Athiette
@athiette.bsky.social
When you discover something long neglected about yourself, leaning in can take you amazing places. Non-binary Trans Woman, ND, Pan 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈, she/fae/they
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I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit
So delightful. Really looking forward to seeing the new one 😊
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
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December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
So delightful. Really looking forward to seeing the new one 😊
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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This has the potential to enrage the American hardline Catholics even more 🤣
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This has the potential to enrage the American hardline Catholics even more 🤣
There is something weirdly circular about the fact that the woman who the new atheists turned misogynistic at during elevator-gate is in the Epstein files because she challenged Lawrence Krauss over his public defence of Epstein and Krauss forwarded that interaction to him 🤦♀️
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
There is something weirdly circular about the fact that the woman who the new atheists turned misogynistic at during elevator-gate is in the Epstein files because she challenged Lawrence Krauss over his public defence of Epstein and Krauss forwarded that interaction to him 🤦♀️
Every time I’m reminded about this I wonder about how it would screw up trying to learn another language later in life. It seems like it would be hell to build a mental library of connections between words in each language if you don’t have much of a mental library of English words to start with
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Every time I’m reminded about this I wonder about how it would screw up trying to learn another language later in life. It seems like it would be hell to build a mental library of connections between words in each language if you don’t have much of a mental library of English words to start with
I genuinely thought prime gaming was mostly a way of incentivising keeping a prime subscription for twitch by handing out free games. I had no idea it was trying to be a store competing with steam O.o
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I genuinely thought prime gaming was mostly a way of incentivising keeping a prime subscription for twitch by handing out free games. I had no idea it was trying to be a store competing with steam O.o
It’s delightful to imagine the conniptions the conservative side of American Catholicism will be having over the fact that this is clearly the variant of Catholicism the Pope endorses
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It’s delightful to imagine the conniptions the conservative side of American Catholicism will be having over the fact that this is clearly the variant of Catholicism the Pope endorses
EA getting run into destruction by private equity is not going to be good, despite all the problems with how they treat studios O.o
Wait was EA’s big GenAI push a bid to convince potential buyers that it could lower operating costs after a purchase to help pay for debts??
They have like four whole game studios making the Battlefield series, you can’t run a CoD-competing juggernaut with automation.
www.ft.com/content/be98...
They have like four whole game studios making the Battlefield series, you can’t run a CoD-competing juggernaut with automation.
www.ft.com/content/be98...
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
EA getting run into destruction by private equity is not going to be good, despite all the problems with how they treat studios O.o
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A new, excellent example of Betteridge's law.
Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe
A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads
econ.st
September 5, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A new, excellent example of Betteridge's law.
Love this
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Love this
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This in combination with the ‘wokeness out of any AI that has contracts with the US federal government’ exec order means that ChatGPT enterprise (and frankly probably the whole thing) is very likely to lie about trans people on behalf of the US government, on top of the hallucination problems
OpenAI on Wednesday announced it will offer its ChatGPT Enterprise product to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year, making its technology available to the federal executive branch workforce at “essentially no cost.”
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT to the government for $1
OpenAI said agencies will get access to its frontier models through ChatGPT Enterprise, and it will also offer access to features like Advanced Voice Mode.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This in combination with the ‘wokeness out of any AI that has contracts with the US federal government’ exec order means that ChatGPT enterprise (and frankly probably the whole thing) is very likely to lie about trans people on behalf of the US government, on top of the hallucination problems
I forgot to vote in the hottest 100 of Oz, but for the people confused about why The Veronicas clocked in at number 3, I’m a queer millennial and if I had voted the only solid lock for my top 10 would have been Untouched
July 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I forgot to vote in the hottest 100 of Oz, but for the people confused about why The Veronicas clocked in at number 3, I’m a queer millennial and if I had voted the only solid lock for my top 10 would have been Untouched
Really looking forward to the time when someone suggests using copilot in a project I’m on and I tell them I refuse to do that because the ai claims I don’t exist due to the pressure this order applies to Microsoft 🤦♀️
Trump is literally trying to ban AI from acknowledging trans people exist.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
July 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Really looking forward to the time when someone suggests using copilot in a project I’m on and I tell them I refuse to do that because the ai claims I don’t exist due to the pressure this order applies to Microsoft 🤦♀️
Oh, I see, Destiny 2 has decided that for the next 6 months only about 1/3rd of the builds in the game are allowed in the grandmaster conquests that are meant to replace the main thing I spent my time doing. They really are just intent on dropping this ball 🤦♀️
July 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Oh, I see, Destiny 2 has decided that for the next 6 months only about 1/3rd of the builds in the game are allowed in the grandmaster conquests that are meant to replace the main thing I spent my time doing. They really are just intent on dropping this ball 🤦♀️
Kind of wild that Destiny 2 is losing players and trying to give people reasons to stay and start and yet their new expansion follows up an actually really intriguing story with a punishing light grind as a prerequisite to play interesting levels of content 🤦♀️
July 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Kind of wild that Destiny 2 is losing players and trying to give people reasons to stay and start and yet their new expansion follows up an actually really intriguing story with a punishing light grind as a prerequisite to play interesting levels of content 🤦♀️
The fundamental mistake is believing that a different legal strategy could have won that case. There’s no use reaching back to the 19th century for precedent to win an argument when the environment you’re in aligns with Germany in the 1930s
21 Jul 25 -- The Baffler Historian Jules Gill-Peterson has a provocative new essay for the Baffler. Jules argues for a right to change sex grounded in trans history and the 14th Amendment and seeks to replace the current liberal ideal of individual self-actualization through gender identity.
Reject Transgender Liberalism | Jules Gill-Peterson
In the wake of the most recent Supreme Court term, it’s clear the trans movement must change legal and political course—but what might that look like?
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July 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The fundamental mistake is believing that a different legal strategy could have won that case. There’s no use reaching back to the 19th century for precedent to win an argument when the environment you’re in aligns with Germany in the 1930s
D2 edge of fate really nails the difficult story job the end of the light and darkness saga left it. The writing and delivery is superb, and it’s both a great contained story and a good lead-in for what’s coming next. Honestly wasn’t expecting them to land this this well
July 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
D2 edge of fate really nails the difficult story job the end of the light and darkness saga left it. The writing and delivery is superb, and it’s both a great contained story and a good lead-in for what’s coming next. Honestly wasn’t expecting them to land this this well
Really just a good (/s) feeling to see a British Labour government replicating one of Margret Thatcher’s great evils, except for trans people this time 🤦♀️
We've moved from 'don't say gay' to 'ban trans'. But this time, it's the policy of a 'Labour' Government.
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will:
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
- Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender"
- Teaches children the laws about "biological sex"
- Removes all references to the word transgender
What we know so far 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Really just a good (/s) feeling to see a British Labour government replicating one of Margret Thatcher’s great evils, except for trans people this time 🤦♀️
The factors listed as likely to contribute to slowdown align with my prior thoughts about ai coding, i.e. that the fact it doesn’t reason or understand context means it might help for discreet pieces of code but causes real problems with things that have to interoperate in a code base …
July 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The factors listed as likely to contribute to slowdown align with my prior thoughts about ai coding, i.e. that the fact it doesn’t reason or understand context means it might help for discreet pieces of code but causes real problems with things that have to interoperate in a code base …
Veeeery interesting to see a quantitative study that shows developers thought they were sped up by ai when coding but they were observably slowed. Thread has valuable discussion and important caveats
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Veeeery interesting to see a quantitative study that shows developers thought they were sped up by ai when coding but they were observably slowed. Thread has valuable discussion and important caveats
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I go into depth about this, showing how responses are pieced together from frequently co-occuring text, creating responses which seem plausible but are fabrications — or in the case of results influenced by gov websites, reproductions of the current regime's language and source choices, not fact.
Since the release of the HHS report, both Copilot and ChatGPT have begun to reference "gender exploratory therapy" as a "first line approach" for gender dysphoria by elevating the Therapy First website to the top of the SEO food chain.
July 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I go into depth about this, showing how responses are pieced together from frequently co-occuring text, creating responses which seem plausible but are fabrications — or in the case of results influenced by gov websites, reproductions of the current regime's language and source choices, not fact.
Need to make a mental note that when I talk about AI not being at all reliable I should mention the credulity as well as the tendency to hallucinate. In an era where ‘official’ sources are actively lying, it should be obvious not to trust a purported summariser with no judgement
July 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Need to make a mental note that when I talk about AI not being at all reliable I should mention the credulity as well as the tendency to hallucinate. In an era where ‘official’ sources are actively lying, it should be obvious not to trust a purported summariser with no judgement
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off-brand post but did you ever watch your partner talk about a special subject you know nothing about and find them insanely attractive? Like god yes baby tell me more about Warhammer lore I’m getting like 50% of it but I love the way those cheekbones look when you smile
July 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
off-brand post but did you ever watch your partner talk about a special subject you know nothing about and find them insanely attractive? Like god yes baby tell me more about Warhammer lore I’m getting like 50% of it but I love the way those cheekbones look when you smile