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sweetie π

@sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social

i crushed a man in reno just to use my thighs

November 26, 2024 at 11:16 PM

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Haus of Decline

@hausofdecline.bsky.social

A British woman has just given birth. She looks at her newborn and says "'e's a Gingih" We see the baby and the it has a knob of ginger for it's head. The woman says "joost like his da'" one of the OB/GYNs looks worried and asks "where is CLive, by the way?" The doctors find him in a darkened room, having taking his own life by grating his head. One doc exclaims "Bloody 'ell! 'E's grated 'imself." The other says "'e couldn't 'andle the pressih of fathuhhood, the knob."

November 26, 2024 at 3:18 PM

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Bluesky

@bsky.app

We’re having ongoing conversations with engineers & lawyers and we hope to have more updates to share on this shortly!

November 27, 2024 at 2:18 AM

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d.ly

@dly.bsky.social

great, now I have imposter’s syndrome

A horoscope for D that says Despite what you may think, you actually aren't the worst person in the world.

November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM

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Bluesky

@bsky.app

Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here.

November 27, 2024 at 2:05 AM

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Bluesky

@bsky.app

We recently shared Bluesky’s stance on user data and AI training, which has not changed. Bluesky will not train generative AI on user data. bsky.app/profile/bsky...

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

November 27, 2024 at 1:58 AM

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Adam P. Knave

@adampknave.com

REMEMBER: Thanksgiving is a chance for families to come together...

Shou Tucker looking at Nina Tucker and her dog and you just know he wants to merge them

November 27, 2024 at 3:30 AM

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Thomas

@thomasfuchs.at

My man Weizenbaum casually arguing for UBI in his 1976 book about why AI is bullshit, even if it would work (which it doesn’t).

The argument here is that shiny technology distracts us from solving the hard problems and often prevents actual innovation.

But the computer was used to automate the administration of social services and to centralize it along established political lines, If the computer had not facilitated the perpetuation and "improvement" of existing welfare distribution systems-hence of their philosophical rationales-perhaps someone might have thought of eliminating much of the need for welfare by, for example, introducing negative income tax.

The very erection of an enormously large and complex computer based welfare administration apparatus, however, created an interest in its maintenance and therefore in the perpetuation of the welfare system itself.

And such interests soon become substantial barriers to innovation even if good reasons to innovate later accumulate. In other words, many of the problems of growth and complexity that pressed insistently and irresistibly for response during the postwar decades could have served as incentives for social and political innovation. An enormous acceleration of so-cal invention, had it begun then, would now seem to us as natural a consequence of man's predicament in that time as does the flood of technological invention and innovation that was actually stimulated.

November 27, 2024 at 4:48 AM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

I love photos like this. There’s nothing unusual going on, someone just saw him and said “Oh he’s so HANDSOME. I have to take picture.” From my collection, 1959.

Black and white photo of a beautiful shorthaired tabby cat, my guess is ginger, sitting up on a box or bench or something in front of a white oven.

November 27, 2024 at 8:56 AM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

This is my friend Phabio. He looks like a regular bunny at first until you realize he is 3/4 cloud. He lives at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social! ☁️

November 27, 2024 at 7:22 AM

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Gareth L. Powell

@garethlpowell.bsky.social

Good morning, Bluesky friends. There are some fantastic specific writers and publishers in the #writingcommunity on this app. I’ve curated a list of a few here:

go.bsky.app/Pmq3Moa

November 27, 2024 at 8:03 AM

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Representative Becca Balint

@balint.house.gov

Hi! I'm Becca, the 1st woman and openly queer person to represent Vermont. This is my wife Elizabeth, and we're the proud parents of two teenagers.

I'm fighting to make housing more affordable, address the mental health crisis, protect our democracy, and stand up for working people.

Follow along!

November 13, 2024 at 10:40 PM

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Frank Conniff

@frankconniff.bsky.social

I've never been into video games, I mean I've never played one ever, but watching Arcane on Netflix with its amazing art, brilliant character-driven storytelling, exciting action sequences, and high emotional stakes, for the first time I'm wondering if I've been missing out.

November 21, 2024 at 9:44 PM

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Cats of Yore

@catsofyore.bsky.social

Ugh I had to create a facebook profile to help a farm sanctuary I work with do social media. The first thing fb did is ask if I wanted to be friends with an incredibly toxic staff writer I used to work with. The second thing it did was show me a "nature photo" that was obviously AI generated. 🤢

November 21, 2024 at 10:48 PM

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Gareth L. Powell

@garethlpowell.bsky.social

Heads up, ebook fans: starting tomorrow, my British Science Fiction Association Award-winning novel EMBERS OF WAR will be on sale for only $3.99 as part of Amazon's General Best. Deal Kindle Offer.