Gus Crichton
@gusdafa.bsky.social
I read interesting things on the internet.
Work in IT
Science, Space, Human Rights, Progressive, Indigenous prosperity and irreligious.
🇳🇿 and 🇼🇸
Chess and video games
Work in IT
Science, Space, Human Rights, Progressive, Indigenous prosperity and irreligious.
🇳🇿 and 🇼🇸
Chess and video games
@vincentamv.bsky.social I think social media on the whole has geared their algorithms and preferences for right wing content.
March 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@vincentamv.bsky.social I think social media on the whole has geared their algorithms and preferences for right wing content.
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Used a lazy Sunday morning to turn a Samsung Galaxy Flip 6 into a #startrek tricorder!
This is the “Trek: Total Interface” theme from @trek-apps running atop Total Launcher, with additional custom sounds using Automate (and a capsule label from the Star Trek Sticker Book).
This is the “Trek: Total Interface” theme from @trek-apps running atop Total Launcher, with additional custom sounds using Automate (and a capsule label from the Star Trek Sticker Book).
December 1, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Used a lazy Sunday morning to turn a Samsung Galaxy Flip 6 into a #startrek tricorder!
This is the “Trek: Total Interface” theme from @trek-apps running atop Total Launcher, with additional custom sounds using Automate (and a capsule label from the Star Trek Sticker Book).
This is the “Trek: Total Interface” theme from @trek-apps running atop Total Launcher, with additional custom sounds using Automate (and a capsule label from the Star Trek Sticker Book).
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A sobering letter to the editor in today’s NZ Herald. #kikorangi #covid19
![Text reads:
[Headline] The sad score so far
We have now lost 6114 of our people to Covid. Last week's dead included a
10-year-old and men and women in their
30s, 40s and 50s. To put that into perspective, we lost just under 12,000 armed forces personnel in World War II.
Not interested in a bun fight over vaccination, just announcing New Zealand's score so far - because it looks like it might be a long game. Please all take good care of yourselves out there.
[signed] Roger Wakefield, Coopers Beach.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gcxgs7k33dfxqlr5a6uzp35z/bafkreidr72pfm4a4jwlyjp6wmsn2d32sgb37ahm4gdxkx3i35mf7mb4dva@jpeg)
May 24, 2024 at 1:59 AM
A sobering letter to the editor in today’s NZ Herald. #kikorangi #covid19
Read a lot of NZ Herald content over the years, print and then online. Had to stop and because of the anti-brown bias they intentionally or not put into their stories. Someone sent me a story about sanctioned doctors that was pay-walled, so I paid. The first few doc pics used were brown. FOH.
May 20, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Read a lot of NZ Herald content over the years, print and then online. Had to stop and because of the anti-brown bias they intentionally or not put into their stories. Someone sent me a story about sanctioned doctors that was pay-walled, so I paid. The first few doc pics used were brown. FOH.
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I continue to approve of Lady Gaga
March 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I continue to approve of Lady Gaga
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SpaceX and Tesla are saying that they're seeing lower quality candidates interviewing for jobs these days... and immediately blame colleges and the students. Not the fact that smart grads want to work ANYWHERE else.
December 13, 2023 at 8:14 PM
SpaceX and Tesla are saying that they're seeing lower quality candidates interviewing for jobs these days... and immediately blame colleges and the students. Not the fact that smart grads want to work ANYWHERE else.
Did my first mole check at molemap.co.nz today and found out that Bob Marley died from acral lentiginous melanoma, it is most common among us, the cheeky darkies. Get those spots checked and wear sunscreen.
December 13, 2023 at 2:45 AM
Did my first mole check at molemap.co.nz today and found out that Bob Marley died from acral lentiginous melanoma, it is most common among us, the cheeky darkies. Get those spots checked and wear sunscreen.
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Said website has now taken down all false author quotes, blamed the issue on a freelance writer using Google Bard, and now the article is about why writers -shouldn’t- use LLMs.
They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!
(I sent an email as well)
They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!
(I sent an email as well)
I was testing out a google search string I'd built for some work I'm doing, and I used my name, and I found an AI-written article that quotes me saying something I'd *NEVER* fucking say.
I don't use ChatGPT (or LLMs), nor ever have, on my fiction.
I don't use ChatGPT (or LLMs), nor ever have, on my fiction.
December 12, 2023 at 2:33 PM
Said website has now taken down all false author quotes, blamed the issue on a freelance writer using Google Bard, and now the article is about why writers -shouldn’t- use LLMs.
They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!
(I sent an email as well)
They mentioned “lots of emails” so good work everyone!
(I sent an email as well)
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This article gives a lot of context around Te Tiriti
I had no idea until recently
Which is the point the protesters were making
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/02/e...
I had no idea until recently
Which is the point the protesters were making
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/02/e...
Enhancing the mana of Te Tiriti
There is no need for Act Party's ‘principles’, because there are not two treaties. There is only one – Te Tiriti o Waitangi
newsroom.co.nz
December 12, 2023 at 4:47 AM
This article gives a lot of context around Te Tiriti
I had no idea until recently
Which is the point the protesters were making
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/02/e...
I had no idea until recently
Which is the point the protesters were making
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/02/e...
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An Ohio woman has been charged with a felony after delivering a stillborn baby even after the medical examiner confirmed the fetus was deceased when it was delivered. She faces two years in prison.
What?! Black Woman’s Miscarriage Results in Felony Charge
The country’s war against Roe v. Wade has taken a complicated turn in the case of Brittany Watts, 33, a Warren, Ohio woman headed to grand jury on charges that she allegedly attempted to discard the...
news.yahoo.com
December 12, 2023 at 2:47 AM
An Ohio woman has been charged with a felony after delivering a stillborn baby even after the medical examiner confirmed the fetus was deceased when it was delivered. She faces two years in prison.
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The LMC is the 4th most massive galaxy in the Local Group (after the Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum).
SPACE FACTS: DAY 150/365🧪🔭🛰️
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are two small nearby galaxies visible by eye from the southern hemisphere. Until about 30 years ago, we thought these were our closest neighbors! (Now we know of some closer irregular dwarf galaxies.)
Image: Ed Dunens, Wikimedia
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are two small nearby galaxies visible by eye from the southern hemisphere. Until about 30 years ago, we thought these were our closest neighbors! (Now we know of some closer irregular dwarf galaxies.)
Image: Ed Dunens, Wikimedia
November 22, 2023 at 9:18 PM
The LMC is the 4th most massive galaxy in the Local Group (after the Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum).