Turquoise Brown
@chubbyninja1319.bsky.social
Ponderer. Aspiring ghost. F’d around and found out. Nobody cares, and that’s ok.
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Revenge.
someone should invent a chore that is done permanently once you do the chore
December 31, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Revenge.
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New bumper sticker came in the mail
December 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New bumper sticker came in the mail
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All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
All I want for Christmas is a $32K spaceship recliner pod from Neiman Marcus, 1982.
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Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
It seems there are exactly two kinds of stories about generative AI:
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
1) wildly exuberant stories about what this stuff will do sometime really soon (trust us!), and
2) stories like this about how some actual use of gen AI fails fantastically
oh, wait, I forgot:
3) gen AI is pretty good at fraud
“Internal tests found that the AI was generating podcasts riddled with errors and bias, with anywhere between 68 and 84 percent of the scripts deemed unpublishable by evaluators across three rounds of testing.”
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again going to bang my drum:
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
*Even if* gen AI excelled at tasks
*Even if* gen AI had abuse-guardrails
*Even if* gen AI helped the environment & medicine
It’s still built on scraping the world’s creative labour without consent.
Gen AI is poisoned at the root.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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this is obviously very serious but the comments on this post are incredible
I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.
This one isn’t downloadable but if you have TikTok go watch it. Well worth your time www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr4gRL7v/
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this is obviously very serious but the comments on this post are incredible
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i stand by this statement every year
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
i stand by this statement every year
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ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I like writing and i like drawing and the idea of letting some online tool do that for me is gross.
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I like writing and i like drawing and the idea of letting some online tool do that for me is gross.
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Back in the day
Extremely rare b-roll footage of an Electronics Boutique in late 1994 or early 1995. Enjoy it!
I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.
I found this among 40TB of files from Digital Pictures' archive.
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Back in the day
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LONESOME GHOSTS (1937)
October 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
LONESOME GHOSTS (1937)
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A thing that probably seems weird now. We didn’t know Vader had a mechanical hand till 1983. We didn’t know (for sure) that he had mechanical legs until 2005.
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A thing that probably seems weird now. We didn’t know Vader had a mechanical hand till 1983. We didn’t know (for sure) that he had mechanical legs until 2005.
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[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
September 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit
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Gen X deserves scorn for not embodying a key lesson from our formative cultural icons (throwing our bosses down a reactor shaft)
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Gen X deserves scorn for not embodying a key lesson from our formative cultural icons (throwing our bosses down a reactor shaft)
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“Freedom is a pure idea,” a line from Nemik’s manifesto in ANDOR, spotted during protests in London
September 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Freedom is a pure idea,” a line from Nemik’s manifesto in ANDOR, spotted during protests in London
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