Dr J. Rosenbaum
@jrosenbaum.com.au
Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺
links page at minxdragon.com
links page at minxdragon.com
Quest sprout is what got me into @swordscomic.bsky.social and it reinforces my belief that we all need a lil guy in times of stress. This is a load bearing lil guy.
Just gonna post some Quest Sprout again because people need more joy 🌱
February 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Quest sprout is what got me into @swordscomic.bsky.social and it reinforces my belief that we all need a lil guy in times of stress. This is a load bearing lil guy.
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Me: "AI company asks AI to do unethical thing, publishes press release when it does. Are we trying to avert or immanentize the Torment Nexus, anyway?"
@aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud."
@aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud."
February 16, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Me: "AI company asks AI to do unethical thing, publishes press release when it does. Are we trying to avert or immanentize the Torment Nexus, anyway?"
@aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud."
@aaronsofaer.bsky.social: "All of the "AI" companies are trying to immanentize the Torment Nexus and most of them will even admit it out loud."
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You asked for a #poweronstorytoot #ebook collection. Here is Volume Zero (free!). Subsequent volumes will cover quarterly posts, so about 100 stories each. This one is the pre-history, 35 stories posted before I settled on a daily cadence.
I'm working with illustrators on an illustrated edition […]
I'm working with illustrators on an illustrated edition […]
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aus.social
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 AM
You asked for a #poweronstorytoot #ebook collection. Here is Volume Zero (free!). Subsequent volumes will cover quarterly posts, so about 100 stories each. This one is the pre-history, 35 stories posted before I settled on a daily cadence.
I'm working with illustrators on an illustrated edition […]
I'm working with illustrators on an illustrated edition […]
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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 AM
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
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The worst things in regards to mass surveillance big tech and the death of free speech that can happen are happening and all the people who spent their careers pretending to care about any of it are dead silent
February 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The worst things in regards to mass surveillance big tech and the death of free speech that can happen are happening and all the people who spent their careers pretending to care about any of it are dead silent
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TokenBeam support landed on RampenSau
meodai.github.io/rampensau/
It is sooo satisfying to see it with some real art!
meodai.github.io/rampensau/
It is sooo satisfying to see it with some real art!
February 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
TokenBeam support landed on RampenSau
meodai.github.io/rampensau/
It is sooo satisfying to see it with some real art!
meodai.github.io/rampensau/
It is sooo satisfying to see it with some real art!
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Reposted by Dr J. Rosenbaum
extremely rude of my baby to roast me by pointing at this character in her book and loudly insist it’s “daddy”
February 16, 2026 at 6:10 PM
extremely rude of my baby to roast me by pointing at this character in her book and loudly insist it’s “daddy”
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It's a little meta for a conference to sponsor a conference, but we're all about doing things differently for the sake of fun and whimsy (oh, and for the communities we all love!)
So come on down to @dddmelbourne.bsky.social this weekend =D
So come on down to @dddmelbourne.bsky.social this weekend =D
We're sponsoring the community space at DDD Melbourne 2026 this Saturday 21 February!
At PyCon AU, we care deeply about building safe, inclusive, community-first spaces, so we've got a lot in common.
Join us on Saturday to discuss your talk ideas or just hang out!
At PyCon AU, we care deeply about building safe, inclusive, community-first spaces, so we've got a lot in common.
Join us on Saturday to discuss your talk ideas or just hang out!
February 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM
It's a little meta for a conference to sponsor a conference, but we're all about doing things differently for the sake of fun and whimsy (oh, and for the communities we all love!)
So come on down to @dddmelbourne.bsky.social this weekend =D
So come on down to @dddmelbourne.bsky.social this weekend =D
Rizz em with the 'tism
Why does Nightcrawler have the most rizz
February 16, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Rizz em with the 'tism
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just used chatgpt to tell me how to circumvent claude's programming so i could use claude to tell me how to hack into grok which i then used to find everyone's credit card details on twitter which i will now collectively use to buy a home
February 16, 2026 at 7:25 PM
just used chatgpt to tell me how to circumvent claude's programming so i could use claude to tell me how to hack into grok which i then used to find everyone's credit card details on twitter which i will now collectively use to buy a home
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“I need a new identity. I’m told The Dane can fix me up?”
“Step on the platform please.”
“Is it safe?”
“You had safe; you’ve chosen freedom.”
“Uh….”
“Relax it’s just the coils out of a couple of scooter motors and some gear The Dane ripped off from a parking garage. You won’t feel a thing.” […]
“Step on the platform please.”
“Is it safe?”
“You had safe; you’ve chosen freedom.”
“Uh….”
“Relax it’s just the coils out of a couple of scooter motors and some gear The Dane ripped off from a parking garage. You won’t feel a thing.” […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
February 16, 2026 at 10:20 PM
“I need a new identity. I’m told The Dane can fix me up?”
“Step on the platform please.”
“Is it safe?”
“You had safe; you’ve chosen freedom.”
“Uh….”
“Relax it’s just the coils out of a couple of scooter motors and some gear The Dane ripped off from a parking garage. You won’t feel a thing.” […]
“Step on the platform please.”
“Is it safe?”
“You had safe; you’ve chosen freedom.”
“Uh….”
“Relax it’s just the coils out of a couple of scooter motors and some gear The Dane ripped off from a parking garage. You won’t feel a thing.” […]
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The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
i think what a lot of people never seem to realize is that a lot of people's vision of an "epic dream game" isn't actually very deep and comes down to scale and/or having a lot of features, whereas by embracing limitations you can be pushed in a far more radical direction.
rpgmaker definitely isn't the right tool for everyone, but I think using opinionated pre-baked tools to make some games would be very instructive to a lot of folks setting out to make their epic custom dream game. they're a much lower-stakes way to learn important lessons like "how to tell a story"
February 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard
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"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:04 AM
"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug
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> An error occurred accessing your remote calendar Victorian public holiday dates: 404 Not Found
www.vic.gov.au/ical lists iCal URLs which keep changing! The current one is www.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Just get a better CMS and use a consistent URL; you can do it, Vic Gov, I believe in you! 🤦🏻
www.vic.gov.au/ical lists iCal URLs which keep changing! The current one is www.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Just get a better CMS and use a consistent URL; you can do it, Vic Gov, I believe in you! 🤦🏻
iCal calendar downloads
Add iCal downloads to your Apple or Android calendar. Includes public holidays, school holidays and parliamentary sitting dates.
www.vic.gov.au
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
> An error occurred accessing your remote calendar Victorian public holiday dates: 404 Not Found
www.vic.gov.au/ical lists iCal URLs which keep changing! The current one is www.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Just get a better CMS and use a consistent URL; you can do it, Vic Gov, I believe in you! 🤦🏻
www.vic.gov.au/ical lists iCal URLs which keep changing! The current one is www.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Just get a better CMS and use a consistent URL; you can do it, Vic Gov, I believe in you! 🤦🏻
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Weird
OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI | TechCrunch
OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.
techcrunch.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Weird
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Do feel like AI tool developers should think about the obvious consequences sometimes
February 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Do feel like AI tool developers should think about the obvious consequences sometimes
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Happy Black History Month!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more!
Store: Bibipins.com
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more!
Store: Bibipins.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Happy Black History Month!
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more!
Store: Bibipins.com
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, back braces, knee braces, wrist braces, compression socks, cute bags & more!
Store: Bibipins.com
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Syncing contacts with third-party apps should disable your internet.
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Syncing contacts with third-party apps should disable your internet.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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Interested in some rare Nirvana In Utero promo stickers? I've had these for 30 years, time for them to move on.
ebay.us/m/YFH9jP
ebay.us/m/YFH9jP
Nirvana Geffen In Utero promo stickers x10 Rare | eBay Australia
10x Nirvana In Utero Geffen promo stickers.
ebay.us
February 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Interested in some rare Nirvana In Utero promo stickers? I've had these for 30 years, time for them to move on.
ebay.us/m/YFH9jP
ebay.us/m/YFH9jP
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ladies and gentlemen.... the FUTURE!
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
ladies and gentlemen.... the FUTURE!