SeasonalPun
@pixelfish.bsky.social
Artist. Writer. ND mum to Doombringer. Art, feminism, geoguessr, health, writing, photos, Bluey obsessed. She/they.
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SeasonalPun
@pixelfish.bsky.social
· Sep 8
Intro for new folks: I’m Lis, an artist & writer. I have 6yo Doombringer. I play Geoguessr a LOT & my handle is Pixelfish there too.
Story link: reactormag.com/blue-morphos...
Art:
Story link: reactormag.com/blue-morphos...
Art:
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Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
February 15, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Ah yes artists, famously undedicated to their work, never obsessive, who don’t understand {checks notes} creating things.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
This shit right here is why people hate you AI assholes. Myopic and arrogant.
You’re not creating or iterating anything? You literally invented a soulless box to do it for you.
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(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
This Is Your Brain On Uber
This week we feature Keith Chen, a behavioral economist at UCLA and the head of economic research at Uber. Keith explains why surge pricing makes us nuts and discusses our weird economic choices.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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that's fucking disgusting.
(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
that's fucking disgusting.
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Evil.
This kind of thing is why I don't use Uber. I call local car services or flag down a taxi.
This kind of thing is why I don't use Uber. I call local car services or flag down a taxi.
(10/11) Dubal’s research showed that dynamic rates are coming for wages too, with Uber drivers with identical workloads and performance getting different pay based on the lowest amount the algorithm calculated they’d accept. www.columbialawreview.org/content/on-a...
ON ALGORITHMIC WAGE DISCRIMINATION - Columbia Law Review
INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, technological developments have ushered in extreme levels of workplace monitoring and surveillance across many sectors. These automated systems record and quant...
www.columbialawreview.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Evil.
This kind of thing is why I don't use Uber. I call local car services or flag down a taxi.
This kind of thing is why I don't use Uber. I call local car services or flag down a taxi.
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“A chatbot gets something wrong. When corrected, it apologizes and changes its answer. When corrected again, it apologizes again—sometimes reversing its position entirely. What unsettles users is not just that the system lacks beliefs, but that it keeps apologizing as if it had any.”
Words Without Consequence
What does it mean to have speech without a speaker?
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
“A chatbot gets something wrong. When corrected, it apologizes and changes its answer. When corrected again, it apologizes again—sometimes reversing its position entirely. What unsettles users is not just that the system lacks beliefs, but that it keeps apologizing as if it had any.”
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Dancing Mad (Nobuo Uematsu, 1994)
Crushing: One of the most legendary musicians of your lifetime puts Kraft Singles on tacos.
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Dancing Mad (Nobuo Uematsu, 1994)
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Jenny Nicholson has this place's number. They excised all the planned engaging/interactive elements, and stuck 'em on Star Cruiser so they could upcharge for what was once included in the ticket price.
So when Star Cruiser shut down, what was left was a themed mall, but with fewer places to sit.
So when Star Cruiser shut down, what was left was a themed mall, but with fewer places to sit.
I was surprised the new Disney CEO shit-talking the Millennium Falcon ride at Star Wars land, and then almost no pushback from the internet, with almost everybody agreeing with that statement (which, man, how often do you ever see *that* online?)
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Jenny Nicholson has this place's number. They excised all the planned engaging/interactive elements, and stuck 'em on Star Cruiser so they could upcharge for what was once included in the ticket price.
So when Star Cruiser shut down, what was left was a themed mall, but with fewer places to sit.
So when Star Cruiser shut down, what was left was a themed mall, but with fewer places to sit.
I found 80s music I had never heard before.
youtu.be/3-nTXUUKCro?...
I have a pretty extensive 80s knowledge, and even them being German shouldn’t have kept them off my radar. (And arguably should have increased it, given my German teacher’s love for synth pop.)
youtu.be/3-nTXUUKCro?...
I have a pretty extensive 80s knowledge, and even them being German shouldn’t have kept them off my radar. (And arguably should have increased it, given my German teacher’s love for synth pop.)
Silent Circle - Touch in the Night
YouTube video by Meiselmusic | Meisel Musikverlage
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
I found 80s music I had never heard before.
youtu.be/3-nTXUUKCro?...
I have a pretty extensive 80s knowledge, and even them being German shouldn’t have kept them off my radar. (And arguably should have increased it, given my German teacher’s love for synth pop.)
youtu.be/3-nTXUUKCro?...
I have a pretty extensive 80s knowledge, and even them being German shouldn’t have kept them off my radar. (And arguably should have increased it, given my German teacher’s love for synth pop.)
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Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
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I, a child of rednecks and descendant of millworkers, have more in common with these men than anyone who calls them my enemy.
Chinese astronauts become the first to grill wings in space, paving the way for future uncstronauts
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I, a child of rednecks and descendant of millworkers, have more in common with these men than anyone who calls them my enemy.
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I think the most humiliating part of this is knowing that chinese people are one of the biggest apple markets, we assemble the products, we write a shitton of the code, but the phones still can’t tell if our eyes are open or not. it’s 2026, I thought it would’ve been fixed by now
February 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I think the most humiliating part of this is knowing that chinese people are one of the biggest apple markets, we assemble the products, we write a shitton of the code, but the phones still can’t tell if our eyes are open or not. it’s 2026, I thought it would’ve been fixed by now
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head tracking still struggles to identify blinking but it’s having much more success and much less effort than before this is WILD, I didn’t expect to have definitive racism proof
February 15, 2026 at 9:13 PM
head tracking still struggles to identify blinking but it’s having much more success and much less effort than before this is WILD, I didn’t expect to have definitive racism proof
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*SCREAMING* you’re never gonna believe this… but as soon as I put eyelid tape on to simulate the white people eye crease and recalibrated eye tracking… IT WORKS PERFECTLY
February 15, 2026 at 9:09 PM
*SCREAMING* you’re never gonna believe this… but as soon as I put eyelid tape on to simulate the white people eye crease and recalibrated eye tracking… IT WORKS PERFECTLY
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People abroad don't seem to comprehend that being a US citizen doesn't protect you from ICE.
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign, which I don't think people can wrap their heads around.
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign, which I don't think people can wrap their heads around.
PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...
I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3
February 15, 2026 at 9:46 PM
People abroad don't seem to comprehend that being a US citizen doesn't protect you from ICE.
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign, which I don't think people can wrap their heads around.
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign, which I don't think people can wrap their heads around.
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Our map is looking mappy! Which location do you want to explore?
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Our map is looking mappy! Which location do you want to explore?
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"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:33 PM
"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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when i was recruiting for warming center volunteers in a wealthy suburb, several people at the farmers market didn’t understand what i meant. they had not considered once in their lives that some of *their very own neighbors* might freeze to death on the streets bc they have nowhere else to go
it’s a different kind of dehumanization of poverty but dehumanization nonetheless and just as deadly as the casual murder of the elite
February 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
when i was recruiting for warming center volunteers in a wealthy suburb, several people at the farmers market didn’t understand what i meant. they had not considered once in their lives that some of *their very own neighbors* might freeze to death on the streets bc they have nowhere else to go
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"It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power"
🟢 Agree: 81%
⚫️ Disagree: 19%
Read it free: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
🟢 Agree: 81%
⚫️ Disagree: 19%
Read it free: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Canadians Call It Treason as Alberta Separatists Face National Backlash
A clear majority agree that turning to the U.S. for assistance in separation is inappropriate
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 PM
"It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power"
🟢 Agree: 81%
⚫️ Disagree: 19%
Read it free: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
🟢 Agree: 81%
⚫️ Disagree: 19%
Read it free: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
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the point youre failing to connect to is:
1. capitalism is an exploitive system, regardless of race.
2. no one in america is more exploited than black people.
3. racist outcomes are systemically built into america's (and the globe's) capitalist structure.
it isnt a victimhood to point this out.
1. capitalism is an exploitive system, regardless of race.
2. no one in america is more exploited than black people.
3. racist outcomes are systemically built into america's (and the globe's) capitalist structure.
it isnt a victimhood to point this out.
February 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
the point youre failing to connect to is:
1. capitalism is an exploitive system, regardless of race.
2. no one in america is more exploited than black people.
3. racist outcomes are systemically built into america's (and the globe's) capitalist structure.
it isnt a victimhood to point this out.
1. capitalism is an exploitive system, regardless of race.
2. no one in america is more exploited than black people.
3. racist outcomes are systemically built into america's (and the globe's) capitalist structure.
it isnt a victimhood to point this out.
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like, this thing has no continuity of consciousness, but if you *project* continuity of consciousness onto it — which its owners do want you to do! that's why all the resources that went into shaping how it talks make it talk *like that!* — the machine is definitely a gaslighting asshole
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
like, this thing has no continuity of consciousness, but if you *project* continuity of consciousness onto it — which its owners do want you to do! that's why all the resources that went into shaping how it talks make it talk *like that!* — the machine is definitely a gaslighting asshole
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tbh, like, the new way it responds? this long-winded, still too-familiar, listen-here-i'm-gonna-tell-you-which-feelings-are-appropriate tone? it very much does come off as a certain kind of asshole trying to push you around with therapy speak
because that's kinda the only cultural script it has rn?
because that's kinda the only cultural script it has rn?
Apparently the new model tells them to touch grass and they are not digging it
February 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
tbh, like, the new way it responds? this long-winded, still too-familiar, listen-here-i'm-gonna-tell-you-which-feelings-are-appropriate tone? it very much does come off as a certain kind of asshole trying to push you around with therapy speak
because that's kinda the only cultural script it has rn?
because that's kinda the only cultural script it has rn?
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UTAH - Wasatch County Republican Party Chair David Johnson arrested for allegedly “waterboarding” a teen girl for not cleaning her room.
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
UTAH - Wasatch County Republican Party Chair David Johnson arrested for allegedly “waterboarding” a teen girl for not cleaning her room.
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
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once again banging my pots and pans about how the PS2's game library variety and success thereof is deeply tied to "the 2008 crash hasn't happened yet"
February 15, 2026 at 8:18 AM
once again banging my pots and pans about how the PS2's game library variety and success thereof is deeply tied to "the 2008 crash hasn't happened yet"
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Yeah, it’s really easy to be smug about it from the West Coast, but the South isn’t some mirror universe where the racists have beards.
February 15, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Yeah, it’s really easy to be smug about it from the West Coast, but the South isn’t some mirror universe where the racists have beards.