maegul
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Anyone else feel Mickey 17 was actually embarrassingly bad?
Saw it yesterday, expecting the negative reviews to have missed the point or vibe.
But half way through, for me, it was “objectively” bad.
Like the director already knew while on set that they were in trouble.
Saw it yesterday, expecting the negative reviews to have missed the point or vibe.
But half way through, for me, it was “objectively” bad.
Like the director already knew while on set that they were in trouble.
March 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Anyone else feel Mickey 17 was actually embarrassingly bad?
Saw it yesterday, expecting the negative reviews to have missed the point or vibe.
But half way through, for me, it was “objectively” bad.
Like the director already knew while on set that they were in trouble.
Saw it yesterday, expecting the negative reviews to have missed the point or vibe.
But half way through, for me, it was “objectively” bad.
Like the director already knew while on set that they were in trouble.
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I think I say this every year or so but…having been brought up in an apocalyptic doom-prepper destroy-the-evil-globalist-government evangelical movement/cult and then having spent my early adulthood really far from that world, this all feels like the third act of a horror movie.
March 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I think I say this every year or so but…having been brought up in an apocalyptic doom-prepper destroy-the-evil-globalist-government evangelical movement/cult and then having spent my early adulthood really far from that world, this all feels like the third act of a horror movie.
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Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
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March 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New: Last Week in the ATmosphere
The ATProto tech news:
- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
The ATProto tech news:
- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.d
Welcome to the bi-weekly tech-focused update on everything that is happening on Bluesky and the wider ATmosphere. The theme continues to be: “can ATProto scale down“? Next week will be focused again o...
fediversereport.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New: Last Week in the ATmosphere
The ATProto tech news:
- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
The ATProto tech news:
- Sync 1.1 is a proposal to make relays cheaper to run
- Multiple PDS browsers now show backlinks, making them a new type of entity in the network
- Bluesky has 2 new vacancies to expand their T&S team
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
Any other non-USians finding this place basically not worth it since Trump 2.0?
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I get it, you’re going through stuff, but the “I gotta post about it” energy seems counterproductive, honestly a little sad, not a good use of microblogging, and strangely not informative/interesting from outside
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I get it, you’re going through stuff, but the “I gotta post about it” energy seems counterproductive, honestly a little sad, not a good use of microblogging, and strangely not informative/interesting from outside
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February 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Any other non-USians finding this place basically not worth it since Trump 2.0?
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I get it, you’re going through stuff, but the “I gotta post about it” energy seems counterproductive, honestly a little sad, not a good use of microblogging, and strangely not informative/interesting from outside
)
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I get it, you’re going through stuff, but the “I gotta post about it” energy seems counterproductive, honestly a little sad, not a good use of microblogging, and strangely not informative/interesting from outside
)
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There is a type of like pop science journalism geared toward educated liberals (your Kara swishers, your freakonomics, etc) that I think has the potential to rot your brain nearly as much as Joe Rogan type stuff
February 21, 2025 at 5:11 AM
There is a type of like pop science journalism geared toward educated liberals (your Kara swishers, your freakonomics, etc) that I think has the potential to rot your brain nearly as much as Joe Rogan type stuff
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I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.
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Sometimes I feel like there are no words that could adequately describe how to grieve for the future. The complex sense of loss, uncertainty, the weight of what seems not just likely but inevitable. Not simply mourning what’s to come, but mourning what’s already slipping away.
February 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Sometimes I feel like there are no words that could adequately describe how to grieve for the future. The complex sense of loss, uncertainty, the weight of what seems not just likely but inevitable. Not simply mourning what’s to come, but mourning what’s already slipping away.
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The long game gets even longer, because before you can even teach people to recognize patterns, you have to convince them that there’s something to recognize at all.
February 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The long game gets even longer, because before you can even teach people to recognize patterns, you have to convince them that there’s something to recognize at all.
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I keep thinking about this post. I'm in this liminal space myself, the last generation with a real memory of an analog world before the internet fully saturated everything. That gives perspective, but it also makes me a witness to a transformation that’s irreversible.
What is horrifying is that we are 50ish years away from the last generation of people who experienced life pre-internet, pre-saturation of all info. older people completely fail to grasp an ontological condition that is DEFINED by one’s online status and relationship to online systems of being.
February 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I keep thinking about this post. I'm in this liminal space myself, the last generation with a real memory of an analog world before the internet fully saturated everything. That gives perspective, but it also makes me a witness to a transformation that’s irreversible.
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This week's news about ATProto and the ATmosphere:
- @roomy.chat is building a P2P public group chat app on ATProto, now in public alpha
- Microcosm is a new selfhostable API that tracks backlinks for the entire network
- Tracking all lexicons with Lexidex
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
- @roomy.chat is building a P2P public group chat app on ATProto, now in public alpha
- Microcosm is a new selfhostable API that tracks backlinks for the entire network
- Tracking all lexicons with Lexidex
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.b
Welcome to this week’s edition of all the news that happens in the wider ATProto ecosystem. This edition is somewhat more technical, next week I’ll focus again on Bluesky and the growing ecosystem of ...
fediversereport.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This week's news about ATProto and the ATmosphere:
- @roomy.chat is building a P2P public group chat app on ATProto, now in public alpha
- Microcosm is a new selfhostable API that tracks backlinks for the entire network
- Tracking all lexicons with Lexidex
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
- @roomy.chat is building a P2P public group chat app on ATProto, now in public alpha
- Microcosm is a new selfhostable API that tracks backlinks for the entire network
- Tracking all lexicons with Lexidex
fediversereport.com/last-week-in...
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I’m at the point where we have to stop saying
“Our media must do better” and start talking seriously about why the don’t and how long they haven’t
And the reflection necessary isn’t happening
“Our media must do better” and start talking seriously about why the don’t and how long they haven’t
And the reflection necessary isn’t happening
Every single article about Trump being “elected” Chair of the Kennedy Center must mention in the headline that Trump *fired all the Board members that wouldn’t vote for him.*
“Made Chair” is such weak, passive language that fails to call out what’s really going on.
Our media must do better.
“Made Chair” is such weak, passive language that fails to call out what’s really going on.
Our media must do better.
February 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I’m at the point where we have to stop saying
“Our media must do better” and start talking seriously about why the don’t and how long they haven’t
And the reflection necessary isn’t happening
“Our media must do better” and start talking seriously about why the don’t and how long they haven’t
And the reflection necessary isn’t happening
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you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy
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read serce.me/posts/2025-0... this morning and it mostly tracks with my experience.
The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers
In this article, I share my personal mental model of how LLMs affect software engineers at different levels, and why this leads to both excitement and scepticism.
serce.me
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
read serce.me/posts/2025-0... this morning and it mostly tracks with my experience.
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Wrote about the different responses to the superbowl and Lamar’s halftime show between fedi and Bluesky, and what that means for people who want to bring the fediverse into the mainstream
New: Fediverse Report # 103
This week I wrote about #fediverse as a countercultural place for pop culture, and how that affects goals to bring the fediverse into the mainstream
As well as the news:
- @iftas announces that due to a lack of funding, they will likely have to wind down some […]
This week I wrote about #fediverse as a countercultural place for pop culture, and how that affects goals to bring the fediverse into the mainstream
As well as the news:
- @iftas announces that due to a lack of funding, they will likely have to wind down some […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
February 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wrote about the different responses to the superbowl and Lamar’s halftime show between fedi and Bluesky, and what that means for people who want to bring the fediverse into the mainstream
There’s plenty hurtful/ignorant us non-USians could say about seeing the US from afar ATM.
I can’t help but notice how boring all the noise is. All basic/shallow takes like no one can think.
And those with thoughts are defensive about sharing, dodging the shitty engagement.
Like a party gone bad
I can’t help but notice how boring all the noise is. All basic/shallow takes like no one can think.
And those with thoughts are defensive about sharing, dodging the shitty engagement.
Like a party gone bad
February 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There’s plenty hurtful/ignorant us non-USians could say about seeing the US from afar ATM.
I can’t help but notice how boring all the noise is. All basic/shallow takes like no one can think.
And those with thoughts are defensive about sharing, dodging the shitty engagement.
Like a party gone bad
I can’t help but notice how boring all the noise is. All basic/shallow takes like no one can think.
And those with thoughts are defensive about sharing, dodging the shitty engagement.
Like a party gone bad
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I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes.
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
February 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes.
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?
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The most 101, but: The problem from the ecosystem side isn't that there's not enough information, it's that there's *so much* and of such varied usefulness that it's nearly impossible to tell what to ignore.
This me putting a pin in it, not a request for advice. Don't do it.
This me putting a pin in it, not a request for advice. Don't do it.
February 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The most 101, but: The problem from the ecosystem side isn't that there's not enough information, it's that there's *so much* and of such varied usefulness that it's nearly impossible to tell what to ignore.
This me putting a pin in it, not a request for advice. Don't do it.
This me putting a pin in it, not a request for advice. Don't do it.
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but another relay is meaningless without another appview, and another independent appview cannot exist without doing full network moderation layer thats duplicate with pbc's moderation stack
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
but another relay is meaningless without another appview, and another independent appview cannot exist without doing full network moderation layer thats duplicate with pbc's moderation stack
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"Helly was never cruel."
February 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
"Helly was never cruel."
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previous thing I wrote on whether what we do is true software engineering vickiboykis.com/2022/12/05/t...
February 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
previous thing I wrote on whether what we do is true software engineering vickiboykis.com/2022/12/05/t...
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I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Honestly surprised I don’t see more talk of this. I wasn’t an elder here long before the opening. But the vibe seemed to be that many really liked it here before hand.
Which means, along with all the other evidence chat apps etc, it’s pretty obvious that (semi-)closed spaces work well.
Which means, along with all the other evidence chat apps etc, it’s pretty obvious that (semi-)closed spaces work well.
happy "good times are over" day to any who celebrate
February 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Honestly surprised I don’t see more talk of this. I wasn’t an elder here long before the opening. But the vibe seemed to be that many really liked it here before hand.
Which means, along with all the other evidence chat apps etc, it’s pretty obvious that (semi-)closed spaces work well.
Which means, along with all the other evidence chat apps etc, it’s pretty obvious that (semi-)closed spaces work well.
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Global warming caused by toxic fossil fuel pollution continues to cook the planet.
Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year: https://theconversation.com/its-official-australias-ocean-surface-was-the-hottest-on-record-in-2024-249277
#auspol #climatechange
Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year: https://theconversation.com/its-official-australias-ocean-surface-was-the-hottest-on-record-in-2024-249277
#auspol #climatechange
February 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Global warming caused by toxic fossil fuel pollution continues to cook the planet.
Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year: https://theconversation.com/its-official-australias-ocean-surface-was-the-hottest-on-record-in-2024-249277
#auspol #climatechange
Australia’s sea surface temperatures were the warmest on record last year: https://theconversation.com/its-official-australias-ocean-surface-was-the-hottest-on-record-in-2024-249277
#auspol #climatechange