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How about the pigskin? How about the sport with the pigskin? Do me a favor. Go to w w w dot N F L dot com. Just, y’know… check it out.

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ɯɐpɐ / dazzo716 @7thsphere.com · 9h ago

Niagara County is such a swamp

Investigative Post@ipostnews.bsky.social · 9h ago

New: The Niagara County IDA continues to supply fast food restaurateur Muhammad Shoaib with grants, even as the state investigates his businesses for wage theft. The latest: A $35,000 grant to open a tourist attraction on Rainbow Boulevard. investigativepost.org/2026/09/10/r...

Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10h ago

As an AI-adjacent network neuroscience person who has also studied bits of media structure and political economy, I strongly agree with @karlbode.com: The biggest threat, by far, isn’t “superintelligence will soon kill us all!” but instead “information control by oligarchs will crush our society”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 15h ago

one recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pillar of the conversation

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d ago

as someone who has read far too much military history i think this is as wrong as can be. america did not send warriors to win world war two. we sent shopkeepers, and farmers, and accountants, and millions of ordinary people who did not dream of glory and death. and we won.

Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 2w ago

If the American body politic has no appetite for local data centers, the obvious equilibrium is that AI companies offshore the compute, and emerging economies export the tokens back to us.

Saritha Rai@saritharai.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI tokens could be India's newest export AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infra co, has ordered 9,000 Nvidia VeraRubin systems, aiming to be among Asia's first adopters of the advanced compute platform AM aims to be among the leading AI token exporters globally www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #AI

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · yesterday

Thank you Senator John Fetterman Pennsylvania

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

Here’s the video of Sen. John Fetterman’s video appearance at the GOP Convention:

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · yesterday

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social · yesterday

At least in borderlands NYS, from my experience! But I think it's definitely MORE common in WNY for sure.

J. C. Cantwell 🌻@segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · yesterday

why is literally every important discussion in the universe right now something i participated in a genuinely unwell forum thread about whilst in college the hits i keep taking to my sanity on account of this fact, man. it's rough out here

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ya open the US army biolabs and we can get this easy peasy

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump: Will get gasoline down below $2.

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 2d ago

This stuff is why the break room tv stays on Weather Channel 😎

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2d ago

had a conversation with some Financial Markets Professionals this morning; there's 4 basic dynamics in the markets currently: 1. ai [capex] trade is basically played out. look at forward p/e 2. there's begrudging acceptance that trump is crazy (not just crazy like a fox) so tariffs will get worse

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think we can make AI disappear but we’re going to have to set everything back a couple of centuries and you’re gonna need a bunch of really strong electromagnetic pulses and a widespread belief that the machine men need to be castigated at all times In this essay I will re-found the Diggers

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 3d ago

I can’t believe I have a 1st grader!!

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 3d ago

Great weekend

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · 7d ago

It says I “talk most like someone from Connecticut” which is interesting. My dad’s side of the family is from South of Boston so I picked up a lot of their pronunciation. Aunt = Ahhnt Traffic Circle = Rotary

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Let’s assume one wants to be able to play Star Wars empire at war: forces of corruption well into the 2060s. What do you buy now to ensure you’ll always have access to the ability to enjoy Peak?

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Hi everyone pleased to report my cat Lulu may be the best cat. Best picture I could get, she’s busy making biscuits

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank God YouTube has me figured out and is giving me advertisements to join ROTC to become an Army Officer

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

I’d pay money for a swing at the triumphal arch

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · last wk.

I think that since kids effectively have no legal rights or protection from parents and nothing is going to happen to an abusive parent even if they are abusive (since our legal system treats children as effectively property), if a child does die due to an intentional act, there shouldn’t be leeway

Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · last wk.

$1,000

CyberOtters@cyberotters.bsky.social · last wk.

Honest question: assuming you could instantly know the MSRP of any watch worn by a public figure (politicians especially) what's the price tag that, for you, reaches "that person is completely out of touch with regular people" range?

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

And this is the future they’ve got queued up for us all, lol

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · last wk.

Microsoft switches to monthly hour limits in big changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming, cites rising cloud costs: ▪️Ultimate: 15 hours ▪️Premium: 10 hours ▪️Essential: 5 hours Once subscribers use up their hours, they can buy additional cloud playtime through the Xbox Store ➡️ www.ign.com/articles/mic...

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · last wk.

Lol

Shinobi602@shinobi602.bsky.social · last wk.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · last wk.

outside of social networks, there are few faster ways to make nominally cosmopolitan urban dwellers reactionary than to have their living spaces be filled with disorder and it being excused by the same rhetoric

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Someone should write a nuclear horror story where someone sees the missiles coming and frantically asks Chat GPT for advice on what to do until it goes silent on them

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Walk into break room Bloomberg is on! Change tv to The Weather Channel

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · last wk.

JD you're supposed to be Catholic now. Catholics don't say shit like this.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Vance: I'd be not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us. But I try not to focus too much on it

That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

Neat experience to log on and see people advocating for the death of people like me for the crime of, uh Taking a job with a financial institution

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · last wk.

Sad that other people are sad, and mad that other people are mad

Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · last wk.

Local news is important but it's disheartening when channels like @kfor4.bsky.social completely lift your exclusive without any credit and then promote the congresswoman's dishonest statement as if it's the final word. kfor.com/news/oklahom...

‘Trump fatigue’: U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice addresses leaked audio

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — U.S. Rep. Stephanie Bice (R) OK-5TH is responding to accusations following the release of a leaked audio recording in which she relays a comment about “Trump fatigue” made by…

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That’s Rich @rmcgil.bsky.social · last wk.

If I get assassinated you could credibly say a similar thing about me which would be a funny way to report it

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.

BANK OF AMERICA VICE PRESIDENT KILLED IN TIMES SQUARE STABBING - BBG