Post Mo Thóin (Dave)
@davebrowne.bsky.social
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but its father is laziness. Procrastination is what separates us from the animals.
I do not authorize my posts to be used for AI training unless you want your bot to be a dipshit.
I do not authorize my posts to be used for AI training unless you want your bot to be a dipshit.
AVClub would only ever run this picture for stories about him. It's almost too perfect.
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
AVClub would only ever run this picture for stories about him. It's almost too perfect.
This isn't Lobo though.
January 23, 2026 at 11:08 PM
This isn't Lobo though.
Quote post with a clue to where you're from
January 23, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Quote post with a clue to where you're from
Are Axios really this bless-your-hearty?
Saying "I don't want to use force" isn't ruling it out. It's a threat.
News orgs still acting like one side has good faith will be the thesis of many a PhD for future historians.
Saying "I don't want to use force" isn't ruling it out. It's a threat.
News orgs still acting like one side has good faith will be the thesis of many a PhD for future historians.
January 21, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Are Axios really this bless-your-hearty?
Saying "I don't want to use force" isn't ruling it out. It's a threat.
News orgs still acting like one side has good faith will be the thesis of many a PhD for future historians.
Saying "I don't want to use force" isn't ruling it out. It's a threat.
News orgs still acting like one side has good faith will be the thesis of many a PhD for future historians.
No one ever moaned that consumers weren't adopting sliced bread fast enough.
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 PM
No one ever moaned that consumers weren't adopting sliced bread fast enough.
This is dumb. So very dumb. But it made me chuckle because it's also true. So very true.
January 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This is dumb. So very dumb. But it made me chuckle because it's also true. So very true.
Hey, look at that. My very first argument-bot. So cute.
![Me reposting a skeet about Jum Steinman's house being available, with contents, for $3m and saying I would absolutely but it.
Some ai-account saying "If I had $3m I'd spend it on my community and not my ego. I guess that's the difference between us. Im [sic] a good person and your [sic] not. Thanks for clarifying."
I feel so special now.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d7xkpsjzx6oga4xiu6mugdzw/bafkreiddpmuspz4nmmo6wzubyj4ddqle57ooptkdbvxmw2e2lergnve4bq@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Hey, look at that. My very first argument-bot. So cute.
Technically the river next to my hometown river, but close enough.
January 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Technically the river next to my hometown river, but close enough.
What’s an obscure/less talked about comics run that you find is a marker of exquisite taste and instant friendship in someone else who likes it?
January 12, 2026 at 8:44 PM
What’s an obscure/less talked about comics run that you find is a marker of exquisite taste and instant friendship in someone else who likes it?
Side character to the side character to the side character with the most character development of anyone in the franchise, you say...
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Side character to the side character to the side character with the most character development of anyone in the franchise, you say...
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Funnily enough, mine has always been Garner from The Great Escape. Cool, tough, funny, and 100% got the little guy's back when the system comes to screw him over.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Funnily enough, mine has always been Garner from The Great Escape. Cool, tough, funny, and 100% got the little guy's back when the system comes to screw him over.
Nothing exposed the emptiness of the support the right has like the nothing they got after trying so hard to get folks worked up about Kirk.
December 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Nothing exposed the emptiness of the support the right has like the nothing they got after trying so hard to get folks worked up about Kirk.
It seems like it takes expertise in the field to know how to separate the garbage from the good. This excerpt is troubling. I'm not against AI in general, but the way it's being pushed ignores all of these concerns.
![We were very excited to have an exact solution to a question which we had been curious
about for years, especially because one direction of the proof was due to an AI. However, we
soon learned that the same tight bound (as well as a different proof of the matching upper
bound) had appeared on Arxiv nearly 3 years previously in the short paper [Alo24]. In fact,
GPT-5’s proof of the lower bound was exactly the same as Alon’s! Thus, it appears that
GPT-5 reproduced Alon’s proof and passed it along to us without realizing its source. As it
turns out, a fresh attempt at querying GPT-5 Pro was able to recover this source, as depicted
in Figure II.4.
Our experience illustrates a pitfall in using AI: although GPT-5 possesses enormous internal
knowledge and the capability to locate even more using the internet, it may not always report
the original information sources accurately. This has the potential to deceive even seasoned
researchers into thinking their findings are novel. We expect that our experience is not unique,
and urge others to take special care in attribution when working with LLM-assisted proofs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d7xkpsjzx6oga4xiu6mugdzw/bafkreidugnrkp32nqe2wnk364jjqcbavijcw7brvmtgsokyux65tqipluy@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It seems like it takes expertise in the field to know how to separate the garbage from the good. This excerpt is troubling. I'm not against AI in general, but the way it's being pushed ignores all of these concerns.
This could be you, America.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This could be you, America.
I don't know why I found this note at the end so funny.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I don't know why I found this note at the end so funny.
I know I spent FAR too much time on AVClub because this is all I see when I hear Ratner's name.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I know I spent FAR too much time on AVClub because this is all I see when I hear Ratner's name.
Please allow me,
To introduce myself
To introduce myself
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Please allow me,
To introduce myself
To introduce myself
Let me sleep on it,
Baby, baby,
Let me sleep on it...
Baby, baby,
Let me sleep on it...
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Let me sleep on it,
Baby, baby,
Let me sleep on it...
Baby, baby,
Let me sleep on it...
Trying a new Irish Language app called Sionnach and when creating my profile it asks me what dialect I'd like to learn (nice). However, this made me laugh.
ICYDK - There are 4 provinces in Ireland and none of them are called "Other".
ICYDK - There are 4 provinces in Ireland and none of them are called "Other".
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Trying a new Irish Language app called Sionnach and when creating my profile it asks me what dialect I'd like to learn (nice). However, this made me laugh.
ICYDK - There are 4 provinces in Ireland and none of them are called "Other".
ICYDK - There are 4 provinces in Ireland and none of them are called "Other".