Alec Story
@astory.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy
Software engineer, bad endurance athlete, leftist, medievalist. he/him.
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Red light CRIMINAL summonses against cyclists.
Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.
Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Red light CRIMINAL summonses against cyclists.
Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.
Based on where enforcement happens, this is not just.
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Another way of putting it: ChatGPT is an absolutely amazing fuzzer for human systems. It just spams humans with so many plausible-sounding scraps of nonsense that a ChatGPT user *will* find places where meaning doesn't matter and exploit them.
If you think of LLMs as a spam generation […]
If you think of LLMs as a spam generation […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
May 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Another way of putting it: ChatGPT is an absolutely amazing fuzzer for human systems. It just spams humans with so many plausible-sounding scraps of nonsense that a ChatGPT user *will* find places where meaning doesn't matter and exploit them.
If you think of LLMs as a spam generation […]
If you think of LLMs as a spam generation […]
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This [KEYBOARD] is a machine that turns [UNHINGED IDEAS] into [THREE OR FOUR LIKES ON MASTODON AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO BOOSTS].
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This [KEYBOARD] is a machine that turns [UNHINGED IDEAS] into [THREE OR FOUR LIKES ON MASTODON AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO BOOSTS].
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1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto […]
[Food]
Final harvest from the garden
* Lovage
* NZ spinach (this takes forever to get the leaves off, but it loves neglect)
* Spiderwort
Made into to a lazy torta bolognese with phyllo
#medievalcooking
Final harvest from the garden
* Lovage
* NZ spinach (this takes forever to get the leaves off, but it loves neglect)
* Spiderwort
Made into to a lazy torta bolognese with phyllo
#medievalcooking
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
[Food]
Final harvest from the garden
* Lovage
* NZ spinach (this takes forever to get the leaves off, but it loves neglect)
* Spiderwort
Made into to a lazy torta bolognese with phyllo
#medievalcooking
Final harvest from the garden
* Lovage
* NZ spinach (this takes forever to get the leaves off, but it loves neglect)
* Spiderwort
Made into to a lazy torta bolognese with phyllo
#medievalcooking
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I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
Original post on sauropods.win
sauropods.win
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
maim the faces of your favorite paintings
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask […]
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Today (well, a few days ago) in brilliantly-executed parody comes #wicked, as sung by the cast of the #muppets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYQl2TslM0
Perfectly thought through, including just the right script tweaks for Miss Piggy (playing Glinda, of course).
Painfully funny, sometimes […]
Perfectly thought through, including just the right script tweaks for Miss Piggy (playing Glinda, of course).
Painfully funny, sometimes […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today (well, a few days ago) in brilliantly-executed parody comes #wicked, as sung by the cast of the #muppets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYQl2TslM0
Perfectly thought through, including just the right script tweaks for Miss Piggy (playing Glinda, of course).
Painfully funny, sometimes […]
Perfectly thought through, including just the right script tweaks for Miss Piggy (playing Glinda, of course).
Painfully funny, sometimes […]
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The SEQUENT CALCULUS alignment chart:
W2-2R Side road (right) is a sequent calculus
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." is a sequent calculus
W2-2R Side road (right) is a sequent calculus
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." is a sequent calculus
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The SEQUENT CALCULUS alignment chart:
W2-2R Side road (right) is a sequent calculus
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." is a sequent calculus
W2-2R Side road (right) is a sequent calculus
"All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal." is a sequent calculus
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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@ricci "The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@ricci "The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
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last month, a friend of mine had a confrontation in #SomervilleMA with a violent driver who wanted to drive their vehicle into a protest. the driver ran over their bicycle and did their best to endanger the other people present who were standing in front of the vehicle.
today, they've shared […]
today, they've shared […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
last month, a friend of mine had a confrontation in #SomervilleMA with a violent driver who wanted to drive their vehicle into a protest. the driver ran over their bicycle and did their best to endanger the other people present who were standing in front of the vehicle.
today, they've shared […]
today, they've shared […]
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Is this anything https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
Edit me
homes.luddy.indiana.edu
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Is this anything https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
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My radical opinion is that cable machines should measure their weight stacks in terms of pounds/kgs of force along the cable, not the weights themselves. That way they're pulley-invariant.
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
My radical opinion is that cable machines should measure their weight stacks in terms of pounds/kgs of force along the cable, not the weights themselves. That way they're pulley-invariant.
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I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your […]
[Original post on mas.to]
[Original post on mas.to]
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your […]
[Original post on mas.to]
[Original post on mas.to]
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Reposted by Alec Story
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I made him mashed potatos with pepper when we first started dating and he asked "is this spicy?"
No.
"Oh no it *is* spicy!"
"How. The pepper? The pepper? That's not even ... that doesn't even COUNT."
No.
"Oh no it *is* spicy!"
"How. The pepper? The pepper? That's not even ... that doesn't even COUNT."
August 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I made him mashed potatos with pepper when we first started dating and he asked "is this spicy?"
No.
"Oh no it *is* spicy!"
"How. The pepper? The pepper? That's not even ... that doesn't even COUNT."
No.
"Oh no it *is* spicy!"
"How. The pepper? The pepper? That's not even ... that doesn't even COUNT."
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Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
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Seriously though i’m biased because i’m a fiber arts sicko but if you want to see a c. 1500 masterpiece in paris i highly recommend skipping the mona lisa and seeing the lady and the unicorn tapestries:
- way less people
- rabbits
- you can get like 1 […]
[Original post on posts.rat.pictures]
- way less people
- rabbits
- you can get like 1 […]
[Original post on posts.rat.pictures]
June 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Seriously though i’m biased because i’m a fiber arts sicko but if you want to see a c. 1500 masterpiece in paris i highly recommend skipping the mona lisa and seeing the lady and the unicorn tapestries:
- way less people
- rabbits
- you can get like 1 […]
[Original post on posts.rat.pictures]
- way less people
- rabbits
- you can get like 1 […]
[Original post on posts.rat.pictures]
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LA is kicking off again. go, LA!! chinga la migra!
For the sixth day in a row, hundreds of anti-ICE protesters are marching through downtown LA in opposition to recent immigration raids.
June 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
LA is kicking off again. go, LA!! chinga la migra!