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typing free software to break the shoulders of giants from golden handcuffs. i build tools to level the playing field. @[email protected]
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some of the wildest and most beautiful artwork i have ever seen
kei in a spacesuit reconnecting two massive jumper cables by hand with the help of nanmo the robot as the cables produce a massive spark that throws the rest of the spaceship engine hull into sharp relief
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
sorry i blocked because i couldn't bear to see it. prithee mine eyes
@kthorjensen.bsky.social skeet "oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on twitter with the caption 'AI games are going to be amazing' totally seriously, you have to watch it. you have to. in full screen."
October 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
oh i'm sorry i didn't intend for that to be correcting you. the talk i linked has slides on some ways text search can be done locally and how centralizing it is an expression of power. has this slide
Why is Text Powerful? [2: Hidden Dependencies] If you are unable to modify or deploy your code without employing an opaque external system, then you have a hidden dependency. This opaque external system can then exert arbitrary control over your programming output. Why is Text Powerful? [3: Locality] If you cannot reproduce a system locally, it becomes an opaque external system. e.g. GUI IDEs, cloud services, Large Language Models.8 8: all Microsoft products
October 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
also really liked this 🏳️‍⚧️ hued shot from the first episode of zeta gundam where kamille gets misgendered once and immediately becomes an anti-fascist militant lmao
a washed-out pink and blue scene with silhouettes of a teenage boy and girl. "...surprise, he's a boy."
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
decided wong kar wai shouldn't be the only hong kong director i know
title frame from "long arm of the law" by johnny mak. there are thick blocky deep blood red kanji against a black background, with the english title in thin sans serif below it
June 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
found this in my downloads folder
a frame from the beginning of tarkovsky's STALKER, a classic midcentury russian film. СТАЛКЕР (the title) is embossed in big bold gold art deco font at center. behind it is a dimly lit room with someone who has just entered it through a door at stage back left
June 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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update: the same day i posted this and he started whining in my replies despite not tagging him he posted an opening explicitly for an "AI" engineer on fedi (mastodon), literally funded by microsoft and openai, for using LLMs in the newsroom werd.social/@ben/1145879...
post from the same guy but on fedi (mastodon): However you feel about AI, it's a big part of the modern software landscape. ⁨@ProPublica⁩ is hiring a two-year AI engineering fellow in collaboration with ⁨@lenfestinstitute⁩. We're not cheerleaders or naysayers; we want to explore ways that it might support the newsroom, while remaining anchored in real human problems and strongly adhering to our values, standards, and strict need for safety. ⁨https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4563500006⁩ ⁨#media⁩ ⁨#journalism⁩ ⁨#ai⁩
May 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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"the cat is out of the bag" you blithely assert in werd.social/@ben/1131541.... yet here you maintain that we should "avoid unquestioningly importing Silicon Valley assumptions into our own decision-making."
Incredibly unpopular opinion: Mozilla might be correct to spend time and resources focusing on AI. The cat is out of the bag and providing data-safe, secure access to models to head off handing the keys to the future of the software industry to OpenAI / Microsoft / Google / Meta is not inherently a bad thing. I think it should have spent time and resources *also* focusing on the fediverse, though.
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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this guy is the resident LLM booster at propublica so forgive me if i don't believe his critihyping anecdote https:// bsky .app /profile/ werd .io/post/ 3lq3voxcxfc2r
skeet from @werd.io: Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
May 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
i actually wept
DOE posting the grim reaper meme behind "LNG export ban", "green new scam", and "47 burdensome regulations", with the text "And we are only 114 days in!"
May 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
omg aqua commander keeps her squad of girls with her when she needs to lock in
team aqua commander dismissing her gang of two girls/two guys to find the scientist's meteorite while keeping her three-girl team to fight team magma with two crawdaunt and two walrein
May 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 PLUS SIZE WOMEN WHO AREN'T BEING MADE FUN OF FOR THEIR BODY TYPE 🚨🚨🚨 TEAM AQUA MORE FEMINIST THAN MAGMA 🚨🚨🚨 OMEGA > ALPHA BABY
a collection of team aqua grunts wielding pokeballs, with men and women wearing revealing outfits. women are wearing crop tops, the same outfit for bigger and smaller women
May 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
miror b. on par with eggman in the villain hall of fame. he has a [theme song](youtube.com/watch?v=kAHH...) which myriad of his henchmen will play little variations upon as you battle them (emphasizing different aspects of their personality)
miror b on a large television screen in between big fancy speakers. he has a massive spherical afro, with left and right halves painted solid red and white. he's wearing flashy golden sunglasses with a red charm in the center. his skin appears to be brown. he has a dancey/disco one-piece outfit on, the kind of thing michael jackson or zapp might wear on stage at a concert. it's bright yellow, shining in the light, with droopy hand and leg extremities that emphasize motion like bell bottoms. he's full of style and he's using it for evil
April 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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using context clues to infer that this guy is the boss
a large man with spiky red hair wearing a formal exercise outfit is standing with his back to you on a floating propeller-driven circular platform, labelled "10" in weathered red paint. the player character (half the height of the boss) stands in front of his female companion with bright orange pigtails on a thin metallic platform leading to the boss. beyond the boss is an ostentatious locked room leading to further battle platforms. all platforms are floating in the middle of a mountainous gray valley: MT BATTLE!
April 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
i cried
the painting "egg and eye" quoted below, by jean-michel basquiat
April 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
pikachu is feeling the wave in its heart
pikachu closing its eyes as it jumps as a huge wave crashes behind it. it's in the middle of an attack and is visualizing the wave as a way to concentrate on its next move: dodging the attack while firing off its own
April 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
PIKACHU FACE!!!
pikachu pikachu facing after realizing they are a pokemon and not a human
April 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
HI FRIEND
torchic accosting me in the middle of the woods
April 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
> Historically, “hallucination” hasn’t been a major issue in speech recognition.

really important point that many people are unaware of. there has been an entire field of pattern recognition before the current spate of LLMs
Historically, “hallucination” hasn’t been a major issue in speech recognition. That is, although earlier systems could take specific phrases and respond with transcription errors in specific phrases or misspell words, they didn’t produce large chunks of fluent and grammatically correct texts that weren’t uttered in the corresponding audio inputs. But researchers have shown that recent speech recognition systems like OpenAI’s Whisper can produce entirely fabricated transcriptions. Whisper is a model that has been integrated into some versions of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s famous chatbot.
April 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
putting on the cologne that gets you cancelled
pokemon card trainer card "Canceling Cologne" which disables abilities of your opponent's active pokemon
April 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
hibiscus tea
deep red water whose surface has sparkly glints from the camera flash. maroon flowers float, trapping a glittering array of air bubbles to their skin just under the surface
April 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
hipsterelectron.bsky.social
hell yes got blocked (see actively contemptuous reply to my OP). these are the people who want to talk about autism https:/ /bsky .app/profile/lollardfish. bsky.soci al/post/3lmjutbbevc2v
Yesterday RFK Jr said we will know the causes of autism by September then eliminate the contaminants (or something). Today is the day you pitch local media to say: here’s what we know, it’s complicated, RFK Jr is lying. File by Monday morning.
April 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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super cool light pattern coming in from my window. no clue where it's coming from
looks like two windowed skyscrapers, or perhaps electrolysis gels, adjacent on the wall drawn in shadow
April 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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just in case https:// bsky. app/profile/textfiles .com/post/3lmbllz7o722d
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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they hold each other when they're scared
jesse and james holding hands in a corner as they're getting menaced by magnemite. meowth has its paw to its mouth and looks very scared
April 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM