Vordio
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Audio geek. Also make tools for sound editing, sound design & post production. https://vordio.net/
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You get that 88ft Badenoch Tapestry for pride of place in our conference like I asked?
Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked.
What?
Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked.
What?
October 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
You get that 88ft Badenoch Tapestry for pride of place in our conference like I asked?
Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked.
What?
Sure did boss, real lazy, old ai that can't tell which head and hand skin tones should go together and still fucks up fingers like you asked.
What?
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Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.
October 3, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Busan has a new resident named Bukangi, a shark who started chilling in the canals near the train station a couple weeks ago. The city has been trying all sorts of schemes to gently lead her back to the ocean but she foils every attempt and swims back and forth being admired by crowds of fans.
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If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
October 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
You too could get billionaire brain but without the advantage of having a billion dollars to fall back on with people sorting basic shit out for you.
Extensive AI use has been linked to "severe negative outcomes," researchers argue.
The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds
The extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to "severe negative outcomes" including psychological harm and suicide, a recent paper argues.
trib.al
October 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
You too could get billionaire brain but without the advantage of having a billion dollars to fall back on with people sorting basic shit out for you.
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Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
October 2, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
Yeah that'll work. We couldn't take you seriously because you didn't have silly mascots. Duh.
‘The aim is to make the AI assistants a little more approachable, distinct and trustworthy. If the Jolly Green Giant could get kids to eat their vegetables, perhaps a sweet anthropomorphic triangle can win over AI skeptics.‘ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...
Tech Companies Roll Out Cuddly Mascots to Ease AI Anxiety
Meta, OpenAI and others are associating their AI agents and tools with cute characters to win over skeptics.
www.wsj.com
October 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Yeah that'll work. We couldn't take you seriously because you didn't have silly mascots. Duh.
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In photography you really just wanna make sure that the cat is properly exposed. Photo from my collection no info/date.
October 2, 2026 at 3:57 PM
In photography you really just wanna make sure that the cat is properly exposed. Photo from my collection no info/date.
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Elon Musk’s family tree must look like this
October 2, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Elon Musk’s family tree must look like this
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Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief
Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op...
apnews.com/article/ariz...
Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op...
apnews.com/article/ariz...
Sentence tossed in Arizona case where deceased victim was depicted speaking in AI-generated video
An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was i...
apnews.com
October 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Arizona Court of Appeals reverses sentencing of defendant where the state presented an AI video of the deceased addressing the court, and lawyers everywhere breathe a sigh of relief
Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op...
apnews.com/article/ariz...
Here is the opinion - coa1.azcourts.gov/Portals/1/Op...
apnews.com/article/ariz...
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Anyway, I await a response from our AI correspondent
Dog Gently Bites Cat's Head
ALT: Dog Gently Bites Cat's Head
static.klipy.com
October 2, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Anyway, I await a response from our AI correspondent
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Say it with me folks: people shouldn't be forced to prove they aren't using AI. Instead, AI users should be forced to clearly label their slop as such.
(Sorry, that might be hard to say in unison. I'm bad at slogans.)
(Sorry, that might be hard to say in unison. I'm bad at slogans.)
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.
October 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Say it with me folks: people shouldn't be forced to prove they aren't using AI. Instead, AI users should be forced to clearly label their slop as such.
(Sorry, that might be hard to say in unison. I'm bad at slogans.)
(Sorry, that might be hard to say in unison. I'm bad at slogans.)
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Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse:
archive.org/details/tipp...
archive.org/details/tipp...
October 1, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse:
archive.org/details/tipp...
archive.org/details/tipp...
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Breaking news: The Earth is getting rounder
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
![INBOX:
Earth’s poles are rising by 0.5 to 1 millimeters per year, slowly un-squashing our planet’s slightly flattened, jelly-donut-like shape, according to a new study. Linking satellite measurements of changing altitude across Earth’s surface from 1997 to 2015 to the planet’s shape, researchers found that the rounding effect also seems to be accelerating over time, with the poles rising an extra 0.4 millimeters per year faster every decade. Though our planet seems solid, the Earth’s interior acts more like an extremely slow-flowing liquid, warping over time under forces like the weight of ice sheets and oceans. Currently, our planet bulges out a little around the equator. But as ice sheets melt and reduce the force acting on the Earth at the poles, the equator is gradually cinching in as the poles push upwards, molding our planet into a more spherical shape. [JGR Solid Earth study]
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026JB034224](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4txx6cwpxn5wbtalgjnkpu4w/bafkreib2npq3yvdm5e2eu35edj566ldyizubt2sw2jmctduxwcnvwb5y6i)
October 1, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Breaking news: The Earth is getting rounder
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
September 30, 2026 at 8:11 PM
ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
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llms are not neutral arbiters of information and any llm corporation that's aware the us president is prompting it for answers can indirectly set us policy
October 1, 2026 at 9:47 PM
llms are not neutral arbiters of information and any llm corporation that's aware the us president is prompting it for answers can indirectly set us policy
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In the UK we get to see government records, White Papers and Hansard. I think we need to add "the public can see elected members' AI chat history records" as well, especially as it's so easily played with by the fascist men in silicon valley
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
October 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
In the UK we get to see government records, White Papers and Hansard. I think we need to add "the public can see elected members' AI chat history records" as well, especially as it's so easily played with by the fascist men in silicon valley
Jesus the well known martial artist!
More Death from the St. Agnes Convent. Here's the centre panel of an altarpiece made in Prague between 1521 and 1525, showing Jesus saving the donor of the artwork from Death's grasp by putting them in a wristlock. My guess is Death counters the move by clocking him with that hourglass...
October 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Jesus the well known martial artist!
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The link in the post below is super cool
October 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
The link in the post below is super cool
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On this day of action against Palantir, here’s a handy thread of the Nerve’s ongoing Palantir investigation.
From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way…
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From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way…
👇👇👇
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The Nerve has been investigating Palantir for the past year
Our first story, by @mc00.bsky.social & @charlienotold.bsky.social, mapped the firm’s UK contracts
Revealed:Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m, including £15m with nuclear weapons agency
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
The Nerve has been investigating Palantir for the past year
Our first story, by @mc00.bsky.social & @charlienotold.bsky.social, mapped the firm’s UK contracts
Revealed:Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m, including £15m with nuclear weapons agency
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
Exclusive: Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gapin...
www.thenerve.news
October 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
On this day of action against Palantir, here’s a handy thread of the Nerve’s ongoing Palantir investigation.
From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way…
👇👇👇
From the web of gigantic state contracts to the revolving door between government/ civil service and their top team, with a manifesto for technofascism along the way…
👇👇👇
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one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).
In the vein of AI making everything better 🙄 today google discontinued their google assistant that we used to verbally add things to a grocery list. Instead you now have to use Gemini which cannot complete the same task.
Anyone have a good android list app that allows you to add things by speaking?
Anyone have a good android list app that allows you to add things by speaking?
October 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
one of the reasons that I warn researchers away from adapting commercial LLMs into their pipeline is that Big Tech has a history of sunsetting popular, usable products and replacing them with worse ones. (i'm trying to ween myself off of google scholar, but it is hard).
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54% want to man the guillotines themselves
Latest WSJ poll:
"63% want to pause AI development
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
59% want Medicare for All
57% want a $20 minimum wage
58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel"
This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
"63% want to pause AI development
61% want a billionaire wealth tax
59% want Medicare for All
57% want a $20 minimum wage
58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel"
This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
October 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
54% want to man the guillotines themselves
That's the second time in a couple of months that I've experienced a bug in my online banking. Never in the decade before. Is everyone vibe coding or what? Worrying if a bank is doing that shit. I had to log out and back in again just to see the correct balance. It was missing hundreds of pounds.
October 1, 2026 at 1:21 PM
That's the second time in a couple of months that I've experienced a bug in my online banking. Never in the decade before. Is everyone vibe coding or what? Worrying if a bank is doing that shit. I had to log out and back in again just to see the correct balance. It was missing hundreds of pounds.
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If I ever win the lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs
October 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM
If I ever win the lottery, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs