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r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · 16h

they do not break us, they break behind us

screenshot from coros app showing 1.5 mile run completed in 8:52

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · 4d

when life gives you demons, make demonade

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · 4d

comprehensive list of shapes i can rotate in my head:
- a circle
- it has to be, like, a perfect circle with no identifying markings
- and, yeah, we're talking axial rotation here

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · 4d

smdh arc of history back on its lengthmaxxing bullshit

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · 26d

i once heard ska described as "what plays in an LLM's head when it assigns a high probability to the em dash token" and nothing in this world is more accurate

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Sep 22

sorry, i cannot come into work today, i was cursed by etsy witches and now all my socks have a seam going directly over my pinkie toes

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Aug 5

the only benchmark for llms that i care about is how confidently incorrect they are when i ask "if i drop a pancake on a hill, will it roll away?"

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jul 29

players are already pretty good at "seeing the eigenvectors" of conventional game systems and i kind of think they'll just do it more literally if you integrate llms (or bespoke models)

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jul 29

too many things in my bathroom are vaguely toothpaste shaped. i am 100% going to brush my teeth with moisturizer or benzoyl peroxide one of these days

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jul 14

ocean currents are such an unserious phenomenon. this looks like something i would have drawn in second grade. threading the madagascar gap is total mall ninja shit

a globe with a diagram of thermohaline circulation drawn on it, which is basically a squiggly line in the oceans

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 30

it me, the hypocrite

edit of "know the work rules" comic with panels flipped. top reads "why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box material?" / "hello, human resources?!". bottom reads "why didn't the greeks industrialize the aeolipile?" / "awww, you're sweet."

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 25

the intro:

stig intro edited to read "some say that he knows two facts about tools, and both of them lack sophistication"

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r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 25

came across @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social and this thought invaded my head and i had to get it out

cow tools comic edit with the stig's bovine cousin wearing a helmet with stig-like visor, a stick-shift lump, a steering wheel prongler, a saw-like car key, and a car peeking out of the barn in the background

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r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 25

walking is like a juxtaportation cascade

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 23

granting a one time exemption to the "no ai necromancy" rule so that robert moses can endorse cuomo

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 22

yeah, i'm a developer. just this week i developed shin splints

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r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 21

i'm not a writer, and i almost never remember my dreams, but i still have a vivid memory of a poem i composed in a dream one time that always cracks me up

apple feet in the apple pie
i don't know why, i don't know why
apple shit in the apple pie
i don't know why, i don't know why

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 16

reddit becoming increasingly useless without bsky-style block lists. just oodles of commenters pasting llm outputs, who get more upvotes than downvotes because llm style knowers are still such a minority. a failure mode of distributed marginal moderation.

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 15

accidentally got hooked on that methadone (coros)

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 15

practicing gender affirming care (eating a bowl of ice cream)

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 14

acab includes scott foster, by the way

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 13

it's crazy to me that people just more or less stopped talking about commingling at amazon. should be up there with phone scams as an obvious thing for the next dem admin to target.

don't buy anything at amzn that goes in your body or on your network. if you wanna take it further, more power to you

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 13

tag urself, i'm 98.6

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 13

me trying to look up the name of a song

top gear stig introduction edited to read "some say that he knows two words from the song, and both of them are wrong"

r...s @r17ns.bsky.social · Jun 7

find you somebody who looks at you the way grocery store playlist curators look at Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love