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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 43m

Drop that YouTube link ok!

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Spice 💕 @spicedyde.bsky.social · 18h

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 10h

The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 15h

That can't possibly be the same guy man! He looks *way younger* than Mike Pipper. Holy shit.

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Steve Horton is writing a graphic novel @stevehorton.mst3k.fan · 17h

I’ve been informed by Reddit that the actor who plays Mike Pipper is still alive and working! Most recently he was the sniper in S1E5 of The Last of Us. #MST3K

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 19h

I don't remember exactly other than they were giggly and maybe a little confused, like my wife was putting them on, and I 100% guarantee she was being serious.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 19h

My wife and I attended a mst3k live q&a in San Francisco in the early 2000s, and she used her audience question time to ask them why they made fun of that movie because it really wasn't all that bad of a movie, and oh my, the reaction she got.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 19h

Cream cheese and lox on poppyseed. My single favourite food, actually.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 23h

can you make a sam meme gen

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 23h

IIRC, the Time Chasers people were SO EXCITED when they heard their movie was gonna be on mst3k. I think that's very charming.

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DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · 1d

Despite being a strong program, I felt like UNC was almost embarrassed to have a library science program. We were disappeared, to a large extent, in favor of "iSchool" branding

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blair @blairaf.com · 1d

"OpenAI is Canadian sovereign AI" is astonishing mental gymnastics and it gets worse the more you think about it

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blair @blairaf.com · 2d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my God I hadn't even considered that. Good lord.

adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

My wife has not laughed at anything harder than she laughed at this episode's team task, specifically the three person team.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

It is very possible to have actual, real librarians with actual, real technology chops without having to dogwhistle that you think librarians are old and busted by getting rid of/de-emphasizing the phrase "library school" or "library science"

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

Always disliked "iSchools". If you're that ashamed of library science, get your stones up like Berkeley did and drop your accreditation.

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly surprised *my* library school hasn't rushed head on to rebrand themselves the "AI" school. Maybe they have. It's not like I tend to keep tabs on the wretched place.

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

Well I've been Canadian for ten years now, mind you, but thanks. :D

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 1d

it must be exhausting to be in a demographic expected to have opinions about taylor swift

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

once again thanking the 2007 version for me for taking a *big* leap into something he wasn't sure was gonna work out and whaddya know, he's Canadian now

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adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 1d

gettin' some Skmeis and writing my signature on it and charging a zillion wooooooo