Conor Stuart-Roe
@cstuartroe.bsky.social
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I think it's beautiful that most Christmas movies have one moral at heart: "If you don't celebrate this holiday you are a piece of shit."
December 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I think it's beautiful that most Christmas movies have one moral at heart: "If you don't celebrate this holiday you are a piece of shit."
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this is why I'm not persuaded by the hypothetical prospect of genAI rendering individual users more productive: I struggle to conceive of any level of such benefit that would be worth rendering *all media* fundamentally unreliable
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
this is why I'm not persuaded by the hypothetical prospect of genAI rendering individual users more productive: I struggle to conceive of any level of such benefit that would be worth rendering *all media* fundamentally unreliable
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If the MetroCard can retire at the ripe old age of 31 then so can I
5 weeks until the MetroCard retires!
When you tap and ride, you can track your charges, transfers, and progress toward free rides at omny.info 🗓️
When you tap and ride, you can track your charges, transfers, and progress toward free rides at omny.info 🗓️
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
If the MetroCard can retire at the ripe old age of 31 then so can I
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Now that the penny is dead I look forward to finding out whether the Trump admin will also do the second and last item on the very short list of things I thought they might do that I would approve of
This post is an excuse to resurrect a dumb dad joke I made last year mastodon.world/@cstuartroe/...
This post is an excuse to resurrect a dumb dad joke I made last year mastodon.world/@cstuartroe/...
Conor Stuart-Roe (@cstuartroe@mastodon.world)
@exchgr Ironically, my comment if Elon Musk were to do away with daylight savings would be "a broken clock is right twice a day"
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November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Now that the penny is dead I look forward to finding out whether the Trump admin will also do the second and last item on the very short list of things I thought they might do that I would approve of
This post is an excuse to resurrect a dumb dad joke I made last year mastodon.world/@cstuartroe/...
This post is an excuse to resurrect a dumb dad joke I made last year mastodon.world/@cstuartroe/...
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There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour.
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly
uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban
uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
There has been entirely too little scrutiny about the fact the American Starmerism media elites have been advocating for has been a political disaster for UK Labour.
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
We have a contemporary blueprint for how they want Dems to govern!
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The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line.
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Nobody in modern tech is satisfied with building A Thing that Works and then just... letting it be.
So close to calling it a disease at this point.
So close to calling it a disease at this point.
November 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Nobody in modern tech is satisfied with building A Thing that Works and then just... letting it be.
So close to calling it a disease at this point.
So close to calling it a disease at this point.
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The fallout from the fact that data science/classical machine learning & generative AI are both called "AI" has been remarkably broad & persistent
Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.
Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The fallout from the fact that data science/classical machine learning & generative AI are both called "AI" has been remarkably broad & persistent
Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.
Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, hiring is misguided, academic discussion is often muddled.
Aesthetics Wiki goes hard, look at the gallery for Global Village Coffeehouse and tell me you don't say, out loud, "ohhh yeah that whole thing"
aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_...
aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_...
Global Village Coffeehouse
Global Village Coffeehouse (GVC) is a design aesthetic, coined by Evan Collins of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (CARI), that was prevalent from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. It emerg...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Aesthetics Wiki goes hard, look at the gallery for Global Village Coffeehouse and tell me you don't say, out loud, "ohhh yeah that whole thing"
aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_...
aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Global_...
I actively fantasize about getting open-list proportional representation in the US
Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible.
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I actively fantasize about getting open-list proportional representation in the US
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"I have refused to articulate my position" is a phrase that will be in the Democratic Party's obituary
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"I have refused to articulate my position" is a phrase that will be in the Democratic Party's obituary
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this is an instance where overhyping leads to people disregarding something useful: as Tao points out, being able to find the research papers is nontrivial mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153850...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
But there are times in which the problem being studied only has a scattered literature and lacks a standardized name; and the citation tree is difficult to explore for various reasons (e.g., the journ...
mathstodon.xyz
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this is an instance where overhyping leads to people disregarding something useful: as Tao points out, being able to find the research papers is nontrivial mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153850...
I've come to realize the main reason I'm not more interested in finding a way to make LLMs accelerate my software output is that I'm just not that interested in velocity as a concept.
October 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I've come to realize the main reason I'm not more interested in finding a way to make LLMs accelerate my software output is that I'm just not that interested in velocity as a concept.
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I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:
There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.
Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I get the point that's trying to be made here, but it's actually inaccurate. The *MAJORITY* of actual practitioners in the tech industry have a position that is neither of these, it's merely getting drowned out by these two loud positions. The most common belief in the tech industry is simple:
A year late, but I'm going to adopt @acollierastro.bsky.social's phrase "malicious optimism" into my vocabulary with gusto
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A year late, but I'm going to adopt @acollierastro.bsky.social's phrase "malicious optimism" into my vocabulary with gusto
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I’ve been arguing for several years that we need a “public option” of social media. A space online operated by a non-partisan government agency, similar to radio free Europe or PBS. This would be the space to operate a virtual “village green.”
October 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’ve been arguing for several years that we need a “public option” of social media. A space online operated by a non-partisan government agency, similar to radio free Europe or PBS. This would be the space to operate a virtual “village green.”
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Time to get up dude
October 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Time to get up dude
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Guys you’re not getting the federal funding back just say it doesn’t cause autism
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Guys you’re not getting the federal funding back just say it doesn’t cause autism
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There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
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People who are safe and comfortable often advocate for other people to react as if they're also safe and comfortable.
September 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
People who are safe and comfortable often advocate for other people to react as if they're also safe and comfortable.
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This absolute banger
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This absolute banger