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Lee Scheinbeim

@lee.scheinbe.im

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Senior Lighting Technical Artist @ Cloud Chamber, formerly Singularity 6, Harebrained Schemes, Bioware. Covered in cat scratches. All thoughts property of my cat.

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 12h

this is a snapshot of wikipedia from late 2022, gonna cling to this while i drown in the ai slop

Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 12h

it.... works?

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 14h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

pearl, one of the crystals gems who rebelled against the diamond authority at the side of rose quartz

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 1d

watched the kurzgesagt on ai slop and suddenly feeling like it's a good idea to self host a wikipedia snapshot from 2022

Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 2d

i joke about phpbb but there are plenty of terrible moderators who ran webforums as their own little fiefdoms (which is also the mastodon problem)

Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 2d

i do wonder if maybe large scale social networks like this are just like... always doomed to failure? at least when the tech people who tend to be in charge all have a tendency to double down whenever faced with criticism

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 2d

can we all move back to phpbb

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

I feel like our ability to personify anything is probably important for, like, empathy? but boy howdy has it been weaponized

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

any person acting as if genAI is alive is just a person who was told a pencil's name was steve

youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg?...

Community - A Pencil Named Steve

YouTube video by Neil Collins

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

now I'm not scientician, but what if instead of producing them in a lab we instead made some mRNA that created the monoclonal antibody? and then your body would recognize it as "self" and not react to it? then you just get that shot every week or whatever

Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

so, the medication I'm on is a monoclonal antibody, so a bunch of antibodies created in a lab designed to glob on to the parts of my immune system that is dysfunction. it works, but there is a risk that my body will recognize them as foreign, and develop antibodies to the monoclonal ones

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

mRNA vaccines are the scientific miracle of our generation

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

what????????? www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Scientists Are Working on an Mrna Vaccine To Wipe Out Allergies

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.

www.vice.com

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d

The "Bruce Harrell for Seattle's Future" PAC has raised more money from Medina residents than the "Katie Wilson for an Affordable Seattle" PAC has raised overall.

Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d

Bruce Harrell's campaign is fundraising on the need to "fight back against the influence of outside money."

The PAC set up to spend on Harrell's behalf has raised $1.2 million so far, compared to the $86,000 raised by the PAC set up for spend in support of Katie Wilson.

I have some big news to share.

Because our opponent is benefiting from outside spending on her behalf, the Seattle Ethics & Elections Commission has lifted the Democracy Vouchers fundraising cap for our campaign. That means Bruce’s can once again raise contributions to power our grassroots campaign.

This is a critical moment. Over the next month, we need to make sure Bruce has the resources to get his message out and fight back against the influence of outside money. With your support, we can keep pushing forward with Bruce’s vision for a safer, more affordable, and more unified Seattle.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 5d

As a coalition of billionaires, landlords, and real estate developers invest more than $1.2 million in Bruce Harrell’s re-election, local progressive leaders Pramila Jayapal and Teresa Mosqueda are announcing their endorsements of Katie Wilson.

A graphic in Katie Wilson for Mayor campaign colors reading "Rep. Pramila Jayapal and King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda announce endorsements of Katie Wilson."

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Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 5d

after listening to act 1 and act 2 for the first time in a while, i am making the difficult decision to withhold myself from act 3 until its fully released