Pookage
@pookage.dev
ENFP beardyboy, Luddite, and small tech enthusiast - living vicariously through y'all
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Pookage
@pookage.dev
· Sep 5
As this profile is just the occasional repost atm, here's a quick reminder that I'm not a bot - just a lurker 😅 hi hi hello 👋
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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History will judge this government very harshly for its cruel and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers.
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Prince Andrew’s titles have been removed.
Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.
Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.
October 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Prince Andrew’s titles have been removed.
Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.
Good start — now let’s do the rest of them and abolish the monarchy.
Gah, this is the only time I've ever wished I could get a refund on a Kickstarter - it truly sickens me to have backed @playhawthorn.bsky.social and to see it still proudly flying AI-generated artwork everywhere 🤮 What a black stain on a brand new studio...
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Gah, this is the only time I've ever wished I could get a refund on a Kickstarter - it truly sickens me to have backed @playhawthorn.bsky.social and to see it still proudly flying AI-generated artwork everywhere 🤮 What a black stain on a brand new studio...
@bcmerchant.bsky.social - I'm really enjoying the book so far, but this one bit makes no sense if you pronounce the Welsh words correctly: "Lluydda" sounds like "Chloitha" 😅
![Excerpt from Brian Merchant's Book - "Blood in the Machine" - which investigates the origin of the "Ludd" / "Luddite" name:
"The word Uuyd in Welch [sic], signifies an army or camp; Lluydda, in the same language, is make war; and Lluyddar is a soldier"
...the pronunciation sounds completely different to the word "Ludd" as it's pronounced in English - it all only makes sense if you don't speak Welsh 🫣](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rgcrkzxrdvykzhsxiymv2mzw/bafkreicxp4gf3lw6s7jg37hv4rebxm2cgjrwwkqbgiyrb5tm3koogf4yme@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@bcmerchant.bsky.social - I'm really enjoying the book so far, but this one bit makes no sense if you pronounce the Welsh words correctly: "Lluydda" sounds like "Chloitha" 😅
I've been doing a pottery workshop the last few weeks to learn how to throw clay, and these are the survivors - pretty happy with how some of'em turned out!
October 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've been doing a pottery workshop the last few weeks to learn how to throw clay, and these are the survivors - pretty happy with how some of'em turned out!
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Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again...
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'
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everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
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September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
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Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
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Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight
September 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight
So important to always be asking this question! When we know what we're striving for, then decisions can be weighed based on whether they take us closer-to or further-from our utopic visions!
what does your utopia look like?
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
So important to always be asking this question! When we know what we're striving for, then decisions can be weighed based on whether they take us closer-to or further-from our utopic visions!
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The people of the country do have moral red lines & this “real politik” approach to Trump will come back to bite you 🔥🔥🔥
Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"
September 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The people of the country do have moral red lines & this “real politik” approach to Trump will come back to bite you 🔥🔥🔥
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
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Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect.
Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right.
My piece for @tribunemagazine
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right.
My piece for @tribunemagazine
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism
As Labour embraces anti-migrant rhetoric, Jeremy Corbyn argues that the government is demonising vulnerable people to distract from its domestic failures.
www.tribunemag.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect.
Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right.
My piece for @tribunemagazine
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right.
My piece for @tribunemagazine
www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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reminder that in february The Guardian entered into a partnership with OpenAI in a brazen effort to burn their journalistic integrity to a fine crisp
August 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
reminder that in february The Guardian entered into a partnership with OpenAI in a brazen effort to burn their journalistic integrity to a fine crisp
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Did you know that the geo blocks and filters on Bluesky for web are client-side? Now you do!
August 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Did you know that the geo blocks and filters on Bluesky for web are client-side? Now you do!
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Build council homes and control private rents.
That is how we would fix the housing crisis.
Join us at yourparty.uk.
That is how we would fix the housing crisis.
Join us at yourparty.uk.
August 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Build council homes and control private rents.
That is how we would fix the housing crisis.
Join us at yourparty.uk.
That is how we would fix the housing crisis.
Join us at yourparty.uk.
Well, as someone who's already had to move my socmed away from Twitter, my music away from Spotify, and my email away from Google...I suppose it was only a matter of time before I had to move my OS away from Windows - thank the gods that Valve has made gaming on Linux easy now!
Microsoft's Windows lead has teased the future of Windows will be more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal in the wake of AI, promoting voice as a primary input method for using your PC. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface
In a new video, Microsoft CVP and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri has teased that the future of Windows will consist of a truly ambient and multi-modal experience made possible by AI that will redefine…
www.windowscentral.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Well, as someone who's already had to move my socmed away from Twitter, my music away from Spotify, and my email away from Google...I suppose it was only a matter of time before I had to move my OS away from Windows - thank the gods that Valve has made gaming on Linux easy now!
This looks dope as hell, and Ink is crazy intuitive to use - hop on, folks!
Starting November 3, you can join me in building a living, breathing, interactive city in text using @inkle.co's amazing narrative scripting language ink.
You can find out more about this 3-sessions @d6learning.bsky.social course of mine here: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
You can find out more about this 3-sessions @d6learning.bsky.social course of mine here: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
Build An Interactive City In Text Using ink
Learn how to use the ink narrative scripting language to create virtual cities in text.
www.d6learning.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This looks dope as hell, and Ink is crazy intuitive to use - hop on, folks!
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has anyone noticed that labour came to power but they have kept doing the same kinds of awful things as the tories. i noticed that
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
has anyone noticed that labour came to power but they have kept doing the same kinds of awful things as the tories. i noticed that
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my former colleague wrote up a great summary of refutations to the common reasons to use GenAI / LLMs, and I have to say I agree with all of them.
even if certain aspects get addressed, like environmental impact by running local models, it still doesn't address any of the other issues.
even if certain aspects get addressed, like environmental impact by running local models, it still doesn't address any of the other issues.
Why I Refuse to Use "AI"
Unreal Engine UI programmer
benui.ca
July 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
my former colleague wrote up a great summary of refutations to the common reasons to use GenAI / LLMs, and I have to say I agree with all of them.
even if certain aspects get addressed, like environmental impact by running local models, it still doesn't address any of the other issues.
even if certain aspects get addressed, like environmental impact by running local models, it still doesn't address any of the other issues.
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To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.
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This Labour party is, for anyone who hadn't spotted it yet, exactly the same as the damn Tories were.
July 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This Labour party is, for anyone who hadn't spotted it yet, exactly the same as the damn Tories were.