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Ste Jormur

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Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Jul 4

Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Nov 13

You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.

Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw

Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly

YouTube video by Vienna Teng

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3h

Literally every story ever told would be improved if the last scene was someone travelling back in time to the first scene to kick off the plot

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3h

I sometimes struggle to remember my own number, but I can always immediately reel off 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 3h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 6h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 4h

*Two* free cabin bags? Because as anyone who has travelled by plane recently knows, what we really need is more people prowling the aisle trying to find somewhere to stuff their daft little suitcase while the pilot pleads ineffectually about missing the take-off slot.

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 5h

MEPs on collision course with governments over air passenger rights

Two free cabin bags, compensation for delays, family seating rights, and no penalty for booking errors

dlvr.it

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 5h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, it's an equally good time to be a PC gamer, a Nintendo gamer or a PS/XB gamer, which was... not true in the same way 20 years ago

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

Oh my god, thank you for reminding me of the Santa Royale downtown women's shelter story arc

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

It was similar after the last German election. "Look, the German Left got rid of their Putinists, took a clear, proud left wing stance, and almost doubled their vote!" Yes, they got their vote share all the way up to... roughly what Nick Clegg's Lib Dems got in 2015

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I think it's that plus maximum freedom to edit. A thing that I've become hyper-aware of, and really hate, is when the reaction seen from behind doesn't match the voice or the reverse shot. Cropping out the conversation partner as much as possible avoids that problem

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 11h

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 6h

This is my base scenario for an AI bust.

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 6h

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 6h

Just realised this stat means c. 1 person in 7,500 has a Wikipedia article.

Obviously that will bias to English-speaking countries - there are 43,611 "21st century British people", so about 1 person in 1,600 in the UK is on Wikipedia.

I hope my (I think) 5 followers with Wiki articles feel elite

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

(to help you gauge your estimate: there are around 1.13 million living people famous enough to have a Wikipedia article)

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 6h

He is tagged in Wikipedia's pandemic deaths category, at least - I'm hoping that fastidious editors have tagged all the articles correctly

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

(to help you gauge your estimate: there are around 1.13 million living people famous enough to have a Wikipedia article)

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 8h

You thought Blatter couldn’t be outdone for grotesqueness? This guy is next level.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 8h

The final guest to arrive at Trump's peace summit is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Oh wait no, it's actually... FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

Rather morbid question but:
How many people famous enough to have a Wikipedia article do you think died of COVID during the pandemic? Just roughly, what's your gut feeling, ballpark figure?

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 10h

'Nature's Labubu': why are Gen Z 'unboxing' conkers?

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10h

Possibly it's also just not knowing what the modern curriculum is like. In the 2000s we had a whole term on the Empire and the slave trade, and a brief overview of Indian Independence/Partition (and in English lit, one GCSE module of post-colonial short stories that doubled as history lessons)

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10h

Like how "We need to teach the real history of the British Empire and racism!" usually means "The history lessons where I was taught about that weren't interesting enough for me to remember"

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 18h

"Anarchist" who reads Wikipedia vs anarchist who edits Wikipedia

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

i have been into punk rock a long time, which means i have a lot of experience with anarchists (smell like old libraries, 70% lentils by volume, attends between 20-60 meetings per week) and “anarchists” (reads wikipedia, posts, backbites the first group)

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 18h

"You said you never wanted to see another rules-based international order as long as you lived. Well, I'm here to see you get your wish!"

Coily the Spring Sprite from a Case of Spring Fever

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

Very much agree. Look at this glorious 11-shot from #DoctorWho - it's like a (shit) Renaissance painting, and I love it.

An unbelievably-blocked shot of 11-characters from Doctor Who's Terror of the Vervoids all facing towards the camera as they examine a dead body.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 1d

See also the increasing reliance on the good old back-and-forth shot-reverse shot. I would much rather see an unnatural stagey blocking where we can see all the characters faces than have it pieced together from different angles and different takes and whichever reaction insert the editor liked best

A scene from Star Trek The Next Generation in which Picard in the foreground, Q behind him, Deanna Troi behind him, and Tasha Yar behind her are all looking at 3/4 angles towards the camera. It's an unnatural way to have a conversation, but now we can see the emotions on everyone's faces as Q speaks

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 1d

I massively agree with this thread. So much TV (and even a lot of film) no longer feels like a conversation. It feels like individual lines, said in isolation to no-one.

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 1d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · Sep 2

They look like they’re asking me how the human instrumentality project is going

Brian Crecente @crecente.bsky.social · Sep 1

Getting the boys back together again.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel watching the Jenny Nicholson church plays video and earnestly taking notes on how Marty McFly and Captain Kirk are Christ figures.

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