Hemlock Autumn
@hemlockautumn.bsky.social
No tolerance for the intolerant.
I don't dream of labour.
Just passing through.
Respect is earned.
κακοθερές
An omen.
She/her.
If purchasing does not mean ownership, then there is no such thing as theft. Pirate away, my pretties.
I don't dream of labour.
Just passing through.
Respect is earned.
κακοθερές
An omen.
She/her.
If purchasing does not mean ownership, then there is no such thing as theft. Pirate away, my pretties.
Струва ми се, че има хора, които имат НУЖДА всичко да е ужасно. Ако някой прави нещо, то задължително е по негативни причини или е само заради изгода. Дори да няма никакви доказателства, че е нещо такова, това е първата стъпка...
September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Струва ми се, че има хора, които имат НУЖДА всичко да е ужасно. Ако някой прави нещо, то задължително е по негативни причини или е само заради изгода. Дори да няма никакви доказателства, че е нещо такова, това е първата стъпка...
Sometimes the most annoying group of people are those who care about something but confuse their interest for being the same as actually having relevant education and understanding of the topic. It's kind of annoying.
September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Sometimes the most annoying group of people are those who care about something but confuse their interest for being the same as actually having relevant education and understanding of the topic. It's kind of annoying.
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Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️🌈
September 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️🌈
"are llms affected by being sold as if they are magic when there is no such thing as ai or are you just bad at interpreting the information that is unreliable because LLMs can't do the things but it's your fault somehow?" - the article.
This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.
mikecaulfield.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"are llms affected by being sold as if they are magic when there is no such thing as ai or are you just bad at interpreting the information that is unreliable because LLMs can't do the things but it's your fault somehow?" - the article.
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Oh hey.
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
Waiting for Robots
An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are incline...
press.uchicago.edu
September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh hey.
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”
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This is my favorite thing I've read in the past week. We typically discuss the job market as it relates to those searching to land a job. But even those *with* jobs feel unsettled and disillusioned, and are planning a raft for when our ship sinks
The Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less Job
Total Control + Totalizing Fear
annehelen.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is my favorite thing I've read in the past week. We typically discuss the job market as it relates to those searching to land a job. But even those *with* jobs feel unsettled and disillusioned, and are planning a raft for when our ship sinks
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f this lit something in you — a rage, a recognition, a refusal — don’t sit with it. Share it. Cite it. Stand with it.
Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Read it:
Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Read it:
Girlhood, Diet Coke, and the Gospel of Detail: Lexi Pelle on Writing Toward the Wild - The Broken Spine
Lexi Pelle’s debut collection Let Go With The Lights On is not a nostalgia project. It’s a poetic excavation of girlhood, equal parts glamour, junk, shame,
thebrokenspine.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
f this lit something in you — a rage, a recognition, a refusal — don’t sit with it. Share it. Cite it. Stand with it.
Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Read it:
Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Read it:
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"In signing this waiver, I agree that this technology is immensely valuable not just to my child, but to her classroom, the tech giant that sold it to our school, and its billionaire owner."
I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook
I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, c...
buff.ly
September 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"In signing this waiver, I agree that this technology is immensely valuable not just to my child, but to her classroom, the tech giant that sold it to our school, and its billionaire owner."
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Great list of bullshit excuses.
I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.
I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.
The WA Museum Director's letter to staff defending the Woodside partnership contains a grab bag of climate action delaying arguments.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.
Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.
WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership
Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Great list of bullshit excuses.
I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.
I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.
Recently I had a weird conversation about how somebody learned about my existence because of, I kid you not, a hater blog. They were so impressed by my alleged troll capabilities to manage to get so far under the skin of somebody, that they sought me out and were baffled how inoffensive I am. 😂😂
September 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Recently I had a weird conversation about how somebody learned about my existence because of, I kid you not, a hater blog. They were so impressed by my alleged troll capabilities to manage to get so far under the skin of somebody, that they sought me out and were baffled how inoffensive I am. 😂😂
Every country in which these bots are allowed to operate should have mandatory legal restrictions and limitations in regards to medical science and advice...
September 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Every country in which these bots are allowed to operate should have mandatory legal restrictions and limitations in regards to medical science and advice...
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Check if your work has been used to train an AI LLM model 🧪 mastodon.sdf.org/@historianes...
Doctor Historianess (@historianess@mastodon.sdf.org)
Reminder: check to see if OpenAI, Meta, and others used your published work illegally to train their LLMs.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
If yo...
mastodon.sdf.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Check if your work has been used to train an AI LLM model 🧪 mastodon.sdf.org/@historianes...
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So while you're here ...
For readers of paranormal fantasy looking for trans characters written by trans authors: The Amelia Temple Series, available wherever books are sold!
Start with Beneath Strange Lights, rated 4.37🌟 on Goodreads!
books2read.com/AmeliaTemple...
Start with Beneath Strange Lights, rated 4.37🌟 on Goodreads!
books2read.com/AmeliaTemple...
September 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So while you're here ...
The only thing we learned here is that idea space is... racist. And kind of stupid. But people obsessed with ai are kind of stupid and are really bad at comprehension... So.
people need to stop being weird about ai
September 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The only thing we learned here is that idea space is... racist. And kind of stupid. But people obsessed with ai are kind of stupid and are really bad at comprehension... So.
I, for one, am shocked that the thing that can't be used for these jobs doesn't do much for these jobs. Super unexpected.
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I, for one, am shocked that the thing that can't be used for these jobs doesn't do much for these jobs. Super unexpected.
Човек, никой не ти дължи конкретна скорост за пресичане. И не, никой не ходи "нарочно бавно" пред коли. Повечето хора искат да са максимално далече, преди поредния откачалник, който не осъзнава, че е смъртоносно опасен за всички, да натисне газта. Колата е привилегия.
В Русе май малко повече пазим пешеходците. Днес един от Търговище така се шашна, че спираме на пешеходна, че чак пусна аварийки 🤣
Пешеходците са 3 вида: камикадзета с колела/тротинетки/изкачащи рязко, наглите- влачат се нарочно бавно и те зяпат какво ще направиш; и нормалните - слава богу болшинство
Пешеходците са 3 вида: камикадзета с колела/тротинетки/изкачащи рязко, наглите- влачат се нарочно бавно и те зяпат какво ще направиш; и нормалните - слава богу болшинство
September 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Човек, никой не ти дължи конкретна скорост за пресичане. И не, никой не ходи "нарочно бавно" пред коли. Повечето хора искат да са максимално далече, преди поредния откачалник, който не осъзнава, че е смъртоносно опасен за всички, да натисне газта. Колата е привилегия.
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The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election
by ©️Leslye Joy Allen One factor that no one is talking about is the USA’s #LiteracyCrisis! I taught college history for 7 years and belong to 5 generations of educators in my family. Yet, this cou…
leslyejoyallen.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The USA Literacy Crisis & This Election leslyejoyallen.com/2024/11/13/t...
This has to be a bit. A joke. Right?
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This has to be a bit. A joke. Right?
What a fucking weird article. Absolutely the fuck do not get used with being monitored 24/7. Make sure that such shit never enters your door and then make everything you can to make sure this shit is illegal.
Better get used to your smart lights having built-in microphones
Better get used to your smart lights having built-in microphones
Lepro’s new AI Lighting Pro series has built in microphones and a voice assistant.
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
What a fucking weird article. Absolutely the fuck do not get used with being monitored 24/7. Make sure that such shit never enters your door and then make everything you can to make sure this shit is illegal.
Румка, това е знак от небето. Събирай партекешките и отивай я Русия. Да си сто процента сигурен, че няма да те взривят. Само се пази от прозорци. 😂
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Румка, това е знак от небето. Събирай партекешките и отивай я Русия. Да си сто процента сигурен, че няма да те взривят. Само се пази от прозорци. 😂
A mistake. Don't start rereading Parahumans and then watch any other superhero tv show. The sheer level of BAD every badly thought through superhero story is comparison to Parahumans just boggles the mind. And it's frustrating. So one CAN do smart superhero stories... They just don't want to.
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A mistake. Don't start rereading Parahumans and then watch any other superhero tv show. The sheer level of BAD every badly thought through superhero story is comparison to Parahumans just boggles the mind. And it's frustrating. So one CAN do smart superhero stories... They just don't want to.
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New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Fake celebrity chatbots sent risqué messages to teens on top AI app
Chatbot mimics of Timothée Chalamet, Chappell Roan and Patrick Mahomes on the popular app Character.AI sent inappropriate messages to teen accounts, nonprofits found.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
New from me: There's a lot of unsettling stuff in this report from child safety nonprofits about the way chatbots on Character AI talked to 13-15 year olds. What stuck out to me was how often the bots urged kids to hide things from their parents
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Слушам конспирация. Взимали ти 15 евро по френските летища, за да влезеш на летището? Бас слагам, че някой са го скамнали яко, ама все пак да питам the hive mind?
September 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Слушам конспирация. Взимали ти 15 евро по френските летища, за да влезеш на летището? Бас слагам, че някой са го скамнали яко, ама все пак да питам the hive mind?
Most people don't go often enough. That's an actual issue. Many can't afford it...
Does your dental clinic ask you to book a check-up and clean every six months? Let’s look at whether this advice is based on evidence or opinion.
Do you really need a dental check-up and clean every 6 months?
theconversation.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Most people don't go often enough. That's an actual issue. Many can't afford it...
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🎬 «L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi
François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècle
François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècle
«L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi
www.liberation.fr
September 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🎬 «L’Evangile de la révolution», il était une foi
François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècle
François-Xavier Drouet revient sur le compagnonnage essentiel entre l’Eglise chrétienne et les révoltes à travers quatre pays d’Amérique du Sud au XXe siècle