Matt Freeman
@redmoleghost.bsky.social
Long-time nerd, gamer, and geeky enthusiast. He/him.
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TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!!! 🏳️⚧️✨
June 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!!! 🏳️⚧️✨
This is a really good campaign that I thoroughly enjoyed playing through.
If you want to grab THE DRACULA DOSSIER campaign at a discount, Pelgrane have just launched a promotion over at Backerkit.
The Dossier remains the Most Fun Thing I've ever written.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
The Dossier remains the Most Fun Thing I've ever written.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
Operation: CRIMSON GIFT
The Bourne trilogy meets Dracula in The Dracula Dossier, an expansive, fast-paced, modern horror campaign for the Night's Black Agents RPG. Cut loose by your agency, you must take down the vampiric co...
www.backerkit.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a really good campaign that I thoroughly enjoyed playing through.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
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LLMs by their design cannot function as search engines and cannot cite their sources because they don't do any analysis or synthesis.
"LLMs can only produce an amalgamation of a response that takes the form of text. They create a generic imprint of a response that appears coherent" (Williams, p34)
"LLMs can only produce an amalgamation of a response that takes the form of text. They create a generic imprint of a response that appears coherent" (Williams, p34)
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
LLMs by their design cannot function as search engines and cannot cite their sources because they don't do any analysis or synthesis.
"LLMs can only produce an amalgamation of a response that takes the form of text. They create a generic imprint of a response that appears coherent" (Williams, p34)
"LLMs can only produce an amalgamation of a response that takes the form of text. They create a generic imprint of a response that appears coherent" (Williams, p34)
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Especially if you are going to Dragonmeet this year, please can you boost this post? Would love to meet new faces at the hang out and have a good attendance to our panel 💜
I am BACK at Dragonmeet this year and we're doing things a bit differently. There's no all-day PoC Lounge this year but the midday hangout is STILL ON so come join us at any time between 12:30 and 2:30. We're also doing one panel where EVERYONE is welcome so catch us on Seminar Track 3 at 3:30💜
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Especially if you are going to Dragonmeet this year, please can you boost this post? Would love to meet new faces at the hang out and have a good attendance to our panel 💜
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that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan
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Media: it's really bad how young men don't read anymore
Also media: Lol look at these dickheads READING in PUBLIC
Also media: Lol look at these dickheads READING in PUBLIC
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Media: it's really bad how young men don't read anymore
Also media: Lol look at these dickheads READING in PUBLIC
Also media: Lol look at these dickheads READING in PUBLIC
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as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness
I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
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This is one of the reasons as a humanist who does not believe in the supernatural, I am still not anti-theist. Everybody needs different frameworks to deal with the curse of consciousness and motivate right action, if it gets you over here on Team Decency, we can argue about the terms as we go.
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is one of the reasons as a humanist who does not believe in the supernatural, I am still not anti-theist. Everybody needs different frameworks to deal with the curse of consciousness and motivate right action, if it gets you over here on Team Decency, we can argue about the terms as we go.
Always worth stopping in.
Here's where we'll be at Dragonmeet on Saturday 30th October at the ExCel in London. Come see us!
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Always worth stopping in.
Already signed the petition but flagging this again. Small pressure groups should not be able to overturn the actual users of the pool.
🏊♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision.
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019.
Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts.
1/5
November 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Already signed the petition but flagging this again. Small pressure groups should not be able to overturn the actual users of the pool.
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I switched a bunch of stuff from Hide to Warn. Follow instructions in this thread.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I switched a bunch of stuff from Hide to Warn. Follow instructions in this thread.
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succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
succubus - female demon that seduces men
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
incubus - male demon that seduces women
vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
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Also a good time to check ALL of your Bluesky moderation settings
A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action
A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Also a good time to check ALL of your Bluesky moderation settings
A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action
A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni.
We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...
We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It's going to be a difficult few days for racists. No sooner do we discover the attacker was a British man called Anthony Williams, we then discover the rail worker hero who almost gave his life to save others is called Samir Zitouni.
We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...
We can't wait to hear the hot takes on whether he is British...
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spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
spread Samir Zitouni’s name far and wide
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
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As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?
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I don't care how good the content is, if you use GenAI images for illustration I'm not opening, reading, or sharing your work.
Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.
Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I don't care how good the content is, if you use GenAI images for illustration I'm not opening, reading, or sharing your work.
Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.
Even beside the disrespect to creators - I don't trust the laziness to stop at the images.
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The posts of people I have chosen, presented in reverse chronological order.
That's it.
That's it.
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The posts of people I have chosen, presented in reverse chronological order.
That's it.
That's it.
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Personally, the best parts of bsky for me are the lack of algorithmic intrusion (chronological following feed if you choose that) and ample blocking options.
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Personally, the best parts of bsky for me are the lack of algorithmic intrusion (chronological following feed if you choose that) and ample blocking options.
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looking back on the cartoons and children’s media that mattered to me when I was young, I say this with absolutely zero irony: I think we need to start scaring the shit out of kids again
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
looking back on the cartoons and children’s media that mattered to me when I was young, I say this with absolutely zero irony: I think we need to start scaring the shit out of kids again