Tony, Supervisor at Nubby's Number Factory
@chipemups.bsky.social
Making sure the Sun doesn't explode, one Nubby at a time. Not the developer of Nubby's Number Factory.
This thread reminded me of how much I hated Mewgenics, how much I wish I liked Disco Elysium, and how badly Breath of the Wild bounced off of me.
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.
"Stand on business, defend trans people, don't let the bigots think they are normal or right or accepted. The rest is out of your control." A line that's gonna sit with me for a while.
Valerie Valkyrie@beezygrey.bsky.social · 2mo agoPersonally, as a trans person who is a long-time WNBA fan, y'all gotta stop worrying about this. There's nothing you can do about shitty people being shitty. Stand on business, defend trans people, don't let the bigots think they are normal or right or accepted. The rest is out of your control.
Things must be going really badly for the slop machines if they're busy doing Weekly World News crap like this to try to convince people that Markov chains can do more than write bad code and drive people nuts.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2mo agoBreaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
This game rules and you should play it.
Matthew@mapoochoo.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Met put its entire collection online for free so I made a game out of it! 10 artifacts a day, and you guess where and when each one's from. Anthropeum.com if anyone wants to give it a shot and leave feedback :) #history #archeology #arthistory #museums
Even if this was true (it isn't), the issue that it would be pointing to is the degradation of social sciences, not some nebulous "rise of AI" slopaganda.
Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 7mo agoSorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
The point of this whole shitshow is, once again, pretending that LLMs can do things that they cannot do. The whole deal is pure advertising slop.
Hockey draws the very worst out of people. It's a rotten sport built on rotten people rotting their sons with putrid dreams of pointless brutality. Maybe we in Canada can learn from this and stop lionizing the mediocre sons of cops and robbers.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 8mo agoThe U.S. men's Olympic hockey team has arrived at the White House to meet with President Donald Trump. 📸 Scavino47/X
No small part of what I look forward to after the fall of OpenAI is the end of this slopaganda. It's little more than ragebait and it permanently damages my opinion about any institution craven enough to publish it.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 8mo agoResearchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
They aren't. They're probability models. Hope that helps!
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.
One of the main reasons I went to grad school was spite about this exact thing: I was told that I was bad at math, that I would never be a scientist, and I decided that I wasn't going to let those feelings get me down.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 8mo agoThose who weren’t resigned to the Math Idiot Garbage Bin as kids may not grasp how much “if you’re bad at math, you’ll die in a ditch and all will be better off for it” sentiment was floating around in the 90s and 2000s, but it sure felt real to me. (my parents are great! It didn’t come from them!)
Bonus bit: because you don't have your own desk, it's quite likely that you don't even work near your team even if you're in the same building! If you wanted downtown Ottawa to not suck, getting rid of the $20 Sysco "lunch" slingers that prey on civil servants would be a great start.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 8mo agoTwo things I’m not sure is widely understood: 1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces 2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them
Please be a crypto grift please be a crypto grift please please please anything but running for office...
"A budget is a statement of our values" is weapons-grade summarization of a concept that too easily hides in shadow. Zohran's communication style is truly something else (good).
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 8mo agoThe City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
The Democrats think Ezra Klein is a voice of reason. Unserious party. The liberal nobility do not understand the world and we should not take their guidance.
Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 9mo agoHere’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.
The sans culottes in the United States are beginning to realize that they don't need the liberal nobility to push for needed reform. Schumer, like Lafayette before him, will fail to meet the moment and quite likely be brushed aside. The liberal nobles' offer is no longer acceptable.
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 9mo agoNow that Bluesky has enjoyed something for a full couple of hours of course it's time to go back into doom mode. "The Democrats will cave like they always do"? Guys, the Democrats *were* caving, until the people of Minnesota stopped them. It's not up to the Democrats anymore. That's the whole point.
This is really one of those "READ THE ARTICLE" moment. They want AI companies to use a dedicated API and PAY to get Wikipedia content instead of just scraping it as regular traffic. That's all.
Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 9mo agoWikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
Grew up near Deshkaan-ziibi (Antler River), also known as the Thames by people who haven't learned the Ojibwe name for it. It is a much-abused river that deserves far better than it gets.
@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 9mo agoMy favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river. Mine is the Patuxent.
Meanwhile, in a country that isn't a de facto vassal of the United States... Rare is the time that I say I wish Canada behaved more like the United Kingdom, but, just this once, you gotta give it to them.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 9mo agoBREAKING: Creating non-consensual intimate images will become a criminal offence in the UK from this week, the Technology Secretary has announced Story to follow.
The only plausible reason to continue using the harassment site is to placate our political overlords. Shameless capitulation from a shameless political party.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 9mo agoDo Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X? I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets 34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs 3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
Was not expecting to have my Canada-skepticism validated in a video about Jarhead, but here we are. Thanks, Dan! (Folding Ideas is brilliant and every video is a day-one watch for me).
Shit like this doesn't cut it. Using a platform is a form of support for said platform. You don't get to have it both ways. Leave the fascist slop-app and stop wasting my taxpayer dollars on having your posts throttled by a drugged-up billionaire.
🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼@youcaughtscott.com · 9mo ago“‘The Government of Canada takes reports of child sexual abuse material (SAM) and non-consensual sexual images very seriously,’ read a statement from Public Safety Canada. Evan Solomon, the minister responsible for AI regulation and safety in Canada, declined an interview request.”
What does this defeatism seek to accomplish? An inability to fathom a better world based on half-baked understandings of procedure serves nothing so much as it does the forces of reaction.
Canada has always been a master of marketing. We're so good at lying to ourselves that we've transformed Merrie Canada into an (Anglo) national identity. The problem is that this starry-eyed branding makes reform challenging and expressing our troubles internationally almost impossible.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11mo agoAccording to this ranking, Canada’s reputation has improved since 2024. We are now the 2nd most reputable country in the world. The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…
This response to a NYTimes "reporter" requesting the murder footage shows more spine than the entire Democratic Party.
Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 9mo agono, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies
"I demand a meeting with the people who have repeatedly lied to me" is an...interesting strategy. Chuckles and Carnage working on out-Quisling one another.
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is *extremely* weak leadership from Jeffries and Schumer. When the wannabe king ignores congress to initiate regime change abroad, they are requesting a fucking briefing sometime soon.
Ronald Reagan was a monster who inflicted decades of suffering on the world. He was a conman and a liar. His regime is topped only by Trump's and Andrew Johnson's in terms of damage caused to the Union. Democrats need to keep Reagan in the cold, wet ground where he belongs.
Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 10mo agoThe presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
If you hoard, say, Nintendo Power magazines such that you can no longer navigate your living space, you are considered unwell and in need of treatment. If you hoard money, you're seen as a paragon of virtue and someone who needs to be taken seriously. Make it make sense (impossible challenge).
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10mo agoIf you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
The Disney/OpenAI deal is a story meant to suggest that OpenAI is "making money", and it's important to remember that $1B is nowhere close to profitability for the money-burning machine that everyone hates.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 10mo agoWow $1bn? That should cover a month of OpenAI’s inference costs
