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Hoi @hoi.tgirl.gay · 7d

Who tf are you people i thought i hired atp developers with aproto devs and mitochrondria

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah sex is good but have you ever

A cropped screenshot showing several different GitHub status badges, all green with "passing", for different kinds of testing methodologies (including two security-focused static analysis tools).

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 8d

caressed by frost

close-up photo of a plant with many pairs of small green leaves, heavy with a layer of ice crystals

close-up photo of a plant with a bunch of umbrella-shaped stemmy heads, with spider string between them, all heavy with a layer of ice crystals. in the background, a forest and a footpath

close-up photo of a brush-like plant with spider webs over it, heavy with a layer of ice crystals

close-up photo of a tuft of sphagnum covered in a layer of ice crystals, surrounded by plant stems

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 10d

i have no idea how modern audio compression works. looking forward to potentially finding out i'm fucking stupid and 1d gaussian optimization is how it already works

L zard @scalyhat.com · 10d

today i wonder if an arxiv.org/pdf/2407.01866 -esque approach would work for near-lossless audio compression

it's all signals right? so +1 little toy project for when i have time (unless some academic does it faster)

arxiv.org

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 14d

shredded

#inktober #inktober2025

i have no time oaugh

an ink drawing: a flag on a bent pole, torn, with a few holes; below it, a bit of stone and concrete rubble with rebar sticking out, covered in bullet holes. Titled "shredded"

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Grace @gracekind.net · 17d

The Mercator projection if it weren’t cropped

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A tall world map projection showing the Earth’s continents at the top, transitioning downward into the icy landscape of Antarctica. Near the South Pole, a research station is visible surrounded by snow and ice. Below that, the image artistically fades into patterns resembling frost crystals or snowflakes, blending scientific imagery with decorative ice textures.

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 15d

sting

#inktober #inktober2025

an ink drawing: an anthropomorphic reptile with its mouth open, gripping at its face, with bloody spikes emerging from the back of its head. Titled "sting"

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 16d

heavy

#inktober #inktober2025

I'll pretend that 10.10 does not exist

an ink drawing: a humanoid robot with a knight-helmet-esque head, kneeling; in its chest, a large hole from which an orb attached by wires hangs into the robot's hands; the robot's eyes and the hole are dripping liquid onto the floor. Titled "heavy"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Sexy Monsters @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17d

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding?

why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 18d

reckless

#inktober #inktober2025

an ink drawing: a hand covered in cuts reaches toward a spiky fruit through a few branches covered in thorns. Titled "reckless"

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 19d

starfish

#inktober #inktober2025

first one that I'm actually happy with even if I have no ability to shade evenly

an ink drawing: a segmented six-legged starfish with etched legs hangs on a bright orb; from it's back, a stream of the same brightness emerges, breaking into droplets. Titled "starfish"

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 20d

pierce

#inktober #inktober2025

an ink drawing: two eyeballs looking up, each run through by two nails and dripping dark liquid; titled "pierce"

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 22d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 22d

murky

#inktober #inktober2025

TIL i should invest in a more deterministic ink solution than just pouring roughly appropriate amounts of ink and water into a tiny tea bowl

an ink drawing: a pond with a lily pad and a shadow of a humanoid figure under it; the figure is in a fetal position, with tubes running out of their back, chest, and head

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 23d

crown

#inktober #inktober2025

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 24d

weave

#inktober #inktober2025

pen drawing: a sideways outline of a person, braiding and feeling their hair as it cloaks them. titled "weave"

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 26d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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L zard @scalyhat.com · 25d

mustache
#inktober #inktober2025

i think i need to get actual ink this year and make a fool of myself in more destructive and liquid ways

a black-on-beige pen drawing: an outline of a fir forest against a night sky, a constellation and a full moon all together roughly resembling a face. titled "mustache"

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L zard @scalyhat.com · Sep 15

managed to make my nix build ncspot (from repo since nixpkgs is outdated and broken)

feeling more powerful every day

L zard @scalyhat.com · Sep 12

source: anecdotal evidence from reddit. trans people drive subarus and enbies drive subarus. and gay people. well. they're just mirror universe lesbians

L zard @scalyhat.com · Sep 12

research has established that Subaru is not just the lesbian car, but is, in fact, the generally fruity car. Sorry lesbians

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L zard @scalyhat.com · Sep 12

isn't that the driest part of the mix?
so you need more pronoun water to go with the pronoun pretzels

L zard @scalyhat.com · Sep 12

insanely cool stuff
www.sdiolatz.info/publications...

Image-GS: Content-Adaptive Image Representation via 2D Gaussians

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www.sdiolatz.info