Grimpler
@wainsaht.bsky.social
amateur dilletante
Austria im Spätanthropozän
Austria im Spätanthropozän
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This is how you do it.
I started out researching sources of tin in the ancient world. 16 hours later I had 34 tabs open, including suspension bridges, singing stones, African leopard societies, 5th century naval warfare, and 16th century women's underwear.
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is how you do it.
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'd say there is no point in trying anymore. We have to treat every image, video or audio recording like we already treat written or spoken things. Might be true, might be false. Fact or fiction. Focus on who made that, and why.
And only then decide if it may be true.
And only then decide if it may be true.
I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit
October 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'd say there is no point in trying anymore. We have to treat every image, video or audio recording like we already treat written or spoken things. Might be true, might be false. Fact or fiction. Focus on who made that, and why.
And only then decide if it may be true.
And only then decide if it may be true.
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There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.
October 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.
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So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
I'm an environmental chemist. Sewage systems are sexy.
I'm an archaeologist. Sewage systems are sexy.
I’m a socialist mayor. Sewage systems are sexy.
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I'm an environmental chemist. Sewage systems are sexy.
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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So.. the rapture has been canceled, but we get the second coming of Jimmy Kimmel today?
September 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
So.. the rapture has been canceled, but we get the second coming of Jimmy Kimmel today?
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getting into my local punk scene as a kid legit saved my life (like, i am not saying this metaphorically, i was in a Very Bad Place when i was a preteen) so i am extremely supportive of this. getting into creative hobbies and interests is the Way
September 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
getting into my local punk scene as a kid legit saved my life (like, i am not saying this metaphorically, i was in a Very Bad Place when i was a preteen) so i am extremely supportive of this. getting into creative hobbies and interests is the Way
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Leveraging archaeological knowledge in designing for climate change adaptation.
Fascinating piece on how architects are rediscovering older technologies, materials and designs on how to keep cities cooler atmos.earth/the-future-o...
The Future of Cooling Was Invented Thousands of Years Ago | Atmos
As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies.
atmos.earth
August 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Leveraging archaeological knowledge in designing for climate change adaptation.
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I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.
I am a sucker for semi-random book recommendations like this one. A half-heard book review on the radio? A person on the internet I follow because whatever? The pick of the week by the book store with the weird t-shirt? Good enough for me. Great way to discover books I'd never have read otherwise.
I picked up this book because I had time and it was set in part where I was about to go to uni, so I thought why not?
And it's an absolute masterpiece of a novel. Consider this a very strongly worded recommendation 😉
And it's an absolute masterpiece of a novel. Consider this a very strongly worded recommendation 😉
@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
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buff.ly/8dVQ52k
August 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I am a sucker for semi-random book recommendations like this one. A half-heard book review on the radio? A person on the internet I follow because whatever? The pick of the week by the book store with the weird t-shirt? Good enough for me. Great way to discover books I'd never have read otherwise.
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Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
I don't understand how video game market can support so many farming games. Do young people yearn for the fields?
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
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#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl.
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
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Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
August 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl.
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
Dating second half of the 5th century BC.
On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.
📷 me
🏺
Pottery. The entire long history of people taking dirt and putting it near fire.
The finest samian ware, the blackest medieval pots. Your toilet bowl would have been a kingly marvel in the 17th century!
The finest samian ware, the blackest medieval pots. Your toilet bowl would have been a kingly marvel in the 17th century!
if u could open your own museum what would it be about what are u going to devote your life to curate
what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum
for me possibly the ramen museum
August 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pottery. The entire long history of people taking dirt and putting it near fire.
The finest samian ware, the blackest medieval pots. Your toilet bowl would have been a kingly marvel in the 17th century!
The finest samian ware, the blackest medieval pots. Your toilet bowl would have been a kingly marvel in the 17th century!
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Make the thing that only someone with your specific intersection of nerd special interests could make.
August 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Make the thing that only someone with your specific intersection of nerd special interests could make.
Sometimes I wonder how the historians of the year 2200 will explain today. Will it be a beginning or an end? Will we be A Cautionary Tale? Will the Morlocks even care?
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sometimes I wonder how the historians of the year 2200 will explain today. Will it be a beginning or an end? Will we be A Cautionary Tale? Will the Morlocks even care?
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
This is important to know and understand.
You can demonstrate “truth” until you’re blue in the face but if the audience won’t trust you it isn’t truth to them. The idea that there’s this obvious actual universal objective truth that requires no interpretation or prior assumptions is the naive position that prevents effective sci comm.
July 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is important to know and understand.
They should have mandatory Voight-Kampff tests for anyone elected to an office. How can you represent people without any empathy at all?
July 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
They should have mandatory Voight-Kampff tests for anyone elected to an office. How can you represent people without any empathy at all?
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hahah
July 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
hahah
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They are deceivers.
June 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
They are deceivers.