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flemtheparrot.bsky.social
Morning.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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wgrm.bsky.social
Talent? Skill? no, pure Spite.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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esqueer.net
I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.

www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...
www.thedissident.news
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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tealcartoons.bsky.social
Here's why A.I. art is a thin gruel rather than a nourishing cassoulet...
stirpicus.bsky.social eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Aug 15
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K
October 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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chiefoptimus.bsky.social
Took a couple Tylenol this morning. Just enough for a day's worth of autism because it's trivia night night at the bar and I wanted an edge.
September 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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basil-mage.bsky.social
Bruh
Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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mikkihel.bsky.social
This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A guy looks in on a lady who's crying and says, "Hey, is everything okay?" She replies, "It's just... the Bone Farmer... he died." Panel 2: He: "He was that thing that would break into people's homes and steal their skeletons while they slept, right?" She: "So sad." Panel 3: They are looking at a picture of what I would describe as an interdimensional monster with way too many eyes and teeth. And a bowtie. She: "I mean obviously: IDEOLOGICALLY I didn't agree with him. With regards to skeleton ownership. But his smart li'l bowtie!" He: "You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he BELIEVED IN!" Panel 4: A man in a gigantic glass jar whose body appears to be pretty much just a shapeless lump resting on the bottom of it, obviously missing a skeleton: "Gonna have to disagree with you folks here." The first guy: "Too SOON, Geoff!"
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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sardonicus.eu
When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is:

"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."
September 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
No one remembers that embarrassing thing you did ten years ago.

Everyone was focused on their own lives. They probably didn't even notice you.

They didn't notice you at all.

They don't know you exist.

You're nothing to them. Nothing.
August 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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anarchitek.bsky.social
All that how spewed by the Dimbest President in History, about how “bad” solar collectors, wind generation, and other forms of renewable energy are, got a poke in the eye, when Chinese scientists put the idea to the test. Turns out, solar collectors are beneficial!

glassalmanac.com/china-confir...
China confirms solar panels in deserts irreversibly transform ecosystems
Panels shimmering over sand don’t just make electricity—they change the ground beneath them. New peer-reviewed work from China suggests big desert solar parks can cool, moisten, ... Continue Reading →
glassalmanac.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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hewizard.bsky.social
We don't tax the rich so we don't have funding for critical public infrastructure so we have to rely on the rich to for critical services which makes the rich richer while public services degrade which increases our reliance on the rich so we don't tax the rich and don't have funding for critical pu
August 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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mrsdrsyd.bsky.social
I can hear Ed Zitron chanting the name of Prabhakar Raghavan over and over again

www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
The Man Who Killed Google Search
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts....
www.wheresyoured.at
August 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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heatherstanford.bsky.social
Google image searches have been… less than useful, so I’d not used it in a while. I saw this cheesy AI image supposedly of Stephen Hillenburg, drawing SpongeBob, along with an ‘inspirational biography.’

Just curious, I tried a search,
and, Oh my!😳
I took a screenshot of the results…
An obviously ‘off’ AI image of a man, sitting at a desk in a classroom, somewhere deep in the uncanny valley. He’s staring off into the nothingness while drawing an upside picture of SpongeBob SquarePants. The first description of an AI image, describing it as: The image shows Oscar Isaac as Mr. Harrison, a biology teacher, drawing Spongebob Squarepants in the movie Dune: Part Two. o • This scene appears in Dune: Part Two during a sequence where Paul Atreides is shown adapting to life on Arrakis, contrasting with his previous life on Caladan. • The inclusion of a biology class with a teacher drawing Spongebob highlights the mundane and relatable aspects of life on Caladan, before Paul's journey into the harsh realities of Arrakis. • Oscar Isaac plays Duke Leto Atreides in the film, making this scene a flashback or a dream sequence from Paul's perspective. • The scene serves to emphasize the stark difference between Paul's former life and his new, challenging existence among
August 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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m00psy.bsky.social
also:
m00psy.bsky.social chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · May 5
also the nice thing about learning how to do something yourself is that no one can take that skill away from you. but if *all* you know how to do is write a prompt and hit generate, you’re relying on infrastructure that can be restricted/censored—and tech companies that can go bankrupt—at anytime.
m00psy.bsky.social chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · May 5
*required like… if the government requires AI verification or some shit like that that you literally can’t opt out of.

time to brush up on our writing, creative, and critical thinking skills, folks.
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
If the estimates are right, it puts water consumption of chat gpt for one month at greater than the city of Atlanta's water consumption for a YEAR.
May 5, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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redletrcrusader.bsky.social
A wise person once said about cryptocurrency - the other thing that fits this description - "You know crypto is not money, because they don't have ads for money."
August 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Excellent statement, addressing Spotify's general devaluation + flattening of music as a cultural form, its exploitation + underpayment of *human* musicians and amplification of AI-generated content, + its support of war technology
hearingthingsco.bsky.social Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · Jul 12
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming
Why We Quit Spotify
Enough is enough
www.hearingthings.co
July 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?
July 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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dannyderaney.bsky.social
Wanna see something cool?

At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is.

The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥
May 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM