Christopher
@shrydar.bsky.social
Python/6502/Rust/C, whovian, goth, demo coding, hair dye and heels. Seriously into code optimisation and data compression, currently working in radio astronomy at CIRA, former Driv{e3}r2?/Stuntman dev. ChristopherJam on the c64, shrydar everywhere else.
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If a kufiya is religious attire then baguettes are religious food
We were invited to screen Still Playing at Amiens Jail in France as part of the cultural activity
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If a kufiya is religious attire then baguettes are religious food
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When the British appropriated khichdi from India to make kedgeree they went "hm, what if I use smoked fish instead of lentils in this lentil and rice dish"
One of the wildest recipe substitutions. And *then* they added hardboiled eggs and raisins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree
One of the wildest recipe substitutions. And *then* they added hardboiled eggs and raisins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree
Kedgeree - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
When the British appropriated khichdi from India to make kedgeree they went "hm, what if I use smoked fish instead of lentils in this lentil and rice dish"
One of the wildest recipe substitutions. And *then* they added hardboiled eggs and raisins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree
One of the wildest recipe substitutions. And *then* they added hardboiled eggs and raisins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree
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Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit
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Wishing a very happy birthday to the formidable actor, director and producer Jodie Foster! Celebrate Foster's long and versatile career in front of and behind the camera with TAXI DRIVER, PANIC ROOM, LITTLE MAN TATE, THE BEAVER and more!
www.criterionchannel.com/starring-jod...
www.criterionchannel.com/starring-jod...
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Wishing a very happy birthday to the formidable actor, director and producer Jodie Foster! Celebrate Foster's long and versatile career in front of and behind the camera with TAXI DRIVER, PANIC ROOM, LITTLE MAN TATE, THE BEAVER and more!
www.criterionchannel.com/starring-jod...
www.criterionchannel.com/starring-jod...
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Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom.
(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
9/n
(Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
9/n
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Several lines in the image below are highlighted, but the one that jumps out to me isn't: "when you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning."
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Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER
dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut
Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!
dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut
Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!
Multiplayer Hub | DOS.Zone
Multiplayer Portal - is a best place to play classic DOS and Windows games online with your friends. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play! Quake, Half-Life, Heroes of Might and Magic, Wo...
dos.zone
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER
dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut
Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!
dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut
Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!
Ooh, allo. What's been happening there then?
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ooh, allo. What's been happening there then?
aaarrrggghhhh just had a one hour meeting with 40 minutes of "oh and one more thing before we go"s tacked on the end 😂😭
(ok ok, so it was actually useful. But still!)
(ok ok, so it was actually useful. But still!)
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
aaarrrggghhhh just had a one hour meeting with 40 minutes of "oh and one more thing before we go"s tacked on the end 😂😭
(ok ok, so it was actually useful. But still!)
(ok ok, so it was actually useful. But still!)
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Lil Enamel dish is happy to have served as a lid while I was cooking a small trial run of tamarind & date sauce in the air fryer.
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Lil Enamel dish is happy to have served as a lid while I was cooking a small trial run of tamarind & date sauce in the air fryer.
Ok ok, y'all have talked us into taking Bojack Horseman for a spin. One episode in and not sold yet, will continue for now to see where it goes though.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Ok ok, y'all have talked us into taking Bojack Horseman for a spin. One episode in and not sold yet, will continue for now to see where it goes though.
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LET'S GO!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
LET'S GO!
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happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
The way my email client momentarily displays a massive "Inbox Zero!" splash screen before it actually checks my mailbox and reminds me I actually have about thirty one thousand unread..
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The way my email client momentarily displays a massive "Inbox Zero!" splash screen before it actually checks my mailbox and reminds me I actually have about thirty one thousand unread..
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This is a ridiculous amount of packaging for 5 razor blade refills.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is a ridiculous amount of packaging for 5 razor blade refills.
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"AI Guardrails" has the same connotation to me as "Clean Coal".
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"AI Guardrails" has the same connotation to me as "Clean Coal".
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
Heaps of useful/interesting links in this thread.
(but please, read LLM wherever AI is mentioned. Other things under the broad umbrella are actually useful, just not the ones masquerading as therapists or writers or companions!)
(but please, read LLM wherever AI is mentioned. Other things under the broad umbrella are actually useful, just not the ones masquerading as therapists or writers or companions!)
cool pincer movement if you truly grasp:
AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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AI & any concept relating to it like so-called guardrails are a scam in the deepest sense like a perpetual motion machine or a quija board — and not only a scam like a pyramid scheme which is a possible way to make money if you are first in first out
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"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Heaps of useful/interesting links in this thread.
(but please, read LLM wherever AI is mentioned. Other things under the broad umbrella are actually useful, just not the ones masquerading as therapists or writers or companions!)
(but please, read LLM wherever AI is mentioned. Other things under the broad umbrella are actually useful, just not the ones masquerading as therapists or writers or companions!)
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This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
TFW 600ml of diet coke padded out with 160ml of chinotto and 100ml of tap water isn't enough to get you through until hometime, never mind the entire day.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
TFW 600ml of diet coke padded out with 160ml of chinotto and 100ml of tap water isn't enough to get you through until hometime, never mind the entire day.
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This was a stupid move by trump. She’s going to be out for blood now.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This was a stupid move by trump. She’s going to be out for blood now.
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I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’m back.
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
my kingdom for a proper Option type. Oh, and a span too while we're at it.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
my kingdom for a proper Option type. Oh, and a span too while we're at it.
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“Number 6 is a gentleman from Mauritania” - never thought I’d hear that on an American TV show❤️🙏🏾 Or poulet yassa🍗
#Pluribus #VinceGilligan #AppleTV
#Pluribus #VinceGilligan #AppleTV
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Number 6 is a gentleman from Mauritania” - never thought I’d hear that on an American TV show❤️🙏🏾 Or poulet yassa🍗
#Pluribus #VinceGilligan #AppleTV
#Pluribus #VinceGilligan #AppleTV