Kyle Kirkpatrick
@makenothing.bsky.social
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So much of what we as creatives want to do is mired in draconian copyright laws, but AI gets it all for free.
Okay.
Okay.
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So much of what we as creatives want to do is mired in draconian copyright laws, but AI gets it all for free.
Okay.
Okay.
Sunshine? Nature?! FRESH AIR?! 😵
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Sunshine? Nature?! FRESH AIR?! 😵
I held a tiny little bird today. It was just sitting there on the ground, in the walkway. I think maybe it hit the window and was dazed. I pet it—it's alive—but it didn't move. I scooped it up and it perched on my open hand. I stood with it for a moment.
September 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I held a tiny little bird today. It was just sitting there on the ground, in the walkway. I think maybe it hit the window and was dazed. I pet it—it's alive—but it didn't move. I scooped it up and it perched on my open hand. I stood with it for a moment.
Grocery shopping tonight and I was *assaulted* by this cover of Fast Car. Why must everything be homogenized and pasturized? I hate when they take something good, drench it in corn syrup, and cram it in a box.
something in me gets irrationally angry when they play that random country singers cover of fast car instead of the original
September 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Grocery shopping tonight and I was *assaulted* by this cover of Fast Car. Why must everything be homogenized and pasturized? I hate when they take something good, drench it in corn syrup, and cram it in a box.
Much love for Hermeto Pascoal. You are an inspiration and you will be dearly missed.
youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM
youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM
Hermeto Pascoal - Música da Lagoa (Sinfonia do Alto Ribeira, 1985)
YouTube video by Hermeto Pascoal
youtu.be
September 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Much love for Hermeto Pascoal. You are an inspiration and you will be dearly missed.
youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM
youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM
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If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
August 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it:
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
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I love how an increasing number of rubes are entrusting their entire lives to a piece of software that wouldn't even be able to pass the dementia clock test
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
August 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I love how an increasing number of rubes are entrusting their entire lives to a piece of software that wouldn't even be able to pass the dementia clock test
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Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
How big tech is force-feeding us AI:
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For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.
People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”
I’ve never had someone in real life tell me how amazing ChatGPT has been for them with a concrete example but I’m hearing more and more stories of people’s lives being significantly disrupted by it in a bad way (ex from this morning: a friend of a friend’s dad is “dating” ChatGPT)
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For reals. Humanity has had access to ChatGPT for several years now and no one has generated a single piece of creative art or media that has had any impact whatsoever. If ChatGPT did what they say it does, we would be witnessing a huge influx of culture shattering novels, movies, etc.
Inevitable bad advice on every "which laptop should I buy?" thread: "Get a gaming laptop! My MSI has 2 minutes of battery life and a keyboard that feels like a pack of gum, but it's so much cheaper!"
July 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Inevitable bad advice on every "which laptop should I buy?" thread: "Get a gaming laptop! My MSI has 2 minutes of battery life and a keyboard that feels like a pack of gum, but it's so much cheaper!"
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With the brutal layoffs it isn't even the "AI taking our jobs" part, just the promise of AI taking jobs that's providing cover for CEOs to undertake the highest level of short term cost reduction stock boost that would otherwise trouble even the most myopic investors.
July 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
With the brutal layoffs it isn't even the "AI taking our jobs" part, just the promise of AI taking jobs that's providing cover for CEOs to undertake the highest level of short term cost reduction stock boost that would otherwise trouble even the most myopic investors.
It's called lubriCAN not lubriCAN'T.
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's called lubriCAN not lubriCAN'T.
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I always thought I just didn’t like golf and what I’m coming to realize is that actually I truly hate golf
June 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I always thought I just didn’t like golf and what I’m coming to realize is that actually I truly hate golf
Why are all the toys I liked now marketed specifically for autistic kids? Why? Whatever could be the reason?
www.thetherapystore.com.au/speks-spectrum
www.thetherapystore.com.au/speks-spectrum
SPEKS - Spectrum
SPEKS - Spectrum - SPEKS
www.thetherapystore.com.au
June 3, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Why are all the toys I liked now marketed specifically for autistic kids? Why? Whatever could be the reason?
www.thetherapystore.com.au/speks-spectrum
www.thetherapystore.com.au/speks-spectrum
#Saxophone players get away with murder.
Constantly doing things you'd never let any singer do. Scooping up into every note. Bending pitch, hunting for a note, and never hitting it. Obnoxious runs full of squeeks and squaks. And the climax of a sax solo? A banshee shriek... every time.
Constantly doing things you'd never let any singer do. Scooping up into every note. Bending pitch, hunting for a note, and never hitting it. Obnoxious runs full of squeeks and squaks. And the climax of a sax solo? A banshee shriek... every time.
May 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
#Saxophone players get away with murder.
Constantly doing things you'd never let any singer do. Scooping up into every note. Bending pitch, hunting for a note, and never hitting it. Obnoxious runs full of squeeks and squaks. And the climax of a sax solo? A banshee shriek... every time.
Constantly doing things you'd never let any singer do. Scooping up into every note. Bending pitch, hunting for a note, and never hitting it. Obnoxious runs full of squeeks and squaks. And the climax of a sax solo? A banshee shriek... every time.
Proud of Australia is today! Tremendous rejection of the conservative coalition.
May 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Proud of Australia is today! Tremendous rejection of the conservative coalition.
Let's go back to a website.
April 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Let's go back to a website.
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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.
PSA: Planet America is a show by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about American current events. It's a better, more direct resource than most American news sources. And with an outsider perspective, it's a fairly neutral and disspationate view. Watch it on YouTube.
youtu.be/gnIzu65Ri5k
youtu.be/gnIzu65Ri5k
Trump's tariffs are causing chaos, but is he bluffing? | Planet America
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
PSA: Planet America is a show by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about American current events. It's a better, more direct resource than most American news sources. And with an outsider perspective, it's a fairly neutral and disspationate view. Watch it on YouTube.
youtu.be/gnIzu65Ri5k
youtu.be/gnIzu65Ri5k
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Life hack: Whenever anyone in a meeting mention's AI, just say: "Oh, you mean a statistical model". Them: "No, I mean artificial intelligence.". You: "Yes, as I said a statistical model". Meeting ends, chaos reigns, consultants are called, someone orders pizza.
April 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Life hack: Whenever anyone in a meeting mention's AI, just say: "Oh, you mean a statistical model". Them: "No, I mean artificial intelligence.". You: "Yes, as I said a statistical model". Meeting ends, chaos reigns, consultants are called, someone orders pizza.
Solid list of tech companies to boycott. Encompasses orgs with unethical ownership, deep privacy and data mining concerns, monopolistic behaviour, and fundamental counter-incentives (deriving most revenue from advertising means the advertisers are your customers and users are the product you sell)
April 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Solid list of tech companies to boycott. Encompasses orgs with unethical ownership, deep privacy and data mining concerns, monopolistic behaviour, and fundamental counter-incentives (deriving most revenue from advertising means the advertisers are your customers and users are the product you sell)
To all of my US friends that protested today: Thank you for your service.
April 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
To all of my US friends that protested today: Thank you for your service.
Kudos to #Nintendo, not once in the #Switch2 direct or any of the press materials did Nintendo mention #AI. It's just a product with features that people might legitimately be interested in. #Nvidia has confirmed a host of ML features are in the console, but Nintendo gracefully sidestepped AI buzz.
April 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#Switch2 big unanswered question: do Joycon 2 have analog triggers? Gamecube had my favourite analog triggers, and great use-cases for them (loved Rogue Squadron 3 and Mario Sunshine). Gamecube games are coming to Nintendo Online on Switch 2. Perfect time to bring back analog triggers!
April 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#Switch2 big unanswered question: do Joycon 2 have analog triggers? Gamecube had my favourite analog triggers, and great use-cases for them (loved Rogue Squadron 3 and Mario Sunshine). Gamecube games are coming to Nintendo Online on Switch 2. Perfect time to bring back analog triggers!