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perceptophore.bsky.social
Peter Meilstrup
@perceptophore.bsky.social
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Show me some phenomena….
Seattle bus rider. Tinkerer with #rstats and bikes and things.
Onetime vision scientist (motion + crowding), interested in data science, open science & reproducibility.
https://github.com/crowding
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perceptophore.bsky.social
playing Gone Home. It appears to be a game about losing pens underneath the furniture
August 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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squidtips.bsky.social
SEATTLE PEEPS

Word on the street is that tomorrow ICE is planning to ambush people heading to court at the Federal building downtown from 8-4 tomorrow

Check it out if you want to help observe, obstruct, report, resist, or otherwise get involved in crushing some ICE
July 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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fack.bsky.social
So is literate programming making a huge comeback in the age of vibecoding or nah?
June 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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edzitron.com
It is a political open goal to go after these companies. They’re unsympathetic, disconnected from humanity, their leaders are charmless and bland pseudo-people with a flimsy attachment to reality and nothing to lose. Run them into the ground - people love technology, but they hate the tech industry.
June 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
perceptophore.bsky.social
Level 3 automation arrives at 0:32 in this clip

youtu.be/frGoalySCns?...
Tesla model 3 2025 FSD 13.2.8 crash front view
YouTube video by Syn Gates
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May 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
perceptophore.bsky.social
Optical #illusion found online. Most commenters thought the boards were of different widths. I think they're the same width and the cut is something other than 45 degrees.
The corner of a deck, with two sets of parallel boards running at right angles meeting in a miter cut. Annoyingly, the boards from one side do not align with their counterparts on the other side.
May 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
perceptophore.bsky.social
Why can’t they make the smoke alarm battery alert so that you can tell what room it’s coming from?
May 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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swolecialism.bsky.social
(Its honestly stunning how *far* you can see it from once you know where it is)
Satellite photo of Spain. On the southern coast, about halfway between Gibraltar and Valencia, a circle is drawn on a thumbnail shaped peninsula that is basically solid white color. All that white is greenhouses
May 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Even linkedin is starting to get it
View profile for Sergio Visinoni Sergio Visinoni 2nd CTO | Tech Advisor | Mentor | Newsletter Author 5d Follow We keep hearing that AI will soon replace software engineers, but we're forgetting that it can already replace existing jobs... and one in particular. The average Founder CEO. Before you walk away in disbelief, look at what LLMs are already capable of doing today: ↳ They use eloquence as a surrogate for knowledge, and most people, including seasoned investors, fall for it. ↳ They regurgitate material they read somewhere online without really understanding its meaning. ↳ They fabricate numbers that have no ground in reality, but sound aligned with the overall narrative they're trying to sell you. ↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had. ↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't. ↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place. ↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events. ↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do. ↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes. ↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.
April 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy
i swear i am not actively searching for it but the amount of "crows have pretty good statistical literacy" work i'm seeing is starting to raise questions for which i don't have good answers.
Part of a figure from Liao et al. "Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations", Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0984
April 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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harpy.party
please use alt text on your screenshots so that my mute list prevents me from having to see the dumb shit you've screenshotted
April 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
perceptophore.bsky.social
This guy literally said theonion.com/historians-q...
April 18, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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crumbedup.bsky.social
so to explain to anyone not in the know Autism Speaks has a long rep for being run by ableist eugenicist fucks

them being on this is like if a letter from a bunch of religious advocacy groups condemning crimes against humanity got cosigned by the Literal Devil
April 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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hayao.lol
classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity
Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera
January 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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medievalmvb.bsky.social
Ice T Law & Order meme: Ice T is saying “LLMs are making up the names of software packages in their code and hackers are naming their malware to fit. The script kiddies are calling it ‘slopsquatting’.”
April 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
perceptophore.bsky.social
Just watched this. My takeaway is that a helicopter is a machine that is always primed and ready to have its rotor just fall off
Mast Bumping - Causes and Prevention
YouTube video by PublicResourceOrg
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April 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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mehr.nz
If the vibe is discovery! Excitement! Collaboration! Learning! etc I think people are much more likely to do good science in decent quantities than they are if the vibe is (in contrast) "how can each of us get ahead", "we're the best and everybody else sucks", "competition produces discovery" etc
April 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
perceptophore.bsky.social
We’re in the third year of people mostly of the managerial class being convinced that word prediction machines will attain consciousness any day now

I’m increasingly suspicious that the managerial class does not actually have consciousness

I wonder if anyone wrote a book about this 150 years ago
April 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
perceptophore.bsky.social
You know what is a good combination is a traditional Celtic tune with Saharan blues fingerstyle. #nowplaying #bikesky youtu.be/1sL6nQ_LkL0?...
Sam Grassie "Jarabi, Winter has Gone" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sam Grassie
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March 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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serena.nz
big L for literacy rn. why read when all i get is psychic damage
March 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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irhottakes.bsky.social
I like how every single person in Britain is a miserable cynic except for this one specific guy who they keep around to write editorials like “I thought the jam sandwich could not be improved, but then I discovered marmalade.”
March 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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spavel.bsky.social
"A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer."
mastodon.social/deck/@jasong...
March 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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utopia-defer.red
Seattle fucking rules as a city, I do not understand the hate. It is cold, windy, wet, brutalist, and alive.
March 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM