just saw a research paper about using LLMs to do synthetic political polling as a substitute for real polling and this is fucking terrible actually, don't do this, it's fucking evil

liberals on twitter are having an aneurysm over hallucinations of a nazi eagle in the newest DoD branding even tho its the same fucking eagle that's been there for 80 fucking years

man, ChatGPT just found a pdf for me that I tried digging around on google and ddg for, an anna's archive, and such, and NO ONE had it, but ChatGPT fuckin found a copy immediately. damn

personally i think if a company designs a cleaning product that's scented with a food scent, the people responsible, right up the chain of command, should be beaten up

i swear there's a Farscape audio clip that's used a whole bunch on youtube shorts

Seeing this just fills me with absolute despair at the climate situation. We are still at peak emissions. We haven't even begun decreasing emissions and even if we did, the warming that's baked from past emissions will last for centuries. We're cooked.

Buried in this story that everyone’s leaving out of the conversation is that he blames Jews for creating the FDA to ban “holistic” health treatments and make everyone sick to profit off of them. It always, always, always comes back to antisemitism. It’s the core that rots everything from center out

MisterJayEm@misterjayem.bsky.social · 3d ago

"holistic influencer"

and a trans woman!

Tao Neuendorffer@taonf.bsky.social · 2d ago

Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998) was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games

Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998) was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E., one of the first influential multiplayer video games

Thomas Cherryhomes@tschak909.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here is a short intro video for new #Intellivision players of #FujiNet MULE. #retrogaming #retrocomputing

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Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

pneumonic plague outbreak in russia pneumonic plague spreads through airborne droplets buy respirators, folx. buy good ones. buy good filters

one of the best white pizzas i've had was a "lombarda", which had mozzarella, gorgonzola, onions (probably sauteed), walnuts, and arugula

reminder that even in the worst, most bonkers, unrealistic estimates, the Chernobyl disaster killed a total of 500k in the 40 years since it happened, or 12.5k/year cars kill WAY MORE. in the US alone, we're at over 3x that, and globally it's 100x that

so i said at the end of this thread that I also have a particularly nuanced way of doing monadic type checkers but that it was a topic for later and now is later! so i'm going to discuss that

beka valentine@bekavalentine.bsky.social · 5d ago

when we do type theory in standard inference rule notation like the left image, we often end up translating that into monadic typing systems like the image on the right but there are a number of aspects of the monadic Haskell version that are not as straight forward as wed like

watching James Faure's video "The wasted potential of Haskell: Language & Compiler" and wondering how someone could be so confused about so many things

I forgot the BlueSky devs were doing Roko's Basilisk

Smooth Dunk@smoothdunk2.bsky.social · last mo.

do not insult machines. this could actually happen

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

current iOS is so buggy that its making me want to switch away from iPhones for the first time in 17 years

when we do type theory in standard inference rule notation like the left image, we often end up translating that into monadic typing systems like the image on the right but there are a number of aspects of the monadic Haskell version that are not as straight forward as wed like

so so many interesting bits of research in academia fail to make any impact on the real world because there's no push to commercialize them so they just languish in papers going nowhere

Looks great on TV. Looks great making TV. In the Network 23 newsroom in Max Headroom.

Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men. Bernard: We're the United States Government! We don't deal with that sort of thing. Martin: You're just gonna have to try. Bernard: All right, I'll see what I can do. Whistler: Thank you very much. That's all I ask. #Sneakers (1992)

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · last yr.

Look, folks, SNEAKERS is in the LEVERAGE ancestors list. it’s a must see, and a true pleasure, unlike some influences that are necessary for context but haven’t aged well.

@www.zoeblade.com your followers sure do love that thread x_x

"use Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House" lol. it couldn't be truer. there are actually a few Wright buildings which use these this approach to decorative blocks in addition to the Ennis house, and the block designs vary! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile...

Textile block house - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

oh man, remember when Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI? lmao

Starlink is SO profitable that SpaceX is apparently trying to stop providing NASA with service as well so much for dependency on government """subsidies""" (which were never subsidies but people are illiterate so whatever) arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

arstechnica.com

trying to make a script to remove long stretches of blacked out video from a longer video, and my gosh the tools for this suck we've spent decades making software but we have barely made software good

you can tell that the Mastodon devs don't use Mastodon from how ass Mastodon is