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BrendanQ
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cchapman.bsky.social
Astonishing

"using AI assistance led to a .. significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz [of] concepts used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand .. AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach .. statistical significance."
January 30, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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agreenberg.bsky.social
The AI-chat-enabled stuffed toy Bondu invites little kids to have intimate conversations with it, like an LLM imaginary friend. It also exposed virtually all their chats on a web interface with no security. Anyone with a Gmail account could log in and read transcripts. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
He probably thought they just spoke “Swiss.”
Screenshot of an X.com post by Adam Schwarz (@AdamJSchwarz) reading, “Trump in Davos, Switzerland: ‘Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German’. German is the main language of Switzerland.” Below is a video thumbnail of Donald Trump speaking at a World Economic Forum podium with a blue “World Economic Forum” backdrop and “Annual Meeting Davos 2026” on the lectern.
January 23, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it
3 panel comic Panel 1: Orange Guy standing at a stall with a sign that says “Shit Sandwich, £500” Pink Guy walks up to the stall, Orange Guy gestures excitedly at the sign. Panel 2: Pink Guy continues walking past the Shit Sandwich stall. The Orange Guy looks dejected Panel 3: Orange Guy says “Wow. That guy can’t read”
January 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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getmoresmarter.com
Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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bradtakei.bsky.social
We have a deeply unwell man in office indulging his imperialistic fantasies.
Screenshot of a social post by President Donald J. Trump where he posted a picture depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
bpq.bsky.social
Also: Tell me you don't play games without telling me you don't play games. 🙄
apzonerunner.com Alex Donaldson @apzonerunner.com · 16d
"What's your favourite Beatles album, then?"
"Tough one! I think I'd have to say... The Best of The Beatles"
January 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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givepatajob.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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dikkii.bsky.social
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
January 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM
bpq.bsky.social
[Person]: Medical "advice" from a word association machine? What could go wrong?
[Narrator]: Everything.
January 8, 2026 at 4:59 AM
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satumma.bsky.social
“Woke” is just being aware of these structures of power and authority and knowing that they are there to justify the abuse of others.

The “war on woke” is those the restoration of these structures for the purposes of abusing others.
Supremacy holds that only an ever-shrinking class of preferred people have lives that matter, and the rest do not, and that, therefore, anything that is done to people that do not matter, no matter how wasteful and abusive and cruel and violent, is both justified and justifiable, and that nothing that people that matter do, no matter how wasteful or abusive or cruel or violent, can ever be anything but good and right.
December 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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kidvanguard.bsky.social
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
Special Benetits. For Individuals For Business Trump Gold Card For a $15,000 DHS processing fee* and, after background approval, a contribution of $1 million, receive U.S. residency in record time with the Trump Gold Card. *Additional small fees to the U.S. Department of State may apply depending on the applicant. Trump Platinum Card Coming Soon* An official website of the United States government Apply Now 个 Corporate Gold Card? The Trump Corporate Gold Card is issued to a corporate sponsor for one or more of the sponsor's employees. To apply, the corporate sponsor must pay a nonrefundable, $15,000 DHS processing fee per employee. Corporate sponsors may apply for multiple employees at once. A $2 million per employee gift upon completion of the employee's vetting is evidence that the employee will substantially benefit the United States. The advantage of the Trump Corporate Gold Card is that corporate sponsors may cease sponsoring one employee and use the gift contribution tied to the prior application as a basis for sponsoring a new employee, without a new $2 million gift. The Trump Corporate Gold Card is subject to a small, 1% annual maintenance fee and a 5% transfer fee, which includes the cost of a new DHS background check. Small additional fees to the U.S. Department of State may also apply depending on each employees circumstances.
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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therisingtithes.bsky.social
Anyone who has ever met a writer (especially one with neurodivergent hyperfixations) knows that ideas are free. The tree of ideas is always laden, & there is too much windfall to eat.

Maybe pay thoughtful creative people a living wage to act on their ideas instead of letting the echoing box chirp.
jasonsanford.bsky.social Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Dec 13
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.

Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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commandersterling.bsky.social
Game developers were here first. Not executives.

Game developers make games. Not executives.

Game developers have skills & knowledge important to the business. Not executives.

Game developers deserve to keep their jobs. Not executives.

Executives are replaceable. Not game developers.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com
The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games.

It can literally be a life changing events.

When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game.

Wild
itch.io itch.io @itch.io · Nov 25
Voidlight: A rules-bright sci-fi horror dungeon crawl where your only safety is a beam of light that shrinks every ten minutes.

farirpgs.itch.io/voidlight
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
bpq.bsky.social
How despicable does one have to be to intentionally associate accountability and profit?

"...executives at the Seattle-based software giant have set an across-the-board goal of 30% 'accountability margins', a term Microsoft uses in lieu of 'profit margins'..."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Management’s goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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br3nda.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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davidingram.bsky.social
A play in three acts
A post from Will Stancill trolling DHS DHS trying to troll Will Stancill Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25
"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor." "This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM