 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Officially announcing my new game:
GARBAGE COUNTRY.
A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world.
feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.
GARBAGE COUNTRY.
A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world.
feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Find a job you're not getting paid for and you won't work a day in your life!
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January 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Find a job you're not getting paid for and you won't work a day in your life!
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An engineer prompted Grok to post an apology, and since the LLM has processed millions of apology posts it made one with the most likely words in the most likely order.
An LLM has no morality. An LLM doesn’t know what good or evil or an apology is, only what words are associated with those prompts.
An LLM has no morality. An LLM doesn’t know what good or evil or an apology is, only what words are associated with those prompts.
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
An engineer prompted Grok to post an apology, and since the LLM has processed millions of apology posts it made one with the most likely words in the most likely order.
An LLM has no morality. An LLM doesn’t know what good or evil or an apology is, only what words are associated with those prompts.
An LLM has no morality. An LLM doesn’t know what good or evil or an apology is, only what words are associated with those prompts.
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It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 AM
It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.
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With the reports on Venezuela coming out, be super-careful about what you share - we already know that folks are pumping out videos that look realistic that can add to the frenzy
This sucks, a lot
This sucks, a lot
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
With the reports on Venezuela coming out, be super-careful about what you share - we already know that folks are pumping out videos that look realistic that can add to the frenzy
This sucks, a lot
This sucks, a lot
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Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/
#StarTrek
#StarTrek
Trekorama!
360° of Star Trek
mijofr.github.io
December 30, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/
#StarTrek
#StarTrek
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Its too late for that. Z image and Stable Video Infinity v2.0 can be run on average home computers. If you want to prevent abuse then make the act of making images/videos of a real person without their permission illegal regardless of source.
like 90% of the societal harm caused by AI image/video generation can be solved simply by making it expensive enterprise tech
i think it's become rather obvious that there's nowhere near enough upside to putting these tools in consumer hands
i think it's become rather obvious that there's nowhere near enough upside to putting these tools in consumer hands
January 3, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Its too late for that. Z image and Stable Video Infinity v2.0 can be run on average home computers. If you want to prevent abuse then make the act of making images/videos of a real person without their permission illegal regardless of source.
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admittedly I haven't kept up with him in a while but still doing a spit-take seeing this coming from paul graham of all people
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 11:37 PM
admittedly I haven't kept up with him in a while but still doing a spit-take seeing this coming from paul graham of all people
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Happy Holidays from the Foglio family
January 3, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Happy Holidays from the Foglio family
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1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
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I know I don't have a say in it, but I really REALLY want
@blizzard.com to make the #Warcraft Haranir /dance the moves from this video. Thematically appropriate! youtu.be/TyHXPNNjd-I
@blizzard.com to make the #Warcraft Haranir /dance the moves from this video. Thematically appropriate! youtu.be/TyHXPNNjd-I
Lisa Lougheed | Run With Us | 1988
YouTube video by Cloudbuster
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January 3, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I know I don't have a say in it, but I really REALLY want
@blizzard.com to make the #Warcraft Haranir /dance the moves from this video. Thematically appropriate! youtu.be/TyHXPNNjd-I
@blizzard.com to make the #Warcraft Haranir /dance the moves from this video. Thematically appropriate! youtu.be/TyHXPNNjd-I
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The gig economy gives workers the freedom to be more thoroughly exploited. But God forbid we call them employees
always knew the burrito taxi industry was scummy but this is the most unfathomably evil, cartoon villain shit I’ve read in a while. jfc
January 2, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The gig economy gives workers the freedom to be more thoroughly exploited. But God forbid we call them employees