braym
@totalweenie.bsky.social
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PA raised, Berlin now
PA raised, Berlin now
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Fantasy as an assembly-line commodity leaves me cold.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fantasy as an assembly-line commodity leaves me cold.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=i...
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Most folks probably recognize that Intuit also donated $1M to Trump's inauguration, which might've had something to do with the administration's recent closure of Direct File, a free tax-filing service created by 18F and USDS — the highly skilled, productive gov't org's eviscerated by DOGE
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Most folks probably recognize that Intuit also donated $1M to Trump's inauguration, which might've had something to do with the administration's recent closure of Direct File, a free tax-filing service created by 18F and USDS — the highly skilled, productive gov't org's eviscerated by DOGE
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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trick or treat!!! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
trick or treat!!! 🎃
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Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc.
*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...
*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc.
*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...
*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mil...
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I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n
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This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.
October 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.
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Republicans: Anyone that protests us is the devil!
Every American:
Every American:
October 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Republicans: Anyone that protests us is the devil!
Every American:
Every American:
Divest from Big Socials.
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Divest from Big Socials.
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Living in the timeline where people go to instrumental guitar concerts and talk to their friends the whole time totally sucks
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Living in the timeline where people go to instrumental guitar concerts and talk to their friends the whole time totally sucks
September 1st being “spooky season” is further evidence that I can’t trust y’all.
September 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
September 1st being “spooky season” is further evidence that I can’t trust y’all.
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I’m at a party with the bell from Taco Bell and he says he does eat there
July 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I’m at a party with the bell from Taco Bell and he says he does eat there
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This is extremely important. Generative AI is not a tool developed to advance for human knowledge and understanding. It is a tool explicitly developed in service of corporate greed. AI’s core utility is to undercut the cost of paying workers and thereby increase profit margins for a select few.
That investment in AI is apathetic to the pedagogical success and social value of education because LLMs do not produce knowledge or critical thought, nor train others in that production. It is not a pedagogical tool, it is a product to address cost of labor under the pretense of productivity.
June 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is extremely important. Generative AI is not a tool developed to advance for human knowledge and understanding. It is a tool explicitly developed in service of corporate greed. AI’s core utility is to undercut the cost of paying workers and thereby increase profit margins for a select few.
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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My painting APPROACHING STORM
June 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My painting APPROACHING STORM
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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“ I sometimes wonder if the producers, journalists, and podcasters who make careers out of personal tragedies, with or without our permission, ever ask themselves why they’re retelling and, worse, sensationalizing stories of violence
Prison journalist John J. Lennon on how TV producers exploit incarcerated people for their true-crime shows.
Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?
Prison journalist John J. Lennon on how TV producers exploit incarcerated people for their true-crime shows.
www.vulture.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“ I sometimes wonder if the producers, journalists, and podcasters who make careers out of personal tragedies, with or without our permission, ever ask themselves why they’re retelling and, worse, sensationalizing stories of violence