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Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 22h ago

when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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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

The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb

skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

Did you see the HSBC lost cricket ground exchange last week by any chance..? 👀

Happy 5th anniversary to the time this happened over on that other place.

This article reveals that Lilly Wachowski tried to make a show based on @hannahtempler.com's brilliant COSMOKNIGHTS. While its a shame we'll never get to see that show, you can still bask in the glory of the original comic: www.cosmoknights.space

Cosmoknights

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game.

cosmoknights.space

THE FANBASE WEEKLY Podcast@thefanbaseweekly.bsky.social · last wk.

Variety: Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of THE MATRIX and How HARRY POTTER Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’ variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

jesus... i just wrote a 7,000-word story about a doomed bird-athon the day the Area X border comes down.

Leyendecker study. That's a relatively old art that I found in my files. #art #study #leyendecker #digitalart

Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire

Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump

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lot of ridicule of the 6% on my timeline, considering that 70% of Britain's land is owned by 1% of the population and a *lot* of that 1% are directly descended from Norman aristos. (Whether that could have been avoided if the Normans had lost is another matter.)

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

As the Bayeux Tapestry opens to the public at the British Museum, what impact do Britons think the Norman Conquest had on British history? Positive: 25% Neither: 25% Negative: 6% Don't know: 44% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

(I just think that if more dudes had been in the parts of fandom where people were reporting embodied, hallucinatory interactions with characters as real on the astral plane those dudes would be hyper aware that their feelings that insist AI is sentient are just a personal horniness problem)

btw they do this so they don’t have to hire back the same crew on a raise 🤙 (speaking from experience)

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last wk.

A new report from Luminate has found that long gaps between seasons of streaming TV shows are leading to major losses in viewership. More than a 1 year gap is seen to largely cause a significant loss in viewership. (Source: luminatedata.com/reports/2026...)

AI agents can be tremendously destructive without being "superintelligent". Let's keep that distinction clear. A virus can be incredibly destructive, but it is not intelligent.

Once again, BBC burying the lede because its really about fascism they have contributed to promoting - A housing association (that social housing, or what we used to call council housing but its PFI ALEO now) newly renovated homes, nazis torched it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police probe cause of fire at Glasgow affordable homes tenement

The building in Stonyhurst Street, Possilpark - which was derelict for 20 years - had received £3m to be renovated as affordable homes.

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Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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commander x director #stony #stevetony

The reason that the Harry Potter apologists won't just read better books is because they're not looking for good stories...if they were, they wouldn't have glommed on to Harry Potter. They're looking for the camaraderie and social phenomenon that Harry Potter was in the 2000s.

It really is this easy!

Tea Berry-Blue@teaberryblue.net · 2w ago

"We don't read those books in our house because the woman who wrote them is a very unkind person who uses all the money she makes from writing the books to do unkind things." You don't need to get into specifics.

I want to make a starter pack for chronically ill artists. If you want to join, leave a comment to this post please! Share for more people to know about it and join, please!

Pull your work off of Webtoon right now if you've put anything on there, allowing AI to be trained off their platform's work so "fans" can make AI "fancomics" is horrible, horrible. Pull it right now.

*Mr Beast voice* I HELPED THIS WOMAN TURN A ROOM FULL OF STRAW INTO GOLD USING ONLY A SPINNING WHEEL! IF SHE CAN'T GUESS MY NAME IN THREE DAYS, I'M TAKING HER BABY!

Before I turn in a book review these days, I ask myself if I have sinned as others have sinned against me. To whit, willfully refused to read a section, awfully misquoted a passage or placed it out of context, hexed upon me unsubstantiated intent or influence, gotten the basics of the plot wrong,

amazing stuff

Black and trans women TOLD EVERYONE THIS WAS WHAT THEY WERE GOING FOR THEY TOLD YOU

Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth.bsky.social · 3w ago

"both competitive drive [of men] and male friendship have suffered under the weaponized application of Title IX" @heritagefdn.bsky.social claims...adding that "cheerleading, dance, yoga...and recreational intramurals" are "more aligned with average female interests" www.heritage.org/gender/repor...