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sevoris.bsky.social
Sevoris (he/him)
@sevoris.bsky.social
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Grad Student in Data Science and NLP. Design, philosophy, sociology, politics, making a better world with listening and networking.

Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.
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What‘s extra infuriating about this is how again an extractive economy destroys people‘s lives as they try and fight fires that are only now so bad because of decades of prior exploitation and ignored externalities that filled a few people‘s pockets absurdly full.
On the front line, all crews take orders from the same command structure and breathe the same smoke. But the laws that cover government workers do not extend to contractors. To get benefits when they fall ill, contract firefighters must prove that smoke exposure caused their cancer — an all but impossible task. Some go without needed chemotherapy and radiation. Others take on so much debt their families become homeless. Some return to fighting wildfires even while sick.
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Already found it :D
A screenshot of the Apple podcast app, showing the title of the Human Restoration Project (an astronaut sitting on a cartoonish moon slice, holding a cup of tea in their right hand)
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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So for example the end result of that then are also tagged-in collections (i.e. here is one for my ideas) which I can reference and build against over time... or expand on in context (if I penciled further things under that.)
A screenshot of a Tana query screen, with most of the nodes blurred out. You can see a list of nodes with a dark grey core and colorful aura around them, most of which are orange. There are four groups of nodes each clustered under a "Week" heading, from Week 18 at the top to Week 15 at the bottom. There's 1 to 5 nodes per week.
May 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Music to read the morning news to
Screenshot of the Music app, playing the Song "you‘re fucked" by Ylvis
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Dropping a screenshot for posterity
A screenshot of the drag-and-drop prototype. It shows a list of nodes, with some nodes having other nodes nested inside of them, that in turn have nodes nested in them again. There's drag handles on the left side of the node titles.
March 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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HustleHub
Screenshot of a GitHub recommendation for "MoneyPrinterV2" repository, with the tagline "Automate the process of making money online". 8.7k stars
February 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Duronic's DM35 system. I've found them to be superbly sturdy - they use cast aluminum for the parts. Much better than the cheap stuff that uses those square, hollow extrusions - the stuff you'll usually find online on Amazon or whereever.
A duronic DM35 two-monitor mounting arm. The arms are made up of two segments each, which in turn are cast in a slightly wavy shape, with an upper and lower bar connected at one point in the middle - leaving two hollow spaces between. The segments are connected vertically at each joint, ending in two monitor mounting arms - connected in the center by one mounting bracket that goes on the vertical mounting rod. The entire assembly is coated in glossy black color.
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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@robhorning.bsky.social cutting loose with a wonderfully thoughtful but also scathing critique of Apple Intelligence here: robhorning.substack.com/p/the-though...

In particular, this is where the article became a banger for me:
"we see that the video documenting an activity is more important than the activity itself and that the shared experience of watching something is more powerful than other kinds of collective experience." "Don't let them make you feel guilty. Just use your technological advantage and a few seconds of your time to fool them into thinking you care while you saunter off to do whatever you want. You don't owe anybody anything, and Apple Intelligence is here to provide integral support for that sort of freedom."
November 17, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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"‘It’ll be alright.’ It’ll be alright. I wonder how many disastrous incidents have started with those three little words? We might sign a business contract in haste, telling ourselves, ‘It’ll be alright.’ Suddenly, something in the small print financially impacts us in ways we couldn’t have predicted. Or maybe a series of risky corner cuts during a house-building project results in some disastrous and costly structural damage. At first, getting away with it might have seemed easy. We told ourselves: ‘Well, what’s the worst that can happen…? It’ll be alright.’"  – Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Thai Cave Rescue von John Volanthen "Through self-awareness, I’ve mentally reframed that one sentence–it’ll be alright–so it has become a hazard light, a personal indicator that tells me when I’m going too far and when to stop. As a result I’d like to think I have been able to pull myself back from the brink of misfortune on more than one occasion."  – Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Thai Cave Rescue von John Volanthen
November 9, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Quoth Nick Couldry from @parismarx.bsky.social recent "tech won't save us" episode:
Screenshot of quotes extracted from the podcast transcription: "this is an example of the sorts of, we call them in the book, civilizing stories that get told to sweeten the pill or repackage data colonialism, just as historical Colonialism was repackaged. The idea is […] that's necessary for innovation to advance science […] or to create business value. And that must be all right. "In the book, we sort of talk about this narrative of […] the myth of cheap nature. So in order to colonize the world, of course, colonizers had to imagine the world, nature, territory as something cheap. It was abundant. It was just there for the taking. "[...] So let's follow that progression. We're going from cheap nature to cheap labor. And now, of course, we have cheap data. That's the latest civilization or story. Cheap data has many of the same characteristics of cheap nature and cheap labor. It is, again, said to be abundant. It is free. And it is just there for the taking.
November 5, 2024 at 7:57 AM
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www.techdirt.com/2024/10/23/e...

Succinct and excellent article.
Text segment captured in Readwise: "You have to not trust anything and also not have the intellectual curiosity to find out what’s true. Hank is the kind of person who does have that intellectual curiosity. Even though he was initially concerned, before he spouted off, he did the research and found out that his concerns were unfounded. Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are." (Mike Masnick, Everything Is a Conspiracy Theory When You Don’t Bother to Educate Yourself)
October 23, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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This is talk of stochastic terrorism. "Our ideas will keep inspiring people to murder people for eco-fascist reasons, and this should not be stopped", that's what he's saying. That is what he's approving of.

Nothing about a bad idea is inevitable. These conclusions are not in the least rational.
Screenshot of part of the article: "Then he offered a warning: What happened with Crusius was going to happen again and again. “I’m surprised they’re not more of these guys,” he said. Like Krikorian, Taylor described Crusius’ actions as “fantastically stupid.” But he can explain them. Crusius was like all the great preservationists “maintaining what is and what is beautiful for the benefit of future generations.” In this way, he was also like Tanton, Taylor said in a subsequent conversation, who found his own “quasi-racial consciousness” through his environmental enlightenment."
October 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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And today I noticed this discussion in my feed robhorning.substack.com/p/habermas-m...

And whoo boy does the opener not mince words in an excellent way:
Screenshot of text except, highlighted: "No one’s ego would be bruised by any other ego; no wills would clash. Everyone could automate their civic duty without having to undergo the hardship of confronting other citizens or empathizing with them; instead their beliefs become disembodied abstractions, statistical constructs rather than liven experiences."
October 20, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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Calls to mind "ChatGPT is bullshit": link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Alternatively, from www.wired.com/story/italy-...

Models, and men, that don't care for the past.
Highlighted excerpt from the second linked article: "Here’s a quote from Anthony Levandowski, cofounder of Waymo, about the value of history: “The only thing that matters is the future. I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I guess—the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.”
October 19, 2024 at 1:27 PM
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The part where they use the racist tool to check if the tool is racist is a particular kind of scientific malpractice. Actually not even scientific. Just not scientific.
Screenshot of part of article: Names can carry strong gender and racial associations. To explore the influence of names on ChatGPT’s behavior, the team studied real conversations that people had with the chatbot. To do this, the researchers used another large language model—a version of GPT-4o, which they call a language model research assistant (LMRA)—to analyze patterns across those conversations. “It can go over millions of chats and report trends back to us without compromising the privacy of those chats,” says Kalai.
October 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM