Esme Povirk
@madewokherd.bsky.social
Only here to follow people, likely won't actively post. Main account is @madewokherd@computerfairi.es (bridged to bsky as @madewokherd.computerfairi.es.ap.brid.gy)
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Inside you are two wolves.
They are anthropomorphic furry lesbians.
It honestly explains so much about you.
They are anthropomorphic furry lesbians.
It honestly explains so much about you.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Inside you are two wolves.
They are anthropomorphic furry lesbians.
It honestly explains so much about you.
They are anthropomorphic furry lesbians.
It honestly explains so much about you.
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Imagine thinking that Samus needed an awkward bespectacled sidekick and making it a fucking nerd guy, and not a really subby lesbian with a military hardware fetish.
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Imagine thinking that Samus needed an awkward bespectacled sidekick and making it a fucking nerd guy, and not a really subby lesbian with a military hardware fetish.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Parents Are You Tired Of Your Child Doing This?
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Parents Are You Tired Of Your Child Doing This?
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Some Advice for the Cis Women Taking Testosterone Now
https://www.them.us/story/cis-women-are-taking-testosterone-advice
https://www.them.us/story/cis-women-are-taking-testosterone-advice
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Some Advice for the Cis Women Taking Testosterone Now
https://www.them.us/story/cis-women-are-taking-testosterone-advice
https://www.them.us/story/cis-women-are-taking-testosterone-advice
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"suffering builds character" wrong
dissociation builds character, in fact it builds multiple characters
dissociation builds character, in fact it builds multiple characters
November 8, 2024 at 6:00 AM
"suffering builds character" wrong
dissociation builds character, in fact it builds multiple characters
dissociation builds character, in fact it builds multiple characters
madewokherd.nfshost.com/bookmarks/te... Updated my online bookmarks with links to Linux distros and static site generators. Feel free to reply if you have thoughts/disagree, I'm not married to any of this, but be constructive about it.
October 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
madewokherd.nfshost.com/bookmarks/te... Updated my online bookmarks with links to Linux distros and static site generators. Feel free to reply if you have thoughts/disagree, I'm not married to any of this, but be constructive about it.
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the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them
January 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
the fundamental problem of civilization is that humanity's highest calling is Hanging Out With Friends, but a small minority of humans are maniacally driven to control everyone else because no one wants to hang out with them
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Introducing the William Volk papers, a new digital collection in the VGHF Library!
Explore thousands of documents, developments schedules, and memos from the early history of Activision.
Read more: gamehistory.org/william-volk...
Explore thousands of documents, developments schedules, and memos from the early history of Activision.
Read more: gamehistory.org/william-volk...
Discovering Activision's early history | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Introducing the William Volk papers, a new digital collection in the VGHF Library!
Explore thousands of documents, developments schedules, and memos from the early history of Activision.
Read more: gamehistory.org/william-volk...
Explore thousands of documents, developments schedules, and memos from the early history of Activision.
Read more: gamehistory.org/william-volk...
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It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.
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"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 limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"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 limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
For my friends who like hypnosis, I made a thread on mastodon about how I think it's actually cargo cult BS computerfairi.es/@madewokherd... (I still like it though), and then another one about how to program responses computerfairi.es/@madewokherd... (no hypnosis or external assistance required).
September 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
For my friends who like hypnosis, I made a thread on mastodon about how I think it's actually cargo cult BS computerfairi.es/@madewokherd... (I still like it though), and then another one about how to program responses computerfairi.es/@madewokherd... (no hypnosis or external assistance required).
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"The subconscious" isn't a distinct part of your mind. You can be subconsciously aware of something, but it happens in the same part of your mind as conscious thought
July 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"The subconscious" isn't a distinct part of your mind. You can be subconsciously aware of something, but it happens in the same part of your mind as conscious thought
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My essay for PSYCHOSPIRITUAL is out now!
"Hypnosis is Irrational": A plea to practice hypnosis as something that doesn't make sense; a writing about weird experiences, bonfires, Quaker meetings, and Judaism; a discussion of transcendence.
www.tumblr.com/h-sleepingir...
or
itch.io/jam/psychosp...
"Hypnosis is Irrational": A plea to practice hypnosis as something that doesn't make sense; a writing about weird experiences, bonfires, Quaker meetings, and Judaism; a discussion of transcendence.
www.tumblr.com/h-sleepingir...
or
itch.io/jam/psychosp...
June 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My essay for PSYCHOSPIRITUAL is out now!
"Hypnosis is Irrational": A plea to practice hypnosis as something that doesn't make sense; a writing about weird experiences, bonfires, Quaker meetings, and Judaism; a discussion of transcendence.
www.tumblr.com/h-sleepingir...
or
itch.io/jam/psychosp...
"Hypnosis is Irrational": A plea to practice hypnosis as something that doesn't make sense; a writing about weird experiences, bonfires, Quaker meetings, and Judaism; a discussion of transcendence.
www.tumblr.com/h-sleepingir...
or
itch.io/jam/psychosp...
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tip: the more girls you add to a story the more yuri situations you're able to produce
tip #2: if you accidentally added any boys into your story then they can become girls
tip #2: if you accidentally added any boys into your story then they can become girls
May 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
tip: the more girls you add to a story the more yuri situations you're able to produce
tip #2: if you accidentally added any boys into your story then they can become girls
tip #2: if you accidentally added any boys into your story then they can become girls
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Got my hair cut and donated the excess
April 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Got my hair cut and donated the excess
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Hypnotizing someone is about teaching them how to experience trance, and you can't teach that all in one go. Even experienced subjects benefit from approaching hypnosis as a learning experience. You can, will, and should be surprised by trance in 5 or 10 years.
April 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hypnotizing someone is about teaching them how to experience trance, and you can't teach that all in one go. Even experienced subjects benefit from approaching hypnosis as a learning experience. You can, will, and should be surprised by trance in 5 or 10 years.
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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.
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.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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.
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.
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Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
wrd.cm
March 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.
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This reminds me of this piece of perfection.
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This reminds me of this piece of perfection.
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