William Russell
@robotowilliam.bsky.social
He/him | 38 | Lifelong explorer and learner Teacher, MSc Animal Behaviour (Queen's University Belfast), interested in animal cognition and social behaviours 🦋 Reylo ⏹️ Stop AI https://linktr.ee/robotowilliam
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad
YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf
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This is a pretty good summary of why this stuff has zero appeal to anyone who actually enjoys making anything, and there will never be anything Ai companies can do about that. (Green absolutely torching his own credibility is just an astonishing unforced error. Write your own words!)
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 13h agoThe specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
Why have people gobbled up this slop so easily? No questioning as to why? I mean surely these people have heard what Altman and similar have said about AI and the high chance it will end civilisation! Yet they still use it? We seem to be separating into two different types of people.
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 14h agoI have one answer.
When I’m on Bluesky I don’t see one specific group of people. I see: Artists Scientists Journalists Comedians Citizen activists Politicians Writers Bands The CEO needs to broaden his follows.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
lockdown is when your shredded cheese doesn't arrive immediately Never Forget Their Crimes ✊
300 million years ago, dragonflies the size of hawks patrolled the swamps and millipedes grew longer than your leg. The air was richer in oxygen then, and insects breathe through passive tubes that only reach so far into the body. More oxygen, bigger bug. 🧪 #HowToBuildAGiant
Thread of Sam's attempted dalliances and apparent threesomes including with a ventroloquist/voice-thrower.
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · yesterdayTo Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to be merry, I went to Jervas’s and took him and his wife over the water to their mother Palmer’s (with whom I have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard).
Ahhhh, so that’s Roisín Michaux. She searched for months trying to dig up the dirt on trans women, supposedly, being sexual predators, but couldn’t find any. Cue ‘Principal Skinner’ meme.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Sorry if this is kind of a gross image, but it's also fascinating. These are acrobat ants that killed and are dismantling a gulf fritillary caterpillar, pulling the meat away from the ample gut contents. The passionvine plant attracts ants with nectaries, and the ants are earning their pay here.
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.
I work with women all the time who allow their husbands to rape them to avoid a beating. Who clean and cook and keep their children quiet to avoid them all being killed. So yes.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Went to an arcade in Halifax that had a framed portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto looking like he's about to be at the center of a murder mystery in the pacific northwest
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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This article by @smellosopher.bsky.social on Mary Hesse, of whom I was/am scandalously ignorant is a brilliant introduction to a brilliant and important thinker about how science works.
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You are aware there are multiple English speaking countries with internet access, right?