the problem here is that most socialist states have difficulty measuring economic health too, it's a genuinely hard problem! bskian vibe-econ doesn't cut it in the world you desire, you still have to solve this problem, and your solution needs to take effect day -500 or risk revolt by your people

Lemondrop 👉 anime arbor! 📚@lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 3w ago

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

i believe the more banal theory that it is because this construction is how english is often taught to non-westerners who provide the cheap labor for RLHF ditto em-dash usage it is just a pastiche of what 'good english' looks like

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 3w ago

OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

it is not fun for me in the sense that learning about the supply chain of my groceries isn't fun (or shopping), but i still like cooking and learning about how food is made enhances my cooking

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 3w ago

Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine? You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

fandoms, but for topology

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 4w ago

I recall fractal aficionados complaining that the mandelbulb didn't feel quite varied and chaotic enough to be the "true" 3d Mandelbrot, though I don't know what they're looking for. What does the 3d julia set look like from the inside? is it comparably cool? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ju...

bills crowdfunding = unpaid labor (or debt) to even have the chance of paying the bills, which just got 6 months higher and no one's paying more than $30 for a new indie IP

King In Yelough@kinginyelough.bsky.social · 4w ago

hear me out lots of video game developers have been laid off. everyone hates all the big video game companies. why don't the laid off workers get together and start a new company, maybe crowdfund a new game, and we can support that instead of Nintendo, Rockstar, and Bethesda

this is just meaningslop, you only like it because you believe in the indominable human spirit

the fool@agnoster.net · last mo.

I haven’t heard anyone articulate why this is Bad that didn’t just sound like meaningslop “But if humans aren’t the apex predator what is our purpose” man find a better purpose you’re inventing the fourteen words for human chauvinism just quit it

Example of my work

do you suppose the coders and researchers at the domestic and chinese labs are not labor? or is this a 'you must make < 70th percentile to be Real Labor' kind of thing even if it was 'only capital' on ai, that is because capital by definition chases profit and labor chases consumption

Grammaton Cleric Cassie@doubltroublgum.bsky.social · last mo.

if that were true, why is it only capital that is all in on AI right now?

Fable's implementation of Borges's Library of Babel, finished posthumously by Opus 4.8. Quite accurate to the story. It is multiplayer (others appear as ghosts). You can locate key volumes, like the weights of GPT-1 & the code to the Library sim itself: borges-library-of-babel.netlify.app

me when i bust out the human transmutation formula

new toy! generate a unique sigil (strange attractor) for any word what's yours? sigil.brennan.computer

ignore this, im hosting the screenshot to embed in a gc

are we counting the whole supply chain here or just the last step

Compassion Reigns Supreme@crs1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dude first it’s not my fucking job to educate morons you included to number of jobs created compared to maintaining golf course/country club is vast A regular sized data center provides continuing employment to 3 dozen and offers nothing to community, while club has 100s of taxed workers FO dope

Good news everyone! a new μobsession dropped at math.mino.mobi/prop its under construction but this is a very cool set of lil guys

🪷 kumavis 🪷@kumavis.me · 2mo ago

playing with propagators

playing with propagators

TV wants to be video games, videogames want to be movies, movies want to be comic books, comic books want to be porn, porn wants to be art, art wants to be books, and books want to be TV.

if this fable thing means z*tron was right, i will become the joker

wow

Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ok I think this is in a shareable state. The minomobi font generator. All downloadable all entirely CC0, public domain. It’s not done! I am requesting feedback to make this a usable and useful tool. It is jvery only the English alphabet for now while the genome gets dialed in. rite.mino.mobi/font

we love our silly little toymakers

stellz@piss.beauty · 2mo ago

some of y'all have toy creation madness

because 'vibe coding' has a modestly specific definition, as laid out by the coiner of 'vibe coding', ironically, lumping all llm dev usage into 'vibe coding' is a real case of 'vibe reading' where you dont bother learning anything at all, and just lazily vibe the discourse

Luis “RunnerGuitar” 🇻🇪 CHARITY SKETCHES!@runnerguitar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'll be honest with you. This feels like a betrayal. You claim that this isn't Vibe coding? How is it not? You used it in the first place and made anyone else who uses Renpy, one of the most well known and most accessible engines, guilty by association. We don't want this and now its tied to us

this vid is so needlessly smarmy and bad faith it makes tedk look reasonable

@rprobbins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A different take on that statement from an archaeologist 💯💯💯🎯

sloooowly drawing a rect in vram

work in progress fish aquarium based on all the processes running on your computer

scifi story where we discover a universal limit on gdp per capita growth that baffles physicists and economists alike

AI Liker Georg@avengingfem.me · 2mo ago

the internet feels, culturally, like a dramatically revolutionary technology that has changed literally everything and in only a few decades has come to underpin the entire economy. it also cannot possibly have caused more than about 1.6% real annual GDP per capita growth bc that's what happened.

theory: friendslop as makeshift digital third spaces (or fifth space)

in the trilemma of cheap-good-fast, i think people have always preferred cheap-fast, and it just so happened that during the dawn of ford/taylor processes, the rapid advancement of 20th c light industry threw in good as well as a bonus

Gordon@gordon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Regretfully, I no longer believe that quality emerges as a straightforward byproduct of market competition. Quality requires a kind of virtue ethics, a Nietzschean “esteem” for quality which we no longer hold.

Green droplets condense and fall, carrying small concentrations of volatile orange and purple species. When enough purple builds up in a puddle it escapes, and begins crawling up the trail left by the droplets.

Knew it was going to work and it worked almost exactly how I knew it would

Paul Starr@pa.ulst.ar · 2mo ago

Today I had an insight about how to make a pine tree shader by taking 2D noise and mapping it cylindrically using one dimension as “distance along trunk” and the other as “angle of rotation around trunk” then subtracting that from a simple cone shape and I feel like the smartest person in the univer

sir, a new shadermeister has hit the timeline

Xor@xordev.com · 2mo ago

Light Matter f z,d @(80) { f3 p = z * nor(2*C.rgb - R.xyy); p.z++,d=4 @(3) d *= .8, p += sin(p.yzx/dot(p,p)*d+T) / len(p) / d; z += d = len(p) / 45, O += (sin(z+f4(,1,8,)) + 1) / d / d * z } O = tanh(O / 8e5)