Brontë
@l004p.bsky.social
Software developer and illustrator. I’m just here to stalk all the cool people posting neat things…
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got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title
I love when my University education is being graded on “the quality of my interactions with ChatGPT”
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I love when my University education is being graded on “the quality of my interactions with ChatGPT”
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My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press
Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.
meson.press
February 9, 2026 at 10:11 PM
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
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I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨
February 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
I needed a banner so I figured I might as well draw all of my favorite things ☁️🏠✨
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The rocks always knew math, we just force them to perform for us
February 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM
The rocks always knew math, we just force them to perform for us
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The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
I landed on "slopagandist."
Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
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computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 AM
computer graphics (1984) archive.org/details/1984...
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Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.
April 29, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.
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Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈⬛
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈⬛
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I again am inviting you to write a post on my blog
it can be anything, leave poetry if you want
just visit here write something then hit publish
www.bobbby.online/editor
keeping it open til someone ruins it
it can be anything, leave poetry if you want
just visit here write something then hit publish
www.bobbby.online/editor
keeping it open til someone ruins it
Thoughts & Tidbits
The blog of a very creative but also very odd programmer in New York City. Matters discussed may be technical or absurd. All are welcome.
www.bobbby.online
January 21, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I again am inviting you to write a post on my blog
it can be anything, leave poetry if you want
just visit here write something then hit publish
www.bobbby.online/editor
keeping it open til someone ruins it
it can be anything, leave poetry if you want
just visit here write something then hit publish
www.bobbby.online/editor
keeping it open til someone ruins it
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Was going out to meet a fried to see if there were any birds out this morning, but arrived to some fun foggy conditions after a bit of snow last night.
#photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono
#photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Was going out to meet a fried to see if there were any birds out this morning, but arrived to some fun foggy conditions after a bit of snow last night.
#photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono
#photography #landscapephotography #ClassicMono
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This year’s New Year mailing, featuring del Toro’s response to AI art. Feels appropriate to set in 19th century type & ornament given the unbelievable (and largely lost) skill needed to design & cast items with this level of detail. #letterpress
January 13, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This year’s New Year mailing, featuring del Toro’s response to AI art. Feels appropriate to set in 19th century type & ornament given the unbelievable (and largely lost) skill needed to design & cast items with this level of detail. #letterpress
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"We bridge this gap and show that it is feasible to extract memorized, long-form parts of copyrighted books
from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
Extracting books from production language models
Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized dat...
arxiv.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM
"We bridge this gap and show that it is feasible to extract memorized, long-form parts of copyrighted books
from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
from four production LLMs." arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
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Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2]
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/
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I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.
Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback
The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.
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Sciences like anthropology are so valuable because they provide refutations to "this is the way it always was, and thus the way it has to be" type assertions. Its very different to the science I do, but perhaps even more valuable.
honestly something i'm noticing is that whenever a midwit hack wants to make an empirical claim about "the way humanity is" without reading any social science they always just go to primatology
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sciences like anthropology are so valuable because they provide refutations to "this is the way it always was, and thus the way it has to be" type assertions. Its very different to the science I do, but perhaps even more valuable.
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free Bluesky tip: if you see someone claiming that an LLM is a "nonhuman entity" you don't have to take them seriously, you can, in fact, make fun of them for being a mark in a game that's being played at their own expense
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
free Bluesky tip: if you see someone claiming that an LLM is a "nonhuman entity" you don't have to take them seriously, you can, in fact, make fun of them for being a mark in a game that's being played at their own expense
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Hi new people. I’m Eva and I mainly post my own fantasy drawings and paintings.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hi new people. I’m Eva and I mainly post my own fantasy drawings and paintings.
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Anna Weyant (Canadian Artist, born 1995)
"It’s Coming from inside the House", 2024.
Oil on Canvas, 121.9 × 91.4 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"It’s Coming from inside the House", 2024.
Oil on Canvas, 121.9 × 91.4 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Anna Weyant (Canadian Artist, born 1995)
"It’s Coming from inside the House", 2024.
Oil on Canvas, 121.9 × 91.4 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"It’s Coming from inside the House", 2024.
Oil on Canvas, 121.9 × 91.4 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009.
Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper.
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Binding design for the 150th anniversary edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, published by The Folio Society, 2009.
Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper.
#ArtAdventCalendar
Gold, copper, and silver gouache on blue Winsor & Newton pastel paper.
#ArtAdventCalendar
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Boris is still at it and still gets it. Logging properly is on you and rn your: loggingsucks.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Boris is still at it and still gets it. Logging properly is on you and rn your: loggingsucks.com
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It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this
Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It sounds like Waymo failed to program the vehicles to switch to stop sign mode in the event of a failed light? Every human driver has to learn this rule, and I don’t understand how the California DMV can possibly justify licensing any “driver” including an algorithm that doesn’t know this