Seven Pyrometer
@owlzor.bsky.social
Software dev
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Cat person All views are my own.
Mysterious stranger
Cat person All views are my own.
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it's 2038. nobody remembers how technology works
every day, humans argue endlessly with the latest AI model. a model subject to years of gastroincestuous data, as humans no longer provided useful data themselves
the only remaining data type is string
the string is a prompt
every day, humans argue endlessly with the latest AI model. a model subject to years of gastroincestuous data, as humans no longer provided useful data themselves
the only remaining data type is string
the string is a prompt
August 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
it's 2038. nobody remembers how technology works
every day, humans argue endlessly with the latest AI model. a model subject to years of gastroincestuous data, as humans no longer provided useful data themselves
the only remaining data type is string
the string is a prompt
every day, humans argue endlessly with the latest AI model. a model subject to years of gastroincestuous data, as humans no longer provided useful data themselves
the only remaining data type is string
the string is a prompt
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🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
August 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
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Keep the two distinct in your head.
August 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Keep the two distinct in your head.
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Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things
The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission.…
dlvr.it
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
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the way the far right values surface level cordiality over the substance of conversation is legitimately mind blowing to me
entitled pricks demanding to be respected because they made their reprehensible point with a "respectable tone"
entitled pricks demanding to be respected because they made their reprehensible point with a "respectable tone"
I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
July 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
the way the far right values surface level cordiality over the substance of conversation is legitimately mind blowing to me
entitled pricks demanding to be respected because they made their reprehensible point with a "respectable tone"
entitled pricks demanding to be respected because they made their reprehensible point with a "respectable tone"
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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In Stern’s view, the way to go is to stop paying journals for accepting papers and begin looking at them as public utilities that serve a greater good.
February 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
In Stern’s view, the way to go is to stop paying journals for accepting papers and begin looking at them as public utilities that serve a greater good.
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Great. Now I have a dead vulture. Any cure for THAT, Albertus?
January 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great. Now I have a dead vulture. Any cure for THAT, Albertus?
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In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
Presger translator Zuck is not allowed to disassemble his classmates, so he decided to disassemble society.
"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Presger translator Zuck is not allowed to disassemble his classmates, so he decided to disassemble society.
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"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta’s speech policies. He asked a small team to carry out his goals within weeks. The repercussions are jus...
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
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Just paid £2 for this pint btw I love Cardiff
December 14, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Just paid £2 for this pint btw I love Cardiff
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Huge, if true.
December 14, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Huge, if true.
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This is complete bullshit and it's not going to stop here.
Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."
December 15, 2024 at 2:02 AM
This is complete bullshit and it's not going to stop here.
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On Linux you're an admin
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim
December 14, 2024 at 12:26 AM
On Linux you're an admin
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim
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The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023
December 12, 2024 at 8:49 PM
The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023
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My new paper (commentary)
Without values, complexity is reduced to mathematics
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Without values, complexity is reduced to mathematics
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Commentary: Without Values, Complexity is Reduced to Mathematics
This commentary on Sturmberg and Mercuri's paper ‘Every Problem is Embedded in a Greater Whole’ [1] argues that those authors have approached complexity from a largely mathematical perspective, drawi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 12, 2024 at 10:24 AM
My new paper (commentary)
Without values, complexity is reduced to mathematics
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Without values, complexity is reduced to mathematics
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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So all of a sudden we need high energy consuming, ultracomplex AI to solve the unsurmountable, exceedingly challenging problem of putting your files on different folders with names describing what's inside the fucking folders
Gemini AI can now summarize what’s in your Google Drive folders
Gemini AI can now summarize what’s in your Google Drive folders
Gemini is getting more useful in Drive.
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 6:42 PM
So all of a sudden we need high energy consuming, ultracomplex AI to solve the unsurmountable, exceedingly challenging problem of putting your files on different folders with names describing what's inside the fucking folders
Let it be known among the squires of all these lands:
Unless you
1) Drank at least a pottle of malmsey
2) Had some eeles
3) Sword were drawn
It’s not a real party.
Unless you
1) Drank at least a pottle of malmsey
2) Had some eeles
3) Sword were drawn
It’s not a real party.
In 1500 Henry VIII's agent, a man named Poynings, visited the mayor of Cambridge. The bill for his visit included charges for: 3 gallons of red wine; 3 of claret; a gallon & a pottle of malmsey; beer; sugar; bread; milk; cream; a cod & another cod; a turbot; and 3 eels to roast.
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December 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Let it be known among the squires of all these lands:
Unless you
1) Drank at least a pottle of malmsey
2) Had some eeles
3) Sword were drawn
It’s not a real party.
Unless you
1) Drank at least a pottle of malmsey
2) Had some eeles
3) Sword were drawn
It’s not a real party.
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🟧 The new rules of media
20 lessons for digital media’s present and future
open.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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After searching for a recipe for over a year, I finally made true Victorian sugar plums. No plums were involved but lots of sugar was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Nk... #christmas #tastinghistory
What Are Sugar Plums? How to make real Victorian sugar plums
YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:06 PM
After searching for a recipe for over a year, I finally made true Victorian sugar plums. No plums were involved but lots of sugar was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Nk... #christmas #tastinghistory
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i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists.
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists.
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)