Chris Zubak-Skees
zubakskees.bsky.social
Chris Zubak-Skees
@zubakskees.bsky.social
Data journalist and software engineer https://zubak-skees.dev
I'm no longer searching, I'm prompting.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is hygge
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Do I contradict myself? I contradict myself. My models are large.
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This balance isn't always easy to square in public communications! Someone might read them and see me as a polemicist, an apologist, or a hypocrite who wants it both ways.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I think the issue with text generation AI in particular is, though it is useful, it also encodes some ideological and ethical choices. So, I'm actively working with news outlets to help them adopt it (in a reporting assist capacity), but I am concerned about effects writ large.
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
It's been interesting to see the big differences between YouTubers who pursue mass audiences for bigger ad deals and YouTubers who build Patreon memberships. In defense of the hyperscalers like OpenAI, most big brands in American life trend toward duopoly.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Lot of circumlocution of late.
December 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Just two of the turkeys.
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I didn't see it initially, credit goes to @jeremybmerrill.com for this catch.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If there are 5.7 million people in Minnesota, how can 32 million turkeys be 23 to 1?
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Stranger Stranger Things
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Y Combinator would call this a pre-revenue metric. Would your advice be to focus on other metrics, or do something else?
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Turning the dial that says "mass psychosis" and looking backward for approval.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Like if we came into SMS contact with slaves daily (cursed world), how would we use that?
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The question I've always had is, "Okay so this is a good joke, but is it appropriate if the person is operating under those circumstances?" Not to be a killjoy, though, it's just an ethical line I wrestle with.
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
How does it respond to prompt injection and stylometry are the only ways to know.
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM