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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 15h

The true overperformer of Tron: Ares is Cameron Monaghan’s agent

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Inkling @printinkling.bsky.social · 20h

Blessed are the amphibians
for they will be called children of god.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for their cuteness
for theirs is the Kingdom of Portland.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 16h

Honestly had a great time with two of my kids. It’s 100% “rule of cool” so don’t bring too much brain, but it was a moderately enjoyable ride.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 16h

My review of Tron: Ares:

It’s a Tron movie.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 22h

greetings, programs

Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 3d

It’s so fluffy that most people can’t even parse it without several passes. The grade level AIs tend to output at is crazy high last I checked.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 3d

Yeah; I don’t get this decision at all.

Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 3d

Can I call my own degree in theological languages a ripoff degree

Comes in _real_ handy in customer experience work, lemme tell y’all

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 3d

I followed originally due to writing that meant a lot to my kids and me (Destiny).

Kept following because your posting is that of a good and interesting person.

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 3d

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 4d

words to live by

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 4d

world

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 5d

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 5d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Cultivate a couple of hobbies. Ideally, things that have nothing to do with your day job and that bring you joy, even if you're not great at them.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 4d

I should get a bottle of bubbles when I go on meetups for work and bring them outside when colleagues go out to smoke.

(I will join them outside a restaurant or whatever but not smoke because imo that’s better than making them go do so alone.)

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 16d

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stark @seastark.com · 4d

The websites asking you to turn off your adblocker sound like forest spirits asking you to break the salt circle around your cabin.
You can trust these spirits, they're not going to steal your body! Come on!

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 4d

There is a reason I have an SEM budget for every time I find myself in Tokyo for work.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

I think it should be socially and legally acceptable to smack these clean off somebody's face if they're filming you against your will

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 4d

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

gizmodo.com

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 5d

ICE had no idea what they were getting into in Portland.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6d

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis

my brain: not u though

me: not me though

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Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 6d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 6d

When I worked on social features for online games, my favorite test for whether we were taking player safety into account was the "Ex-boyfriend Test", as in:

If I was your ex-boyfriend, how would I use this feature to make your life miserable?

Lindsey B @lindsey.codes · 6d

Bad actors will SQL inject you, but they will also find ways to take your “good faith” features and abuse them: location services, community tagging, voting, auto-moderating with mass reporting.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 8d

I *cackled*

Odd Steam Reviews @oddsteamreviews.bsky.social · 8d

Expedition 33

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Nov 29

I'm heading into the weekend with the same energy as this Raphael sign from Pizza Hut in 1990

Raphael, a Ninja Turtle clad in knee pads, elbow pads, and a red face masks, joyfully toots upon a saxophone while proclaiming "Radical!"

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 8d

Yakuza 0 (2015)

@newvgadvisor.bsky.social

Kazuma Kiryu saying “You can’t judge someone just because they don’t conform to society’s standards of sexual normalcy!”

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