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@transmute.ca

Toronto, sometimes Brooklyn he/him

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06.03.2026 21:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have less wildlife than at any point in human history but it is more photographed / documented than at any point in human history.

23.02.2026 13:48 👍 251 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 2

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist

23.02.2026 14:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Episode 035 – Sword in a Hole Liono reveals that he’s a coffee sniffer.

thundercatsreviews.wordpress.com/2018/06/30/e...

23.02.2026 14:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Photography took roughly a century from the time people started using it to make "art" to it becoming broadly accepted as an art form. For me this supports the idea that cultural disavowal can be very durable, while also provoking humility as it highlights the cultural relativism of it all...

18.02.2026 01:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For real. But also I assume the 2% bump is on the marginal rate, right? In which case $0 extra on the first million—you'd need to be making $2m before you see a $20k increase

18.02.2026 00:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is household@[familydomain] a shared inbox or does it forward to both of you? / Do your replies come from household@[familydomain] or from your individual addresses?

09.02.2026 23:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Will do, thanks! They weren't on my radar.

09.02.2026 03:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think you can still find the wifi ones but I don't love buying into a discontinued product. They might be transitioning to a new version yet to be released? But also maybe just leaning into enterprise market. I'm definitely not going to get new Ethernet cable run to my door for that though.

09.02.2026 03:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am also in the market for such a doorbell and landed on Ubiquiti for WiFi APs, and assumed I'd go for their doorbells too but they seem to be phasing out regular doorbell power supply + wifi in favour of PoE only? So I'm currently looking at Reolink doorbell + Synology NAS w/Surveillance Station 🤔

09.02.2026 03:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

This is what broke me: her own words.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...

08.01.2026 05:00 👍 76 🔁 26 💬 0 📌 3
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

@attackerman.bsky.social's destruction of Bari Weiss here is so vicious because it is so spectacularly well-informed; this one is an earner, folks

www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...

31.12.2025 02:47 👍 968 🔁 266 💬 9 📌 18

bsky.app/profile/tran...

12.12.2025 18:54 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Group of people doing collaborative prompt engineering on the holodeck in TNG S6E05 "Schisms"

"We've all been here before..."

Group of people doing collaborative prompt engineering on the holodeck in TNG S6E05 "Schisms" "We've all been here before..."

Silly Computer put regular scissors on the robot arm

Silly Computer put regular scissors on the robot arm

Computer couldn't put artists out of work if it tried, because space communism, we just need space communism

11.12.2025 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Leopard
Orca
Blue Jay
Scorpion
Jefferson Salamander

29.11.2025 09:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Zoe Keating
Kraftwerk
Vieux Farka Touré
Nine Inch Nails
Sylvan Esso

28.11.2025 04:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this

26.11.2025 18:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In 2023, David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University who is one of the world's most prominent scholars in the field of AI consciousness, was firmly in the skeptic camp. That year, he published an essay,
"Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?," in which he concluded that limitations in the architecture of LLMs at the time, that there was no discernible mechanism by which an Al could become self-aware. Yet he recognized that these machines were so complex, and developing so quickly, that he couldn't be entirely sure.
He assessed the possibility at "somewhere under 10 percent."
Today, he says, the odds have gotten significantly higher — though he won't put a number on it. "I don't know if I'd say that these systems are conscious yet," Chalmers says. "They might be, and this is important.
People who are confident that they're not conscious maybe shouldn't be. We just don't understand consciousness well enough, and we don't understand these systems well enough. So we can't rule it out."

In 2023, David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy and neural science at New York University who is one of the world's most prominent scholars in the field of AI consciousness, was firmly in the skeptic camp. That year, he published an essay, "Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?," in which he concluded that limitations in the architecture of LLMs at the time, that there was no discernible mechanism by which an Al could become self-aware. Yet he recognized that these machines were so complex, and developing so quickly, that he couldn't be entirely sure. He assessed the possibility at "somewhere under 10 percent." Today, he says, the odds have gotten significantly higher — though he won't put a number on it. "I don't know if I'd say that these systems are conscious yet," Chalmers says. "They might be, and this is important. People who are confident that they're not conscious maybe shouldn't be. We just don't understand consciousness well enough, and we don't understand these systems well enough. So we can't rule it out."

The article cites David Chalmers, who is literally the guy who first described the "hard problem" of consciousness. If you want Philosophy of Mind, you got it. That doesn't mean you have to agree with him, but 🤷🏼‍♂️

26.11.2025 00:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I believe experiential consciousness is fundamental to reality so sure, LLMs are conscious. As are traffic jams, thunderstorms, grains of sand, electrons, any system of interacting quantum fields, etc.

It's amazing! It also doesn't mean we grieve for every spreadsheet cell with a formula error 🤷🏼‍♂️

25.11.2025 22:11 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I believe experiential consciousness is fundamental to reality so sure, LLMs are conscious. As are traffic jams, thunderstorms, grains of sand, electrons, any system of interacting quantum fields, etc.

It's amazing! It also doesn't mean we grieve for every spreadsheet cell with a formula error 🤷🏼‍♂️

25.11.2025 22:11 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A Video About Digging A Hole
A Video About Digging A Hole YouTube video by Jacob Geller

Can relate. I greatly enjoyed this video from Jacob Geller on the topic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQ8...

13.11.2025 05:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Just realized something

11.11.2025 00:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Cover art for "Voltron, Defender of the Universe." Voltron's left hand, which is the gaping maw of a green lion robot, stretches menacingly toward the viewer.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Godrick from Elden Ring saying "Bear witness!" while his left hand, which is the head of a dragon, breathes fire.

Just realized something

11.11.2025 00:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

AUTHORS!!

Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?

Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.

More here:

10.11.2025 23:30 👍 433 🔁 218 💬 18 📌 18

Almost like dem leadership saw it as a defeat

10.11.2025 01:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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try again, but harder

05.11.2025 22:14 👍 2020 🔁 627 💬 22 📌 12

I remember reading about how identity papers in some places include ethnic group or religion and thinking "huh the only reason to do that would be to make it easier to discriminate" and then realizing the same thing applies to gender markers.

06.11.2025 22:16 👍 86 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 0

Either that or he said "billion" in which case about 400 lbs per person 🤔🤔 (honestly unclear to me, sounded like "mbillion"?)

06.11.2025 18:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks!

06.11.2025 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Beautiful. Can you share which deck that is?

06.11.2025 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0