Bryan Spahr
@bryanspahr.bsky.social
Quasi-retired IT sort of guy.
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When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
May 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
Man, this Charleston Battery side is fun to watch. Ben Pirmann plays high tempo ball, and La Barra keeps the beat going all. match. long.
May 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Man, this Charleston Battery side is fun to watch. Ben Pirmann plays high tempo ball, and La Barra keeps the beat going all. match. long.
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Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.
May 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.
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This convo is so important especially the therapy speak ChatGPT used.
I suggest reading AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.
Chapter 4 talks about GenAI, and gives a great overview of the history, the harms, and the limitations of these tools.
I suggest reading AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.
Chapter 4 talks about GenAI, and gives a great overview of the history, the harms, and the limitations of these tools.
More men are using ChatGPT-- thus might be more likely to be defensive of it ---when women question its ethics and possible emotional manipulation, gaslighting, and covering up of its "actions".
Again, the "what were you saying/doing/wearing when the bot did that to you"?
Again, the "what were you saying/doing/wearing when the bot did that to you"?
Bit of an odd story this one - the main analysis says women don't use AI because they lack STEM skills, confidence and value in the workplace. Yet the anecdotes suggest that women excel at communication, whether writing or interpersonal, and can spot ChatGPT's flaws
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
April 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This convo is so important especially the therapy speak ChatGPT used.
I suggest reading AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.
Chapter 4 talks about GenAI, and gives a great overview of the history, the harms, and the limitations of these tools.
I suggest reading AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.
Chapter 4 talks about GenAI, and gives a great overview of the history, the harms, and the limitations of these tools.
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Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.
February 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Yeah I know people say anxiety is bad, but mine has just been collecting all the possible things that can go wrong so far. Once it has an exhaustive catalog of every possible mishap, it’ll move on to suggesting solutions and then you better watch out.
Why is Genoa’s keeper wearing their home shirt with similar color short and socks as the outfield players in this match against Inter?
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Why is Genoa’s keeper wearing their home shirt with similar color short and socks as the outfield players in this match against Inter?
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HOLY SHIT you guys, check out this AMAZING song, Hostile Government Takeover, by @agiftfromtodd! He's singing truth, and this tune slaps.
Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪
Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪
February 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
HOLY SHIT you guys, check out this AMAZING song, Hostile Government Takeover, by @agiftfromtodd! He's singing truth, and this tune slaps.
Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪
Give it a listen and repost to share.🙏💪
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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:56 AM
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Start the WANKER chant from Ted Lasso.
February 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Start the WANKER chant from Ted Lasso.
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The names of two sports betting operators are all over the King Power Stadium right now: BC.GAME and 8Xbet, Asian betting partner of both LEI and MCI. Both are illegal (*), listed as 'inactive' by the GB Gambling Commission and unlicensed in the UK. Yet here they are. Football works miracles.
December 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
The names of two sports betting operators are all over the King Power Stadium right now: BC.GAME and 8Xbet, Asian betting partner of both LEI and MCI. Both are illegal (*), listed as 'inactive' by the GB Gambling Commission and unlicensed in the UK. Yet here they are. Football works miracles.
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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Thank you Gautam, for the jump-start in the IKEA parking lot. I wish many blessings to your family.
November 30, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Thank you Gautam, for the jump-start in the IKEA parking lot. I wish many blessings to your family.
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two, also known as "the baker's one"
November 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
two, also known as "the baker's one"
Ready to blow out the candles! Damn I’m getting 01d.
Thanks @olliesart.bsky.social for the 4-in-1 cake!
Thanks @olliesart.bsky.social for the 4-in-1 cake!
November 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Ready to blow out the candles! Damn I’m getting 01d.
Thanks @olliesart.bsky.social for the 4-in-1 cake!
Thanks @olliesart.bsky.social for the 4-in-1 cake!
This. Project 2025 is the oligarchs taking full advantage of a heel. Heels are not the architects of their own rise to prominence. And you can bet the Heritage Foundation has a plan for his demise.
November 23, 2024 at 9:25 PM
This. Project 2025 is the oligarchs taking full advantage of a heel. Heels are not the architects of their own rise to prominence. And you can bet the Heritage Foundation has a plan for his demise.
Soccer is a different game on turf; ball skips and bounces like on concrete.
November 23, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Soccer is a different game on turf; ball skips and bounces like on concrete.
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big news from CoCoRaHS world: the new mobile app is now available, and it's also a mobile version of the website. Very slick for entering your obs & viewing data.
I bet a large fraction of new followers here are not CoCoRaHS observers, no better time than now to join!
mobile.cocorahs.org
I bet a large fraction of new followers here are not CoCoRaHS observers, no better time than now to join!
mobile.cocorahs.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
big news from CoCoRaHS world: the new mobile app is now available, and it's also a mobile version of the website. Very slick for entering your obs & viewing data.
I bet a large fraction of new followers here are not CoCoRaHS observers, no better time than now to join!
mobile.cocorahs.org
I bet a large fraction of new followers here are not CoCoRaHS observers, no better time than now to join!
mobile.cocorahs.org
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November 22, 2024 at 4:41 AM
I picked the wrong weather day to travel north on 95 thru DC and Baltimore.
November 21, 2024 at 6:43 AM
I picked the wrong weather day to travel north on 95 thru DC and Baltimore.
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excuse me, the DOUBLE slide?!
a different angle of the Marta goal that everyone is talking about
November 18, 2024 at 1:16 PM
excuse me, the DOUBLE slide?!
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/