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This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 5d ago

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d ago

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

Trying to think about which segment of our society right now has an investment in promoting AI and who also think democracy is overrated and most non-billionaires are just cud chewing dolts who’d prefer for a great big strongman to govern them.

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Kei Zama@keizama.bsky.social · 4d ago

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If you are so extraordinarily stupid that you fall for a standard Republican trans panic ruse, I cannot trust you to represent me in office. This is like media literacy 101. Your colleagues are going to run circles around you. Dupe you into anything. I'd be safer running and representing myself.

T. rex having a body temperature on par with modern placental mammals doesn’t surprise me. Among other lines of evidence, the estimated locomotor power requirements for bipedal dinosaurs exceed ectothermic capabilities. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Biomechanics of Running Indicates Endothermy in Bipedal Dinosaurs

Background One of the great unresolved controversies in paleobiology is whether extinct dinosaurs were endothermic, ectothermic, or some combination thereof, and when endothermy first evolved in the l...

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I think he'd be impressed he got together with such a cool and attractive partner. I think he'd be more impressed by them than his own future self, though.

ʙᴇᴀᴜx 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 6d ago

Would 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?

When the apocalypse comes, my only goal is finding this guy

Raquel 🌈✨@aistear.bsky.social · last wk.

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

god, i was born in the wrong era. imagine being around in the Cambrian period. you could just evolve something simple like shell or legs that nobody had thought of before and coast on that your whole life

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 2w ago

Hasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.

Most popular thing I ever shared on Bsky was a drawing by the current TF comic artist of Optimus Prime protecting people from ICE:

Nick from Toy-Fu@toyfu332.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Now in colour, courtesy of Mike Spicer who works with Daniel Warren Johnson on Skybound TF:

An extremely good day to you all from this Pachycephalosaurus statue - which was located in a park in an actual town called Dinosaur, in Colorado (Pop. 243) (Photo from 1991, part of the John Margolies Roadside America photo archive, www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...)

A little late, but T. rex with contemporary megaherbivores. I made it both with the Nation's rex and Scotty, as they're the smallest and largest T. rex specimens available in the interactive tool, respectively.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · 3w ago

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The AI slop app “Talkie AI” illegally stole my voice & MANY coworkers’ voices, and is actively profiting off of our stolen work. Good news is the App Store banned em! Bad news is Google Play hasn’t replied to a single DCMA takedown request. If you use this app, please stop now. It’s harming us. 💔

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Counterpoint: simply rewatch Muppets Christmas Carol and have a much better time.

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 3w ago

The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...

This whole thread. 🧵 The only thing I’d add is that HBO is probably pressuring her to walk back her bullshit publicly before she crashes their very expensive show. In the end, JKR is a transphobic fascist bigot piece of shit, and if you still support that Harry Potter garbage, then so are you.

Chaz Stein@charlottestein.bsky.social · 3w ago

The reason JKR is suddenly saying more and more “moderate” seeming things is not because her views are “moderate”, you daft shits. It’s because she is registering that her extremely overtly transphobic points are now making her very unpopular.

If you’re still giving Harry Potter your money, then you had a hand in this.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 4w ago

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I can't really think of anything else to say that hasn't already been said a thousand times. So instead here is a (really bad edit) of one of my favourite Optimus moments. And remember, like the man said, be strong enough to be gentle