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Computer scientist. Computer graphics and vision background. Sometimes draws. Likes math
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· Dec 26
About a year ago I finally started reading Japanese books on my own! I am on my third now! Thought it would be a fun idea to document interesting/funny words or phrases I find! Not sure how many that will be. I also might not always get the meaning correct lol Sometimes, it's hard to find it!
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To paraphrase Terry Pratchett:
Evil is when you treat people like things. Period. That's how it starts, and it leads to far worse.
Source: wist.info/pratchett-te...
Evil is when you treat people like things. Period. That's how it starts, and it leads to far worse.
Source: wist.info/pratchett-te...
![A quote:
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”
By Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 23, Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24tyhgbxerggrcsydhvxfzzw/bafkreiaq6amovzpjjrdod73ejmfgniiiapyozbqr3666yt5dws2ksllc2u@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
To paraphrase Terry Pratchett:
Evil is when you treat people like things. Period. That's how it starts, and it leads to far worse.
Source: wist.info/pratchett-te...
Evil is when you treat people like things. Period. That's how it starts, and it leads to far worse.
Source: wist.info/pratchett-te...
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Melvin the Possum keychain preorders are LIVE!! We need to hit 50 orders in 3 weeks, so any reposts and shares are incredibly appreciated <3 #art #shop #keychain #possum
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December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Melvin the Possum keychain preorders are LIVE!! We need to hit 50 orders in 3 weeks, so any reposts and shares are incredibly appreciated <3 #art #shop #keychain #possum
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#2025年自分が選ぶ今年下半期の4枚
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#2025年自分が選ぶ今年下半期の4枚
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
My art is good, the algorithm just ignores me
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Progress on the final piece. Slowly but surly coming along!
My studio space is not hip or glamorous, sorry. 😅
Maybe I should do a very unglamorous studio tour someday? 🤔😅
#painting #illustration #SEL #LetsAllLoveLain
My studio space is not hip or glamorous, sorry. 😅
Maybe I should do a very unglamorous studio tour someday? 🤔😅
#painting #illustration #SEL #LetsAllLoveLain
December 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Progress on the final piece. Slowly but surly coming along!
My studio space is not hip or glamorous, sorry. 😅
Maybe I should do a very unglamorous studio tour someday? 🤔😅
#painting #illustration #SEL #LetsAllLoveLain
My studio space is not hip or glamorous, sorry. 😅
Maybe I should do a very unglamorous studio tour someday? 🤔😅
#painting #illustration #SEL #LetsAllLoveLain
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I get the joke here, but it is important to stress to folks that we're taught a lot of stuff that most of us will never use, because:
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I get the joke here, but it is important to stress to folks that we're taught a lot of stuff that most of us will never use, because:
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
1. learning it makes you better prepared for whatever path your career eventually takes, and
2. learning abstract math trains one's brain to *think*, in general
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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Miss Fortune and Nimblefoot, from Teamfight Tactics, League of Legends. Created in collaboration with Riot Games 👊
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Miss Fortune and Nimblefoot, from Teamfight Tactics, League of Legends. Created in collaboration with Riot Games 👊
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There is not a single thing in my life or career I've integrated the 'AI experience' into willingly, and not a single thing in my life or career that's been improved by having AI unwillingly shoved into it. I don't know why there's a demand for this.
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
There is not a single thing in my life or career I've integrated the 'AI experience' into willingly, and not a single thing in my life or career that's been improved by having AI unwillingly shoved into it. I don't know why there's a demand for this.
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grandma possum knitting some gifts 🧶
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
grandma possum knitting some gifts 🧶
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What a difference 10 years makes @fallout.bethesdastudios.com 💕🐾. One of our first outfits we did for Cat Cosplay was a Vault Suit back when Fallout 4 was announced. Our builds feel a lot more S.P.E.C.I.A.L. now!
#Fallout
#Fallout
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What a difference 10 years makes @fallout.bethesdastudios.com 💕🐾. One of our first outfits we did for Cat Cosplay was a Vault Suit back when Fallout 4 was announced. Our builds feel a lot more S.P.E.C.I.A.L. now!
#Fallout
#Fallout
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Remember that in the winter of 2020-2021, we *made a whole strain of influenza extinct* by staying home more and wearing masks when we went out.
A lot of people are sick right now.
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
Flu and Covid are raging, but the good news is a well fitted respirator can prevent both!
A good mask like an N95 is very effective at stopping flu and Covid.
My article looks at how to choose one, how to fit test, where to buy & more.
Mask up & save lives!
We’re Witnessing the Fall of Public Health… and Your Best Tool is a Mask
Measles in Texas, bird flu in Louisiana, tuberculosis in Kansas and Covid everywhere. Public health has been dying a slow death for years, we can’t count on it anymore. What can we count on? A mask!
www.disabledginger.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Remember that in the winter of 2020-2021, we *made a whole strain of influenza extinct* by staying home more and wearing masks when we went out.
I was really proud when I slowly got to the point of understanding a detective Conan book in Japanese without actively translating it with just looking up a word or so a page. Then I read a book with Heiji and his Osaka dialect... まだまだですね～🥹
December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I was really proud when I slowly got to the point of understanding a detective Conan book in Japanese without actively translating it with just looking up a word or so a page. Then I read a book with Heiji and his Osaka dialect... まだまだですね～🥹
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Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
December 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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I painted something new! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
December 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I painted something new! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
Today an old song by the German rapper Curse came on while I was grocery shopping and for some reason, these lyrics kinda stuck with me: "Und wer zuletzt lacht hat's vielleicht nur zu spät gerafft?" (And the one having the last laugh might just have gotten it a bit late) Dunno, seems fitting
December 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Today an old song by the German rapper Curse came on while I was grocery shopping and for some reason, these lyrics kinda stuck with me: "Und wer zuletzt lacht hat's vielleicht nur zu spät gerafft?" (And the one having the last laugh might just have gotten it a bit late) Dunno, seems fitting
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Aw hell no!
Fellow Europeans, do the Thing!
Fellow Europeans, do the Thing!
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Yes, this is real. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
Protect Our Food From Toxic Pesticides
The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants, and a nightmare for the rest of us. A new proposal could let toxic pesticides, including glyphosate, stay on the market forever.Yes, forever approvals....
action.wemove.eu
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Aw hell no!
Fellow Europeans, do the Thing!
Fellow Europeans, do the Thing!
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Things I love about Horizon: Forbidden West (mild spoilers), a game about human tribes arising hundreds of years after a post-apocalypse, following futuristic societal collapse, to a world of dangerous robot dinosaurs): 1/
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Things I love about Horizon: Forbidden West (mild spoilers), a game about human tribes arising hundreds of years after a post-apocalypse, following futuristic societal collapse, to a world of dangerous robot dinosaurs): 1/
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*Opens Blender*
*Deletes default Cube*
*Adds new cube*
*Deletes default Cube*
*Adds new cube*
December 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
*Opens Blender*
*Deletes default Cube*
*Adds new cube*
*Deletes default Cube*
*Adds new cube*
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If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity
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We simply can't keep consuming Disney's garbage I'm sorry
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We simply can't keep consuming Disney's garbage I'm sorry
A few heatmaps for hemisphere sampling. From top left to righ: Cosine weighted, uniform, power cosine weighted sector, weighted combination of the three. Each cell shows the density (samples/area). Really like how you can see the expected gradients, but the randomness still is visible! :)
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A few heatmaps for hemisphere sampling. From top left to righ: Cosine weighted, uniform, power cosine weighted sector, weighted combination of the three. Each cell shows the density (samples/area). Really like how you can see the expected gradients, but the randomness still is visible! :)