Maybe if I'm very, very lucky I can afford a Babylon 5 DVD set in a month or two...

Love the first Wednesday of the Month

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky (Don't mess with my neighbors, man.)

Trina's Technobabble@trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Reminder that to the prison industrial complex, labeling a demographic as inherently criminal is literally "increasing their marketshare".

your reminder that HRC endorsed Angie Craig and have not revoked that endorsement. give that tshirt money to Transforming Families or @tigerrsmm.bsky.social instead

Human Rights Campaign@hrc.org · 2d ago

The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍

Watch out Minneapolis, this fucker is low and loud.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Funny, the Pentagon is just out of ideas about Iran. Here's one: Make oil irrelevant. Deploy the armed forces under the command of the corps of engineers to massively electrify US infra. Give free panels and installation to any property owner who agrees. Use DoD budget to pay for EVs.

You police trans women, you end up policing *all* women. You get it yet? Project 2025 already wants to outlaw all girls sports "for fertility reasons". That was *always* their plan.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Anxiety is so stupid like what do you mean my brain can’t tell the difference between ordering food and being eaten by a shark

richie@theregoesrichie.bsky.social · 4d ago

post your worst draft

This is my painting named Sunburn. #art #drawing #artwork #globalwarming #heat #surrealart

Common loon coming in for a landing TT: @harrycollinsphotography

Good afternoon to everyone except this helicopter pilot

Well, That went in weird directions. Trying to mount a BTT ADXL345 on an Ender3 Pro bed carrier for the Switchwire. This version keeps the button within reach on the front of the bed, uses existing mounting holes, and routes the USB C cable with zip tie anchors. #3dprinting #voron

All the posts about Hank Green and LLMs this morning has me thinking a lot about Dr. Franklin from Babylon 5. He used stims to "do more", and ended up doing less. And to keep doing more, he had to take more and more. And it ended up nearly destroying him.

I change my air filter every month. Look how bad last month’s filter was due to the wildfire smoke.

something horrifying has come to me in a vision

Ever sit and think about how the real success of McCarthyism was how it completely neutered progressiveness for the better part of 50 years? And we ask ourselves why so many corporatist Dems are centrist/right-of-center...

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d ago

People who scolded that we need to allow more and more fascist-friendly Republican ideas in order to win do not have the same energy for actual progressives who actually win. Movement to the right during a time of open fascism? Hey gotta have a big tent. Movement to the left? GET OUT OF OUR TENT.

In gambling, you take on a risk against an asymmetric environment of chance with the hope of profit. In capitalism, you take on risk against an asymm---. Hey...waitaminute...

Mike Riverso@mikeriverso.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is exactly how people talk about gambling and drinking.

i think there is a specific kind of self-branded "smart person" who is extremely vulnerable to, frankly, ai psychosis. i hope dude's able to get his brain back. yikes.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber 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

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

arxiv.org

This is perhaps the best summation of what's happened the last two weeks.

abadidea@0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d ago

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

everyone in the Twin Cities rn

I’m so disappointed with @amnestyuk.bsky.social as a trans person I feel abandoned when we’re being attacked and dehumanised by the government and media in the UK, and they bow to the anti trans money train and orgs.

Really important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:

Minnesota is being eaten by a continent sized xenomorph.

This is what happens when you get rid of the CIA World Factbook.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Realizing this morning how tough this year has been already. 3 months of sleeping on a sofa to care for my housemate while she recovers. ICE in Minneapolis. Plumbing issues, my bathroom falling apart. $11k for my AC to be replaced. My Mortgage going up. 3rd hottest July in MN history. I'm tired.