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We really do need to help our children build necessary AI literacies: Salt circles, protective incantations. An awareness that contracts with spirits are always trying to destroy you. Banishing. More banishing.

Os 3 Mosqueteiros Muppets, e só Peter Capaldi como Cardeal Richelieau é humano

This is an incredibly smart sentence.

The problem is that the homunculi come in packs of 8 but the homunculi buns only come in packs of 12.

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I tend to chuckle at the naivete of "it's UX when there are fewer clicks" but this is a legitimately frustrating change that added extra clicks for no reason.

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Evergreen

they've discovered another brontë - the first new brontë since the discovery of branwell in 1936. but this is particularly exciting since literary critics were pretty sure that additional brontës were impossible - all the rooms had been mapped in haworth parsonage, there was simply no space

Instant classic copypasta

Christina Chong, La'an, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Her performance at the end of "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" fucking BROKE me.

"GIVE US YOUR EMAIL TO READ THE FULL STORY." Guess whose story I'm not reading.

If you haven't already, there's loads of new games and modules in this charity bundle, check it out, :)

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

Great games for a great cause

Yes, it's 4 total, but 2 of them are Fast and 2 of them are Furious and you can't add the two together, it would be like saying 2x+2y=4xy

admiralty employee: oh hey you guys are back early sailor: venus's haunted admiralty employee: what sailor (loading the AA guns and getting back on the USS Langley): venus's haunted

ⓘ This account is for cyberbullying large accounts into being accessible by way of alt text

I’m so proud. After huge amounts of stress, hard work & self-doubt, I have finally finished my first novel. I think I might read another one.

A Constellation of Chronic Medical Conditions Commonly Seen in Autistic & ADHD Adults

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

Monkey’s paw curls…

Traditionally, information leading to the capture of a messiah only merits 30 pieces of silver.

My unique $100k R&D ocean floor gravimeter was lost at sea through unfortunate events. No funds for ship time for recovery so my PhD supervisor mortgaged his house & sent me. No pressure. I was in the lab with the ROV team when it showed up on sonar. Cheering erupted over the radio from the bridge.

We thought we were living in a cyberpunk dystopia but this is actually straight from Warhammer 40K. The machine spirit must be appeased using the proper rituals. Blessings affixed with purity seals will keep the cogitator functioning.

I'm not claiming to be a hero, but with every Cadbury MiniEgg I eat, that's a dog not getting chocolate poisoning. I've saved so many dogs.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Moody bisexual in space?

Shit, the number one thing that would help you develop your artistic skills is UBI

*screams in history of science*

"Nearly 80 years later, the simplex method is still among the most widely used tools when a logistical or supply-chain decision needs to be made under complex constraints." only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways www.wired.com/story/resear...

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it: "Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but news / social media—especially when constant, chaotic, and unfiltered—can hit our brains like a DDoS attack: overload attention, flood emotions, and make it hard to think clearly. It’s okay to step back and curate what you let in. Your mental uptime matters.

Lately....(this is also from last year) #art

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

And yes my villain origin story is people trying to explain to me in confusing detail why something I'm enjoying is "actually bad writing" when they could have just said "man idek why but I hated that shit so bad" and I would have been like "bummer, but legit"

Every time I get that “I don’t wanna go through the effort” feeling, I remember that there’s a population larger than Brazil’s that wouldn’t be able to see my hilarious meme, and then I add the alt-text. It’s not that hard, and it’s a kindness to others.

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

Automatically updating content can be extremely distracting, especially for users with vestibular disorders or attention difficulties. This could force users to scroll through page content to not see the animation, or to just look away. Allow animations to be paused or stopped.

I’ve shared this before on other platforms, but presenting for your benefit: Ursula Le Guin's writing schedule.