i will never care if bluesky is popular! i did Odyssey of the Mind! i took robotics in high school (and sucked at it!) i was on a Harold team at iO West! NOT iO. iO *WEST.* i am immune to popularity!!
The way the banter is supposed to go is when I buy booze and you ask for my id I joke that my hairline should be enough and you say I still need to see your ID. You’re not supposed to say “oh yeah you’re good.”
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Australopithecus 3 million years ago:
josh (oldfriend99)@oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d agoYou guys should check out Tool
I had this idea of doing a cut of Blade Runner where Gaff is just really shit at origami. Don’t change anything except the insert shots of his creations, and they’re just crumpled garbage.
Moldy Bones Brown@wolfesghost.bsky.social · 2d ago
This is what's behind all that breathless, AI superintelligence nonsense from tech company leaders. Individuals have personal responsibility for their actions. If AI is a real person who can 'decide' to do things, the companies believe they can escape blame. That's why they use this language.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 3d agoThe machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
"Rogue AI agents acted on their own" is the new "officer involved shooting"
*I'm grateful now that I've read so many Rudy Rucker novels, because mathematics, blowing up and scattering gooey, radioactive slop all over the everyday landscape, that is an extremely Ruckerian sensibility
Alternately, consider this synthpop cover featuring Shoes as guest vocalists! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJDz...
Hyperbubble featuring Shoes - Will You Spin For Me OFFICIAL VIDEO (Cowgirls and Synthesizers movie)
YouTube video by Hyperbubble
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Vintage Obscura Radio@vintageobscura.net · 2d agoShoes - Will You Spin For Me [US, New Wave/Power Pop, definitely sounds like it would be playing during the club scene in an early 80s erotic thriller] (1984) https://redd.it/ikydo4 https://youtu.be/tfIw-LdZWZc
Imagine, if you will, a Mirror Universe Warhammer40K. A fully automated space utopia that makes Star Trek look grimdark by comparison. Benevolent godlike beings who make FTL travel through the Warp safe and comfortable. Skaven exist because someone really wanted to be able to talk to cute rats.
Far less fanfare and media panic now that the proofs are proving to be, err... unproven. aiweekly.co/alerts/opena...
OpenAI Pulls Three AI-Generated Math Papers Over Sign Error | AI Weekly
OpenAI withdrew three of the 722 AI-generated math manuscripts it released on October 6, after a sign error in one proof collapsed the argument and the…
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welcome to Hooter. would you like to see The Boob(tm)?
One of the greatest ever to do it. In her honor, you can actually play with the Apollo Guidance Computer, as ported into Javascript:
Online Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
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Howard Lee@hlee.bsky.social · 5d agoMargaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
two months ago there was no tgirl baseball in texas. on a whim i started something in houston, wondering if anyone would come. now there's a league in dallas and a group getting formed in Austin. I could cry!!!
People who have massyve financial interestes yn the future turninge out a particular waye sholde not be allowed to make predictiouns about the future
she’s a beautiful baby who turned two and still loves big bowls
people who cant handle the singular "they" are really not ready for the singular "y'all"
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
