The forecast is sunny and clear outside, with a 80% chance of sudden assault by Christ lasers.

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9h ago

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · last mo.

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

How I Met Hannibal Muppet Anatomy Law and Order: Supernatural

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3h ago

Combine 2 Show Titles 2 make a New TV Show.

hehehe

Greatly enjoying the graphic novel More Weight about Giles Corey and the Salem witch trials.

So María Corina Machado giving Trump her Nobel was about as effective as giving a mouse a cookie.

I wouldn’t bet on sanity prevailing, but if the GOP is whomped in the midterms they’d be in much better shape in ‘28 with an incumbent Vance than a crazed Trump struggling in public with his looming irrelevance and unable to cede the spotlight to the nominee. Impeachment would be a gift to them.

Does the Nobel Committee know that there are kids in the cars?

Why doesn't the guy behind state sponsored carjackings have a peace prize? It's just unfair.

My prediction is that it will have middling-to-poor reviews, a little boost from culture wars anti-wokism, strong initial ratings from curiosity and nostalgia, and a pretty rapid fall off

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h ago

Either this show will be a massive failure, which will have big commercial consequences and therefore terrible creative ones elsewhere in HBO/Skydance, or it will be a success, which will result in new frontiers of padding across every other established property.

Arguably, the lovingly nagging labor performed by wives for husbands' benefit is a big part of why married men live longer and have better health than other men. And also why so many men are terrified that women are increasingly inclined to avoid marriage. www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/...

Marriage and Men's Health - Harvard Health Publishing - Harvard Health

Statistics on marriage and health show that married men are healthier than unmarried or divorced men, and are also more likely to live longer. However, marital stress has a negative effect on physi...

health.harvard.edu

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h ago

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

FACT:

Thinking of getting art supplies as a gift for someone? First tip is that if someone already has an art hobby, they probably have a ridiculously narrow list of favorites they have carefully selected over the course of years, so the best idea is a gift certificate to their nearest art shop.

Morning Kittens SOUND UP #Caturday

KKK

Miss Millies are out and about today.

“oh well, nothing we can do here” is not a legal approach we take to any other tools that are used to commit crimes and I don’t see why we should with these ones, even if they aren’t being specifically directed to do so

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

"freedom of speech" became code for a series of privileges our masters get. harsh punishments for speech is for us. tyranny

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · yesterday

I love that it's totally cool and legal to use social media to rile up an angry hateful mob and incite them to attack doctors and send in bomb threats to children's hospitals but texting Shrek dong to a politician gets you hauled into court

the reason the media doesn't cover this for what it clearly is is because they like Trump and they want to help him rule us. Especially as we approach an election that could be a generational wipeout for Rs they will double down on attempting to help him

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

Also, AI stinks, LLMs have no place in creative arts, go staff, publishers who do this are revolting and not rebelling

Every so often the people who presented themselves as rational opposition to Trump but have said nothing after the fact remind us they could have seen sense well before now.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h ago

Even nikki gets it