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Douglas Long
@minimillian.bsky.social
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Staff Scientist @ STScI
All posts are my own. (Seriously, who else would want to take credit for this nonsense?)

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2508-9211
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
sadclowncentral for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet. luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it's this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint. If you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?
October 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
minimillian.bsky.social
a cat is laying down on a table with the words `` no '' written on its face .
ALT: a cat is laying down on a table with the words `` no '' written on its face .
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October 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
minimillian.bsky.social
Exactly. I am worried this will have DAPR complications for TAC reviewers.
October 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
minimillian.bsky.social
I’m pretty sure I know the answer, but I’m forwarding nonetheless.
October 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
minimillian.bsky.social
a group of football players are huddled together with the words rudy ! rudy ! rudy ! written on the bottom
ALT: a group of football players are huddled together with the words rudy ! rudy ! rudy ! written on the bottom
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October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Reposted by Douglas Long
philplait.bsky.social
If i were an interstellar comet I'd file a 50 AU restraining order.
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
minimillian.bsky.social
What flavor of chips did his red envelope come in?
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM