howlingbanshee.bsky.social

howlingbanshee.bsky.social

@howlingbanshee.bsky.social

He's dead, Jim. Proudly European.

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AI is the biggest theft of knowledge and art in human history.

Andrew Deck@andrewdeck.bsky.social

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Hell is empty, all the demons are here. I despise AI

Christian Petersen@iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

Someone posted the image on the left this morning as a birthday tribute to Sophia Loren. It's AI. The image on the right is the original. When even Sophia Loren's natural beauty isn't good enough, something has gone very wrong. It's misogynistic and disrespectful. I called them out. They blocked me.

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Researchers studying the origins of the Butlerian Jihad were shocked to learn it was triggered by a domestic TV listening to someone's conversation.

Now that's what I call a positive story.

The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

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DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

This is an important aspect with regards to AI's hunger for MORE.

Denis Stetskov@techtrenches.dev

Shell shortage nearly cost Ukraine the war. FPV drones fixed that. Then Russia put them on fiber optic cable and they became unjammable. Now AI data centers are buying up the same fiber. Price went from $4 to $50/km. A Starlink terminal costs less than one spool. techtrenches.dev/p/silicon-va...

Back in school, we were translating Latin proverbs. The real meaning behind Plautus' "homo homini lupus" is something I only really learned (and saw!) when I got older. It hasn't left me, since, and I keep being reminded every time I read the news.