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Rich

@rincebrain.bsky.social

Large working vocabulary (threat) Sometimes, in spite of my best efforts, I feel the need to say things on social media.

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Male Loneliness Epidemiologist @girlinrobot.bsky.social · 12h ago

I don't like it when people call those AI glasses with the cameras in them "pervert glasses". That does a disservice to all honest perverts everywhere

boobs are progressive and feminist @bapaf.bsky.social · 21h ago

10 perverts who are ride or die for you is always more valuable than 10,000 people who don't give a shit

Kayin@kayin.moe · 21h ago

PROBABLY fake in a literal sense, but also EMOTIONALLY fake. Artists made more money on cohost. Some special interests are still on forums. Some people survive off fucking MAILING LISTS somehow. Reach is only useful if it reaches something you want. Views only matter if they're meaningful.

transsexual gynomorph @freyja-lynx.dev · yesterday

somehow we have done “no one remembers how bad it was before smoking bans” but for internet popup ads

Kellum Dander@kellumdander.bsky.social · 2d ago

i mean this was a real thing that happened

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8mo ago

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future?
No.

Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course?
These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this).

However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.

In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner:

…to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability.

There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability.

The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma.

This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle.

This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too):

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.)

It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.

You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy.

As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible:

To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use.

Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled.

So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting.

You’ve got to learn first.

bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 3d ago

my autism makes me love boobs actually

mimi ⚔️@knightlyaffair.bsky.social · 3d ago

wrap it up everyone, women cannot have cleavage in fields of mistria due to it being not "wholesome"

Comment under a SFW edit mod of a female bachelorette on Nexus Mods for fields of mistria. Reads as follows

YES dude. pls pls pls make a SFW mod for Juniper too. i love this game so much but my autism makes me feel so uncomfortable about her sprites, and they don't really make sense with the otherwise wholesome tone of the game. seems like i'm in the minority for thinking that, but would be awesome if the devs made a "sex sexualized sprites" toggle, or if there was a mod that did that.

Part Time Yeen @parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm begging you not to use apple products. This shit is devastating to creators like me

emet-selch's forcefem aoe @ 7.5 SPOILERS @specterxiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this did numbers on tumblr and i feel it here a lot

Kayin @kayin.moe · 6d ago

kayin.moe/retroachieve... Today is not the day for nuance, or a well articulated Kay post. I'm on my hater shit and just had to get this out. 💬 Replies will appear as Comments and all that~

Kayinworks - I Irrationally Hate RetroAchievements

I like having nice, well balanced takes on things, sometimes getting lost in nuance in ways that muddle my point. But anyone who follows me knows that some days I just to give in. I just have to be a ...

kayin.moe

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's wild how Mamdani (+dem socialism) is considered some big threat because he does his job Like that's it. Man reminds folks that Being Mayor is a job not just a titled position of power, and it makes all the other politicians real angry that he's ruining the Job They Pretend Is Too Hard To Do

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6d ago

We got you. Stay hydrated, New York.

slowbeef @effinslowbeef.com · 6d ago

You have ADHD I am a “Task Bottom” We are not the same

Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 7d ago

I've said this before, but if they ever reboot Duke Nukem, they should make him pansexual and hit on *everybody*. Telling the cops they have a great ass, etc.

unangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The planet of the bass guy aka kyle gordon

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2mo ago

You (@thewickedavatar) on twitter: [extremely europop voice]
"guy or girl or something difference?
either way is not my businence!
i don't care what in your pants!
have some fun! get up and dants!"

Rich @rincebrain.bsky.social · last wk.

brb buying master of disguise on dvd, getting it graded, and seeing if i can make my money back

Your Canadian Girlfriend@yourcanadiangf.bsky.social · last wk.

Why? Why must everything we enjoy be sealed up with a "grade"? I get baseball cards being put in plastic because you can still enjoy both sides of the card. But a Blu-ray?

ana @totebug.bsky.social · last wk.

can't sleep. evil.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Rich @rincebrain.bsky.social · last wk.

"school that got sued for repeated Title IX violations found holding hands with sex pest" unsurprising and yet still horrible. thanks hopkins.

Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · last wk.

The presidents of WashU, Arizona State, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins, in concert with the Association of American Universities, helped draft a new version of last year's White House compact. “We’d much rather be a partner than play the guessing game as we have been,” Kansas' president told Bloomberg.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · last wk.

what arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims

Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

jess 🏳️‍⚧️@fluffyfoxies.moe · 2w ago

person with an office lady fetish be like "i just got off from work" yeah i bet u did u sick pervert

Leaf~@leaftilde.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why is he called John Wick and not Mobile Suit Gunman?

Wield my dahk powah @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 2w ago

Most in the Shell

Fio Fiorello@fiofiorello.bsky.social · 2w ago

We were poor growing up so we had to buy abridged manga. I only got to read The Gist of The North Star

Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I've got a great campaign written, I just can't get a group together" is the peak D&D experience.

IGN@ign.com · 3w ago

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · last yr.

the 'C' in "USB-C" stands for "cloaca" because it's one hole that does just about everything

stevie borbolla @stebvi.bsky.social · 3w ago

replayed some feenis and doodled a lil

Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 3w ago

movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space

🔞redthespian after dark🔞 Moxxie Tickler @redthespian69.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bought a commission today and the artist told me that I’d basically just paid their bills for the week so always remember that having artists draw porn of your favorite characters is a noble cause

Rich @rincebrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

@gi66let1ts.bsky.social I felt very strongly you should see this.

girl burger experience @newrezelution.bsky.social · 3w ago

Space Jam mashups still being made is like the ytp equivalent of the Costco hotdog still being $1.50

Rich @rincebrain.bsky.social · 4w ago

You haven't seen her in many years, but you still think of her.

Micah @rincewind.run · 4w ago

give these men complimentary tickets immediately

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 4w ago

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂