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Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last wk.

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

petziez@petziez.bsky.social · 2w ago

i’m a total beginner so i’m sure my handwriting is not the greatest, but after years of vague interest i’m sort of kind of trying to teach myself some hiragana so i made some stupid puns about it ( ܸ. .)՞՞

Two colored digital sketches. The first is a cartoony bear with horns, a fanged underbite, and a bloody spiked club with the label “あくま” above it. The second is a wolf woman with her hair in a bun, wearing glasses and a kimono with the label “おかみ” above her.
jason grinblat@jfg.land · 2w ago

I'm at the tier of design problem where the solution is an empty trait called "Nominal Dogness" that you must rank up but does nothing, except contain reminder text that you are a dog in name only. After 12 hours deep in the tank, I'm convinced this is the right solution.

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · last yr.

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

petziez@petziez.bsky.social · 3w ago

While this kind of mindset can be hard to integrate into the brain, this passage in "Designing the Doll: From Concept to Construction" by Susanna Oroyan was phenomenally meaningful to me when I first read it, and I still find it grounding

A screenshot of white text highlighted orange on a black background that reads "Let’s consider the meaning of failure. Who defines failure? Your mother? Your friends? Your spouse? No. None of the above. You define failure. What is failure? Something that didn’t work out the way you wanted it to. So failure, then, is between you and the object. What is the result of failure? A loss of time and a loss of materials. Who lost those things? You did. Do you care that much? Yes, maybe. Maybe you were taught not to waste time or materials, or maybe others told you waste is bad. Nonsense. It isn’t. Write it off to experimentation. If you want to be a designer, the name of the game is experimentation. Time is not wasted if you have decided to give yourself that time. Materials are not wasted—you can take apart, change, and re-use. Or, you can agree with yourself that it will take two or three times as much material and time as will actually show in the finished product. Therefore, nothing is really wasted."
Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn@unburntwitch.com · 3w ago

someone else smarter than me once heard me complaining about wasting a bunch of materials on an attempt of something cool, and said "yeah but that just means it wasn't a waste, that cost was Tuition" and it's really shifted something in my brain in a healthy direction.

Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · 3w ago

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

"A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information," it continues. "Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an Al model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one."
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w ago

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.