Robert Atkins
@ratkins.net
I miss Usenet. Prompt engineering and other things at https://beams.tech, ex Pivotal Labs. Also @ratkins, @[email protected]
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
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Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.
December 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.
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It’s been a while but just a note; if a pdf of scanned documents once contained OCRd text, and if the displayed bitmap part was edited to blacken out the pixels in the scan - sometimes the original OCR text is just sitting there inside the pdf. Drop it in a text or hex editor, run strings etc.
December 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It’s been a while but just a note; if a pdf of scanned documents once contained OCRd text, and if the displayed bitmap part was edited to blacken out the pixels in the scan - sometimes the original OCR text is just sitting there inside the pdf. Drop it in a text or hex editor, run strings etc.
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
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Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████
December 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Donald Trump, or as he’s known these days, ██████ █████
Alert the Ig-Nobel Prize committee!
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Alert the Ig-Nobel Prize committee!
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
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Hyperbole is literally killing me
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Hyperbole is literally killing me
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With the price of solar panels continuing to go down, there's no reason any surface that you see outside couldn't generate electricity. That's what they mean when they say Kardashev.
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
Actually Existing Solarpunk | booktwo.org
November 7, 2025
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December 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
With the price of solar panels continuing to go down, there's no reason any surface that you see outside couldn't generate electricity. That's what they mean when they say Kardashev.
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
booktwo.org/notebook/act...
I watched Robocop for the first time last night. I didn’t expect it would be so funny 😆.
December 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I watched Robocop for the first time last night. I didn’t expect it would be so funny 😆.
What’s the social network for people who don’t give a flying fuck about Bari Weiss?
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What’s the social network for people who don’t give a flying fuck about Bari Weiss?
If Microsoft insists on sending me multiple notifications for the same event across different applications, it should bloody well _cancel_ the notification everywhere if I cancel it in one place.
December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If Microsoft insists on sending me multiple notifications for the same event across different applications, it should bloody well _cancel_ the notification everywhere if I cancel it in one place.
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What?!
(The “Canada in a thong” part I’m what?!-ing about, we definitely have more fun.)
(The “Canada in a thong” part I’m what?!-ing about, we definitely have more fun.)
December 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What?!
(The “Canada in a thong” part I’m what?!-ing about, we definitely have more fun.)
(The “Canada in a thong” part I’m what?!-ing about, we definitely have more fun.)
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Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie ancient Roman langoustinie
We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳
December 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie ancient Roman langoustinie
I always get a mental hash collision between “Galaxy Quest” and “Guardians of the Galaxy”.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
Sigourney Weaver: “I wish they put out a director’s cut of the movie because, at the last minute, DreamWorks decided to release the movie with some of the more sophisticated scenes cut that Alan [Rickman] was in because it needed a kids’ movie to go up against Stuart Little.”
a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
ALT: a woman is sitting at a table talking to a man in a conference room .
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December 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I always get a mental hash collision between “Galaxy Quest” and “Guardians of the Galaxy”.
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Still regretting this. Baijört: don’t do it.
May 21, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Still regretting this. Baijört: don’t do it.
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the key issue is, too many people consider the LLM part to be the input interface and also the output interface. the real value of this shit outside of public-facing chatbot websites is in layered systems where natural language processing is combined w/traditional software engineering/systems design
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
the key issue is, too many people consider the LLM part to be the input interface and also the output interface. the real value of this shit outside of public-facing chatbot websites is in layered systems where natural language processing is combined w/traditional software engineering/systems design
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personally I can’t believe there’s so many leftists who, when presented the “automated” part of fully automated luxury gay space communism decided it was actually immoral to automate things
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
personally I can’t believe there’s so many leftists who, when presented the “automated” part of fully automated luxury gay space communism decided it was actually immoral to automate things
Whatever you think of LLMs in and of themselves, you can’t deny they’ve added a whole bunch of great words to the lexicon.
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
December 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Whatever you think of LLMs in and of themselves, you can’t deny they’ve added a whole bunch of great words to the lexicon.
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I hate it when the answer changes inside of a week 🫠
I love it when my 9yo son asks me, “Dad, is your Apple Watch connected to an atomic clock? What does an atomic clock cost?What does one look like?”
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I hate it when the answer changes inside of a week 🫠
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Quick quiz: how many people in S.F. were killed by Waymos this week?
How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week?
(The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)
How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week?
(The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Quick quiz: how many people in S.F. were killed by Waymos this week?
How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week?
(The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)
How many people in S.F. were killed by human drivers this week?
(The answers are zero and two, but no one would know that from the reactions today.)
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River Side Winterfest is scheduled for Jan. 31, as long as it's cold. Last year it was 52 and rainy and just the most depressing goddamn thing ever.
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
River Side Winterfest is scheduled for Jan. 31, as long as it's cold. Last year it was 52 and rainy and just the most depressing goddamn thing ever.
Oh, ok, via ChatGPT I found the answer: they make the winches themselves and sell them to other artists and shows: https://www.kinetic-lights.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
At Dark Matter. Anyone know what the mechanism for the “strings” (that pull up the balls and the rings) look like? The more I think about it the trickier it is to do.
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Oh, ok, via ChatGPT I found the answer: they make the winches themselves and sell them to other artists and shows: https://www.kinetic-lights.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com