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Dad(x4), typer, philosopher. Into: M:TG, anime, animation, all the games (IRL -> RPG), coding, creating, life, sex, joy, fishing, hiking, freedom. Cynically Sarcastic Pragmatic Optimist. Re: escapingdystopia.com | haikuthenews.ai | universalrating.app

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · Jul 10

Philosophically speaking, Rogue Vibe may be one of the first *true* computer games.

The art, music, dungeons, interactions, platform, medium, code...all generated (to some degree larger than 50%) by code itself.

Check it out.

roguevibe.app

Everything you see there was created in the last month.

Rogue Vibe

A turn-based soulslike roguelike. An adventure beyond adventure. Come join us in the Multiverse Valhalla! Uh, have you seen my phone?

roguevibe.app

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 7h

And some drone footage.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 11h

No Princes, either (a feature of having #nokings, or barrons or any of that bullshit).

Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 20h

#PrinceAndrew resigning his title should be the beginning of an end to the British monarchy, say the Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org

#AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing #NoKings

greens.scot/news/time-to...

Time to abolish the monarchy as Prince Andrew drops title

Time to abolish the monarchy as Prince Andrew drops title - This must mark the beginning of an end to the antiquated British monarchy.

greens.scot

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 11h

Note: it's VERY HARD to teach AI's to lie the way one wants to consistently.

Same as humans, natch.

David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 14h

A play in three acts

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

"Release the Epstein files!"

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 15h

It's not called the STATUS quo for nothing.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 15h

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 15h

Littleton, CO

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 15h

#nokings #littletonco Littleton, CO

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 15h

#nokings #littletonco Littleton, CO

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 19h

As someone who has been going to big protests since we (well, everyone else, it was obv from the getgo) realized that George had lied about wmd, I think you'll enjoy the vibe.

It is almost always very positive.

Because people enjoy exercising their rights and their legs at the same time.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)?

Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 19h

He really should run for office and show everyone how it's done.

(He blocked me for this suggestion).

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 1d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 19h

Forgetting that top and bottom perspectives are the ones that actually really define the size and scope of things.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 19h

Americans are so poorly served by our media which we wrongly perceive for some reason as having both left and right perspectives.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 19h

Quick #mediabias quiz.

Can you see it?

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 21h

Wait until folks realize how many humans use cliches instead of hard data to make decisions...

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text:

Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs.

Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

Incandescent rage at the destruction of something that was objectively good. An "ideal".

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

Nothing.

I'm not sure why hate is driving you so much.

Good luck with that!

Are you not volunteering your time and labor, then?

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

Can you give me a quick list of rights that Republicans helped make sure everyone got that Democrats took away that's happened during your lifetime?

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

If it's good then this solves the issue with a bit of math.

And it's usually quite good.

Luckily, you've volunteered to manually correct each one of them. Glad to see you putting your labor where your values are!

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

But you're not going to want it within a couple hundred miles of the border because the Russians are going to have access to that.

Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

Important to know that this is coming as various press reports are coming around the world that the US military recently murdered a number of civilians in the Caribbean.

Patrick deHahn @pdehello.bsky.social · 2d

What a serious loss for Americans, journalism, accountability, and press freedom.

"For the first time, the public is left without the eyes and ears of an independent press corps inside the Pentagon." pen.org/press-releas...

Pentagon’s Rules Changes for Reporters Marks a Dark Day for U.S. Press Freedom

PEN America said today the decision to shut out journalists from covering the Pentagon over their refusal to sign new restrictive credentialing rules represents a “staggering retreat” from long held v...

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

I don't think many dispute that.

The issue is that in the 21st century what we need to be doing is taxing these billionaires to ensure that everyone has access to a high quality secondary education. Not just the basics.

Which we could have started doing some time ago, as the rest did.

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Wah @robotpirateninja.com · 1d

I dunno, I'm not a whole huge fan of the "if Hitler had built some libraries later..." line of historical analysis.

We can tax these rich assholes and pay for the libraries.

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