Kyle Thayer

Ideally it works like this

This remains the best unsung and most underdeveloped feature in this app

the weirdest thing about this debate, which is almost certainly due to negative polarization, is that the pro-AI position *should* be "no, its not conscious, it is just a marvel of engineering that has produced a vastly more effective computer program"

i would hope it isn't conscious, because if it is then every time you start and end a session you are birthing and killing a sentient being

This movie is better than I remembered, but also, let's talk evangelical Christianity and modern computer animation, why not?

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

One missing piece is that a total revolution has *not* occurred in the evolution of how people decide _what_ software features or solutions to build, which was always a social and not technical problem, and the conditions of which have been in steady and then increasing deterioration for decades.

holy fuckin shit lmao

a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE

eh. coding agents? what could go wrong

Innuendo Studios — a guide to flaming out you have to stop

new video on Nebula, public soon

nebula.tv/videos/innue...

After my ADHD diagnosis, I began to rethink how I play games Gaming can be a very seductive way to self-medicate, or at least self-soothe

I wrote about my #ADHD diagnosis (and mental health) and how it changed my relationship with gaming for the first time since I got diagnosed 4 years ago, for @mothership.blog
www.mothership.blog/after-my-adh...

It is true that he has absolutely no real views whatsoever but that's actually really helpful in this situation, because you should take it as a clear sign and a win if someone with no beliefs feels the wind is blowing in your direction.

Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart

In her review of Piketty, McCloskey points out that the Latin root of data is "things given," but that the documentation Piketty is working with, primarily tax records, is more accurately a reflection of "things seized." That is, not data, but capta. I want to détourné McCloskey's point to argue that capta is the appropriate title for the currencies of technofeudalism.? It is an economy which is growing increasingly inefficient, coercive, and authoritarian because the economic process it glorifies is not one of mutual consent to market exchange, but of non-consensual seizure of attention, identity, and future potential.

I’ve been trying to use capta consistently, where appropriate, and have been pleased to find, for many, no explanation is needed. It is very intuitive, as disciplinary jargon should be.

Looking forward to an article about all the Black women scientists who thrived despite Epstein and friends best efforts to shove us out of the field including by not offering us funding that our competitors were getting

I am looking for something very specific and I'm wondering if a few people I follow might be able to help. I'm trying to find scientific critiques of automated "sentiment analysis".

The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

I tried this game in the first place because it was recommended by an art historian friend for doing so many things right (like city layouts and brightly colored statues)

Personal news update: I'm delighted to announce that as of today, I am an actual Bluesky employee! I'll be working to welcome indie media and local govt to Bsky—and supporting those already here.

I'll always want to hear your thoughts on how we can make Bsky the sort of social media we all want!

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

This could theoretically work at the state level, like Arizona, right? Is there any effort to push for states to get rid of daylight savings time changes?

Eastern time next please?

Yeah, I think there's a paradox around these kinds of proscriptive efforts where the existence of useful tools makes people feel entitled to keep demanding more and more use of them.

I theoretically like that Mastodon lets you make a post with hidden content behind a "spoilers" tag, but on practice it culturally seems to create even more fights and dogpiling about "spoilers."

Hot take, but I think excessive spoiler tagging/limiting is bad for culture as a whole. Culture around art arises from us not only consuming art, but discussing it. There is an informal window I think most agree is worth preserving to produce fresh perspectives, but eventually that window closes.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Indiana Jones and the Objective Existence of God YouTube video by Jacob Geller

On the subject, have you seen @jacobgeller.com's video: Indiana Jones and the Objective Existence of God?

youtu.be/LJkMWj7QGcA

May this serve as a corrective for all of us who have apparently been mispronouncing Google chatbot's name. (sound on)

Like culture posts on this app simply don’t get the engagement and I think it’s because people feel it’s frivolous and actually it’s the thing we are fighting for, the freedom to make culture and cultural works

Color Name Summaries - Color Naming in Different Language See summary data about color names in different languages.

You can see some of our results on colors in different languages here:

idl.uw.edu/color-naming...