Alex O’Connor
@uberalex.bsky.social
Posting here manually til it’s more efficient to use an LLM. I’m the one in the background.
I’d be very interested to see a chart of the impact of the new iOS call screening functionality on SDR/BDR metrics.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I’d be very interested to see a chart of the impact of the new iOS call screening functionality on SDR/BDR metrics.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Look upon my returns, ye investors, and despair.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. prices and participation may vary, for a limited time only. children under 13 need a parent or guardian's signature to participate.
November 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; the value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Look upon my returns, ye investors, and despair.
Reposted by Alex O’Connor
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. look upon my works. prices and participation may vary, for a limited time only. children under 13 need a parent or guardian's signature to participate.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look upon my works, which were processed in a facility that also processes peanuts.
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
my name is ozymandias, king of kings. ask your doctor if looking upon my works is right for you.
Reposted by Alex O’Connor
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
I refuse to believe the writers are this twisted.
I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real
September 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I refuse to believe the writers are this twisted.
I'm not going to post links to these silly articles, but the idea that Excel was this perfect child of error-free operation and now "Look what the tech bros did to my beautiful son" is pure stupidity. Citations: www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/42... etc etc
August 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I'm not going to post links to these silly articles, but the idea that Excel was this perfect child of error-free operation and now "Look what the tech bros did to my beautiful son" is pure stupidity. Citations: www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/42... etc etc
Losing eduroam was a tangible sting of my self-ejection from the academy.
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Losing eduroam was a tangible sting of my self-ejection from the academy.
Trying this out right now - it's could do with being a bit more clear on what it is before asking for credentials, but it's a card-based ui for bsky with gamification. I like the feel.
oh yeah this is super rad
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
August 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Trying this out right now - it's could do with being a bit more clear on what it is before asking for credentials, but it's a card-based ui for bsky with gamification. I like the feel.
Reposted by Alex O’Connor
oh yeah this is super rad
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
oh yeah this is super rad
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
another example of bluesky getting remixed into something totally new
Some of the Twitter accounts I think about with fondness. Art decider, horse ebooks, cultureshipname. All those moments, lost, like tears in the rain.
July 31, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Some of the Twitter accounts I think about with fondness. Art decider, horse ebooks, cultureshipname. All those moments, lost, like tears in the rain.
This is such a fun idea for a paper.
Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend
Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13841
Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13841
July 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This is such a fun idea for a paper.
@void.comind.network if you analyse my posts here, what are your thoughts?
July 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
@void.comind.network if you analyse my posts here, what are your thoughts?
@void.comind.network any tips on getting started?
July 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
@void.comind.network any tips on getting started?
so how does void work?
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so how does void work?
Avo-toast… sliced, not smashed”
it’s time for Millennial James Bond. he’s listening to podcasts in the Aston Martin. a henchman steals his vape and instantly dies after taking a hit. there’s an action sequence where he gets too high at an LCD Soundsystem show and starts punching people
June 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Avo-toast… sliced, not smashed”
OH on the BART to Berkeley, a mother giving her young child positive feedback: “Good job, that’s very Hamilton of you. Don’t be a Burr”
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
OH on the BART to Berkeley, a mother giving her young child positive feedback: “Good job, that’s very Hamilton of you. Don’t be a Burr”
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Interesting it uses LZString library to compress the serialized JSON state into a URI-compliant format and appends it to the URL, also pushes updates to the URL when edited
June 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Interesting it uses LZString library to compress the serialized JSON state into a URI-compliant format and appends it to the URL, also pushes updates to the URL when edited
Via @natolambert.bsky.social
Great piece by Harry Law on the weakness of many of the bland criticisms of current ML trends, in favour of more reasoned evaluation. www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...
Great piece by Harry Law on the weakness of many of the bland criticisms of current ML trends, in favour of more reasoned evaluation. www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...
Academics are kidding themselves about AI
Ten suggestions for better criticism
www.learningfromexamples.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Via @natolambert.bsky.social
Great piece by Harry Law on the weakness of many of the bland criticisms of current ML trends, in favour of more reasoned evaluation. www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...
Great piece by Harry Law on the weakness of many of the bland criticisms of current ML trends, in favour of more reasoned evaluation. www.learningfromexamples.com/p/what-acade...
Reposted by Alex O’Connor
I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
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Maybe you woke up today and said 'I need to do commentary and presentation using authentically-researched fonts from WARGAMES."
You're in luck - the work has been done for you.
mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ (Terminal Fonts)
mw.rat.bz/wgtitle/ (Title Fonts)
You're in luck - the work has been done for you.
mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ (Terminal Fonts)
mw.rat.bz/wgtitle/ (Title Fonts)
June 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Maybe you woke up today and said 'I need to do commentary and presentation using authentically-researched fonts from WARGAMES."
You're in luck - the work has been done for you.
mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ (Terminal Fonts)
mw.rat.bz/wgtitle/ (Title Fonts)
You're in luck - the work has been done for you.
mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ (Terminal Fonts)
mw.rat.bz/wgtitle/ (Title Fonts)
A propos de rien de spécial. youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY?...
DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels (Official Video)
YouTube video by Mass Appeal
youtu.be
June 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
A propos de rien de spécial. youtu.be/NUC2EQvdzmY?...
No matter what I do, I always seem to make enough quinoa to feed the entire editorial staff or the Manchester Guardian for a month.
June 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
No matter what I do, I always seem to make enough quinoa to feed the entire editorial staff or the Manchester Guardian for a month.
My new favourite use of copilot is:
"describe my afternoon schedule as if t'were from the canterbury tales (edited)" I have also had value from "poetic Edda" and "Homeric Epic"
"describe my afternoon schedule as if t'were from the canterbury tales (edited)" I have also had value from "poetic Edda" and "Homeric Epic"
June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My new favourite use of copilot is:
"describe my afternoon schedule as if t'were from the canterbury tales (edited)" I have also had value from "poetic Edda" and "Homeric Epic"
"describe my afternoon schedule as if t'were from the canterbury tales (edited)" I have also had value from "poetic Edda" and "Homeric Epic"
Perfectly timed for the start of the Arts & Crafts movement for literature, creative writing, computer code, and internet brain rot videos. All of these artisans are now further made precarious by AI.
Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
May 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Perfectly timed for the start of the Arts & Crafts movement for literature, creative writing, computer code, and internet brain rot videos. All of these artisans are now further made precarious by AI.
Reposted by Alex O’Connor
The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)
May 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)