Kevin Davidson
@metalsamurai.bsky.social
That doesn’t surprise me.
I mean, this bubble has to burst soon, right? The sooner the people pumping money into these slop generators lose everything, the better for everyone.
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gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...
Amazon's Official 'Fallout' Season 1 Recap Is AI Garbage Filled With Mistakes
Prime Video's latest needle-poke into generative AI's bubble comes on the heels of its anime dubbing debacle.
gizmodo.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I mean, this bubble has to burst soon, right? The sooner the people pumping money into these slop generators lose everything, the better for everyone.
gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...
gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...
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Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring
A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."
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This is so fucking funny dude.
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is so fucking funny dude.
WTF? LLMs aren’t AI, and the conmen and shysters responsible for peddling this nonsense will doubtless all be up against the wall once this ridiculous bubble bursts, assuming any tech survives now that RAM chips are essentially unavailable.
time.com/7339685/pers...
time.com/7339685/pers...
The Architects of AI: Person of the Year 2025 | TIME
The Architects of AI drove the economy, shaped geopolitics, and changed the way we interact with the world
time.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
WTF? LLMs aren’t AI, and the conmen and shysters responsible for peddling this nonsense will doubtless all be up against the wall once this ridiculous bubble bursts, assuming any tech survives now that RAM chips are essentially unavailable.
time.com/7339685/pers...
time.com/7339685/pers...
I can’t tell if it’s the author of the article, or actually part of the research, but LLMs have NO mapping to “meaning” as implied in the article. No semantics. It’s just a neural net driven Markov chain; statistically likely text with no meaning or understanding.
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses #Language - www.quantamagazine.org/the-polyglot... " For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LLMs." plausible stuff
The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language | Quanta Magazine
Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to LL...
www.quantamagazine.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I can’t tell if it’s the author of the article, or actually part of the research, but LLMs have NO mapping to “meaning” as implied in the article. No semantics. It’s just a neural net driven Markov chain; statistically likely text with no meaning or understanding.
This nonsense has been pissing me off for a while now. Badly mistranslated, uninflected, inaccurate robot voices. I hadn’t seen the “accent removal” AI before (it’s racist “convert all world English accents to uninflected General American”)
youtube.com/watch?v=w7Cw...
youtube.com/watch?v=w7Cw...
Don't Let YouTube's AI Treat You like a Fool
youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This nonsense has been pissing me off for a while now. Badly mistranslated, uninflected, inaccurate robot voices. I hadn’t seen the “accent removal” AI before (it’s racist “convert all world English accents to uninflected General American”)
youtube.com/watch?v=w7Cw...
youtube.com/watch?v=w7Cw...
I mean, of course, if I think about it, Beavis and Butt-Head are Gen X, but the median age of MTV viewers being 56 feels wrong.
boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...
boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...
Median age of MTV viewers is 56 - Boing Boing
If you hear "MTV" and think "music channel for young people," maybe you're about 56 years old.
boingboing.net
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I mean, of course, if I think about it, Beavis and Butt-Head are Gen X, but the median age of MTV viewers being 56 feels wrong.
boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...
boingboing.net/2025/09/08/m...
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August 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...
Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain | Techdirt
Tom Lehrer’s passing this weekend at age 97 has rightfully sparked tributes to his brilliant satirical songs. But amid all the well-deserved praise for “The Elements” and “P…
www.techdirt.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...
This is exactly the kind of privacy/security disaster that is GUARANTEED to happen again and again now following the idiotic UK Online Safety Act.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
Daring Fireball: Security Breach at Tea Worsens, Revealing Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
Link to: https://www.404media.co/a-second-tea-breach-reveals-users-dms-about-abortions-and-cheating/
daringfireball.net
July 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is exactly the kind of privacy/security disaster that is GUARANTEED to happen again and again now following the idiotic UK Online Safety Act.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
Did not predict this.
@stereogum.bsky.social on Bluesky
Yngwie Malmsteen’s Force is the multivitamin gummy brand that took the neoclassical metal world by storm last year. Now the Swedish guitar virtuoso is expanding into powder supplements. 🤘
https://www.stereogum.com/2314796/yngwie-malmsteen-announces-new-protein-powder-health-supplements/news/
bsky.app
July 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Did not predict this.
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In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
If you're still buying wizard book shit, you are no friend to the trans community. Here's the wizard book bigot inciting harassment against innocent people to her 14 million followers on the nazi app.
And no, they can't Always Tell.
And no, they can't Always Tell.
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
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Congratulations to all the winners and the finalists!
The 2025 Locus Awards Winners!
locusmag.com/2025/06...
The 2025 Locus Awards Winners!
locusmag.com/2025/06...
2025 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Authors Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi were…
locusmag.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Congratulations to all the winners and the finalists!
The 2025 Locus Awards Winners!
locusmag.com/2025/06...
The 2025 Locus Awards Winners!
locusmag.com/2025/06...
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Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church.
Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Sex, power and death in medieval London: a true case from the Murder Maps project
Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church
eastangliabylines.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church.
Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Heinlein fans immediately nod and say “Of course, tee, tau and teh from Number of the Beast”
Physicist Gunther Kletetschka from UAF proposes that time may have three dimensions, with space emerging as a secondary consequence. His framework reproduces known particle masses and makes testable predictions
#Physics #Spacetime #TheoreticalPhysics
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Paper
www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/...
#Physics #Spacetime #TheoreticalPhysics
🧪⏳
Paper
www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/...
New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect
Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.
phys.org
June 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Heinlein fans immediately nod and say “Of course, tee, tau and teh from Number of the Beast”
Original post: social.lansky.name/@hn50/114725...
June 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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musk is genuinely not very bright
and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing
and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing
“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”
June 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
musk is genuinely not very bright
and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing
and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
June 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
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Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.
'Gaslighting' comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movies based on that play.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
The plots of which involve a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane.
June 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.
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Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.
The choices the author makes are big parts of what makes a book interesting. It's part of what makes your authorial voice. Authors like this tell me they don't actually know what they're doing and I shouldn't waste my time. It's your voice and your creativity that I'm interested in. 3/
May 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.
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April 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Extreme metal vocalists use a completely different pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music," says Dr. Amanda Stark. She and death metal singer Mark Garrett join us to discuss how to safely scream like a demon.
How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations
Vocal researchers are learning how death metal singers safely produce extreme vocal distortions, in hopes of improving vocal health care.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Extreme metal vocalists use a completely different pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music," says Dr. Amanda Stark. She and death metal singer Mark Garrett join us to discuss how to safely scream like a demon.
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April 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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