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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis

@thrownintosol.bsky.social

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Tired and barely functional. Autistic et al. Profile Pic; @failnaut on Twitter/Bluesky! Alt Text for Header and Profile Pic = https://shorturl.at/DFMN9. Looks like a guy. In early thirties, lol. South African in ZA / 🇿🇦 . I typo and repost a lot!

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · Dec 14

Autistics who hyper-fixate on the predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at great distance should be called Oortistics.

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

You'd fit right in with the Adeptus Mechanicus!
;D

:)

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Steve Saylor @stevesaylor.net · 13h

I've had this feeling for a while, but reading this is kinda clearing up my perspective of: just because some high profile people leave a larger studio to make their own studio, doesn't automatically make them great studio heads.

It's a shame what those MindsEye devs had to go through.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 13h

'CEOs need to take a backseat:' MindsEye devs accuse studio execs of fumbling layoffs and mandating crunch

Almost 100 current and former Build A Rocket Boy employees have signed an open letter containing allegations of debilitating mismanagement–and some workers are even filing legal claims.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

this is half the reason why Warhammer 40K is cool

;D

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

Soul Drinkers?

No relation, it was just a mix-up when they gave us names :)

We're not weird like them at all!

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 13h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

i think the fact they only talk to other people who are insular like them is far more corrosive than drug use

it's just a feedback loop at that point, so any bigotry (as an example) gets turbocharges

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 13h

Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13h

Atheism is no guarantee of tolerance.
And faith is no guarantee of intolerance.

But it serves the agenda of any authoritarian to suggest that it is that simple.

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

Not one scientific body on the planet would say it's unethical the way it's done here.

Fully cited and explained.

I will bet money on it.

No published work stands alone, and research ALWAYS builds upon other research - whether it was done by others, or by you.

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

Look man, last thing I'm gonna say is that if you really think it's malpractice to cite yourself in an academic paper - have you ever talked to a lawyer and/or published scientist about it.

They would explain that it's normal, as well as ethical.

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

that's standard practice in academia

you cite it the same as you would another person, with proper citation and credit

they teach this in high school

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 13h

i'm not mad, just confused tbh

you seem to have some noble idea of what you're doing, but incapable of actually communicating what it is

so you're just fighting with shadows in some parking lot

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 19h

in a galaxy without excel, the man who can do spreadsheets is king

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 19h

An image of Roboute Guilliman in his full sci-fi Roman Emperor regalia, gloriously gesturing into the future, overlaid by the text from tumblr user "so many orcs which reads: " *voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 19h

Warhammer Fantasy asks if you want to see a Viking man beat up some guy from the 17th century Holy Roman Empire all while some meso-american dinosaur-man hurls insults at them both

and, yes
yes i would

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 15h

Sherman is ungovernable and I am HERE FOR IT

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

that Watchmen panel but in every single one the government of Argentina has caused a financial crisis.

I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 14h

it's not that bad, i'm just being dramatic

i just over exerted myself badly yesterday and my body is failing

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 14h

my long national nightmare is over, bed beckons

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 23h

i should go to bed, but also they're gonna be cutting a tree apart like 5 meters from my bed at some time in the next 6 hours so i might as well stay up

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 14h

you're a chump

can't even read a research paper, lmao

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 14h

yes it does

considering i know what a conflict of interest is, i'm smarter than you and thus i can declare things are true of which you have no recourse

i am right, and you are wrong

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 15h

The moment the 'antifascist' was weathered away into a meaningless bogeyman 'antifa' by the American far-right and the American press, all power was lost

Frustrating.

Was a preview to what they did to "woke" - a once useful intra-community term for and by African-Americans.

Stolen. Broken.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 15h

is that how long it'll take before chatgpt can explain things to you so you can get back to thee adults, or nah

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 15h

You perplex me.

Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 15h

and you then said "ad hominem"

it's not - it's a statement of fact

you then cited chatgpt, to someone who has A GENUINE RESEARCH PAPER ON HOW BAD LLMs ARE

and are confused why people are laughing at you

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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 15h

- took a screenshot of a definition of a conflict of interest, which is the kind of definition you'd teach in school and isn't useful in professional contexts

- "why are you complaining about AI :("

- she said "you don't even know what a CoI is versus an interest"

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