javier
@bartlebooth.bsky.social
data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement. Cuidado con mi corillo que somos un montón. nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy
Great, note-perfect story by @ghoulpus.bsky.social, who also has fiction appearing in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy soon. Stunning detail in the prose! Up over at @reactorsff.bsky.social now, acquiring editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social. reactormag.com/not-like-oth...
Not Like Other Girls - Reactor
A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.
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La televisión española de bar hoy luce como propaganda fascista abierta y orgullosa.
There are more and better vaccines. Antiretrovirals are a thing. Cancer is more manageable and sometimes even curable. Child mortality keeps sinking. Maternal mortality as well.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Cuento que el calor de Madrid no es nada en comparación al de Toronto este año.
Do you know anyone who knows of anyone who was working on any of the mathematics problems that was recently announced to be solved by one of the AI companies?
Playing a song for you to advertise my show on August 12 at Dina's Tavern in Toronto Ontario.
Someone found a cat on the streetcar in toronto last night and is trying to find the owner. Cat isn’t microchipped. Story here (I know there are a lot of Toronto people in my Bluesky feed!) www.reddit.com/r/toronto/s/...
From the toronto community on Reddit: Found a cat on the streetcar tonight
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5 seconds into this video I’m convinced that not only *did* he beat his ex-wife, but he also has at least 3 bodies under his floorboards
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Le tomó tiempo a Bernie Moreno admitir que su copartidario Max Miller era un misógino con tendencias criminales pese a que la víctima de Miller era la hija de Moreno. Disciplina de partido, que llaman.
I avoid the term “gentrification” when talking about housing affordability because it mostly describes *how people feel* about neighborhood change, not the change itself. For example, this author talks about how containerized trash pickup will “gentrify” NYC’s streets by replacing parked cars:
◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5d agoFinally, someone willing to speak up for throwing your garbage onto nasty streets: "The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more 'sanitized' each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history." www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
The obsession of Carney with appeasing Alberta’s right wing nuts will delay the much needed Canadian energetic transition.
I feel like everyone understands and is aware of the corrosive effects of gambling, and yet we are just awash in wall-to-wall gambling ads.
Fuck “Harry Potter”. Go read “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” bsky.app/profile/brai...
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 4d agoFuck Harry Potter. Go read ‘Dirty Plotte’
Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
'We're in serious trouble': Senior GOP staff scared by 'rabid' young Republican 'idiots'
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report. GOP veterans have begun to fret tha...
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I had this idea to do a series of short lessons on learning probabilistic programming (with Stan etc), based on the Zen "Ten Bulls": 1 search 2 discovery 3 perception 4 capture 5 taming 6 riding 7 goal forgotten 8 self forgotten 9 back to the start 10 teaching. Would take some work to develop though
Robin Blythe@rbly.bsky.social · 5d agoMe, once a month #statsky #rstats
One uncomfortable thing that may be eventually discovered is that the type of people who built software by directly writing code is very different from the type of people you may need to build software with the new tools. The type of thinking is different. The sensibilities are different.
I'm a guest of honor at Necronomicon in August in Providence. I'm on five panels, doing a reading (fbombs), and possible intro-ing an Annihilation screening. If you're there, please say hi, and will happily sign books at any time.
Emily Wilson is pretty hot. That’s my main contribution to the debate.
🐛 The naturalist's miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects London: Printed for Nodder & Co., 1789-1813 [Source]
hank green has always struck me las one of those thin-skinned, delicate men who are actually camouflaging a giant ego. orson welles nailed the type:
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d agoYouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green
