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@shadess.bsky.social
Creative Technologist, Unrelentingly impractical film photographer, Go-go dancing in the slam-metal mosh, Minor in Gastronomy
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Return visit, same but daylight
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Return visit, same but daylight
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Had this stuck in my head all day, you're welcome youtu.be/AQhB5NZBk2U?...
Bud Spencer - Banana Joe (Soundtrack/Theme)
YouTube video by POEMgoesHollywood
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October 21, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Had this stuck in my head all day, you're welcome youtu.be/AQhB5NZBk2U?...
I could just disappear
October 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I could just disappear
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We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
Touch grass they said
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Touch grass they said
I hate vapes. Some of the many places in my neightbourhood that shill vapes. Kiev 60, Ilford FP4plus 125, July 2025 #CrappyCommieCameraParty
September 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I hate vapes. Some of the many places in my neightbourhood that shill vapes. Kiev 60, Ilford FP4plus 125, July 2025 #CrappyCommieCameraParty
I got the kiev out, I took the kiev out, I developed the film from the kiev, I dried and cut the negatives…
Get the Kiev out.
August 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I got the kiev out, I took the kiev out, I developed the film from the kiev, I dried and cut the negatives…
Been sitting on the table all month. I finally gave up finding the light meter (where are you!) and sunny 16'd that shiz this afternoon. Will I get it developed tonight?
July 31, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Been sitting on the table all month. I finally gave up finding the light meter (where are you!) and sunny 16'd that shiz this afternoon. Will I get it developed tonight?
Please help me champion slop resistant content consumption
Still using "The Old Reader" web version over here. Looking for something more straightforward for those unfamiliar with the way things were done in the distant past
July 13, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Please help me champion slop resistant content consumption
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The replies just prove that no social media platform is free of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 AM
The replies just prove that no social media platform is free of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
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There are certain times when half of Bluesky being shitposters and half of Bluesky being 67 year old Rachel Maddow viewers combine into the most wonderful recursive joke spirals
June 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
There are certain times when half of Bluesky being shitposters and half of Bluesky being 67 year old Rachel Maddow viewers combine into the most wonderful recursive joke spirals
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We've added 10 New #ShittyCameraChallenge shirts just for Pride & ALL the profits of them are going to The Trevor Project!
Consume, Modern Pride Konica Kamera Merchandise!
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Consume, Modern Pride Konica Kamera Merchandise!
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Modern Pride Konica Kamera Logo Men's T-Shirt | The Official Shitty Camera Challenge Sweatshop
Modern Pride Konica Kamera Logo on Men's T-Shirt – Konica Kameras are for photographers of all colors, expressions of gender, sexuality, or lack thereof.
Happy Pride Everyone!
All profits from this...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We've added 10 New #ShittyCameraChallenge shirts just for Pride & ALL the profits of them are going to The Trevor Project!
Consume, Modern Pride Konica Kamera Merchandise!
shittycamerachallenge.threadless.com/designs/mode...
Consume, Modern Pride Konica Kamera Merchandise!
shittycamerachallenge.threadless.com/designs/mode...
Next level.
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
June 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Next level.
Spent half an hour attempting to find out what the best way to set up an RSS feed reader is in 2025, inadvertently discovered Substack is now also has a feed-style short-form social media platform (tweet stack?) Still no wiser on the feedreader thing tho
June 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Spent half an hour attempting to find out what the best way to set up an RSS feed reader is in 2025, inadvertently discovered Substack is now also has a feed-style short-form social media platform (tweet stack?) Still no wiser on the feedreader thing tho
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Official #CrappyCommieCameraParty Rules!
May 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Official #CrappyCommieCameraParty Rules!
I just voted! Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025: interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/
Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025 - Manaaki Whenua Interactives
interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz
May 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I just voted! Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025: interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/
Someone remind me to get the Kiev out 🤔
Get yourself a camera that was made in a communist country, the #CrappyCommieCameraParty takes over June 1st.
a painting of an astronaut with cccp written on the helmet
ALT: a painting of an astronaut with cccp written on the helmet
media.tenor.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Someone remind me to get the Kiev out 🤔
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LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
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pope francis could do the funniest thing wednesday
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
pope francis could do the funniest thing wednesday
Mt Roskill shops, Friday night in the thunderstorm
April 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Mt Roskill shops, Friday night in the thunderstorm