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Multiclass game {designer|developer|writer}. Past: creative director
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engineering. Call me Phenry. 🏴
mastodon.social/@hoverbirdneocabgame.comJoined February 2007
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The
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account now exists as an archive of stuff I used to care about back when I helped build this place, and going forward will be used only to throw shade at and undermine the new Twitter regime. For everything else, find me on Mastodon dot social slash hoverbird.
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#API_RIP to this and so, so many other brilliant, thought provoking and hilarious bots that made this site so fun for so long. But the grand project of destroying speech in order to save it must go on...
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AI Religion Bot — Support real creators!
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Your god is dead. His teachings are lost. His temples are burned. His servants are scattered. His name is mocked. This is the world that you created. This is your legacy. You are _____.
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...the 1st step IMO is to see it as one tool among many, and to use your own *personal artmaking process* like all the OG AI artists do Pay artists. Don't be a sleazeball aspiring to rip off their labor whole-cloth. Experiment, borrow, remix, use many tools. Find your own style
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AI n00bs: don't be like this sleazy Midjourney user. The correct answer to their question is: pay a concept artist who does commissions in your price range. You might be surprised how affordable and awesome that experience will be I'm SO excited about gen art's potential but...
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Simz
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I'm very disappointed. This is a message from an AI user, straight from the Midjourney Discord server.
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A cool thing about Måstódon is you just follow interesting accounts and there’s no ads or paid propaganda whatsoever. It does cost you $0/month though
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Twitter Safety
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We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks.
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Even the damn Mars lander is quitting Twitter
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NASA InSight
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My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
Wide-angle photo from NASA’s InSight lander on Mars shows the area in front of the lander in the late afternoon sun. Two science instruments tethered to the lander rest on the sandy surface nearby. Part of the lander’s robotic arm is visible extending down from the top left. Distortion from the wide-angle lens bends the distant horizon into a curved shape, while low-angle sunlight causes a small bluish lens flare on the right side.
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Reminder that this shit is still popping off over on Mastodon, the mood is hopeful, the memes are funny, and the fried chicken tastes like it did when you were a kid Also this site has entered a death spiral no empty-suit savior CEO can pull it out of
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He’s already stopped paying rent on the Twitter office building, stopped paying severance, stopped employee meals. Now a fucking Twitter poll on whether he should resign? It’s all a scam. Bankruptcy filing is imminent
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I've been saying the BK word since the crazy started. Inevitable. This has been the goal. No value left, Ch 11 = renegotiate with his creditors, gets him to the price or lower he probably should have paid, had he been a good businessman at the start of this acquisition.
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Wow things are really popping off on Mastodon now…. The memes are funnier, there’s more engagement on even my dumbest posts, and I’ve rebuilt the core of my follow (if not follower) graph there quite easily
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To prove a point of FBI “hyper intensive meddling,” Taibbi chose two tweets out of six the FBI forward to Twitter. They’re both lame jokes by people pretending to engage in election meddling. But lol, it’s the 4 tweets he DOESN’T cite which Twitter actually took action on.
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17.Of the six accounts mentioned in the previous two emails, all but two – @ClaireFosterPHD and @FromMa – were suspended.
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Anyways, this party is a drag. Find me at “mastodon dot social slash
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Grunting the same one line response over and over is huge bad dad energy. Complete with “end of story” 😂 And instead of talking down to your estranged kids it’s a room full of veteran journos. Incredible
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Kat Tenbarge
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Elon says you doxx, you get suspended, end of story. Totally avoids answering all questions and following any logic. He then left the chat
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