🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any)

This only makes sense if the dead body is the department chair’s.

So a lot of the hype around LLMs and a lot of the userbase just fundamentally misunderstands what the technology is and what it’s capable of, instead treating it like a mythical supernatural or religious being. The industry openly encourages this delusion for profit

Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

They just don’t get it. We’re boycotting for a reason. If they want their old, dedicated shoppers back they must reinstate DEI programs and meet specific investments in Black businesses and banks. Their actions set them up to be the focus of consumer ire against unprincipled corporations.

Computer, enhance:

Wish I had time to write this up but - whataboutism basically never makes any sense???

Eg: 'Data centre water concerns are silly because alfalfa farms are bigger water users'

So......there's a massive industry sucking up water and that justifies making the problem worse with an extra new thing??

that's great! and now the AI bubble can burst without interfering with your art.

Peer review would be easier if we stopped treating it like combat with the authors. Results want to be free, and perfect is the enemy of good. Do the data support the conclusions? If so, that’s enough. A paper isn’t a blank slate for projecting your own ideas.

so how'd the play go?

I cannot think of *one* "here to stay" argument that survives the VCs running out of money to set on fire for chatbots in 1.5-2 years at most. Then the API prices 10x.

I have a list, and all the "here to stay" arguments fall to it:

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...

It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich Feeding slop is an act of war

Not sure what "entirely generated" means, exactly, but I feel we need new norms around this. Here's a blog I like about "etiquette", "consent", and what should be considered "rude" when sharing AI-generated content. Disclosures after the fact do not cut it, IMO. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

not sure how well it'd translate to crochet but aye-ayes are unusual in multiple senses of the word

one of the unanticipated benefits of using a guitar tuning app is finding out what note random background noises are closest to. like a C# burp.

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

People overseas love their kids just as much as you love yours. Your kids aren’t more special just because they were born on US soil

can't believe they blew up an elementary school WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE PROPER CHANNELS

i've noticed some people share a screenshot as a substitute for making their point with words, and it's often not sufficient. it hinges on the load bearing assumption that the other person will have the same context and thought process, without actually sharing the context and thought process.

This is your regularly scheduled reminder to please take two seconds to check if that inflammatory post you’re about to share is factually accurate before sharing it. This is extra important in times of heightened stress and conflict, not less important.

There is no replacement for actual subject-matter expertise.

What if we just…you know…didn’t use AI, given that we’ve seen approximately 1 billion red flags?

on behalf of the bluesky team i am excited to announce our newest feature!

Now in addition to replies and quotes, we have the "don't reply"

here's how it works:
1. you see a post that does not mention you
2. you "don't reply" to it
3. the app shows you more posts

the trolley problem is that urban areas have waaay too few trams

(except Melbourne, which only has somewhat too few)

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

absolutely

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

the NIMBY-coded belief I think is actually true is that letting your city become so oriented towards tourism that it crowds out other economic activity produces bad outcomes for most of the people who actually live there.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

Where you look next isn’t arbitrary.
In our new paper, we model human eye movements in immersive visual search as reinforcement learning under cognitive constraints. 🧵

three vampires from the movie Sinners trying to persuade a human that they're totally chill and normal

come back to twitter, it's the commons