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Jack is so back

@toyourstations.bsky.social

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They/he. Ttrpg designer, streamer, writer. Disabled, Pākehā, Aotearoa.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · Oct 11

Kia Ora! I'm Jack, a trans, disabled ttrpg designer and streamer from Aotearoa!

check out toyourstations.itch.io for a huge range of game options

and check out twitch.tv/toyourstations to join my chill chatter streams twice a week!

Jack Blair

toyourstations.itch.io

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 5h

I had just settled down to watch YouTube and play video games all day and I got a text reminding me I picked up an extra shift at the gallery so that people in town for the pike River movie premiere could come in (we don't usually open mondays) and now I'm having to be serious with my day

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 7h

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 8h

I'd be down!

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 8h

Share a 4 word horror story only your profession would understand

"They've announced new sanctions"

Hugh Dingwall @objectivereality.bsky.social · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Where's that @#$@ing ring?!"

Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 19h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"The card wasn't blocked"

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 19h

Hey idk who needs to hear this but if you are a person who has toilet related health issues- just buy the nice toilet paper!
It's like 2 extra dollars and you're significantly less likely to experience toilet paper related injury and also it just sucks less as an experience. Trust me.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 23h

Working on the dream levels?

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

God forbid women do anything

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Some things I saw recently that I think are cool (Native American jewelry edition):

— Neil Zarama. New Ralph Lauren collab coming (IG whirlinglog_and_arrow)
— Troy Oviedo (IG troyoviedo) 😮‍💨
— Falcon Trading Company (IG ftcjewelry)
— Samuel Sumpter (IG nabaahii_bizhiil_creations)

Some Ralph Lauren models wearing a Native American belt buckle and pin. Also photos of Native American repoussé pin and handmade silver rings in different styles.

Native American silver cuff bracelet, rings, and belt buckles decorated with turquoise stones.

Native American cuff bracelets and pendants, many decorated with turquoise stones.

Native American squash blossom necklaces.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

Have opinions and ideas and write interesting essays and you actually get not only respect from your instructors but also like, you learn shit and you have more fun than just writing what everyone expects.
One time I titled an essay "it's too late to kinkshame Lestat, probably"

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

Another time, I convinced a lecturer to change the contents of her course because I wrote a good enough essay (the course was"gender in art" and entirely focused on cis men and women and I wrote an essay about 2nd wave feminism and deliberate exclusion of trans and nonbinary artists from academia)

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

If you misunderstand the question and give AI bad prompts and hand that in there's no way in hell you're gonna get a slide like that. Your AI isn't gonna do something interesting and nuanced enough to actually make the lecturer think "this person tried really hard they deserve some credit"

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

Oh also the year before I had made a mistake where I misunderstood what the lecturer wanted from an essay (she wanted a close reading, I gave a sort of contextual analysis) but my essay was "so well written she couldn't bring herself to fail me" and I got a C- and still passed the class.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

ugh thanks everyone for the voting reminders!!! I'll drop my papers at the library on the way to work I had absolutely forgotten despite saying all week i'd do it today

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

My migraines were light sensitive and I couldn't swallow easily, so I went up to the no food allowed level of the library and rawdogged an essay on movie musicals on one of the boxy old school computers, squinting like hell. I wouldn't get glasses until later that year, but I needed them.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 3d

in 2014 at 10am i had a procedure to film my vocal cords and was on meds that were giving me migraines. During the procedure I decided i hated the essay I'd already written that was due at 2, and with a migraine and a numbed throat i went from the hospital to uni and rewrote the essay and got an A.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 4d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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jessica BONEStown @midnightmasseffect.bsky.social · 4d

"normie" is too cute of a word for what it describes which is why i humbly submit "normo" which makes them sound like weirdos again.

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 4d

Tbf he was only 10 minutes late and he didn't argue with me at all just signed the things I asked him to so that's good at least

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 4d

I know they're understaffed I know it but if doctors could be on time..
..

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Slow News Dave @wellingtonskeleton.space · 4d

Workers Above Capital? That's right! Thank you Comrade Sign.

A sign that says "Caution: Workers Above. Capital Height Services"

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 5d

So annoying that vegan cheese basically has less than 10% of the protein of cow cheese. I made "cheese" toasties for lunch bc I thought they'd have more protein than a peanut butter sandwich but checked the labels out of curiosity to see if I was right and I was very wrong. Boooooo

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 6d

is it gonna be that easy for an automated system to be set to paperclip mode? my pessimistic ass thinks yes. because automation just speeds up mistakes :)

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 6d

the example in the wiki article is deliberately hyperbolic but i think it's such a good example of the exact bullshit we're seeing with Grok & that style of rushed AI product. The video in my first post talks about a misclick enabling a version of Grok being enabled that should never have gone live

Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 6d

it's a thought experiment about a theoretical AI that destroys the world because it gets the instruction to make paperclips with no parameters that tell it to stop and it has no way to make that decision on its own bc that's not how AI works. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrum...

Instrumental convergence - Wikipedia

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 6d

unrelated to the storm i just watched an incredibly informative video on AI safety and corner cutting and even though I always knew it would be the paperclip ending I can't believe we're gonna get the paperclip ending.
context:
youtu.be/r_9wkavYt4Y?...
and if you don't know the paperclip....

How One Line of Code Broke a Billion Dollar AI

YouTube video by AI In Context

youtu.be

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Jack is so back @toyourstations.bsky.social · 6d

Storm overhead and I just watched wookiee turn herself into a pancake and army crawl under my parents' bed which is about 3 inches off the ground. I did not think she was going to fit