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winston the third @winston.cc · Aug 23
Winston has new Terms of Service!

We are writing to let you know that moving forward, following Winston is understood to be an active endorsement of the following statements:
- Trees are good
- Life in 2025 is absurd
- Trans people are beautiful

please unsubscribe and fuck off if you disagree!
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winston the third @winston.cc · 4h
fuck the pain away

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhu0...
Every Song in Sex Education - F**k The Pain Away! | Netflix
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winston the third @winston.cc · 4h
personally i'm getting really into fountain pens, notebooks, big schemes, listening to dj mixes, and at this very moment playing FUCK THE PAIN AWAY very loudly
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winston the third @winston.cc · 6h
how are you personally managing the fact that unsustainably high anxiety is a reasonable response to the current period we are living in?
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winston the third @winston.cc · 6h
how are you personally managing the fact that unsustainably high anxiety is a reasonable response to the current period we are living in?
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winston the third @winston.cc · 9h
it's interesting how every outlet believes that highlighting the best deals on amazon is a valuable service but they don't believe that accurately explaining how terrible things are and who is responsible for the horrors is a valuable service, even though there's high demand for the latter too!
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winston the third @winston.cc · 10h
thalergetic energy must be off the charts in the jackpot
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winston the third @winston.cc · 10h
thinking about joining the lab that spawns the Gideon the Ninth universe, whenever I can ascertain its location
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winston the third @winston.cc · 15h
Your power bill is going to triple and there is no end in sight, because of AI. That's the story. When people shrug off "it's not that bad" this is the harm. There are many others too! But this one is personal to every adult.
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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
if he outlives Dolly i'm gonna be so fuckin pissed
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
is this your king dot meme (fuck gavin newsom, fuck anyone who thinks the way to political success involves sacrificing marginalized people)
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
at the end of a day we still live in a world where some things are possible, some things are not, and there's a lot of things that may be possible with high error rates. and product makers should be focused on mapping that terrain! not dreaming up magical nonexistent computers!
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
but in no way whatsoever has that changed what the underlying software is capable of doing, and what computers are overall able to do. some things that were hard (open-ended data analysis) are easier. some things that were easy (math) are now... hard? it's just annoying.
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
however, all of those buttons and UX and IA and affordances also served as goddamned _guardrails_ that defined (clearly or not) what is achievable and what isn't.

and the problem we're facing now is that plain language has no fucking guardrails. you can say anything! and the computer will respond!
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
LLMs are—at their very best—more flexible interfaces for existing computer software. instead of humans having to intentionally design and build all the buttons and interfaces, now the computer can theoretically just respond to plain-language inputs.
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
the ai boom feels a lot like the single-page app boom in that a shit ton of people believed that the world of possibility was ripped entirely open because one single problem in computer science became a little easier
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winston the third @winston.cc · 1d
to the person standing on a bridge over I-94 in St. Paul waving a Palestinian flag as the rush hour traffic streamed by: ily. thanks for the small burst of hope.
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winston the third @winston.cc · 2d
my 13yo is building a spacesuit helmet out of craft supplies using her brand new set of fancy x-acto knives.

my 11yo is using one of my typewriters (lol) to write a letter

my partner is playin zelda and i am doodling.

it's a nice evening. aside from the rising fascism.
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winston the third @winston.cc · 2d
also
Calvin and Hobbes panel. Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" to which he responds loudly "LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER TOO"
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winston the third @winston.cc · 2d
wonder what a day with good news would feel like
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winston the third @winston.cc · 2d
where is the best place to go (is there a best place) capturing all the AI research papers with some sort of signal as to how important the industry is taking them?

like, i would like to read the lit on context engineering and "reasoning" models. i would like a place to start.
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winston the third @winston.cc · 2d
i am not a doomer on bsky but i am thinking about how to stay connected to various comrades on here as a contingency plan. i'm trying to publish more on my blog and i have contact info listed there as a start winstonhearn.com
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winston the third @winston.cc · 3d
Anyone who wants to talk about bigotry against robots and doesn't mention MST3K is a charlatan and has no authority on the subject
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winston the third @winston.cc · 3d
i'm sticking with The Horrors until informed otherwise
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winston the third @winston.cc · 3d
which is to say it's always free to not post, and it's always worth the effort to be a bit curious to understand what information you might not yet have
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winston the third @winston.cc · 3d
it's just genuinely difficult to make sense of how complex, opaque systems work in real time when you have many humans interacting with them in creative and limit-pushing ways
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winston the third @winston.cc · 3d
justin are you having a stroke
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