Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.
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Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
· Jul 4
You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.
Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw
Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw
Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly
YouTube video by Vienna Teng
youtu.be
Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
I've spent far too long trying to work out which Disco Elysium character would be most likely to say "The woke left don't even want you to enjoy sex with your wife!"
Lord Glasman:
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've spent far too long trying to work out which Disco Elysium character would be most likely to say "The woke left don't even want you to enjoy sex with your wife!"
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Just remembered this, and it's so bizarre that there's no attempt to connect him to the Thunderbolts*. You have a scrappy deniable government team of antiheroes one hand, and a morally dubious former president on the other... and instead you give them a nonsense backstory about a kids football team?
“We’re talking about Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross. Son of a bitch earned that nickname.” - this is the ONLY clue the movie gives us as to why, exactly, we should distrust Ross.
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just remembered this, and it's so bizarre that there's no attempt to connect him to the Thunderbolts*. You have a scrappy deniable government team of antiheroes one hand, and a morally dubious former president on the other... and instead you give them a nonsense backstory about a kids football team?
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It's amazing how often I have cause to post this cartoon of mine. Two armchairs vulgarly roasting each other.
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's amazing how often I have cause to post this cartoon of mine. Two armchairs vulgarly roasting each other.
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As a fan of Edwardian farce and ancient epic I object in the strongest terms at the need for real characters! Unless "real" is meant in a very broad sense. Evelyn Waugh has way realer characters than PG Wodehouse, but who do you *really* wanna read?
Great keynote talk on the fundamentals of storytelling by @antonyjohnston.bsky.social at the ever-brilliant AdventureX
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As a fan of Edwardian farce and ancient epic I object in the strongest terms at the need for real characters! Unless "real" is meant in a very broad sense. Evelyn Waugh has way realer characters than PG Wodehouse, but who do you *really* wanna read?
I have a proposal for how we can finally get the whole world on metric:
We simply reduce the metre by a factor of one over the cube root of 2. This is almost exactly 0.8, so the conversion is easy to do mentally. Then 1 km ≈ ½ mi, 1 kg ≈ 1 lb, 1 litre ≈ 1 pint. Global unity is in sight.
We simply reduce the metre by a factor of one over the cube root of 2. This is almost exactly 0.8, so the conversion is easy to do mentally. Then 1 km ≈ ½ mi, 1 kg ≈ 1 lb, 1 litre ≈ 1 pint. Global unity is in sight.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have a proposal for how we can finally get the whole world on metric:
We simply reduce the metre by a factor of one over the cube root of 2. This is almost exactly 0.8, so the conversion is easy to do mentally. Then 1 km ≈ ½ mi, 1 kg ≈ 1 lb, 1 litre ≈ 1 pint. Global unity is in sight.
We simply reduce the metre by a factor of one over the cube root of 2. This is almost exactly 0.8, so the conversion is easy to do mentally. Then 1 km ≈ ½ mi, 1 kg ≈ 1 lb, 1 litre ≈ 1 pint. Global unity is in sight.
Editing a newspaper must have been more fun in the days when you physically did it with a pair of scissors and a photocopier
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Editing a newspaper must have been more fun in the days when you physically did it with a pair of scissors and a photocopier
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clapping and cheering at this like I'm watching some live sports
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
clapping and cheering at this like I'm watching some live sports
"I hate how YouTube is indoctrinating young children into the materialist, capitalist world of sponsorships and subscriptions and hustle culture. I wish we could go back to a more innocent past. Now to take a big sip of water and read today's rerun of 1950s Peanuts"
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"I hate how YouTube is indoctrinating young children into the materialist, capitalist world of sponsorships and subscriptions and hustle culture. I wish we could go back to a more innocent past. Now to take a big sip of water and read today's rerun of 1950s Peanuts"
When you think about it, plants are the kulaks of the natural world. Their "photosynthesis" is nothing more than bourgeois parasitism on the honest proletarian labour of the noble Stakhanovite sun
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
When you think about it, plants are the kulaks of the natural world. Their "photosynthesis" is nothing more than bourgeois parasitism on the honest proletarian labour of the noble Stakhanovite sun
With every post, it becomes funnier that Noah Smith's avatar is Dr Strangelove. What is it about the sinister ultra-rational yet unstable scientific political advisor with increasingly obvious Nazi tendencies that so appealed to Smith?
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
With every post, it becomes funnier that Noah Smith's avatar is Dr Strangelove. What is it about the sinister ultra-rational yet unstable scientific political advisor with increasingly obvious Nazi tendencies that so appealed to Smith?
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i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
But it meant we briefly had to care about an irritating child named "Big Balls", and isn't that the real victory?
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
But it meant we briefly had to care about an irritating child named "Big Balls", and isn't that the real victory?
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Actually, greased lightning is significantly slower, as grease is an insulator and harder to ionise than air ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/104...
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Actually, greased lightning is significantly slower, as grease is an insulator and harder to ionise than air ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/104...
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Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Huge amounts of the focus on misinformation/disinformation goes on the idea of things like “Russian bots” and “Russian influence ops”.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
That’s the 1% bit of the iceberg. The 99% is people doing it to turn a profit, because it’s easy money. And the platforms largely ignore it because they get a cut.
I cannot believe we're doing this. AI generated calendars that reimagine Klimt paintings as big titty DeviantArt girls
Who is the market???
Who is the market???
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I cannot believe we're doing this. AI generated calendars that reimagine Klimt paintings as big titty DeviantArt girls
Who is the market???
Who is the market???
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Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"
I did fall into the trap of "What's his angle with the NATO stuff?" before realising it's not that deep it's just what he believes as a fundamentally unserious individual.
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Again, while the hypnotits thing is funny, it is also a real issue of "So, your previous career was being a charlatan?"
England 1422-1437 🤝 UK 2026-2029
Ruled over by a pair of Lancastrians appointed to replace the weak leader
Ruled over by a pair of Lancastrians appointed to replace the weak leader
Nov 18th - Nov 20th polling of Labour members on hypothetical leader contests if Starmer stood
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
November 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
England 1422-1437 🤝 UK 2026-2029
Ruled over by a pair of Lancastrians appointed to replace the weak leader
Ruled over by a pair of Lancastrians appointed to replace the weak leader
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
YOU WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go where everybody knows my name and they're always glad I came.
ME WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go back to when Boston still had an extensive streetcar system
ME WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go back to when Boston still had an extensive streetcar system
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
YOU WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go where everybody knows my name and they're always glad I came.
ME WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go back to when Boston still had an extensive streetcar system
ME WATCHING CHEERS: Sometimes I want to go back to when Boston still had an extensive streetcar system
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