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Ruby Quail

@quail.bsky.social

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pretty artist designer, and technologist with red hair, I make gay art and write code for @acmilabs.bsky.social,🏳️‍⚧️ girl, (she/her) https://rubyquail.design (also @rubyquaildesign elsewhere)

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello all I'm Ruby, I'm a designer, technologist, and artist. I currently design, write code, and prototype for ACMI, and I have mostly generative digital art practice. I enjoy weird gender™️ and sci-fi stories as well as puzzle games. Felathea Aeortis In Sofia (FFXIV)

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 6h

Good luck!!

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 12h

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social · 7h

I just saw a commercial for smartphone “AI” where a woman is standing at a flower shop asking her phone which flowers to buy and if they’ll last a few days.

Or she could, you know, ask the florist.

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 6h

That was quick

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 7h

gifted weaver

fanart of Arachne from Hades 2 but in human form, wearing modern clothes - dark grey jeans, high heels, some orange long sleeves top with plant patterns, necklace, earrings, rings-, her usual short hair, flower and spider web tattoos on shoulders and chest
Knees bent, sitting on her heels, hands on the ground

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 15h

Height dysphoria is the worst I hate, hate being tall, I want to be small and cute goddamn it, give this height to some cis boy who will use it so I can be a comfortable 170cm.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16h

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 17h

Probably a lot more work, but I’d be very curious for your take of Arachne’s human form (who I will still forever read as a trans girl, because Arachne’s tale just has massive trans girl energy)

Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 18h

As soon as he said proximate in the video my mind was immediately just “oh of course, this would be heavily his thing”

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

There has got to be a version of the Bible where “Nate silver kind of admits he’s wrong” is one of the four horsemen

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much for coming!

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quorniya @quorniya.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is the stance that every politician who claims to be progressive/left wing/etc should take regarding the trans community. It's so huge that Mamdani isn't afraid to show his full-throated support for trans folks at a time when so many supposed "allies" are throwing trans people under the bus.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the closest he got to actually correctly gendering Vivian lol?

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 1d

It’s good, I just wish they let me fuck the spider.

Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 2d

Glad you enjoyed our very cool exhibition, (games a pretty amazing)

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 2d

oh my god

Elliot 🥕 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 2d

LOSING MY MIND AT THE PHONE NUMBER ON THIS BUS IN FRONT OF ME

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Birthday, I’ll ask Jena to visit for an asskicking as I’m not at pax, (she’s also a lot stronger then me)

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Omni Systems | Wishlist Eufloria Classic! @omnisystems.gg · 2d

Trees of Eufloria - Day 22

#Eufloria #IndieGames #Ambient

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

The Daily show also interviewed "father" of effective altruism William MacAskill & promoted his book.

The billionaires gave him millions to promote his book so a PR person probably got him on the show.

All mainstream media shilling propaganda for the corporations claiming to build machine gods 🙄

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

www.youtube.com

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 2d

I always say it’s good at doing things that probably shouldn’t be done, writing emails that won’t be read, making images that deceive or depress, content without context or purpose. It’s value is in its an excuse not to invest in designing a solution (although that’s a bit hammer/nail of me)

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Ruby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 2d

I gotta level with you, I often confuse DEA, and DEI in my head

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 3d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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