holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 17h ago

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

Whether through the ACA or an employer, healthcare costs are skyrocketing faster than they have in years. This is the reality of President Trump and Republicans' disastrous policies. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Your health insurance bills are about to go up

The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.

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Supergirl and Krypto by Sean Chen

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 29: The best way to promote your books isn't to spend money on ads. It's to get people interested in YOU. Engage. Comment on topics that interest you. Write blog posts on the themes of your books. If those things interest you, they may do the same for others.

If I was running for office and was asked about Hasan Piker, I would just start reciting quotes from prominent Republican streamers until they had to give that news segment a TV-MA rating.

Direct quote from my friend who lives in his district: “I hate that mfer”

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 20h ago

House Republican Whip Tom Emmer boasted this week that ground beef prices are now “less than $2 a pound.” Among the questions: - Has Tom Emmer been to a grocery store in recent decades? - Does he expect voters not to believe their own wallets? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I can’t tell you how much this breaks my heart. I’ve accepted that we are going to lose this majestic temple to the arts for no reason other than one man’s vainglory.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 18h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge orders Kennedy Center to provide 30 days' notice before major physical changes to building, including demolition.

i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.

#Booksky Day job project! DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis now has its own Bookshop storefront! Mentioned in part because our main website is down yet again (yes, I’m working on solutions). bookshop.org/shop/dreamha...

DreamHaven Books Bookshop

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After my small experiment last week with "Ai Detectors," I have concluded that they are BULLSHIT. A paragraph that I wrote 100% on my own got between 0% to 25% AI detection using 4 different services. It's bullshit. If someone was using the 25% detection tool, then what?

In this house we practice kindness and ritual sacrifice.

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT. It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.

This is a motherfucking paragraph

rip annie dillard

Just checked the price of a pound of ground beef in St. Cloud, MN (Emmer's district) -- $5.29/lb at ALDI, $7.23/lb at Walmart. Not sure where "less than $2/lb" is happening there?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Emmer says Republicans need to talk more about grocery prices that aren't expensive: "Eggs are at pre-pandemic prices. Ah, beef is at, ah, less than $2 a pound for ground beef ... I think we have a lot to run on."

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it?

Buffy Summers' Emotional 'Mommy?' Moment

Alt: Buffy Summers' Emotional 'Mommy?' Moment

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Meg Elison@megelison.bsky.social · 2d ago

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? 😭

Loren Eiseley on how to touch the miraculous in the mundane – one of my all-time favorite pieces of writing www.themarginalian.org/2024/02/03/l...

Loren Eiseley on How to Touch the Miraculous in the Mundane

“The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.”…

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I am struggling to understand why they are taking this position. Are they worried about losing the sheep-fucker vote in the upcoming elections? Even if you are pro goat-blowing, you don't have to say so.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

"we are not into bestiality but a lot of these individuals(we are hiring).." might be the most surreal sentence a public official has ever uttered, let alone on the record in Congress

Seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar reunite with David Boreanaz at the Emmys is bringing up all my residual anger about the Buffy revival being canceled. 😡 🤬Six months later, I still say fuck Hulu. Like, how dare you?

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Politics, plagiarized photos, and stolen accounts

The latest version of a persistent Bluesky spam network is getting more traction than prior incarnations

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This year, instead of dropping my ballot at the post office I will drop it at an official drop location. Check the options in your area and use the one that makes the most sense to you.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 4d ago

Even states with all-mail voting offer voters several options, including polling sites and voting centers, as well as ballot dropboxes. If USPS becomes unreliable for mail voting, experts say states could beef up staffing at in-person polling stations.

Americans' right to vote is sacred. No president or institution can take it away, and it's good news that the Supreme Court has affirmed that fact. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court says Trump can’t enforce new mail-in ballot regulation

The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots’ not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.

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Cheers to everyone that makes video games, writes books, and creates art right now. You're doing everyone around you a great service, offering a small reprieve from the noise of the world today. You're making things worth experiencing.

Oh no please no what do you need to make the big scary fake crisis go away? Protectionism? Governmental cover for your failed product that can’t even give cooking instructions? Bailouts? Nationalization? Military integration? So scary. Please don’t post anymore Terminator fan fiction, it’s too much.

NWO: Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) in Ring

ALT: NWO: Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) in Ring

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Oh and this has nothing to do with fed rates going up and the fraudulent musical chair funding system reaching its conclusion or Saudi money drying up with the collapse of the petrodollar. They’re actually so so scared by their Frankenstein. It’s so scary scary.

Yes, this is what I think too, and likely the reason for the abrupt coordinated messaging

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d ago

"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.

RIP Mr. Mackie. Your style, talent and flair were singular.

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

Ding ding ding

Pat Shaughnessy@pbshaughnessy.bsky.social · last wk.

IMO it’s pretty obvious that Anthropic and OpenAI are burning cash at unsustainable rates so they want to collude under the guise of safety regulations, cut down on research costs, prevent new more efficient competitors from entering the market, and split LLM demand between them.