Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
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Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
· Jun 4
This, to me, is what artists owe to the world in an indoor, screen-saturated age. If people are going to experience the world second hand, fair enough. Let it not be third hand or fourth hand.
Reddit's norms came from the age of the internet where anything that could make money was presumptively spam.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Reddit's norms came from the age of the internet where anything that could make money was presumptively spam.
Winter in California
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Winter in California
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You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
You absolutely need to change this headline. It's unacceptable and disrespectful to the people harmed by the pollution.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
This article itself makes it clear that the water pollution linked to cancer and miscarriages is coming entirely from nitrate pollution from farms.
The arguments that AI detection is in principle impossible apply to base models, but not models as products. A deployed LLM is not producing the background distribution of text. If you can detect New Yorker house style, or an individual author, you can probably detect an LLM.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The arguments that AI detection is in principle impossible apply to base models, but not models as products. A deployed LLM is not producing the background distribution of text. If you can detect New Yorker house style, or an individual author, you can probably detect an LLM.
The surrogate community offered by social media has plusses and minuses, but the surrogate feeling of busyness is all minuses.
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The surrogate community offered by social media has plusses and minuses, but the surrogate feeling of busyness is all minuses.
I feel sad that I discovered this comic so late. I feel like I would have to put in too much effort to find the set that I know would have become my iconic favorites if I had read them all slowly as they were written, signposts of a time.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I feel sad that I discovered this comic so late. I feel like I would have to put in too much effort to find the set that I know would have become my iconic favorites if I had read them all slowly as they were written, signposts of a time.
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I did not know that Hieronymus Bosch and Richard Scarry were working in the same genre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmelb...
Wimmelbilderbuch - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I did not know that Hieronymus Bosch and Richard Scarry were working in the same genre en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmelb...
I thought we would see centaur wimmelbilders before models could just one shot them, but nano banana can do them on its own.
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I thought we would see centaur wimmelbilders before models could just one shot them, but nano banana can do them on its own.
It is some of the hardest code to write without errors and the hardest code in which to find those errors. Massive nonsensical fuckups turn into "performance was a little worse than expected." Your type system is made of integers that easily collide.
Good ML code comes from people who fundamentally believe that ML is a trickster god and wants them to fail
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It is some of the hardest code to write without errors and the hardest code in which to find those errors. Massive nonsensical fuckups turn into "performance was a little worse than expected." Your type system is made of integers that easily collide.
It's ironic that amoral direct payouts for bait are more effective at politically destabilizing the US than intentional disinformation campaigns.
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It's ironic that amoral direct payouts for bait are more effective at politically destabilizing the US than intentional disinformation campaigns.
The value proposition of a new version of Windows is now: Your home screen has ads, everything is slower, and your printer doesn't work, but if you don't pay us for it anyways we'll let criminals empty out your bank account.
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The value proposition of a new version of Windows is now: Your home screen has ads, everything is slower, and your printer doesn't work, but if you don't pay us for it anyways we'll let criminals empty out your bank account.
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💯 getting treated 20 years ago changed (maybe even saved) my life.
PSA: If you find yourself falling asleep at family gatherings, get tested for sleep apnea. It could change your life.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
💯 getting treated 20 years ago changed (maybe even saved) my life.
PSA: If you find yourself falling asleep at family gatherings, get tested for sleep apnea. It could change your life.
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
PSA: If you find yourself falling asleep at family gatherings, get tested for sleep apnea. It could change your life.
Nano banana can still not do steller's jays. Total California erasure. It probably makes redwood cones into pinecones or some shit too.
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Nano banana can still not do steller's jays. Total California erasure. It probably makes redwood cones into pinecones or some shit too.
Every chocolate sold publicly has too much sugar in it. To get the good stuff you have to order online, go to weird boutiques, or the baking aisle.
I love hot chocolate and cannot purchase it from nearly any store. They are all too sweet.
I love hot chocolate and cannot purchase it from nearly any store. They are all too sweet.
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Every chocolate sold publicly has too much sugar in it. To get the good stuff you have to order online, go to weird boutiques, or the baking aisle.
I love hot chocolate and cannot purchase it from nearly any store. They are all too sweet.
I love hot chocolate and cannot purchase it from nearly any store. They are all too sweet.
A lot of people got real mad at this.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A lot of people got real mad at this.
Non-convex loss landscapes have "horns" and as we all know horns are the devil, so if you aren't converging to a unique global minimum your immortal soul is at risk.
SVMs are the only moral type of machine learning, which is why they’re still taught in ML classes. Unlike next token prediction, they are inherently good
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Non-convex loss landscapes have "horns" and as we all know horns are the devil, so if you aren't converging to a unique global minimum your immortal soul is at risk.
It makes some sense why Bitcoin would go up while the meme was still spreading. I don't get what would cause it to go up now. Surely the meme has already reached everyone?
The world's largest and most important cryptocurrency is down $40,000 from an all-time high a month ago. And since it has literally zero intrinsic value there is no way to predict where a price support could kick in and the market would rally around it.
It's just HODL every day forever.
It's just HODL every day forever.
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It makes some sense why Bitcoin would go up while the meme was still spreading. I don't get what would cause it to go up now. Surely the meme has already reached everyone?
I think it is actually quite common for popular online posters to have a bigger audience than an average member of Congress.
Nobody's saying online posters have more accountability than elected Democrats. It's that they have *some* accountability, i.e., greater than zero, which adds up over many accounts, and the problem is that accounts with large followings like Internet Hippo seem to believe it is zero.
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I think it is actually quite common for popular online posters to have a bigger audience than an average member of Congress.
On one hand, a log plot is the only sensible way to represent trends over orders of magnitude. On the other hand, everyone underestimates how off you have to be for a log plot to be falsified. You have to be off by more than orders of magnitude.
November 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
On one hand, a log plot is the only sensible way to represent trends over orders of magnitude. On the other hand, everyone underestimates how off you have to be for a log plot to be falsified. You have to be off by more than orders of magnitude.
You need a solid understanding of quantum mechanics to answer kids' questions surprisingly early.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
You need a solid understanding of quantum mechanics to answer kids' questions surprisingly early.
You see, when you are very small, you have to check out your reflection in a very tiny mirror.
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You see, when you are very small, you have to check out your reflection in a very tiny mirror.
Is Leviathan the most memetically powerful book cover of all time? I can't even think of a contender.
Replace the B-52 with the Leviathan guy and then it is more clear what the stakes are. Yes, you are voting for who has a monopoly on violence. What did you think you were doing?
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Is Leviathan the most memetically powerful book cover of all time? I can't even think of a contender.
Replace the B-52 with the Leviathan guy and then it is more clear what the stakes are. Yes, you are voting for who has a monopoly on violence. What did you think you were doing?
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Replace the B-52 with the Leviathan guy and then it is more clear what the stakes are. Yes, you are voting for who has a monopoly on violence. What did you think you were doing?