Thomas the Woodcutter
@tttallis.bsky.social
musician, programmer, aussie, probably neurodivergent (aren't we all?), fibromyalgia sufferer, weed nerd, leftie, greenie, old man raving on the moor
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Bernie Sanders on FB re what anti-semitism is and is not.
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Bernie Sanders on FB re what anti-semitism is and is not.
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YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Wikipedia has a mild conservative bias, as it insists on what it calls 'reliable sources' - which mostly means they have been published by capitalist gatekeeping institutions.
The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.
The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Wikipedia has a mild conservative bias, as it insists on what it calls 'reliable sources' - which mostly means they have been published by capitalist gatekeeping institutions.
The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.
The only reason anybody imagines that it has a liberal or left-wing bias is because it's largely accurate. They hate that.
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
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No individual should have a billion dollars.
October 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
No individual should have a billion dollars.
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Traces of life in the fountains of Enceladus? We really need to send that submarine burrowing down through 100km of ice to the ocean below...
Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances
Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Traces of life in the fountains of Enceladus? We really need to send that submarine burrowing down through 100km of ice to the ocean below...
My son Sam is in a convoy taking donated ambulance vehicles and medical supplies to Ukraine. I'm a proud Dad! Please contribute to his donorbox page at donorbox.org/samukraine. Funding goes towards drone-jamming devices for the evac vehicles.
Слава Україні!
Слава Україні!
Support Sam's Mission: Drive, and Deliver an Evacuation Vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦 | Driving Ukraine (Powered by Donorbox)
Help Sam drive and deliver an evacuation vehicle to Ukraine 🇺🇦In September 2025, Sam Spielmann will drive 1,318 miles over 3 days across Europe to deliver an evacuation 4x4 vehicle to Ukraine, where i...
donorbox.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
My son Sam is in a convoy taking donated ambulance vehicles and medical supplies to Ukraine. I'm a proud Dad! Please contribute to his donorbox page at donorbox.org/samukraine. Funding goes towards drone-jamming devices for the evac vehicles.
Слава Україні!
Слава Україні!
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
February 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
“Is that an allergy?”
“No, simile”
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Good morning Blue Sky Bring all your energy today
July 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Good morning Blue Sky Bring all your energy today
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Who do you think is going to liberate the concentration camps?
This is a serious question, I don't know what to imagine. What armed force do you think will be rolling up to free the people who were kidnapped away from their homes?
This is a serious question, I don't know what to imagine. What armed force do you think will be rolling up to free the people who were kidnapped away from their homes?
July 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Who do you think is going to liberate the concentration camps?
This is a serious question, I don't know what to imagine. What armed force do you think will be rolling up to free the people who were kidnapped away from their homes?
This is a serious question, I don't know what to imagine. What armed force do you think will be rolling up to free the people who were kidnapped away from their homes?
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Mechanical Boer
It turns out Grok isn't AI at all, just Elon on a ketamine binge feverishly typing answers from a basement somewhere.
July 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Mechanical Boer
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“The cause of war is preparation for war.”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
-W.E.B. Du Bois
B-2 bombers moving to Guam amid Middle East tensions, US officials say reut.rs/40j4LcT
B-2 bombers moving to Guam amid Middle East tensions, US officials say
The United States is moving B-2 bombers to the Pacific island of Guam, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday, as President Donald Trump weighs whether the United States should take part in Israel's strikes against Iran.
reut.rs
June 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“The cause of war is preparation for war.”
-W.E.B. Du Bois
-W.E.B. Du Bois
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If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
June 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg
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a woman just trying to get home gets shot
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
a woman just trying to get home gets shot
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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Why do humans (and other animals) blink synchronously with both eyes? Would life not be less dangerous if at any point of time at least one eye could see?
June 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Why do humans (and other animals) blink synchronously with both eyes? Would life not be less dangerous if at any point of time at least one eye could see?
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They don't want trained. They want inexperienced and violent. Look at his whole "cabinet". These people aren't supposed to know what they're doing. Being good at your job is too woke. They want destruction.
I guarantee you that these 700 Marines being deployed have very little training or experience in "crowd control" or whatever your preferred term for it. Maybe they'll be used specifically for road checkpoints. Maybe not. Regardless, they're not trained for engaging with massive civilian crowds.
June 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
They don't want trained. They want inexperienced and violent. Look at his whole "cabinet". These people aren't supposed to know what they're doing. Being good at your job is too woke. They want destruction.
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What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
May 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.
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If the concept of consent would kill an industry, that industry should not exist in the first place.
This is not even a debate.
This is not even a debate.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If the concept of consent would kill an industry, that industry should not exist in the first place.
This is not even a debate.
This is not even a debate.
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It’s a bold design that liquid in our lungs can drown us but our only options to breath air into them are our snot-producing noses and saliva producing mouths that we must pour water down to live…
May 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
It’s a bold design that liquid in our lungs can drown us but our only options to breath air into them are our snot-producing noses and saliva producing mouths that we must pour water down to live…
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#DumbLaws: In South Korea, citizens are banned from consuming cannabis anywhere in the world. Global prohibition, Korean edition. 🇰🇷🌍🚫
#PotCultureMagazine #THC #WeedLaws #CannabisCulture #420Community #Cannabis #SouthKorea #LegalizeIt #Weed #Drugpolicy #Laws #Prohibition
#PotCultureMagazine #THC #WeedLaws #CannabisCulture #420Community #Cannabis #SouthKorea #LegalizeIt #Weed #Drugpolicy #Laws #Prohibition
April 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#DumbLaws: In South Korea, citizens are banned from consuming cannabis anywhere in the world. Global prohibition, Korean edition. 🇰🇷🌍🚫
#PotCultureMagazine #THC #WeedLaws #CannabisCulture #420Community #Cannabis #SouthKorea #LegalizeIt #Weed #Drugpolicy #Laws #Prohibition
#PotCultureMagazine #THC #WeedLaws #CannabisCulture #420Community #Cannabis #SouthKorea #LegalizeIt #Weed #Drugpolicy #Laws #Prohibition