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robertskitch.bsky.social
I've watched a lot of SciShow videos whereas I'm not so familiar with Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) but I feel I can trust him a lot more than Hank Green when it comes to the tech behind AI™.

I'm disappointed to see educators like Hank Green & SciShow parroting industry hype.

youtu.be/1IQ9IbJVZnc
SciShow Is Lying to You about AI. Here are the receipts.
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
robertskitch.bsky.social
Couple of days late, but Happy World Numbat Day!
www.daysoftheyear.com/days/numbat-...
World Numbat Day
Pint-sized critters with adorable stripes — get ready to fall head over heels for these cute little tree-dwelling wonders!
www.daysoftheyear.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
"But everyone knows what I mean when I say "bike"!

While that may be true, when we talk about 'bikes' it's easy for many people to forget about those who need to use non-standard cycles such as trikes, recumbents and tandems.
Drawings of six non-standard cycles. First row: an upright tandem, and upright delta trike Second row: an e-assist clip-on handcycle attached to a manual wheelchair and a wheelchair transporter trike Third row: a recumbent tadpole trike and a side-by-side tandem delta trike.
October 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
robertskitch.bsky.social
Why the need for AI™ slop when the hand drawn sign already exists and synthesising a photo out of it just creates misinformation.
dlthings.bsky.social Merry Crisis @dlthings.bsky.social · Oct 19
I have a note: Please don’t make AI slop versions of actual signs ppl made by hand.
October 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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davidrevoy.com
The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
A comic strip in four panels: 1. A bird's-eye view of a giant amphora the size of a building with closed eyes and a closed mouth engraved on it. Using scaffolding, a community of wizards climbed up and are throwing all their books into it, to fill its content. > Wizards: All our grimoires for the Amphora of Great Intelligence! 2. A ground level view at the bottom of the giant amphora. This time, the wizards bring tree trunks, cut down nearby trees, and throw them into a large fire to boil the giant amphora. > Wizards: All our forests for the Amphora of Great Intelligence! 3. A gathering of all the wizards below the imposing amphora which has now opened its glowing eyes and mouth slightly. The crowd of wizards at its feet applauds: > Wizards: Amphora of Great Intelligence, our world is dying, share your knowledge with us! 4. Same shot, as the amphora responds with joyful and amused eyes. The wizards are confused by the answer... > Artificial Intelligence: According to geologists, you should eat at least one small rock per day. > Wizards: ... ... ...
September 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
If you are an advocate of truth, science, evidence and accuracy, you shouldn't be promoting a software program designed to generate aesthetically-plausible text with zero connection to truth beyond chance

How is this so hard for people to grasp
Can an AI chatbot of Dr Karl change climate sceptics’ minds? He’s willing to give it a try The famous science communicator is planning to release a chatbot designed to answer questions on the climate crisis. Can it work? Jackson Ryan Sun 10 Aug 2025 17.00 CEST There’s arguably no face, voice or collection of exuberant, patterned shirts more recognisable than those belonging to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki. The bespectacled boffin has been answering curly listener questions about science, with characteristic excitement and passion, for more than 40 years. Despite a seemingly tireless work ethic, Kruszelnicki, now 77 years old, can’t be everywhere all at once. Those questions now come in waves, across social media platforms at all hours of the day. “Sometimes I get 300 requests a day on Twitter to answer an involved question about climate change,” Kruszelnicki says.
August 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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dcellgames.com
credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think
yellat.money
July 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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jaimiewhitbread.bsky.social
The ethics of lung dragon ownership. Dragon conservation. The complexities of the knight-dragon relationship in a post-slaying society. These hard-hitting topics will be briefly touched on as an excuse to show pictures of adorable dragons in my upcoming art book!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jai...
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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nickcarver.bsky.social
look dev & concepts for a project from a couple of years ago. #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev
June 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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dremenec.com
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
October 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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archive.org
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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kness.bsky.social
Little guys, ready to travel around the world 🎒
Otter in a backpack figurine and their illustrated box Platypus in a backpack figurine and their illustrated box Raccoon in a backpack figurine and their illustrated box Seal with a guitar figurine and their illustrated box
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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goatsarah.org
Thing is, the OG Nazis came for the trans people first and they didn’t even put us in the poem.
January 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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chrisbratt.bsky.social
What we found was one of the very worst examples of workplace abuse in the history of this industry. That may sound hyperbolic. I really don't think it is.

Here's our investigation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9H...

(5/7)
PMG's video thumbnail for the most recent investigation, showing an illustrated representation of Christa Sydney slapping her own face.
January 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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chrisbratt.bsky.social
Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)
The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.
January 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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nilahmagruder.com
A lot of memes are based on illustrations and comics that an artist made, but people remove all mention of the artist to make it seem as if the image sprang out of the ether, that it belongs to everyone. Especially in this day and age, it's important to assert when art is made by human hands.
nilahmagruder.com Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · Dec 31
This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).
A one-panel comic by Glauco Villas Boas. A group of people stand against the corner of a wall. One reaches around the corner and uses a long stick to push open a door labeled 2025.
December 31, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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maijakarala.bsky.social
A lot happened to me in 2024. While some of it was difficult, overall things have turned out for the better. And I got to draw a lot of interesting things! Here are some art highlights of the year.
A collage of nine squares with an illustration or closeup of one in each. There’s a colourful ancient reef scene, a Jurassic forest with small mammals, bison in winter, a sea scorpion looking up at an Ordovician sunset, a portrait of a pet cat, mother sabertooth being mobbed by skylarks, ancient Greek vase-style drawing of a woman and Cretan dwarf deer, a scorpion and a Macrauchenia walking on yellow Pampa grass.
January 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
robertskitch.bsky.social
It's only Artificial Intelligence if it comes from the Marketing Department region of Silicon Valley, otherwise it's just sparkling plagiarism.
December 28, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
If Bluesky wants to show it’s truly better than Elmo’s website, they need to take marginalized group safety seriously. Your silence is not neutrality, it is permission.
December 12, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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rasheedabueideh.bsky.social
After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948
Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
www.launchgood.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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neoriceisgood.bsky.social
The #Pixelart Ocean.
April 21, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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requinoesis.bsky.social
I made this sketch for an idea I had a long time ago exploring the idea of the famous myth that sharks "smell a drop of blood in 2 million liters of water" and become uncontrollably frenzy.

This scene depicts a distant event in the past history of my shark civilization.🦈✨
A humanoid shark that resembles a great white shark in antique clothes appears among the plants on a beach offering a healing potion to an unknown human with wounds on her arm. The shark is saying that it smelled her wounds and thought it would bring a healing potion. Just something to convey a more benevolent idea to the famous myth about sharks "being able to smell a drop of blood in 2 million liters of water" and the myth that they go into an uncontrolled frenzy when they smell blood.
March 25, 2024 at 7:47 PM
robertskitch.bsky.social
I thought that the dissonance was strong with the 'gamers' who are complaining about Sweet Baby Inc. brigading indie titles that they'd never heard of or cared about, but apparently the whole movement was started by someone with... concerns over games they'd never played. What even is 'gaming'?
xoxogossipgita.bsky.social it's gita time @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · Mar 14
The wonderful Megan Farokhmanesh at Wired has an article about the Sweet Baby Inc situation over at Wired, which includes this cool tidbit www.wired.com/story/sweet-...
In an interview on YouTube, the man who claims he started Sweet Baby Inc Detected says his interest in the company began with God of War Ragnarök-a game he admits to never having played-where he "noticed things were different" and wondered "why is this game like this?" Navigating to Sweet Baby's website, he recounts looking over projects they've worked on, like the massively successful Spider-Man 2 (another game he says he's never played), and "noticing a pattern." Sweet Baby Inc Detected's creator, who says he's based in Brazil, never explains exactly what that pattern is, instead using buzzwords like "woke products" and "virtue signaling" and noting that several of these games had an "extremely diverse cast." Later in the interview, he complains that "our games, our entertainment, the stuff we love, are utilized for this kind of stuff, political agendas."
March 15, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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aftermath.site
How a small video game narrative studio ended up at the heart of a massive, anti-woke conspiracy theory

aftermath.site/sweet-baby-d...
March 7, 2024 at 8:39 PM