Rick Gladwin 🇨🇦
@rickgladwin.bsky.social
Software engineer, science enjoyer, soccer appreciator, and all-around multi-nerd.
Mrs. Belinda Eafiod does not deserve all these people showing up at her door looking for scallops, but has been handling it with good humour and grace.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Mrs. Belinda Eafiod does not deserve all these people showing up at her door looking for scallops, but has been handling it with good humour and grace.
They’re not directly related but a) migraine sufferers (scintillating scotoma are one symptom of acephalgic migraine) have an elevated risk of CSCR, and b) both conditions can be the result of long term stress.
www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article...
www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article...
Migraine Associated with Increased Risk of CSCR
www.reviewofoptometry.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
They’re not directly related but a) migraine sufferers (scintillating scotoma are one symptom of acephalgic migraine) have an elevated risk of CSCR, and b) both conditions can be the result of long term stress.
www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article...
www.reviewofoptometry.com/news/article...
AI Experts Break Down the Latest AI Scams
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November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
These can be a precursor to central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR - a form of retinal detachment). Yes definitely get your blood pressure checked, and watch your stress levels. You do not want this smoke (in the middle of your vision)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
Central serous chorioretinopathy - Wikipedia
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November 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
These can be a precursor to central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR - a form of retinal detachment). Yes definitely get your blood pressure checked, and watch your stress levels. You do not want this smoke (in the middle of your vision)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central...
“For her, I could be a hero”
still rings in my head once every few months.
still rings in my head once every few months.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“For her, I could be a hero”
still rings in my head once every few months.
still rings in my head once every few months.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
(government minister reading a report on the thousandth clinical drug trial of a pill that eliminates poverty, with a 100% success rate, that generates 10 times the value it costs to produce & makes government ministers public heroes) I don't understand, so the poor are made to suffer how, exactly?
Ask him to spell offside rule.
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Ask him to spell offside rule.
skewed toward systems whose output “sounds like a normal person” over actually thinking and reasoning, in a lot of cases. If the goal is actually artificial general intelligence, then polished interactions in recognizable English is a secondary goal, not a primary one.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
skewed toward systems whose output “sounds like a normal person” over actually thinking and reasoning, in a lot of cases. If the goal is actually artificial general intelligence, then polished interactions in recognizable English is a secondary goal, not a primary one.
Part of the trouble with having narcissists and sociopaths directing where the money goes in modern LLM-based systems is that a) the systems that are built don’t need to actually do any of the things that are promised, just act like they do enough to convince investors, and b) the priorities are
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Part of the trouble with having narcissists and sociopaths directing where the money goes in modern LLM-based systems is that a) the systems that are built don’t need to actually do any of the things that are promised, just act like they do enough to convince investors, and b) the priorities are
But it will require a depth of humility of which we aren’t collectively capable at the moment, it seems.
They will not love us, not in a way we recognize, and that will have to be okay. They will not speak like us, and likely will not think like us.
They will not love us, not in a way we recognize, and that will have to be okay. They will not speak like us, and likely will not think like us.
November 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
But it will require a depth of humility of which we aren’t collectively capable at the moment, it seems.
They will not love us, not in a way we recognize, and that will have to be okay. They will not speak like us, and likely will not think like us.
They will not love us, not in a way we recognize, and that will have to be okay. They will not speak like us, and likely will not think like us.
Synthetic minds. Machines that think and feel. Eventually a new species.
As we figure out how to bring that about, not only will we know ourselves so much better, but we will have engaged in the most amazing act of human creation in history.
As we figure out how to bring that about, not only will we know ourselves so much better, but we will have engaged in the most amazing act of human creation in history.
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Synthetic minds. Machines that think and feel. Eventually a new species.
As we figure out how to bring that about, not only will we know ourselves so much better, but we will have engaged in the most amazing act of human creation in history.
As we figure out how to bring that about, not only will we know ourselves so much better, but we will have engaged in the most amazing act of human creation in history.
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Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open
Alt: Shatner/Kirk KHAN!!’ scream
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November 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Me when I think about how my lifelong affection for AI as an idea is poisoned every day by the bullshit pretender they are using to ruin everything I love
The existence of these two things indicate that modern capitalism is a fundamentally flawed system:
- billionaires
- hedge funds
- billionaires
- hedge funds
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The existence of these two things indicate that modern capitalism is a fundamentally flawed system:
- billionaires
- hedge funds
- billionaires
- hedge funds
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*loading a pistol and reopening netscape navigator* net's haunted
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November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Another banger from @fafo.fm
@elchefe.me spitting fire in multiple orthogonal directions.
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@elchefe.me spitting fire in multiple orthogonal directions.
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Looking Forward with Tim Banks
Podcast Episode · Fork Around And Find Out · 2025-11-05 · 1h 14m
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November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Another banger from @fafo.fm
@elchefe.me spitting fire in multiple orthogonal directions.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
@elchefe.me spitting fire in multiple orthogonal directions.
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...
I had the same immediate thought! I was writing *furiously* while reading the article.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I had the same immediate thought! I was writing *furiously* while reading the article.
If you’re into pedagogy, or language, or… words… this article is worth a read.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If you’re into pedagogy, or language, or… words… this article is worth a read.
Oh… oh no… oops.
Good on them for doing work to get evidence-based methods into classrooms.
That interview with the originator of the debunked method was… something.“My science is different”
My dear man, that’s literally not how science works.
Good on them for doing work to get evidence-based methods into classrooms.
That interview with the originator of the debunked method was… something.“My science is different”
My dear man, that’s literally not how science works.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Oh… oh no… oops.
Good on them for doing work to get evidence-based methods into classrooms.
That interview with the originator of the debunked method was… something.“My science is different”
My dear man, that’s literally not how science works.
Good on them for doing work to get evidence-based methods into classrooms.
That interview with the originator of the debunked method was… something.“My science is different”
My dear man, that’s literally not how science works.
Wait I thought you were doing a bit! Reality cannot be this strange!
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Wait I thought you were doing a bit! Reality cannot be this strange!
The Least Moon.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Least Moon.
Wholeheartedly seconded. It’s so good. Dense and winding and satisfying.
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Wholeheartedly seconded. It’s so good. Dense and winding and satisfying.
My brain is such that I experience what I and others like me affectionately term “complicated joy”
Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage”
In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.
Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage”
In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My brain is such that I experience what I and others like me affectionately term “complicated joy”
Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage”
In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.
Coviello puts to paper what I might call “eloquent rage”
In both cases the standard stuff doesn’t hit the same. If you’re exasperated by NYT abandoning its credibility for cash, this is a good read.