martypb
@martypb.bsky.social
"where you from" 🇦🇺🇺🇸 "no, I mean originally" 🇮🇪🇨🇳
Optimistic nihilist. Hopeful skeptic
Optimistic nihilist. Hopeful skeptic
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Long-term bond yields are blowing out again
April 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Long-term bond yields are blowing out again
Noice
April 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Noice
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Fun fact: Jan. 1, 2025 is the exact date of the events in ZARDOZ.
January 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Fun fact: Jan. 1, 2025 is the exact date of the events in ZARDOZ.
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People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (where users type the characters they see in a box amid other squiggles); image recognition (you’re selecting,…
tcrn.ch
January 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
Merry Christmas to everybody 🎄
December 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Merry Christmas to everybody 🎄
The Turing Test was a guiding light for years of computing research. Now, computers can fool people into believing them human reasonably often.
What is a new test that could replace the Turing Test, and guide new research for the coming decades?
What is a new test that could replace the Turing Test, and guide new research for the coming decades?
December 12, 2024 at 8:41 PM
The Turing Test was a guiding light for years of computing research. Now, computers can fool people into believing them human reasonably often.
What is a new test that could replace the Turing Test, and guide new research for the coming decades?
What is a new test that could replace the Turing Test, and guide new research for the coming decades?
To all those escorting very important pies today, God speed
November 28, 2024 at 3:59 PM
To all those escorting very important pies today, God speed
Rebellions are built on hope
November 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Rebellions are built on hope
Take this. It's dangerous to go alone
Terrible Game Idea: IKEA roguelike. Traverse a maze of furniture, collect random trinkets with unpronounceable names, try to find the exit.
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Take this. It's dangerous to go alone
Good to know
November 26, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Good to know
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New to bluesky and want to follow smart people who study the internet? I made this starter pack to get you going!
This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely!
go.bsky.app/LVrPemK
This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely!
go.bsky.app/LVrPemK
November 14, 2024 at 4:10 PM
New to bluesky and want to follow smart people who study the internet? I made this starter pack to get you going!
This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely!
go.bsky.app/LVrPemK
This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely!
go.bsky.app/LVrPemK
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This is not UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. It's a fake account.
November 18, 2024 at 8:32 PM
This is not UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. It's a fake account.
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Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Beware, this "BBC Breaking News" account is fake. It's not an official BBC News account.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
If BBC News ever joins this platform, it'll be publicised via official BBC platforms.
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Just a reminder that QAnon was an anticipatory conspiracy theory strategy that gave the Right a deflected target away from Trump’s Epstein connection, a delusional reality that solved cognitive dissonance, and an answer to every failure.
It was cringe but incredibly effective.
It was cringe but incredibly effective.
Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Just a reminder that QAnon was an anticipatory conspiracy theory strategy that gave the Right a deflected target away from Trump’s Epstein connection, a delusional reality that solved cognitive dissonance, and an answer to every failure.
It was cringe but incredibly effective.
It was cringe but incredibly effective.