🌟 never used a music streaming service in the first place.

Renowned religious scholar Filip Holm posted a video with the title "taqiyya explained", an important video about clarifying a term that is often the target of racist conspiracy theories. Youtube helpfully auto-translated the title to me as "Langeweile erklärt" ("boredom explained")

I'm turning into a real PS Vita sicko.

all stanning of popes is necessarily conditional, the Church is the Church, but the man said AI won't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation so with all our conditions intact yes we stan

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Mijn recensie van "Ik kom hier nog op terug" van Rob van Essen: Een fantastische reis in het verleden van een man ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #BookSky bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

Starting to think this Donald Trump guy might be a bit senile.

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

Happy International Men's Day to all trans men!

The "quantum healing" alternative medicine guy being buddies with Jeffrey Epstein... I thought alternative medicine was about distrusting existing power structures and not being corrupt?

Oh you are seeing a lot of success with AI language learning tools? You think I should try them? I'd rather fight a lion with my bare hands. I'd rather eat a rock. I'd rather swim in a pool of lava. #langsky

NEW: Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants. And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.

I joined Nebula just so I could listen to a nerd describe city facts in a monotone voice. No regrets!

Captain Torture

New awareness campaign

The Enshittification book is a victim of Amazon’s Enshittification futurism.com/artificial-i...

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

Here's my review of Gabriel Wyner's "Fluent Forever" (Revised Edition): A mostly competent guide to using flashcards, from the science of memory to the details of individual card creation, from beginner to fluency. I very much wish it didn't recommend LLMs. ⭐⭐⭐ bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

Sam Altman plugged a homework cheating machine into a coal fire plant & people used it to ruin their marriages & it cost us 8 great lakes & lost $9.4 wubillion dollars (subsidized)

My brain can only think of Bubsy 4D now. m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4bq...

what could possibly go wrong

Monolingual English speakers who complain that they sometimes interact with stuff that is not in their language are a special kind of insufferable.

Oooohhhhh... banana

This bit comes up a lot. "I wasn't talking about Jews, I was talking about Pharisees/money changers/The Mob." NT characters and caricatures don't stop being Jews just because the writer has never thought of them as such.

Xbox producer recommends laid off workers should use AI to 'help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss': aftermath.site/xbox-microsoft...

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it: aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...

Just don't fucking use AI. it's melting your brain. Stop.

The "meeting of state women's matter referents" of a *different state* than the home state of Nora Heidemann demanded from the German chess association to reinvestigate their trans rules. They are absolutely unqualified to level this demand.

"An official"? Which official? Reading into this matter, the people who demanded an investigation into whether trans people should be permitted in chess arenot in any way organizationally qualified to raise this demand. perlenvombodensee.de/2025/06/28/t...

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Anybody who is telling you that Comprehensible Input is the one and only way to learn a language is telling you a lie. What’s more, you might be getting sucked into a pseudo-religious purity cult about your favorite hobby. #langsky

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My review of Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman, "The Bible Unearthed, Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #religion bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

My review of Rutger Bregman, "Moral Ambition - Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference" ⭐⭐⭐ bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

I'm glad I learned just enough about machine learning for my previous job that I can now confidently say how much generative AI sucks ass.

My Review of The Bible Says So - What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture's Most Controversial Issues. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #religion bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

I'd say it's about time to get rid of this trope of "society collapses because of decadency". The idea has been authoritarian propaganda at the very least since Caesar talked about brave barbarians in constrast to lazy effeminate Romans.

Saying somebody is "on the wrong side of history" doesn't do anything. If you want to shape history so that this wish becomes reality, you need to get off your sofa and do something about it.

The supposed backpaddeling of the Duolingo CEO is just PR. Nothing changes - the product is still AI through and through.

"If we continue to feed the AI with data, eventually we'll get artificial general intelligence! We'll achieve consciousness!" Let's say you and me are both building a house.

Yeah, you could say I'm a gold star lesbian

On Lingunaut, the Duolingo alternative. I like how he understands how economic incentives create similar outcomes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=4fIx...

"Duolingo is still great for beginners" bruh it's addictive while being ineffective, that's the worst combination. It's getting you started with being addicted to Duolingo and *not* learning a language on your own terms and at your own pace. (A pace that *needs* to be faster than Duo's)

Follow my bookwyrm to see my reviews of the books I'm reading. Next review: Rutger Bregman, "Moral Ambition". Going to be a spicy review. bookwyrm.social/user/sabrina...

Generative AI doesn't "say" anything. It shits out word salad that *resembles* speech.

@maklelan.bsky.social Dear Dr. McClellan, People often offer a rebuttal to Christian nationalists, saying they would have hated the real Jesus. They say Jesus was a left-wing radical, liberal, fighting for immigrants and the poor etc. How did people anciently view Jesus, conservative or progressive?

If you're following my Mastodon, which you should, because it's where I make all my posts wandering.shop/@sabrinabonf..., you will have learned that I now have a bookwyrm to post my longer-form musics about books on.

The Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Jaramana, Damascus, with a large public turnout.💚