@ifbookspod.bsky.social I saw these three together in the returned books shelf at work and immediately got suspicious of the book Humankind.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart

Om någon i Göteborg undrar varför det är en rökpelare nära Götaplatsen så är det bygget bredvid min svärfars lägenhet som råkat sätta eld på gummimattorna (?) under en sprängning.

Here's how to REALLY offend a paleontologist 🦴🦕 #GameChanger / @GianmarcoSoresi.bsky.social

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

Jag uppskattar bojkotten mot de stora kedjorna men tycker också det är lite roligt att jag och min sambo av ren pengabrist har fått ha vår egna lilla bojkott den här månaden.

En sak jag hoppas ändå kommer med den amerikanska apokalypsen är att folk i Europa ser och förstår vad radikalhögern faktiskt vill. För ingen tror väl att det skulle bli annorlunda om SD, AfD eller Nationell samling fick total politisk majoritet (med vissa lokala detaljer olika)?

Och tågen skulle gå i tid

Morgan Finnsiö ⤦⤦⤦@morganfinnsio.bsky.social · last yr.

Obetalbart.

Me: "I wouldn't want to go to the US, I can't support that country" My (trans) partner: "I mean, I straight up can't go"

Olivia Dade@oliviawrites.bsky.social · last yr.

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Between this and a permanent resident being disappeared...I would not visit the U.S. right now if you have another option. A tourism collapse would be devastating to so many Americans who *are* on the right side of history, but if you won't be safe, you shouldn't come.

Jenny Croft@jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · last yr.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Really can not exaggerate how dire it is that the US flat-out disappeared a foreign student

Some fun PhD student positions now available in Visby, both in archaeology and cultural heritage. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Lediga jobb - Uppsala universitet

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Breaking my hiatus just to say that Sweden will finally be sending something really goofy to Eurovision. About time!

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

More talk this week on AI vs human indexing. The book ‘INDEX, A History of the’ by @djbduncan.bsky.social has two indexes – a computer-generated one by automated software, and an index created by a human indexer (me). They are really not the same. (See also @indexers.bsky.social and #IndexSky.)

It took me a couple of episodes before I figured out what was bothering me about The 100, which everyone around me loved. It was that everyone was the exact same flavour.

Alanna Smith@alannamode.bsky.social · 2y ago

Part of why I no longer know current celebrity names is because folks cast the same faces and I simply cannot tell them apart Diversify so we know who tf your characters are I am BEGGING YOU 😂

Happy Christmas to everyone celebrating old calendar Christmas today!

Gamers: adding a difficulty slider compromises the artistic vision of the game devs Also gamers, apparently: I need an AI filter over every face in my game

Liz Edwards@lizaledwards.bsky.social · 2y ago

excuse me but if I create a face a certain way I would like our players to be shown it as intended

some things on the internet get old and cringy but I do not think I will ever get tired of watching Tom Holland's Umbrella performance for the rest of my life instant smile on my face, every single time

Radiant G🌈 @ sleeby😴@radiantg.bsky.social · 2y ago

I mean, if a guy did this in front of me, I would marry him too. Congrats to Zendaya and Tom Holland for their engagement🙏

folks, when you ask a chatbot about how it's programmed, it doesn't actually give you accurate answers - it gives you a series of predictive guesses drawn from a corpus of what other people have said about AI and the way you asked it. Meta's 'AI' personalities are not spilling secrets to you.

So very tired of an acquaintance of mine who keeps posting "funny" memes about gaining weight ("The more you weigh, the harder you are too kidnap" etc). As you might have guessed, she's your average person who weighs 5-10 kg more than she did at 20 and now has to be self deprecating about it.

My old PhD advisor, Henrik Williams, wrote a short article about this passage. Litr means "colour" and is a pretty unusual dwarf name. Henrik argues that this is what's left from a story about how fire got so many colours.

Stein Makes Games ➡️ GamesCom@steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was reading up on mythological dwarfs for lore inspiration and came across this hilariously unexplained detail.

Notch is a racist. Notch is a misogynist. Notch is a homophobe and transphobe. Do not give Notch your support. Do not give Notch your money.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2y ago

Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has “basically announced" Minecraft 2. vgc.news/news/minecra...

I'm so sorry, but I can't afford to donate to more than a few people every month. I wish I could.

Självklart är det fullt möjligt att få ned utbetalningarna till sjuklön om man ändrar reglerna så att det är svårare att få tillgång. Men det finns alltså absolut inget som tyder på att fler då börjar jobba. Det som händer är att fler sjuka blir fattigare. Då får man vara tydlig med att det är målet

I've now finished Thank Goodness You're Here and am probably joining everyone else in hoping @secretsleepoversociety.com will play it.

Det här med utökad semester sätter fingret på något som stör mig när folk pratar om hur de minsann tog tåget till Rom i somras: det är jättebra, OM MAN HAR TID. En extra veckas semester är inte görbart för väldigt många.

The Mbappé Special@abrehet.bsky.social · 2y ago

Några saker jag tycker man ska göra i klimatfrågan: - Gratis kollektivtrafik i hela landet - Kraftigt subventionerad (och fungerande) tågtrafik i hela landet - Förbjuda privatbilism i stadskärnor - Generell arbetstidsförkortning - Utöka den lagstadgade semestern till minst 45 dagar/år

TIME TO CREATE BUCKAROOS. yes there will be little pieces that you keep seeing and thinking 'this is broken this is wrong' but honestly most of these things fall into two categories 1 they give you flavor and power or 2 nobody even notices. NOW GET OUT THERE AND PROVE LOVE BUILD SOMETHING AMAZING

Boss made a dollar, Grandad made a dime. But that was a poem From a simpler time. Boss made a thousand, Gave my Dad a cent. But that coin paid the mortgage, Or at least it paid the rent. Now bosses make a billion, And give us workers jack. Then smugly blame society, For the labor that they lack.