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Illustrator, like a ray of sunshine and a pencil had a baby. https://www.shawnielsen.com/

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Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

I recognize I am an extremely rare holdout in that I have been so hardline anti-AI that I have still yet to use a chatbot willingly, but uh, I feel like every other story I read is about how all the consumer-facing stuff is a mental illness particle accelerator www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

03.03.2026 19:45 👍 1530 🔁 323 💬 66 📌 34

(first day as an AI salesman) Can I interest you in an exciting slopportunity

24.02.2026 03:28 👍 1478 🔁 153 💬 19 📌 1
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What does it mean to make something? Last night I did something unusual: I went to a comedy show to see a friend's friend do standup. I know, right? Thing is, it was delightful. (This is a rare thing.) And it got me thinking again about ...

felt inspired to blog for the first time in a while because of good work from @charoshane.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social et al newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it...

13.02.2026 19:04 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 3

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

05.02.2026 00:53 👍 538 🔁 122 💬 4 📌 14

Voting for John in the primary would be like voting for Neville Chamberlin after the blitz. People are carrying machine guns through the streets of American cities wearing skull masks with the intent to kill people. Hick’s a coward.

05.02.2026 00:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only pedo’s have rights in Trump’s America.

04.02.2026 23:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join The Onion Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

Fuck Jeff Bezos. Subscribe to The Onion.

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04.02.2026 16:27 👍 4066 🔁 664 💬 82 📌 36

This is the person Hick thinks just needs some more training and a body camera. bsky.app/profile/west...

04.02.2026 03:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Person: say, i am alive.

Computer: I am alive.

Person: oh my god.

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

01.02.2026 23:48 👍 23442 🔁 5153 💬 85 📌 141

I'm gonna become the first guy to walk out of family court sentenced to death

01.02.2026 18:58 👍 5470 🔁 1117 💬 30 📌 5
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

Look for the helpers

18.01.2026 15:50 👍 5825 🔁 1387 💬 134 📌 312

I don’t recall any AI powered computers in Star Trek or starship troopers that made child porn on demand. I think that’s just an Elon thing.

14.01.2026 01:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some real “if only Stalin knew” vibes

12.01.2026 02:32 👍 46 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

No

09.01.2026 02:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But I was told that by voting for all those Trump nominees that you “reduced the damage for Colorado” - what happened Hick???

08.01.2026 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey,

ICE shot and killed a US citizen today in Minneapolis.

I don't post political shit here but if there's ever a time to take to the streets and demand justice NOW IS THE TIME.

07.01.2026 18:45 👍 16543 🔁 3450 💬 442 📌 106
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The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

07.01.2026 14:32 👍 2387 🔁 785 💬 96 📌 202

You won’t rewrite history but you’ll vote for the nominees that will. What’s the difference?

07.01.2026 02:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

06.01.2026 21:06 👍 19017 🔁 4711 💬 182 📌 175

The vast majority of the mainstream American media thinks their job is to sane-wash the rambling of the elderly pedophile that rules their country. They’re not going to tell you the truth about anything he says.

07.01.2026 00:45 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

your mileage may vary but my experience on here improved pretty noticeably when I stopped offering explanations to people whose questions sought conflict rather than answers

06.01.2026 12:55 👍 3338 🔁 470 💬 47 📌 31
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A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose. "Who on earth gives that advice?"

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

05.01.2026 18:28 👍 1769 🔁 706 💬 52 📌 327

HOLY SHIT

WIN OF THE YEAR

06.01.2026 04:15 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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a painting of howl 's moving castle shows a cloudy night sky Alt: a pixelated gif of Howl's Castle sitting on a hillside under an evening sky.

In honor of Hayao Miyazaki's birthday, what's your favorite Studio Ghibli film? Doesn't have to be the one you think is "the best," just the one that nestled in your heart. Mine is Howl's Moving Castle.

05.01.2026 17:38 👍 995 🔁 98 💬 287 📌 1182

Hickenlooper is running for reelection has done 1 interview in the past 12 months that I’ve seen (that did not go well). Hard not to think these people think very, very little of their voters.

05.01.2026 15:01 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The senators from Colorado aren’t much better, they spend their days voting for Trump nominees, etc and then blast out text messages about how tough they are on Trump begging for money.

05.01.2026 14:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.

In today's parlance, you could say Norman Rockwell got woke. Which makes the Trump administration's appropriation of his work for their authoritarian project both offensive and moronic.

29.12.2025 23:30 👍 218 🔁 46 💬 11 📌 7

Is there a single high profile democrat that has made going after corruption a campaign issue? I only follow John Hickenlooper and my local Republican house member and neither seem to give a shit. Haven’t seen it mentioned once.

27.12.2025 21:29 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

20.12.2025 17:31 👍 1486 🔁 413 💬 21 📌 23