Amazed that people still think AI doesn't work. "I use it all the time at my job but I'm still the one doing all the work" is an actual claim I saw someone make. what??

why is cloudflare going down more than before? do we have any sourced evidence?

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... interesting that existential risks headlines seem to increase people's concern about immediate harms, and even seem to do so a little more than immediate harms headlines. they didn't test presenting now and later risks at once, but I'd guess that's even more effect size?

Existential risk narratives about AI do not distract from its immediate harms | PNAS

There is broad consensus that AI presents risks, but considerable disagreement about the nature of those risks. These differing viewpoints can be u...

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you tube is a weird name. like ... wha tdo you do with a tube? suck on it? put stuff down it? what is that tube to you? you're telling me there's a you in this tube? kinda gross if oyu ask me

"imagine a lady, perhaps one sitting in her house. if she looked around, she might see her furniture - perhaps nice, if she loved antique furniture. She could ponder the painting that might be on her wall, as she sits in her rocking chair. 'Charles', she might say if she had a cat, 'get down!'"

Lauren@lauren1701.bsky.social · last yr.

what if you wrote fiction in a way that made the statements not literally false. imagine writing a story that, all the way through, is written in the hypothetical tense

or at least, lies (falsehood with intent to decieve) and fiction (falsehood with intent to clearly mark things aesthetically as art) are both falsehoods

Lauren@lauren1701.bsky.social · last yr.

lately I've been thinking about how fiction (stories, make believe) are in a strict sense "a bunch of lies for fun"

lately I've been thinking about how fiction (stories, make believe) are in a strict sense "a bunch of lies for fun"

@zenorogue.bsky.social I haven't posted the code yet but here's a run. I'll post a bigger one tomorrow when the imagemagick script finishes on it

Lauren@lauren1701.bsky.social · 2y ago

@zenorogue.bsky.social I've been modding hyperrogue to make lands have a graph of allowlisted preferred connections, and remove (ish) crossroads, so it actually takes some directed walking to find other lands. I might post this

@zenorogue.bsky.social I've been modding hyperrogue to make lands have a graph of allowlisted preferred connections, and remove (ish) crossroads, so it actually takes some directed walking to find other lands. I might post this

If you’re struggling to unplug, sleep or rest… you’re not alone. Something eldritch is watching you beneath the gaps in the air

Slop was always the existential risk, some people just thought it would happen inconceivably fast, instead of pretty dang fast

✨🎆 Happy New Year!! Here's to hoping for a great 2025!

What philosophers on Bluesky are working in the Philosophy of Computer Science? I’m very interested in following such folks. #philsky #philtech #philsci

a first version. I wanted a wallpaper that reminds me to think about my environment

this is a test of long form. I can post long posts which are too long. I am just going to write a lot of words. it lets me write them here, but the question is what bluesky will do with it. I am, after all, using a technically noncompliant client to post this, I think. but the...[read more on azsky]

do nomads ever get angry?

🌑🌸 #pixelart

you can call me fred - fred simon mr red sky she reddened me with science Talking Hreds - Once in a Redtime I'm Red - Eiffel 64 Predestined Fate - SoulEye Lemon Demon - Redesign your logo Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (Mannheim Steamroller version only) Red Day - Boulevred of Reddened Dreams

One thing I'll genuinely miss about Star Trek Discovery is how fuckin goofy it gets when it's dabbling in Doctor Who silliness in-between all the F-bombs. #Treksky

I implemented "go directly to clearsky from user profile" in quickblock. also I renamed my userscript quickblock cuz that seems like a better name greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5...

Quickblock And Such (prev. BEPC)

Adds quick buttons for weblink, mute, and block, directly on posts, always visible, not even hidden in the post dropdown menu. Also adds a link to clearsky from the three-dot menu on profiles. Tested ...

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this is a work in progress thing to get the entire bluesky stack running fully self hosted, it looks like it's within throwing distance of working but isn't there yet github.com/itaru2622/bl.... need to get it a lot more attention, imo. #atdev #atproto

A while ago I figured out that they want you to go outside with them and hang out. When they immediately want to come back inside, it's because they're coming back for you.

I should probably ever post about anything besides ideas for how make bluesky good. but anyway I have another: mute list of everyone following more than k people. what should k be? idk lol. maybe 10k? would have to see the data. how do i get that data anyway...

muted word lists: I mute words and phrases which are emotion activating, typically without suggesting any practical actions. I think doing that makes things healthier. Reaction rather than response, phrases: pastebin.com/raw/2BcKU7ph

Idea: bot that mentions people who reply to certain kinds of stuff with a list of suggested blocklists, and then if they.... interact with someone on the blocklist again they get added to a secondary block list

Universal girl crush

The most wonderful thing about bsky is having a button in the ordinary normal ui that lets me browse the firehouse. Go have a one off conversation with someone I've never met. So good

local magpies in my dad’s area visit him daily because they know he has peanuts