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Jeremy Bent
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Comedian • Host of @eurovangelists.com • C-53 on @missiontozyxx.bsky.social • Very Slow 5K Runner

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Jeremy Bent @jeremybent.bsky.social · Mar 14
What's everyone doing for the Ides tomorrow? Just got invited to a big gathering of all my closest friends & coworkers, really pumped to celebrate with them
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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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josie.zone
Happy posthumous 96th birthday to the realest bitch to ever pick up a pen: Ursula K. Le Guin
josie.zone 🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · Oct 15
Ursula K. LeGuin phrased all of this better than I can, of course:
"The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God, there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. Tell me, Genry, what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevitable - the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?" "That we shall die." "Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next." —Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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ceej.online
they invented a technology that makes you worse at your job while convincing you you’re better at it. also your boss has to believe you’re better at it or else the entire economy explodes. they made the sophon from three body problem in real life
cityofangelle.bsky.social Angelle Haney Gullett @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 22d
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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October 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime
nikigrayson.com niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · Oct 8
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
October 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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alannamode.bsky.social
Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Old pal @benriggs.bsky.social had me on his podcast to interview Chris McDowall of Mythic Bastionland, a new fave indie ttrpg! We talk about improv, Arthurian myth, and of course, the Higgins Armory Museum.

Listen:

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Watch:

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The Ring Knight Honors the Weeping Seer-with Jeremy Bent & Chris McDowall Ep. 71
YouTube video by Reading D&D Aloud
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September 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
jeremybent.bsky.social
It's true: I’m serious about pay what you can. If you're interested in the class, check the link, send me a message and we'll work something out. I want to see you in class!

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September 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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First I’m hearing of this?
Another brain dead NYT headline about Trump not aiming for unity
September 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A reminder my online class that will teach you the fundamentals of home podcast recording and editing starts in just two weeks!

More info here: jeremybent.com/podcasting-c...
Podcasting Classes – Jeremy Bent
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September 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
jeremybent.bsky.social
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
A picture of the Boss DB-88 digital metronome, a product nicknamed “Dr. Beat”
September 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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ryanestrada.com
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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You can’t even befriend British men these days because of blokes
August 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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gregpak.net
Gonna need to see a lot more politicians call for removing “A.i.” from government and education and defunding OpenAI and ChatGPT.
wheystandard.bsky.social Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · Aug 26
Holy fucking shit
Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him "[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.
August 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.

It's time to ground them.
Ground the choppers
The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.
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August 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
jeremybent.bsky.social
Hey I got a headline for you: millions of humans are suffering right now, no question mark needed, while dipshit takes like these get published instead
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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My friend Marty has upped my flyer game for podcasting class! More info at jeremybent.com/podcasting-c...
A flyer for a podcasting class taught by Jeremy Bent.
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mikescollins.bsky.social
Baby I'm not lookin for Miss Forever I'm lookin for
MS NOW
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
jeremybent.bsky.social
I'm teaching the basics of podcasting in a six week online class starting September 20th! Podcasting's given me a lot over the years, and I knew essentially nothing about it when I started. Check out the link for more info.

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August 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
jeremybent.bsky.social
A friend of mine is connected to the family in this absolute heartbreaking story about utter absence of any kind of oversight re: AI chatbots. This is surely not the last time this is going to happen, and we ought to be calling for regulation immediately.

www.reuters.com/investigates...
A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.
Impaired by a stroke, a man fell for a Meta chatbot originally created with Kendall Jenner. His death spotlights Meta’s AI rules, which let bots tell falsehoods.
www.reuters.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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zacharyberger.bsky.social
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!

Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
August 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM