"You ask a question, and a person named Tucker reads it, thinks about it, and writes back when awake and motivated."
New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand
ChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries.
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Really off-topic, but I’m never gonna be able to think of the brand name Hugging Face without thinking of this lol
Face Hugger Alien
Alt: Face Hugger Alien
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CBS News Sacramento@cbsnewssacramento.bsky.social · 2d agoCEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month's hack by OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"
Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
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For the first time ever, Ukraine is joining the 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism as a provider of assistance. A 70-member Ukrainian firefighting team is on its way to France to help battle the wildfires.
Malcolm Liepke's Kiss: Emotional Intensity in Wet Brushstrokes https://sinapti.ca/post/en/malcolm-liepkes-kiss-emotional-intensity-in-wet-brushstrokes-oylw8iwu
Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
Trump smirks and shrugs as Wolf Blitzer presents an award for courage and responsibility to the Wall Street Journal for their reporting on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein
An interesting conversation with visionary artist Brian Eno
New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 10mo ago“Persuasion is the biggest industry in the Western world,” the musician Brian Eno says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “And it’s very easy — in that flood, that tsunami of suggestions about what we ought to like — to forget what we actually do like.”
What will the next euro banknotes look like? 🇪🇺💶 @ecb.europa.eu has shortlisted 10 designs, selected from over 1,200 proposals by graphic designers across Europe. Now it's your turn to pick your favourite. 👇 surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/ *Survey available in the 24 EU languages.
This article about orcas being bloodthirsty douchebags is written in such a funny way.
Sabrina Imbler@sabs.bsky.social · 2w agoI simply love orcas and all of their brutal machinations! what new form of torture will they invent next! defector.com/orcas-are-ke...
Tech billionaires didn’t misread science fiction. They performed an edit: keeping the frontier, the visionary, the chrome; cutting the public institution, the collective, and the warning. Every. Single. Time. My new piece is now up in Aeon.
Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w agoTech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’
I was lucky enough! That preview was amazing!!!
io9@io9.com · 3w agoPeople Lucky Enough to Have 70mm IMAX 'Odyssey' Tickets Now Get an Extra Bonus
So Trump’s position is that elections under him were the most corrupt in the world, then Biden was elected (by the Communist Party of China) and four years later they all oversaw a fair election that he won
To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally unregulated internet
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w agoThe State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
After several attempts over a period of 6 years, patience finally paid off. For an all too brief moment, Argentinian Patagonia's vast, breathtaking Perito Moreno glacier is dressed in the most beautiful light! #photography #nature #bluesky #landscape #travel #landscapephotography #naturephotography
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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It's 2026 and supermarkets still play the Backstreet Boys. #NeverForgetYourNoiseCancellingHeadphones
Europeans are increasingly pessimistic about the state of the world, but their belief in the EU is riding high, according to polling published today.
Europeans embrace EU amid growing gloom about world, survey finds
Eurobarometer reports increased pessimism about the future of the world — but not the EU.
politico.eu
RIP Bonnie Tyler. One of the best songs of my childhood. And the Literal Version of the video will always crack me up. youtube.com/watch?v=XMmX...
Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Literal Version Remastered)
YouTube video by Joe Vecchio
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