Mary E. Ellis
@maryeellis.bsky.social
i code 4 food 🤓
👩💻 most of the time
🧩 all the time
🎧 constantly
👩💻 most of the time
🧩 all the time
🎧 constantly
@profblmkelley.bsky.social omg - we haven’t chatted in a billion years, but a friend sent me a list of books about american labor history to check out and yours was one of them!! unsurprising, as you’ve always been fierce and ahmazing ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@profblmkelley.bsky.social omg - we haven’t chatted in a billion years, but a friend sent me a list of books about american labor history to check out and yours was one of them!! unsurprising, as you’ve always been fierce and ahmazing ❤️
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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“A.i.” sucks.
“'Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty,' the researchers wrote in the paper. 'Such ‘hallucinations’ persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust.'”
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“A.i.” sucks.
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They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety.
This won’t go well—we love our parks.
March 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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Does this describe your business? I might be able to do it for you for free. Lots of systems I couldn't, but lots I could, and might know people who could. HMU or just post in these skies that you're looking for help getting rid of your Twitter icon or swapping it for a BlueSky or Mastodon one.
One of the things that really aggravates me about the way web development has become so complex is that thousands of everyday people and orgs have websites with Twitter icons/links built in -- and would have to PAY someone to remove that or add a Bluesky icon/link.
February 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Does this describe your business? I might be able to do it for you for free. Lots of systems I couldn't, but lots I could, and might know people who could. HMU or just post in these skies that you're looking for help getting rid of your Twitter icon or swapping it for a BlueSky or Mastodon one.
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I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over, and if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
—Ray Bradbury
—Ray Bradbury
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over, and if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
—Ray Bradbury
—Ray Bradbury
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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this cake is super good btw. it has gone by several names over the years and the recipe is very forgiving. give it a try
Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.
January 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this cake is super good btw. it has gone by several names over the years and the recipe is very forgiving. give it a try
whoa teen vogue comin in hot with some substance
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
www.teenvogue.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
whoa teen vogue comin in hot with some substance
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2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
January 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.
i’ve been scrolling bsky for about two days now and the pleasure it gives me is akin to og twitter and i do NOT hate it
January 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i’ve been scrolling bsky for about two days now and the pleasure it gives me is akin to og twitter and i do NOT hate it
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Referencing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hu6...
January 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Referencing: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hu6...
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If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time.
WWTF: We Watch The Flower.
WWTF: We Watch The Flower.
Corpse Flower livestream: A plant to die for
YouTube video by Botanic Gardens of Sydney
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you are feeling overwhelmed, I strongly recommend the livestream of the corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Gardens on YouTube. There are currently 1,500 people in chat waiting for a flower to open, and occasionally claiming that it definitely has moved this time.
WWTF: We Watch The Flower.
WWTF: We Watch The Flower.
going through and finding my folks on a new platform and just followed @wilwheaton.net and @thebloggess.bsky.social and I feel like I’m in 2007 all over again? glad certain things remain constant. (also does anyone else feel like they can breathe easier on bsky?)
January 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
going through and finding my folks on a new platform and just followed @wilwheaton.net and @thebloggess.bsky.social and I feel like I’m in 2007 all over again? glad certain things remain constant. (also does anyone else feel like they can breathe easier on bsky?)
literally just awaiting my downloadable data from the metaverse before deactivating fb and ig… *drums fingers impatiently*
January 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
literally just awaiting my downloadable data from the metaverse before deactivating fb and ig… *drums fingers impatiently*
ooo officially deactivated my twitter account. happy to be here!
November 18, 2024 at 2:51 AM
ooo officially deactivated my twitter account. happy to be here!