Ruth E
@caraeilis.bsky.social
She loves the ear scritches
December 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
She loves the ear scritches
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Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
October 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Y’all remember what didn’t happen when Biden was president? *Any* of this shit. Tariffs, war with Venezuela, masked secret police grabbing people off the streets, people about to lose food aid, health care premiums skyrocketing, none of this.
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Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.
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You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
August 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
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As a bit of briefing, this made me chuckle. on.ft.com/40XOXwN
August 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
As a bit of briefing, this made me chuckle. on.ft.com/40XOXwN
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Given everything that has happened on Twitter/X in the last 2 years it is astonishing that the govt hasn’t even reviewed its use of the platform
Oh, this is good: Lib Dem peer @markpackuk.bsky.social asked the Government "whether they have considered creating a Gov.uk account on Bluesky, and if so, when that consideration took place, and what the outcome was."
The answer reveals that Govt use of X hasn't been reviewed since April 2023...
The answer reveals that Govt use of X hasn't been reviewed since April 2023...
July 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Given everything that has happened on Twitter/X in the last 2 years it is astonishing that the govt hasn’t even reviewed its use of the platform
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
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Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.
June 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.
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IMPORTANT NEWS: All mlems are bleps but not every blep is a mlem. Here we see a blep gracefully and dare we say triumphantly transitioning into a mlem. Truly a beautiful moment, captured for posterity. We are lucky to be here for this spectacular moment in time.
June 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
IMPORTANT NEWS: All mlems are bleps but not every blep is a mlem. Here we see a blep gracefully and dare we say triumphantly transitioning into a mlem. Truly a beautiful moment, captured for posterity. We are lucky to be here for this spectacular moment in time.
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Unster, Londongrl, Aarmagh
This is what ChatGPT created what I asked it to create a map of Ireland - with the Ulster counties identified.
Can you spot any mistakes?
Watch full report about AI potentials & challenges - on BBC The View
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
This is what ChatGPT created what I asked it to create a map of Ireland - with the Ulster counties identified.
Can you spot any mistakes?
Watch full report about AI potentials & challenges - on BBC The View
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Unster, Londongrl, Aarmagh
This is what ChatGPT created what I asked it to create a map of Ireland - with the Ulster counties identified.
Can you spot any mistakes?
Watch full report about AI potentials & challenges - on BBC The View
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
This is what ChatGPT created what I asked it to create a map of Ireland - with the Ulster counties identified.
Can you spot any mistakes?
Watch full report about AI potentials & challenges - on BBC The View
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
OFAC paid my salary and that of several of my quite expensive developer collegues for the first year of my career, and that was just the tech side. It is most definitely a thing.
apropos of several other pieces of discourse: I know it may feel in many ways like nothing is real anymore, but it very much is, and particularly OFAC is very much a real thing that will send you to crime prison for a very long time
May 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
OFAC paid my salary and that of several of my quite expensive developer collegues for the first year of my career, and that was just the tech side. It is most definitely a thing.
This is what happens when an anit-vaxxer who doesn't believe in germ theory gets put in charge.
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This is what happens when an anit-vaxxer who doesn't believe in germ theory gets put in charge.
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AI will take your job as soon as it figures out what year it is
May 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
AI will take your job as soon as it figures out what year it is
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We may not have realised we needed Owls in Towels, but only because we didn't know it existed.
Northern Hawk Owl Pt. 2
being treated for a wing injury and head trauma #owlsintowels
Full story here by Bird TLC:
birdtlc.org/birdtlcblog/...
being treated for a wing injury and head trauma #owlsintowels
Full story here by Bird TLC:
birdtlc.org/birdtlcblog/...
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We may not have realised we needed Owls in Towels, but only because we didn't know it existed.
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Me (crying): Please...I just need to message my coworkers
Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason
Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason
May 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Me (crying): Please...I just need to message my coworkers
Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason
Microsoft Teams Developers: No you don't. You want a Bunch of Bullshit that also changes week-to-week for some reason
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We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
The word around town is that the next big thing is Artisanal Imagery, hand-made visuals that you simply have to own if you don't want to be left behind
May 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.
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translation: "right now we are able to get by with a reduced headcount at junior and staff engineer levels directly proportionate to the extent of their jobs is writing code, which will remain feasible until the job market gets less tight and/or we make a fairly small number of bad hires"
dystopia update via the Bloomberg weekend Forecast
May 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
translation: "right now we are able to get by with a reduced headcount at junior and staff engineer levels directly proportionate to the extent of their jobs is writing code, which will remain feasible until the job market gets less tight and/or we make a fairly small number of bad hires"
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Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier."
An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: ...
farmingdale-observer.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Study begun pre-COVID finds remote work increased sleep by 1/2 hr/night, decreased commute by 4.5 hr/week replaced with work, family & leisure and led to healthier eating. Remote and hybrid employees report higher job satisfaction and well-being. farmingdale-observer.com/2025/05/16/s...
We've had one brain worm, but what about second brain worm?
It’s not safe to swim in DC’s Rock Creek, but that didn’t stop Health Secretary RFK Jr. who went for a dip in the bacterial waters over the weekend.
Rock Creek Isn’t Safe to Swim In. RFK Jr. Did It Anyway. - Washingtonian
The Health Secretary posted photos of himself swimming in the bacterial waters on Mother's Day.
www.washingtonian.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We've had one brain worm, but what about second brain worm?
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So I looked at the "query" that Worldcon used, and as someone who has written at least two books on enterprise AI and many many developer columns on how to build AI apps, and, well, the slim hope that I'd had that they may have done things right has been dashed.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So I looked at the "query" that Worldcon used, and as someone who has written at least two books on enterprise AI and many many developer columns on how to build AI apps, and, well, the slim hope that I'd had that they may have done things right has been dashed.
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Man I gotta say, knowing that there's nothing anyone can do to walk the President back from tanking the economy because he's got crank ideas about how trade works is really making it hard for me to do my little work tasks
May 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Man I gotta say, knowing that there's nothing anyone can do to walk the President back from tanking the economy because he's got crank ideas about how trade works is really making it hard for me to do my little work tasks
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One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it
April 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One reason for skepticism towards AI hype is many of the same people insisted the Metaverse was definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that, and before that insisted NFTs were definitely the future and you're dumb if you didn't get that.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
LLMS seem to have more use cases, but still.
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My beautiful, beloved idiot cat ate a nerf dart and needs emergency surgery we can’t afford. If you would like to help or can share:
Donate to Pretzel’s Life-saving Surgery, organized by Noelle Machnicki
It’s really hard to ask for help but Pretzel the cat needs emergency surgery to save hi… Noelle Machnicki needs your support for Pretzel’s Life-saving Surgery
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April 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My beautiful, beloved idiot cat ate a nerf dart and needs emergency surgery we can’t afford. If you would like to help or can share: