this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

it's only possible bc their constituency populations are so strong but i genuinely think the UK does it right by not announcing any results until they've counted everything

Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 17h ago

Regardless of how it turns out NO HE DIDN’T. It’s like saying I have more fingers on my left hand after counting 8 digits from left to right with a ring finger and a pinky still to report.

Bluesky does not have the same proportion of antisemitism as Twitter, do not be ridiculous, I am quite qualified to judge this roughly at least

people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

If getting poked with spikes saves me $100 on my airfare, I will get poked with spikes, and complain about it online

קשה להפריד בין תוצאות של פוסט-קורונה, הפיכה משפטית, ומלחמה. כפי שאני מפרש את המספרים, הייתה מגמת עלייה במספרים אחרי השפל של הקורונה שכנראה נבעה מההפיכה המשפטית, ולמלחמה לא היה תפקיד מרכזי. www.ynet.co.il/news/article...

The war between the US and Iran increasingly resembles one of those Early Modern sieges along the Danube or the Euphrates which start almost accidentally with one or other empire thinking they can get a quick win only to end up lasting for six years

I thought it was pretty clear that he was talking about the dopamine hit of being given links to research papers* he didn't think he would find on his own and getting flooded with endless information in a short period of time that made him feel like he could get more done * apparently real ones!

Kate Holzemer@katebits.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another thought: in his statement, Hank Green expressed quite a lot of shame about the "dopamine hit" he gets from using AI. As a non-AI user I don't really know what he's referring to here. Is the AI voice flattering him while also doing his job (presumably poorly)? Because that's big weird.

i hadn't checked a while and i was feeling bad about the quality of content but no this is still worth running

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · last wk.

are you british

EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.

It depends which ones, and you have to hope these good polls hold up, because even with them a modest swing could put Tropper/Hendel or similar in the drivers's seat. Some MK(s) could also bolt from the change coalition if they break this promise. Anyway, I hope your optimism is vindicated!

okay okay i'll bite: what is the strait of hormuz?

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

new enron logo is super edgy

I can help. Non Americans have no idea he's insane. The ones who are against him believe he's sane and choosing to harm them for reasons they can't figure out, the ones who are for him believe he's sane and choosing to help them. Both are stunned every time whenever he changes

wondering how much of behavior in ai as a field is downstream of the fact that you routinely do absurdly grandiose things like "compile every C function ever written" and your sense of scope and scale kind of break

it is pretty routine to go get, or to do, something so vast and complex that your mind will never contain a millionth of it and these things work out fine, because you understand a simple controlling program for that thing. and you assume everything has this property

אני פסימי בטבעי, אבל מנסה לשמור על אופטימיות: מנסור עבאס לוקח כמה רעיונות מחד"ש, ומתמקד ביכולת לשבת בקואליציות ציוניות. מקווה שלא ייפגע במנדטים (אולי אפילו ירוויח?) www.ynet.co.il/news/article...

לא רק סגלוביץ': המהפכה של מנסור עבאס ברע"מ - והאופציה שירדה מהשולחן

ההצעה לשלב מועמד יהודי היא אחד משורת צעדים שמשנים את המפלגה: אחרי שנפרד ממועצת השורא ומהתנועה האיסלאמית כמוסדות המכריעים, מוביל עבאס פריימריז, שילוב נשים ו"איזון גיאוגרפי". "רע"מ נבנית מחדש", הוא אומר...

ynet.co.il

Clients are not sex work experts anymore than a restaurant patron is an expert on running a restaurant but at least clients have *experienced* sex work. Most of the takes I see on sex work are the equivalent of “well as someone who has eaten food at home I am an expert on restaurant kitchens”

Pardon rescinded lol

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 4d ago

Why did you unblock me, exactly?

So, while I am personally inclined to agree with the person quoted here in this instance, I do think it's really crucial to observe that antisemitism, like all other forms of bigotry, is not an ontological, static state of being, it is learned behavior that people can be conditioned into.

@tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5d ago

We would never give this kind of grace to any other form of bigotry

Follow up, why are game companies so notoriously bad at preserving source code? like in some cases yeah 100% totally makes sense but I guess I’d have thought one of the behemoths would’ve developed a system by now

The funniest part about the "Citizen Kane of games" discourse from 2013 is I'd argue it did actually have its equivalent moment that year, but it wasn't BioShock Infinite or The Last of Us, it was Papers, Please

J@joealouder.bsky.social · 4d ago

Remembered the strand of gaming analysis that was 'when will it have its Citizen Kane moment' mostly written up by people who hadn't seen it or understood its importance

The Simpsons is a show that started in the 1980s based on the creators own childhood in the 1950s that continues into the 2020s; fortunately future cultural historians will be able to refer to it simply as taking place in the 'late Washington dynasty'

On This Day in Simpsons History@dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lisa Simpson’s wedding, which took place 15 years in the future at the time it aired, now takes place 16 years in the past. #TheSimpsons

Btw, I don’t agree with “treason” as the main epithet to condemn the South, since many political communities (including the US in 1776) are born in sedition/secession. The accusation also forecloses a counterfactual of a Northern departure if slave states came to have too much power.

I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings. Last time I read it I was a teenager, and hadn't been exposed to the idea of LotR as WWI literature. Now that I have that frame in mind, one WWI-ism I'm seeing that the Discourse didn't tip me off to in advance is the ever-present fear of aerial surveillance.

it’s worse than i thought… Hank’s audience merely heard him use a phrase in a video they thought *sounded* like AI, but it was just him adlibbing after viewers pointed it out, he clarified it wasn’t an AI line, but explained that he does use AI in the research process! then the pile on begin bleak

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

The tell was a red herring. In a Ask-Hank-Anything video, he was reading from his script and he said, “A better way to say it—and I appreciate the pushback—is a word is a human invention….” Some people thought “I appreciate the pushback” was a leftover from his chat with an AI agent.

vader-skywalker denialists should be treated with exactly the same weight as historical jesus denialists we have two *adversarial* primary sources (501st journal, the peridean diary) attesting to “darth vader” being the same man as anakin skywalker, and a reliable secondary source (senate minutes)

Phizle@phizle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The two even cross over, with professional podracer and former slave Anakin Skywalker somehow commanding in half the battles in the Clone Wars before later becoming a Vader. The accounts are clearly either pure fabrication or consolidating multiple individuals.

1. Almost no one who stormed into Ceuta in the last days will get into the EU. 2. Hysteria in the wider EU over Ceuta will blow over. 3. The row over securing Ceuta will remain a political hot potato between PSOE, PP and Vox. 4. The bigger loser from this mess will be Morocco