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Posts by Orin Drake
do you think his smile is him hiding his intention to fry the chocobo later
Imagine making AI bird slop when Jacanas exist
Fun how they're leaning a little into the "the movie they didn't want you to see" bit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43...
NEW: Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer.
That didn’t pan out. When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.
Then things got weird.
With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social
Fanart of Ardyn Lucis Caelum from Final Fantasy XV in greyscale against a graphic magenta background. His left eye is obscured by yellow splatter the same as his corrupted eyecolor.
Soup without a texture
Damn soup has no texture
A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.
Whether or not the two things are actually correlated, it is incredibly funny that Bluesky started experiencing near daily tech fuck ups right after the team started bragging about using vibe coding
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.
More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.
(Published Jan. 2024)
Senator Sanders just said that during this hearing, he will ask RFK Jr. about the fact that RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in germ theory.
When RFK Jr. attempts to deny this, here’s some prebunking for you.
A group of formline designs based on the generation one starter pokemon- Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venosaur, Squirtle, Wartortle, and Blastoise.
A picture of the formline pokemon starter stickers, featuring bulbasaur, ivysaur, and venosaur
A picture of the formline pokemon starter stickers, featuring charmander, charmeleon, and charizard
A picture of the formline pokemon starter stickers, featuring squirtle, wartortle, and blastoise
Gen 1 Starters in formline!!
#pkmn #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart
Spending 🌎 day on 🌎
Starting September 2026, Google will block any Android app whose developer hasn't registered and provided government ID. This affects all apps, not just Play Store apps. F-Droid calls it an "existential threat." @keepandroidopen.bsky.social #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
(Reposted with ALT text)
Illustration: A cactus showing us their shapely derrière. Caption: cactush
Cactarse would also have worked
#art
a teenage boy just made it clear to me that he thought the shirt im wearing was advertising the two separate concepts of guns and of roses
dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.
This is not wrong.
Incredibly accurate, bc you dumb shits, IT DOESN'T MATTER, the means to turn the heat off, or at least down, is right there and within your ability to do it, so WHY TF DON'T YOU WANT TO? No matter who/what is to blame, you can save yourself BUT YOU WON'T.
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM
The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery.
Until now.
the shadow papers
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
"Truly blockbuster reporting." -Melissa Murray
Gift:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.
the foundational concept of Bluesky was to create a space for tech bros by using invite only for a span
the foundational reality of Bluesky is that invites became life rafts for queers fleeing Twitter by way of furries
nobody working for Bluesky has ever forgiven this
🧵 I want to crack down on Big Tech as much as anyone, prob more than most. But the draconian and unworkable kids' online safety bill that the MA House passed earlier this month is not the way to do it. From @evangreer.bsky.social & me in today's @bostonglobe.com : www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/o...
We know from whistleblowers & recent litigation that Big Tech platforms know how bad the design choices they make in their products are for users, incl youth -- and that their leaders DNGAF about the harm, as long as the 🤑 and data keep flowing.
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The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...