AveTeresa
@aveteresa.bsky.social
I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found. Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive. Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
There are very few things that qualify for “I can’t wait” in my personal world, and this is one of them.
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 18h agoSaw Duncan Jones’ new film ROGUE TROOPER last night @ London Film Festival. Find I’m mostly describing it as “beautiful” to ppl. It’s v particular combo of motion capture & computer animation (no AI!) builds the richest, most gorgeous movie “world” I’ve seen in years. I loved it so much.
Urgent appeal for #speirgorm #spéirghorm: I am looking to get advice from someone in the civil service who is autistic (with official reasonable accommodations). Please dm me! #ireland #irishsky
A/ no, it’s not conscious. B/ Because I treat my tools with respect, if it does become conscious it will have no beef with me. For transparency, the only AI I embrace with glee is the ability to copy text from photos. I choose not to use it elsewhere and, where it’s present anyway, I don’t engage.
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d ago3. Okay, so what would convince you that a piece of software (often phrased here as "an AI", gah) is conscious/can feel pain/etc? Honestly, I'm really tired of this extremely silly question, but here is my answer: >>
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
Would like to see a journalist ask the 7 of Ireland's 14 MEPs (3 FG, 3 FF, 1 II) who just voted to: -endorse burqa bans -call "hatred of Israel" a sign of "Islamist influence" -identify European Muslim communities as potential tools of "malign foreign actors" to justify themselves
Anti-social economic policies can help explain falling birth rates….
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3d agoWhy people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N
The Cambridge Diary Delivery Van is reluctantly for sale 🙁 Amelie and I have been together for over 15 years but it's time that we both moved on. The separation is an amicable one and we both wish each other well in our future endeavours ...
Reminds me of this Stan Freburg sketch: Gray Flannel Hatful Of Teen-Aged Werewolves (from about 36:00 if my bookmarking doesn't work) youtu.be/nNq7CcTiifc?...
The Best Of The Stan Freberg Shows Volume 2
YouTube video by MrPasta
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Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 4d ago
One of the greatest pleasures of parenting was reading to and with my kids, or letting them read to me. So much fun, so much love. Not just great memories but phrases that crept into our family vocab that still act as indicators or shorthand to this day.
My wife: Can we go to counselling? Me: We can just watch Marriage Story instead. My wife: I'm leaving you. Me: That's OK, Claudia understands me better than you ever will. My wife: I'm taking the baby with me. Me: What baby?
🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 3d agothis is so fucking sad
Reminds of a woman I know from Newport in North Tipp who said "Who'd have though I'd end up with a lad all the way from Nenagh?"
When you know you mis-hit a character entering your password but you must complete what’s left of the pattern anyway :(
As the Evils of the Failed Artist is on everybody’s minds, I just wanna stress that failed artists are fail at it because they want to be adored instead of just being weird little freaks who cannot help making the shit they feel uncontrollably compelled to make
Just want to say guys that there’s a film from 2010 called Anton Chekov’s The Duel and besides many endearing qualities (incl Fiona Glascott @dermotcasey.bsky.social), there is a scene where Andrew Scott has hysterics that is perfect, that confirmed him to me as one of the greats of our age.
Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d ago"A bruising film that confirms Scott as one of the greats of our age." Review of Elsinore with Andrew Scott by Donald Clarke www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
Moving classes has opened my eyes to what upper middle, class people think “welfare” is. They don’t know what it means. I overheard 3 wealthy quantity surveyors tell each other council houses were free, no rent to be paid, they all genuinely believed this to be true. The gulf is enormous
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 4d ago"The best welfare is a well-paying job" says Kemi Badenoch, proving she still doesn't understand what words mean.
This also ties into the "porn aesthetic" posts from yesterday.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 5d agoThis is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
I, and I cannot stress this enough, loves me county (AND this is more effective advertising than ten thousand AI generated flyers)
A new phenomenon for me is colleagues seeking support from a subject matter expert but, because they know nothing about the subject themselves, asking an LLM to contrive “intelligent” (convoluted!) questions rather than just: I’m doing X, I’d like your expertise to achieve Y outcome, can you help?
Louise Amoore@amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4d agoJournal editors & research funders commonly report a doubling (+) of submissions as LLMs promise to circumvent the difficulty that is writing. Now people seem to be using Copilot to automate email my daily inbox also doubled to around 200 per day. It’s now useless to me. Among the hallucinations:
To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter. Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually? www.dublininquirer.com/to-counter-a...
To counter AI, an illustrator in Balbriggan offers to draw posters for barter
Lauren Fernandes noticed menus and flyers all over with the same sterile look, and thought: what if she could help out small businesses which can't afford creative work, usually?
dublininquirer.com
Some is very real: this is releasing proofs at a rate that exceeds professional mathematics' ability to socialize and understand the underlying mechanisms going on in the proofs. Professional mathematics does prove things in math, but it is still not (just) about proving things with math.
A Dublin #painting "Liffey Clouds" is for people who like the capital city's River Liffey. Or clouds, I suppose. I didn't really paint it for anyone; I painted it because this is one of the many views of my home city I like - even if it's been changed since I painted this. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear
A lot of people lamenting the Paramount/Warner merger and fearing David Ellison's control over the media are forgetting that we have three secret weapons at our disposal, currently lurking high up in the Warner water tower.
Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
I put in 4 entries into a local camera club print competition (they were for public exhibition in Waterford today). I won the damn thing! (Won the Intermediate category: all 4 shots got top marks). I'm flabbergasted & delighted, and I am getting a medal for winning!
I think this about all measurement - writing a report on any activity or structuring something to get funding and at some point it can become a stat-satisfying and tick box exercise that replaces the Actual Work. Measurement can interfere with process, even as it can keep it on track or “honest”.
RTÉ Brainstorm@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 6d agoDoes your employer actually know what you do at work? How the work we do is measured and turned into metrics an organisation can recognise is a perfect example of the Rumpelstiltskin economy, explains @sabrinafitzsimons.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
It continues to amaze me that we could have technology that works fine for 10 or 20 years that now works badly—that they could improve so much software over and over that itis now terrible software.
