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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 2h

what a fool i've been as a programmer trying to come up with elegant heuristics to perform such functionality efficiently when i should've just been shoehorning all of human language in there instead

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 11h

the pro-AI guy on the dev slack i hang out on is very defensive about openAI getting a stranglehold on the DRAM market: "what else are you going to use it for?"

it. is. a. fucking. cult.

and when you strip away all of the asimovian bullshit what it truly worships is raw consumption

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 12h

Really saying the quiet bit rather loudly, hey.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby Independent ACT senator David Pocock – a former Wallabies captain – been banned from attending parliament house’s social sports club after raising concern about its sponsorship by the gambling industry. The former rugby star was on Thursday night told he was no longer welcome at Australian Parliament Sports Club events, and accused of politicising the organisation. He has been removed from group chats discussing its events. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 12h

the problem with most comedians these days is they want endless adoration for being a sack of shit

Defector @defector.com · 13h

Bill Burr has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but he still can't settle on which lazy excuse he wants to employ. defector.com/bill-burr-ke...

Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh…

defector.com

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 12h

i too like to have a reductive take on human creativity so i can keep using the thieving slop machine

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 22h

made a friend

a little black cat sitting on the middle step of a set of wooden stairs, looking up at a small huntsman spider that is just out of reach on the wall above him

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 13h

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 21h

humanity doesn't need to be educated into people

they already have it

it is the inhumanity of the civilised rational actor that must be taught

and it takes the rewards of privilege to motivate acceptance of membership of that elite class

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Rodger Binyone @rodger-binyone.bsky.social · 22h

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 22h

made a friend

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 23h

which makes their end game of replacing teachers entirely with this bullshit a lot easier

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 23h

come to bluesky! we give you the tools to moderate the site to your liking!

just, y'know, don't use them on us or we'll fucking come for you

have fun!

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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 1d

DAVID LYNCH for Vulture, 2018. Photo by Sandro Miller

An abstract David Lynch photograph taken by Sandro Miller in 2018

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 3d

Something from the ol' comfort zone for the beginning of autumn

A horned jousting helmet with some autumn leaves in the background and sun icons on three sides.

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John Lees @johnlees.bsky.social · 1d

Kieran from SINK, dressed in a gimp mask and chest harness, shouts “FUCKING TORIES!” Art by Alex Cormack, letters by Shawn Lee.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

it's incomprehensible to me to enforce typing on a python codebase with mypy and then expect this to make sense

alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

i love having to add completely new functionality to a system i've never worked on that runs against its current implementation but which everyone is assuring me will be fine (shoving one-to-many records into what the rest of the system expects to be a one-to-one mapping)

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 1d

Still shaking my head at the notion that being antifascist is a bad thing.

D's could end this language pollution immediately by declaring unanimously that they are against fascism.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

i love having to add completely new functionality to a system i've never worked on that runs against its current implementation but which everyone is assuring me will be fine (shoving one-to-many records into what the rest of the system expects to be a one-to-one mapping)

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

we have 'foo_id' and 'fid' and while 'fid' means 'foo id' it doesn't mean 'foo_id" and how have i pushed so much code into production without anyone catching my mistake?

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · Jul 27

"this website is free" perhaps, but it exacts a terrible price

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 1d

the original Xtro is wild af, i've been planning on rewatching it & finally watching the sequels this halloween

if you haven't already seen it i really dug the cosmic horror found footage Project MKHEXE

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