The proper way to play guitar is to simply replace *every single chord* with an extremely fast solo while thinking very hard about wizards and/or John Wick fight scenes. Or butts. Maybe skeletons but they better be doing cool shit, possibly with swords.

This is maybe the perfect example of @gregpak.net bit that replacing every instance of “AI” with “cocaine” gets to the deeper truth of the attitude.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 17h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Oh, Jordan Peterson has opened his gob to pronounce on the commie plot that is climate change? Time once again to play the song that got him to block me on Twitter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSx9...

LEWIS READ A BOOK BY JORDAN PETERSON - The Thlyds (Official Video)

YouTube video by Simon Indelicate

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*Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's open season on drone techs

Musk is full of shit. He's not going to colonize Mars and he's not building factories on the fucking Moon. He probably will die of a drug overdose.

Eli Roth using AI is possibly the least surprising movie news of the century

If you’re working with your Meta pervert glasses on, don’t forget that looking at passwords shares them with Meta. I know the immediate solution is to use a password manager, and I’ll never not recommend that, but how about not wearing your pervert glasses?

Revolver turns sixty today. Been my favourite Beatles album for about forty of those years (and how gratified I was in the 90s to see it overtake Pepper as the critical favourite too). There is no "best album ever" but if there was, it'd be hard to make a case against this being it.

Teaching doctors about smoking is a moral imperative. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking the tobacco industry's money or doing nothing!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Locals used to call the cliffs at Dedwick 'the place of a thousand skulls'. Given that the clifftop cemetery was collapsing onto the beach below, it wasn't an unreasonable name. Even now, storms sometimes pull bones onto shore, feeding it new ghosts. – #MattAdams, 1981

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Sometimes both simultaneously.

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 6h ago

The funniest thing about this is describing Bluesky, a place that was running individual sex pests off of here when we still had to have invites to sign up, as "the 'Be Kind' mob" We're not the fucking Barney the Dinosaur show with pitchforks, we're just overwhelmingly and staunchly anti-pedo 😌

Dexter Crisp@dextercrisp.bsky.social · 6h ago

"And in real life, Rod was kind and generous. He came to dinner at my house, and brought his family along to one of my Christmas parties, no doubt turning down far grander invitations to be there." Hitler was an animal lover, you know... Doted on his German Shepherd dogs...

Wait, you use the Internet *and* have friends?

remember when Sheryl invited a bunch of feminist bloggers to dinner and they all wrote nice things about her airport book being the future of feminism

Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 20h ago

Lean In To Fascism

Fox of the Mycelium II - Since posting the last incarnation of this image the number and height of mushrooms surrounding the fox have grown 🌿🌀🌗 Coloured with black tea, rosehip ink and beetroot ink #FoxoftheDay

Maria Strutz@mariastrutz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fox of the Mycelium 🦊🌿🌗 The colour in the image comes from black tea and rosehip ink 🌿 #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay #FungiFriday

So sick of every account on Instagram using ai for their captions now. Better to just leave them empty, for all the value they add.

Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Really weird to me how incredibly rich white men get to say stuff like "in three to four years we'll be achieving nuclear fusion from honey" and the stock markets go "wow, sounds great bro!" and the news just reports it with maybe a paragraph at the end of "critics say this is unlikely".

the typical UK disdain for #pwME.

@wamesmecfs.bsky.social · 8h ago

The Health Minister has answered Darren Millar MS’s question on how Wales will support biomedical ME research. In short: no dedicated funding, no strategy, and no targeted support — only general UK/Wales research schemes that ME researchers may apply to. tinyurl.com/3hpvh4u8

SSFs stands for small shelly fossils*. This is genuinely the terminology, just in case you thought palaeontology was too sophisticated or complex. *Sometimes it's small shelly fauna, to pre-empt the "actually"

The Palaeontological Association@thepalass.bsky.social · 7h ago

Cambrian SSFs from North Greenland (eastern Laurentia) with regional & global correlations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology

The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.

They're gonna recall everything but the fucking administration that's behind all the recalls.

Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 8h ago

The dysfunction has reached shocking new depths. Now our Bacon isn't safe to eat! That's it. America's total collapse is imminent.

When Trump wins by 2% it's the unanimous Mandate of Heaven for the next 1,000 Year Reich, but when one dude in a Dem primary can't get shooed offstage despite being outspent by a factor of 8.75 fair and square, suddenly it's "divisive?" OK!1!!!1!

It is very fucked up that people just being human is used as an excuse to justify them being sexually assaulted: womensagenda.com.au/latest/my-te...

My text messages were weaponised in court: Counselling records aren't the only problem

NSW does not need another review to discover that counselling records are only one part of the problem, writes Sarah Rosenberg.

womensagenda.com.au

Good morning, as always, especially to witches.

I’ve just remembered an awful joke that literally came to me in a dream: “Why did the ziggurat go to bed? Because it was tiered.”