I'm not the *biggest* John Wick fan, tho I have seen 1 thru 3. Nonetheless, this is probably the most engaging, interesting, thoughtful piece of media critique I've seen this year.

Ian Danskin@innuendostudios.bsky.social · yesterday

I really like the new video. I had so much fun making it. I dig the way I structured it. I loved putting all the little flourishes in the final edit. I played with a bunch of visual techniques I haven't used before, without overwhelming myself. it's nice to enjoy my job. youtu.be/IlCPnaJyZL4?...

all my interactions with ai are miserable and nonconsensual. it is the reason my programs are running slowly, why my weather report is inaccurate, why I always get connected to the wrong department of any automated call service. I would pay a lot of money to be rid of it.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

unbelievable - and yet every part of every day is - unbelievable

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.

Snapchat's AI flagged a private message sent to 3 people and alerted the FBI in under an hour, leading to a student teacher's arrest.

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I won't be attending @tailsofsummer.com this year, but it has me very intrigued and hopeful for an interesting, fairly close, adult-oriented con. Do I know anyone going? Would love to hear stories!

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“it is not my fault that my parents hurt me” and “nobody can clean up the mess they made but me” are two statements that can coexist. to live better, we have to live in a way that acknowledges the material truth of how things Are Right Now, not how we want them to be or how they should be

Voting in local elections matters. Not an issue for this ballot, but very soon. Please fucking vote

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

New life goal: become a "specific and highly active user"

Tammy Komoff@tammykomoff.bsky.social · 5d ago

Damn, this made me chuckle.😆

Damn, this made me chuckle.😆

2026, the year in which AI cannot distinguish between: • real FAKE news • fake REAL news • real REAL news and • REAL news written to satisfy the largest donors during pledge drives Humans can’t distinguish them either, so it’s unlikely AI will ever be able to at a statistically significant level.

Lex Vaughn@lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 6d ago

It literally is ranking our local fake news outlets and we at the top 💅. TAKE THAT KOMO REMEMBER WE OWN YOU

Meta is spending $600 billion+ to build out its AI model. That model is being aggressively integrated into platforms used by 3.9 billion people. This week, Meta announced its AI will be trained on content from Newsmax, the far-right website with a history of promoting pro-Trump conspiracy theories.

making shit is weird and awesome and hard and one of the most satisfying things you can do with your time and will absolutely turn you into an insane person that wonders why you did it at all and wonders even more about why you want so badly to do it again

someone else smarter than me once heard me complaining about wasting a bunch of materials on an attempt of something cool, and said "yeah but that just means it wasn't a waste, that cost was Tuition" and it's really shifted something in my brain in a healthy direction.

Hammy@hamborghini.org · 6d ago

real talk this is why i try to approach everything as a study i’ve been trying to get back to cooking for myself for health and budget reasons, and i started with “a study in crispy chicken skin” ive always had more success focusing on the skill and less on creation, but it’s HARD and UNNATURAL

Make weird noises when you're alone. Run up the stairs on all fours. Talk to your plushies. Hug a tree. Live a little!

Life is too short and absurd not to embrace whatever brings you authentic euphoria. You don't get an award for being normal after you die.

HearthFox ΘΔ ➡️ Eufuria@hearthfox.bsky.social · last wk.

Unironically, Fox is my gender and one of my pronouns

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Work with what you have right now. Work with who you know right now. How many interviews/videos have you seen where the person who inspired you used some thrift store junk, or a stock plugin? There will always be another shiny toy someone wants to sell you. Boost an EQ into oscillation. Make stuff.

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Finding out this was an actual line in Golden Girls and going "Frick yeah"

Furcons next. Fuck pedo glasses.

I so want "wrong at Subway" to become a shorthand for "a tiny, insignificant way to subvert capitalism that makes real people's lives better"

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You were, basically, stealing from Subway. They had their rules for their company and you decided not to abide by them. What you do with your own business is up to you but what you did was wrong at Subway.

When you're doing "depression is just realism, I'm miserable because I see the miserable world accurately," you're not wrong about the world, exactly. We have misery here. But the salient part in this state is that it *must* be true *bc* it hurts, & those things just don't have that relationship

One thing this points out is that if your mind has certain tendencies, it'll use true information in untrue or incomplete ways, to hurt you. Reading this illuminates a lot of what I've seen/heard from people whose genuine care for the living world has been weaponized against us by our own minds

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Reckoning X, an essay on how to survive and remain creative while the world is plunged into chaos: "The Main Thing Is to Not Be Afraid: Tove Jansson, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Art in the Era of Climate Change" by Moshe Schaffzin reckoning.press/the-main-thi...

Weat sanwich BAD.

My day is *always* calmer, clearer, more intentional, and fruitful when I start it with a cup of tea and a book of poetry, no screens. I don't do this nearly as much as I should, honestly.

Tea Witch Friday@teawitch.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do YOU recover from burnout? What refuels you?

K so Come home after a long day out, and all my smart devices are borked. Like, *all* of em. None can be controlled locally with Home Assistant or Google Home, none seem to be able to access the internet, only a couple are controllable via the vendor's app directly.

My train is delayed so you're getting a tutorial. How To Play As Much Pinball As Possible At Lucky Strike On A Budget. (ymmv at locations that are not mine)

Frost the Folf@frost.folf.blue · 2w ago

Look I know Lucky Strike is strangling the sport of bowling but some of their pinball machines are configured so that if you're halfway decent at pinball you can play for like 30¢ per hour In the last two hours I paid for 3 games of pinball and got 14 free games