God I wish I could have a setting to only display shitposts and cool hobbies

back to avoiding this place because of Current Discourse

We do call it twenty twenty six is the thing

thank you Rafe for writing this to validate my being not entirely well adjusted (jk this is actually a very nice essay)

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

give the graphics cards and RAM back to the gamers, they never did anything evil with their computers

sounds ilke 1990s ShareWare. maybe not the worst thing ?!

my 2025 year in review

this is how I imagine the setting of every Arctic Monkeys song

this is a fantastic read and also feels like an omen (uncertain if good or bad omen) in light of my recent PhD implosion and decision to pursue a more hedonistic 2026

more than you ever wanted to know about my midlife crisis 🫣 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/pleasur...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do. (And you save a lot of time...)

October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.

I laughed like 4 times

#dataviz folks will also appreciate this one.

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

that’s right. this is especially true if you have an oil refinery. also never do shift changes, for the same reason

I think it was @elizas.website who said something about how most industrial accidents occur during scheduled maintenance, so the obvious answer is to not perform scheduled maintenance.

"the men in question were all in their 30s during the 2010s, putting them closer to their 50s than their 20s now" I'm in this sentence and I don't like it! @maiamindel.bsky.social's woke math is conspiring against me!!

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

unironically a good idea

just finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. it is very French, but also very good.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

i think this is @lastpositivist.bsky.social

Why do we never hear about Massive Sustain, Massive Decay, and Massive Release?

THIS made me realise a lot of what the "high decouplers" do is fail to understand the meta-context in which reasoning/thinking occurs and how that context shapes thinking itself, ie they're actually doing low metacognition.

Yes and not just software! I had to replace my washer and I spent so much time like "do they really mean AI or is there just some sensor and standard algorithm in there changing the agitation so the washer doesn't get imbalanced?"

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

is there a good citation discussing recent Gelman/Vehtari/etc style choices of prior? like what's on the Stan wiki but in the form of an academic paper? github.com/stan-dev/sta...

remember.

Sadly many supervisors view grad students (in health at least) as a resource to boost publication count rather than as a mentee and future colleague. If you respect your students, your first priority is to support their learning, rather than their supporting your KPIs.

someone referred to the poem The Tyger (by William Blake) but my terminally-online brain thought they meant The Tiger (by Nael (age 6)) which is, frankly, a better poem

uh oh i am back on the dating apps, pls send thoughts and prayers

I have been beating this dead horse re: cluster analyses & I'm back. I regret to say I just played around with creating some clusters from my own developer research but one of the charts looks ......how do I put this ....... like something that would be drawn on a teenager's desk? so I cannot share

is it just me or has the word "intentional" lost any semblance of actual meaning these days

This is so true, and works both up and down -- it's taken me decades to get over my natural reticence, but I've realised that it's almost never a mistake to give honest compliments and tell someone when you notice something great about them. It's a cheat code for building good relationships.

I will say that while I think this is true I also think that bureaucrats need more propoganda, if we only notice you guys the 1 in 100 times you fuck up then the 99 times where everything went fine don't end up mattering that much in the public eye, what I'm saying is that Control needs a tv show

hello bluesky, haven't been posting much lately but am still alive, recently spent some time in the mountains

The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle. A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation

18/20 (never had AOL because Australian, never used a waterbed)

don't mind me, literally been sitting here fighting myself on whether it's polite to call someone for like an hour 💀

this thread has a wealth of useful references in the replies

incredible how they stopped making good music after I turned 30

> looking for an ethicist to read > ask my arxiv summary bot if they are ted kaczynski or saul goodman > it doesn't understand > upload illustrated diagram of what is ted and what is saul > it praises my diagram and says "they're a good ethicist sir" > read the paper > they're ted

feels like there's been a big push to abandon anything like humanistic moral values, christian charity, or basic decency, but we're all supposed to be very obsessed with what is in our food and water, unless it's a chemical that's demonstrably toxic, then we need to let industry dump it into rivers