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Leftist, cat-loving, A.I.-phobic '80s kid

Anchorage AK > Anaheim CA > Honolulu HI

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kenm9 @kenm9.bsky.social · Jan 20
#PunchNazis #AlwaysPunchNazis #IndianaJones #RetroComics #RetroSupply
Cartoon art of Indiana Jones punching a Nazi
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 29
Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed.

"Deeply saddened"

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
WSJ: An OpenAI spokeswoman said the company has reached out to the Greenwich Police Department. “We are deeply saddened by this tragic event,” the spokeswoman said. “Our hearts go out to the family.” NYT: Ms. Raine started reading the conversations, too. She had a different reaction: “ChatGPT killed my son.” In an emailed statement, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, wrote: “We are deeply saddened by Mr. Raine’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family. ChatGPT includes safeguards such as directing people to crisis help lines and referring them to real-world resources. While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade.”
August 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
publichealthpolicyjournal.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
They're both kinda dumb anyway... 🤷

#Labubu #StanleyCups #Fads #SadCatMeme
A man walks away holding an evil creepy looking Labubu doll, while a teary-eyed Stanley cup looks on.
August 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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edzitron.com
You're so close
r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".
August 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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crimsonmayhem.bsky.social
Rest in peace, PatmanQC. :(
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
kenm9.bsky.social
#StarWars #HueyLewisAndTheNews
#BackToTheFuture40th
#ThePowerOfLove
#StarWarsHolidaySpecial
#LifeDay
#StarWarsFanArt
Star Wars characters posing in a Huey Lewis and The News group shot, with Chewbacca in a red jacket and shades. Huey Lewis and The News group shot and Star Wars Holiday Special group shot.
July 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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michellefrost.bsky.social
The Bible verse that Clayton Kershaw wrote on tonight's Pride cap is used by some so-called Christians to "take back God's rainbow" because, well, the homophobes want to be the only ones who can define love apparently.
birdbrad.bsky.social Birdley @birdbrad.bsky.social · Jun 14
Even the most liberal baseball writers continue to insist on carrying water for this dude.
June 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
kenm9.bsky.social
#Blondie twofer: #MaxReboBand and #ThePuppetBand

#ReturnOfTheJedi #PeeWeesPlayhouse
Max Rebo Band in the style of Blondie's Parallel Lines album cover The Puppet Band from Pee-wee's Playhouse in the style of Blondie's Parallel Lines album cover Blondie's Parallel Lines album cover
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
kenm9.bsky.social
#Unicron as #CitizenKane

#OrsonWelles #TransformersTheMovie
#TransformersG1
Unicorn in front of a giant poster of himself, in the style of Citizen Kane.
May 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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ziibiing.com
happy may day!

poster by madeleine jubilee saito
Dictators, fascists, and oligarchs want us to believe that they are all-powerful and that we’d be nothing without them. The reality is, they don’t create anything. WE the people create EVERYTHING! This poster was inspired by this passage from Daniel Hunter’s article “10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won”: “It will be helpful to have a power analysis in our minds, specifically that’s known as the upside-down triangle. This tool was built to explain how power moves even under dictatorships. The central tenet is that like an upside-down triangle, power can be unstable. It naturally topples over without anything supporting it. To prevent that, power relies on pillars of support to keep it upright. … Describing the pillars of support, Gene Sharp wrote: ‘By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler though a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule.’ Removing one pillar of support can often gain major, life-saving concessions. In response to Trump’s 2019 government shutdown, flight attendants prepared a national strike. Such a strike would ground planes across the country and a key transportation network. Within hours of announcing they were ‘mobilizing immediately’ for a strike, Trump capitulated.” — Daniel Hunter, Waging Nonviolence
May 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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danziger.bsky.social
It makes shit up *and* it burns up the planet, what’s not to like?

Also, it can share your work with the universe unprompted!

What’s it gonna take to put you into this garbage technology today
April 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
#CaptainPlanet for #EarthDay

#EarthDay2025
#Watchmen #DrManhattanOnMars
Sad Captain Planet sitting on a tree stump, thinking "Greedy corporate bastards..." Sad Dr Manhattan sitting on a rock on Mars.
April 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
Shots of Mt Fuji, some sights from nearby areas, and a view of Tokyo from the Skytree tower.
Mt Fuji with a lake in front. A dog walking by a stream. A sign asking not to throw coins in the pond, in front of a pond full of coins. A view of Tokyo from Skytree, 451 meters in the air, about a quarter mile.
April 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
Last piece of art for #StarWarsCelebrationJapan

#NoAI #NoAIArt #StarWarsFanArt
BB-8 thumbs up to caption: "Using robots to fight fascist space empires WITH you," and thumbs down to "Using robots to make art FOR you." Rest of caption: "All while using enormous amounts of fossil fuels and fresh water in the process."
April 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
kenm9.bsky.social
George Lucas in a Panasonic ad that aired in Japan in 1991, during the "morphing" craze.
April 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
kenm9.bsky.social
ILM model maker Don Bies standing in as Boba Fett for an added scene in the Return of the Jedi Special Edition.

Making stickers for #SWCJ. Would love to hand one to @danlarson.bsky.social if I see you around.
Cartoon of a glum Boba Fett with glasses and a mustache, with two glum dancers on either side. Behind the scenes photo of a glum Boba Fett with glasses and a mustache, with two glum dancers on either side.
April 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
"Women of Star Wars" bookmark for the fan art exchange at #StarWarsCelebrationJapan
April 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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recadork.bsky.social
I've grown tired of having the same argument with people defending or excusing Gen AI, so I compiled it all into a multi-page flyer to deploy as needed. If anyone else wishes to use these, please feel free.

Purposefully made these to be easily printable, too, if anyone desires.
WHAT IS GENERATIVE AI? Gen AI is a technology that works by analyzing a datacenter of collected material (Frequently included without permission of the creators of said materials) and generating new content based on said material as directed by a provided prompt. WHY IS GEN AI, AS IT EXISTS NOW, BAD? There are a variety of ethical and environmental problems that are interwoven with Gen AI as it exists and is being implemented by corporations today. FIRSTLY As previously stated, most Gen AI models and systems use a collection of materials that have been collected without the permission of those who created said materials. This leads to situations of outright plagiarism like what was recently seen with OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli module which was then used by entities like the United States White House Social Media team to push messages that completely contradict the messages and themes deeply tied to Studio Ghibli’s collective work. Big name studios are not the only ones at risk, as independent creative workers (Artists, actors, writers, etc.) are all at risk of being targeted, and many already have, and lack the financial or political resources to hold corporations that steal from them accountable. SECONDLY - Creative workers are having their carriers directly threatened by corporations seeking to use Gen AI to replace them, resulting in layoffs. As an example, Dulingo (Yes, the Owl Language App) laid off all their human translators in favor of using Gen AI translators. THIRDLY Gen AI has an extremely high demand for resources and energy that is disastrous both to the environment and the communities where said resources are mined. It consumes a vast amount of energy, with a lot of that energy coming from greenhouse gas producing sources like coal. A large amount of water is also needed to cool the servers needed to run Gen AI technology. It is costly, but even if/when those costs go down, the devastating impacts remain and likely only worsen as Gen AI use spreads. WHAT CAN WE DO? The simple answer is to show solidarity towards creative workers and all those effected by Gen AI by refusing to use or engage with it whenever it is realistically possible. We also can fight back and protect workers by pressuring elected representatives to take action by creating and instituting laws and regulations that protect workers and enpower creatives, both independant and working under corporate umbrellas to protect their work from being stolen and misused. In the meanwhile we can also use Unions to organize protests and collective movements to pressure employers to agree to protective agreements that keep creative workers employed. This does sometimes mean needing to organize and raise funds to help workers through strikes and give everyone the time and resources needed to collectively bargain protections, but these actions protect ALL OF US in the end. WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF AVOIDABLE GEN AI USE? Do you need, or would like, a piece of art work created for commercial or personal use? Hire a human artist. Do you have a project that requires acting, either voiced or otherwise? Hire a human actor. Do you need help writing or translating something? Hire a human writer or translator. Do you lack the funds to offer financial compensation for creative work? Put out a general request online and shop around for help. As long as you are respectful and reasonable with your request, you can generally find someone willing to offer you their services, either for alternative compensation or even completely free. (Just be sure to credit them for their work!) GEN AI DEMOCRATIZES ART/ WE CAN DEMOCRATIZE IT! No, it does not, and no we can not. Firstly anyone can already create art. In fact, the fields of carriers found within creative work are amoung leading positions avalible to disabled people, including the neurodiverse. A lot of these people are under direct risk of not only losing their jobs, but being put in a position where their disability, combined with their unemployment puts them at direct risk of losing their, independence and hopes of living self-sufficiently. Unemployment rates are measurably higher for disabled workers, and with many unable to learn new skills without extreme difficulty, this situation has the potential to ruin lives. But even ignoring this, the idea of “democratizing” Gen AI ignores how it works. The servers that run and produce Gen AI are all corporate owned. Executives and Billionaires are the ones with direct control, and they have direct control over what Gen AI can or can not produce. This means trying to weaponize it against them is doomed to failure, as those in control have the power to institute filters to prevent undesirable production and also have the ability to monitor everything generated, and who commissioned each generative piece. This would extend to trying to utilize “private” servers or any other means of circumventing corporate control. While the creation of publicly owned Gen AI servers is technically possible, these too would still ultimately be under government control and fall under the same problems of administrative control and monitoring, and this is ignoring all the problems that would come from funding and providing resources to such an effort that could, instead, be used to provide necessities like food, shelter, and health care. IS THERE ANY POTENTIAL FOR GEN AI TO BE USED FOR GOOD? As it currently exists and is being implemented now? No. The environmental impact is far too great, and the continued threat to creative workers needs to be addressed and handled first and foremost. Perhaps once proper regulations and rules are in place that restrict and lay out what Gen AI can and can not be used for, using it to create tools that could be genuinely useful to creative workers can be explored. Unfortunately this was not how the corporations and companies that created Gen AI chose to develop these technologies. They were working, instead, for companies simply seeking to maximize profits by cutting down labor costs. Ironically, the high cost of powering and maintaining these systems are a huge part of why they are unlikely to be sustainable for the long term. YOU ARE JUST BEING EMOTIONAL! Speaking as a creative worker myself (And a disabled/Autistic one at that), yes, I do have a vested interest in this cause and a reason to both hold my ground and expect others to do the same. However, it is factually wrong, and a straight up fallacy, to imply that the arguments of myself, and other creative workers being directly affected by this situation, are not logical simply because of this investment. In fact, it is a straight up fallacy! It is also deeply disrespectful and insulting. Many of us have years of experience working in our specific fields and have direct knowledge over how things work. I do not believe asking for solidarity, and to be listened to, is too much.
April 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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alisonborealis.bsky.social
Don't forget:

ChatGPT and many LLM "AI"s have been trained on massive reams of FICTION (as well as outdated non-fiction).

There's no guarantee that the "facts" it gives you are real, true, or accurate for modern times.

Plus it's burning fossil fuels, consuming water, and emitting GHGs.
rileysilverman.bsky.social Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · Mar 25
Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.
March 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
Not really interested in hearing anyone with the Los Angeles Dodgers talking next week about how important Jackie Robinson was when they all smiled and posed today with a white supremacist trying extra hard to re-segregate society.
April 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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kyrianne.bsky.social
I have this saved as a favorite image so I can whip it out when necessary. I think it’s one of the better arguments to get people to stop using GenAI because clearly the plagiarism side isn’t convincing enough for people
Firefighters actively working to put out a raging house fire. Above them are words that read: One search on chatGPT uses 10 times the amount of energy as a Google search. Training one AI model produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as 300 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco and five times the lifetime emissions of a car. We don’t need AI “art”. We don’t need AI grocery lists. We don’t need AI self-driving cars. We don’t need chatGPT or gemini or grok or dall-E or whatever “revolutionary” technology already exists inside our own human brains. We need the Earth.
April 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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definitelyvita.bsky.social
Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
kenm9.bsky.social
#Porg + #ChibaLotteMarines

#ChibaJapan #SWCJ #StarWarsCelebration #StarWarsCelebration2025 #StarWarsCelebrationJapan #StarWarsFanArt
Porg batting in a Chiba Lotte Marines uniform Chiba Lotte Marines alternate logo
March 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM