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Blogging about plants, lichen, grafitti, photography and more at https://lichenthrope.net/
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bransonreese.bsky.social
I used to drink the dirty snow slush that accumulated on the corners in NYC. It would make me deliriously sick but after two weeks of extreme fever/dysentery I was able to see four seconds into the future for 36 hours. This would be an invaluable asset in combat but unfortunately I am a man of peace
February 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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kylereardon.bsky.social
Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!
February 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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edzitron.com
These are totally unsupported claims with no links, citations or even statements like “sources familiar with the matter.” I read basically every single story about AI efficacy at big companies, especially salesforce. These are either made up or egregious extrapolations of things.
Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated Al's capabilities. They have found that AI simply can't cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and long-tail customer problems. They even say that it has caused a marked decline in service quality and far more complaints. But the problems go far deeper than that. Both employees and executives have said that the company is wasting countless resources on firefighting to stabilise operations since the mass Al layoff. Employees have to spend so much time stepping in to correct the wildly wrong Al-generated responses that Al is wasting more time than it saves. In other words, this AI reduces productivity, not increases it. But there is also a huge problem here with expertise and skill debt. On top of the firefighting to correct the AI, executives have also highlighted how they are also having to firefight to stabilise their systems from problems that were previously easily solved by staff who had the required experience and skill. However, these staff were fired in the Al layoffs. Expertise, experience and skilled employees are really hard for a company to acquire. You see, much of the expertise, experience, and skills required are unique to the company and its operations. These operations will have quirks, common problems, and unique issues that even the most experienced outsider will really struggle with, but are effortless to someone with experience within the company. As such, these attributes are not only vital, but are nurtured and grown within a company, and cannot be hired in on a whim. What Salesforce has done is chuck all this experience out the window, and now they are suffering. To say this is a damning indictment on Benioff, his capabilities as a CEO, and his cult-like push for Al is an understatement. It demonstrates that he is dangerously ignorant, as it was painfully evident that this would happen; more on that in a minute. Salesforce is doing a U-turn, and is "reframing its AI strategy," shifting away from trying to replace workers, and instead doing what executives call "rebalancing." Basically, they are trying to re-hire these critical roles and expertise they have lost, take Al out of the driver's seat, and augment workers rather than replace them. More on why that is still a terrible idea in a minute.
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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thandaart.com
Painting the beans 💜
December 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
TAKE YOUR TIME …
NANCY IS THE BOSS
AROUND HERE
HONK TAKE YOUR TIME… I’M THE BOSS AROUND HERE HONK HONK HONK HONK NANCY IS THE SCHOOL CROSSING GUARD, AND SHE HAS STOPPED TRAFFIC, TO ALLOW A TURTLE TO CROSS THE ROAD
December 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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animaljayson.bsky.social
“Game design” as in “how can we psychologically manipulate the player into Maximum Retention EnterGagement over the course of a 3 month battle pass season” is satan

But “game design” as in “how many dudes can we put on the NG2 staircase without red ringing the player’s 360” is essential
kayin.moe Kayin @kayin.moe · Dec 27
I feel like a little farmer at my little game potato farm sitting between the nations of Game Design and Anti Game Design, sweating constantly as I see both sides arm for war.
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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oddsteamreviews.bsky.social
Dota 2
Dota 2
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jjvincent.bsky.social
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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tendermiasma.com
Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad
They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them
judiciarydems.senate.gov Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · Dec 12
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
many particulars of this generation of generative AI are shaped around a culturally peculiar, distorted idea of intelligence.
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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muffinlab.bsky.social
omw 😎
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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brunodias.bsky.social
"You can either be a knitting circle or you can be 4chan. What you can't do is expect knitting circle behavior from ordinary users while clearing the runway for figures like Singal."

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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals
As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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lichenthrope.net
Some more photos from June, the subject of these was liminal spaces.
📷 Minolta X-700
🎞️ Reflx Labs 800T

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September 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
lichenthrope.net
Some more photos from June, the subject of these was liminal spaces.
📷 Minolta X-700
🎞️ Reflx Labs 800T

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September 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
A cluster of tiny orange Mycena mushrooms grow from the top of a dark brown log under a sunlit green yellow canopy. All photos by me
September 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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meowthiroth.bsky.social
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
lichenthrope.net
Very much earlier this year I went on a trip specifically for a photograph. I didn’t get the exact shot I wanted but I going with friends made it a great time.

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September 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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nancycomics.bsky.social
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 9,1945
September 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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threnody.northsky.social
hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8
NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid
SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023). SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.
September 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
lichenthrope.net
I had to explain this to someone in a YouTube comment once. To someone who thought that hypervigilance was like a power.
September 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.
“Who is on the washington post editoria…” Ask The Post Al Answers are Al generated from Washington Post reporting. Because Al can make mistakes, verify information by referencing provided sources for each answer. Learn more “The current members of The Washington Post's editorial board include David Shipley (WRONG), Charles Lane (WRONG), Stephen (WRONG), Mary Duenwald, James Hohmann, Eduardo Porter, and Keith B.' Richburg (MAYBE WRONG). Recently, some members of the board…”
September 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
late last night i got really into drawing these strange stony, phytoplankton inspired forests.

in terms of tiling, this has a lapped scale basis, with spot variants which drop subdivisions + run scales vertically instead of ending them.

(tiles gridded, 3 color, but palette painted with no grid)
stony, lacework geometric pixel art trees. the tiles are on a grid, but the palette is not.
September 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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lichenthrope.net
Saw some cool graffiti in a local park. I’ll have to go back here with a real camera. Being largely under a highway makes for some interesting scenes.

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June 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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edzitron.com
Yeah man that's not the headline you wanna read, and even more so not the photo you want them using of you when growth is decelerating. It's really bad when they have a shot of you where it looks like you just read the headline
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Technology Nvidia Forecasts Decelerating Growth After Two-Year Al Boom Nvidia Corp., the world's most valuable publicly traded company, gave a tepid revenue forecast for the current period, signaling that growth is decelerating after a staggering two-year boom in Al spending. Sales will be roughly $54 billion in the fiscal third quarter, which runs through October, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Though that was in line with the average Wall Street estimate, some analysts had projected more than $60 billion. The forecast excluded data center revenue from China, a market where Nvidia has struggled with US export restrictions and opposing pressure from Beijing. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is attempting to reenter the China Al chip market at a time of mounting geopolitical tensions. Photographer: Na Bian/Bloomberg The outlook adds to concern that the pace of investment in artificial intelligence systems is unsustainable. The difficulties in China also have clouded Nvidia's business. Though the Trump administration recently eased curbs on exports of some Al chips to that country, the reprieve hasn't yet translated into a rebound in revenue.
August 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM