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kamarad evpok

@evpok.love

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Plays music on interesting instruments, cooks for the revolution, is a computational linguist, earns cider being a university prof. Death to all tyrants 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 they or anything gender neutral

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · Feb 4

hi nerds here we do:

- guillotines
- guillotines
- guillotines
- guillotines

kamarad evpok @evpok.love · Nov 10

hi nerds here we do:

- spoonerisms
- ranting at scientific idealism
- being angry at idiots
- cool maths
- sometimes being sad and venting. deal with it.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1h

I love it when academics publish papers that are like, "I checked and I'm still right"
www.jstor.org/stable/24393...

In this paper I review research since 2000 and conclude
that it has vindicated this view

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 11h

Germany's justice ministry held firm and killed EU chat control (for now):

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

Admirably concise and direct. German in the best possible way.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 9h

i think uh. i think im not gonna boost your faculty job ad in linguistics if it has ai in it

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 9h

I have very little interest in trying to make you understand what we're talking about and you're tedious as hell so I'll just mute this ok?

kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 9h

sure man

kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 9h

iirc the text in this one calls the big one daddy but then again.....

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NikaaaAAAAHH 🎃 👻 @mxnectarine.bsky.social · 9h

You honor — if that is even your real name…

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 9h

octopuses are lesbians??

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 20h

Good morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869.

📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN

#WorldOctopusDay #OctopusDay #RareBooks

Cropped image showing an engraving of an octopus

Full-page engraving from a book. It shows an octopus lying on the seabed, with a squid and a cuttlefish coming towards. The cuttlefish is making a cloud. The engraving is captioned: 'Plate XI. A Poulpe. A Cuttle-Fish Making His Cloud. A Calmar'.

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The Paul of Cthulhu @katamaridumassy.bsky.social · 10h

Amended Kafka, Esq. tweet

Following JD Vance and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with him

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 10h

because a machine, having no intention, can't plan something? idk man, let's leave it at that

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 11h

extremely apt description of the current state of this site

Nienke 🏳️‍⚧️ @nienke-vk.bsky.social · 11h

This is giving "the party is over and you don't want to be here when the cleaning crew arrives" vibes

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Bearstech @bearstech.com · 11h

Après avoir exposé les données de ses clients à cause de l'IA, Salesforce présente une nouvelle "Trusted AI Foundation" fournissant une base unifiée pour déployer des agents fiables…

👉 www.salesforce.com/n...

Illustration de l'article provenant du site

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 11h

shut the fuck up bro

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11h

ngl we can try to rationalize as much backsliding as we want but “game cancelled because black protagonist killing white terrorists during reconstruction deemed too political” is pretty bad as far as I consider things re: mainstream popular culture

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 11h

Doing the Matt Bors you made me become a Nazi meme but it's because Siri and Alexa have girly names

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 13h

It begins.

The domino meme:

The start: "Zohran Mamdani runs for Mayor of New York."
The end: "PRESIDENT BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN"

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 12h

ok j'attrape des bombes de peinture et j'arrive

kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

kobo still has drm on their store etc, but at least sideloading epubs from elsewhere is fully supported

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ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 20h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

Maybe something was lost in translation for me, but I don't think it did, no? I planned to go from Paris to Rome, and used a machine to find a good path, the machine itself didn't make any plan, I just used it to make mine

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 14h

a bksy dev following the Heritage Foundation would be an unpleasant surprise if you didn't know this place was created by and for libertarian crypto bros, and all the good things about it are an unintended consequence they have been trying to "fix" for the last year

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

i met more than half of my friends on the internet i would say (though unclear if old school forums were social media)

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

if you generate a poem using A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, does it mean that paper can do poetry?

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

if you generate a poem using A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, does it mean that paper can do poetry?

A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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kamarad evpok @evpok.love · 13h

if you follow an old school itinerary/guide book that that tells you stuff like "to go from paris to rome, go south towards Orléans, then...", does it mean that paper can plan?

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