Dyqik
@dyqik.bsky.social
Physicist, immigrant, dog owner and owned by cat.
Shook hands with Mikhail Gorbachev while he was visiting Cambridge. Didn't actually attend his seminar or anything though.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
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December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Shook hands with Mikhail Gorbachev while he was visiting Cambridge. Didn't actually attend his seminar or anything though.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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BREAKING News: Police have arrested a Danish man, Lars Crismøs, on suspicion of human organ trafficking.
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
BREAKING News: Police have arrested a Danish man, Lars Crismøs, on suspicion of human organ trafficking.
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And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
December 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
And, not to be a hater but...
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.
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Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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I'm no economist, but is Nvidia making huge profits really evidence that there isn't an AI bubble, when so much of the insane spending on AI goes right to Nvidia? It's like saying "How can there be a bubble when this tulip farmer is making so much money?"
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Nvidia’s Strong Results Show AI Fears Are Premature
The chip maker says demand looks strong through next year, while a selloff has made the $4.5 trillion company look cheap.
www.wsj.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm no economist, but is Nvidia making huge profits really evidence that there isn't an AI bubble, when so much of the insane spending on AI goes right to Nvidia? It's like saying "How can there be a bubble when this tulip farmer is making so much money?"
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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I also made a rare insult generator because I wanted to make something evil >:)
Rare Insults 🔥
Fresh burns delivered daily
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November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I also made a rare insult generator because I wanted to make something evil >:)
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If you still have a NYT subscription, now would be a great time to cancel.
I notice the @nytimes.com has changed the WTF headline "Did women ruin the workplace" to this only slightly less egregious headline, but still.
The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
The same newspaper that just reported women are leaving/being forced out of the workplace in droves
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you still have a NYT subscription, now would be a great time to cancel.
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Ada Lovelace Day is next Tuesday, and this is the first year that I've not run an event since, well, the first day in 2009. I've spend the last year wondering what ALD needs to become. I ended the event not because women suddenly reached parity, but because funding dried up, events are...
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Ada Lovelace Day is next Tuesday, and this is the first year that I've not run an event since, well, the first day in 2009. I've spend the last year wondering what ALD needs to become. I ended the event not because women suddenly reached parity, but because funding dried up, events are...
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KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?
SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.
SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
KITCHENWARE COMPANY BOSS: So, did you come up with a name for that revolving food tray, Susan?
SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.
SUSAN: No, couldn't be arsed.
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Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
September 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan.
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”
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The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...
August 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
Currently evacuating my hotel in Hilo, in stop and go traffic.
July 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Currently evacuating my hotel in Hilo, in stop and go traffic.
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JET FOOL CAN’T MELT STEELER TEAMS
June 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
JET FOOL CAN’T MELT STEELER TEAMS
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2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry.
2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry.
2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.
May 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry.
2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry.
2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.
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Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time
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"Unless we fill the magic box with Elton John songs it won't be able to diagnose cancer."
The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.
The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.
May 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Unless we fill the magic box with Elton John songs it won't be able to diagnose cancer."
The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.
The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.