a little container of garlic butter is one of the great inventions

I feel like no one who follows me on Bluesky cares about this but I’m very intrigued about the issues with formalization / reliance on prior proofs in OpenAI’s new non-sofic group proof. Basically in their write up they said they were relying on a prior proof that then people found to have errors?

Fluke Seawalker has stray ketchup packets, dumpster noodles & partially lead/cholera-free water for dinner. Call of Colonialism's FBI warnings say that 'Winners Don't Use Drugs -- except non-generic opioids'. Will Fluke survive the toxins & toxic misinfo? Find out in Neofeud 2! #indiegame #art #noai

These awards are all really sweet but this one had me tearing up

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com · 5h ago

The WIZARDRY AWARD goes to DFHack! "Without [it], I don't think we were really a playable game. I don't think we would have made it, no. [...] We don't have the first clue how you hack a video game" 🎉 Their rep Kelly Kinkade (Rome of Oxtrot) says DFHack has had over 200 contributors for 17+ years!

GLOBAL LETTER is available online! badquar.to/publications... I contributed a code poem to this collection along with many other brilliant artists! For each poem in the collection the source code and output must fit on a single page. Here's my contribution!

the learn to code industrial complex has done enormous damage and in a lot of ways laid the groundwork for slopware culture

final analysis: "more there than I remembered. very rough around the edges... and the end... and the middle... intriguing. it's amazing to me Boatmurdered even got written, given how rough that is"

Between the news about Miller and Platner over the last few months, I'm going to share my deeply informed position that Marines should probably stay out of politics. There's arguably a reason the Marine Corps is over 250 years old and we've never had a Marine as president.

Tech companies getting bigger and building apps I don't need while I'm just over here wishing for software that works right.

Indie gamedev is one of the places where this contradiction is being felt most strongly inside a single existing community.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 6h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 9h ago

Is AI useful... Well I've avoided Figma for years because every time I opened it, it looked too annoying to learn. But now they have a chatbot, and I made three websites yesterday.

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 8h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

There’s something especially perverse about computing being one of the most autodidact-friendly intellectual fields ever created, while its professional culture keeps reinventing entrance exams for an imaginary guild.

Airplane (1980) #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies

sometimes I am jealous my dog doesn't know anything about AI at all

Some Like It Hot (1959) Director: Billy Wilder

This is great! Wonderful that someone did the work to show this and now there is something to point to. and lol @ this

Cailin O’Connor@cailinmeister.bsky.social · last wk.

Here is our preprint showing that at least 1/2 of high profile papers about social media have disclosable ties to tech companies, though most don’t disclose them arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

starting a collection of quotes like this

fucking fightin' for my life over here scrapping together open source datasets and I've gotten pretty good at it but then you see articles like 'with the cooperation of the prime minister's office, we randomized which cities received the subsidy to ensure causality' like ok guess I'll just die then

one big thing that i think has made work measurably Worse has been the deprioritization of personnel management, org development and strategy in favor of executives whose only skill is get that bag

John Brown’s Body@berndtpetersen.bsky.social · last wk.

I blame it on corporate leadership being a goat rodeo of people who are basically all sociopaths in one form or another and have never done the actual work, aka the “financialization of the c-suite”.

I study sexual violence and I think people would be surprised by how often people still bring up COVID once they know they’re talking to someone who is willing to hear about trauma.

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

TBH I think "it is unlawful to destroy sufficiently rare books that are no longer in print without government permission" would be a totally fine law to pass.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

ai haters: why are you using ai ai boosters: why are you insulting ai people who actually know ball: all code is horrible, none should ever be made in any way

you have to read the elite panic over DSA as a function of the fact that basically any quasi-functional chapter of DSA can out-organize the establishment primarily because basically so much of American civil society has gone from mass-moblization to management (DSA is a return to mass mobilization)

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2w ago

step 1: actually stop being an elite club and organize outside

Taps the sign

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2w ago

Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

this is getting some traction because someone reposted it - looking at it again, I want to point out it doesn't mention if the trends for men are statistically significant, and so I don't think they're conclusively shown by the paper (definitely they're much much weaker trends than the main results)

ritchie@ritchie.bsky.social · last mo.

And from the appendix: Men do not increase their partnership rates, but if they’re in relationships they leave their partners instead!