François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦

Someone You Can Build a Nest In, by @wiswell.bsky.social ; but I'm sure it was already on your radar.

"For reference: Kash Patel is the one who looks like he has just realized that a gerbil is crawling up his pant leg. He stands behind the podium, between the life-sized Barbie doll and the wax statue."

For reference: Kash Patel is the one who looks like he has just realized that a gerbil is crawling up his pant leg. He stands behind the podium, between the life-sized Barbie doll and the wax statue.

Pitch an unnecessary sequel

Heat Death of the Universe 2

So far, the most challenging aspect of writing a satire about artificial intelligence has been coming up with a name so stupid that an actual AI company hasn't already chosen it for itself.

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Made slightly ridiculous by the presence of California-based teams when the league still calls itself the Atlantic Coast Conference, but we do live in ridiculous times, so par for the course I guess 🤷‍♂️.

Yeah, I'd probably work out harder if a dude watched over me while flexing a morning star.

Not saying I'd appreciate the thought per se, but I'd work out harder.

Digital Humanities. I was showing them a graph of the characters in Star Wars, with wider links between characters who shared more scenes. None of them had any idea who Leia and Chewbacca were. An utter fiasco.

A couple of years ago, I had that same tidal wave of blankness while talking to my undergrads about *Star Wars*. I almost quit teaching on the spot.

Yep. Writing (for tv, stand-up comedy, video games, academia, magazines...) has been the great joy of my life.

Trying to get a novel published might drive me to an early grave.

He thinks he's fighting Cyrus the Great.

La plus faible masse salariale de la ligue pour la Xième année consécutive, une direction de nepobabies et un coach dont la principale qualité consiste à détenir un passeport italien. Quelle surprise que ça ne marche pas.

Our Ladybug of the Immaculate Decomposition.

There's still technically two weeks of winter left, so why not invade Russia while they're at it? /s

Agreed, with the partial exception of First Contact (movie script, episode production values.)

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Not to mention all the books that should have been articles.

Excellente (et déprimante) #vulgarisation

Artificial Intelligence, Stochastic Stupidity As I conducted library research for my master’s degree in computer science, some 25 years ago, I came across a peculiar little book published by a Soviet engineer around 1984. The topic: chess...

An essay in which I use probabilistic reasoning to explain why no one should ever trust the output of generative AI. With a rather lengthy detour through the world of Soviet-era games programming.

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Fridges are how History departments turn their practice into an experimental science.

Artificial Intelligence, Stochastic Stupidity As I conducted library research for my master’s degree in computer science, some 25 years ago, I came across a peculiar little book published by a Soviet engineer around 1984. The topic: chess...

An essay in which I use probabilistic reasoning to explain why no one should ever trust the output of generative AI. With a rather lengthy detour through the world of Soviet-era games programming.

fdl-author.weebly.com/blog/artific...

The National Science Foundation grants in my field from 2024, cut by DOGE, equaled the cost of 108 seconds of bombing Iran.

Geocities is what the kiddies used while Real Internet People wrote HTML by hand in Arachnophilia.

Got my first email address when I started university in computer science in 1988. Used it primarily to play Diplomacy by correspondence. Then created my first online game in 1992.

Pretty sure that parts of me have begun to fossilize.

The appropriate response, as always, is: "You first, asshole."

Welcome to Bluesky at last, Cory Doctorow! @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Intelligence artificielle, stupidité stochastique Il y a un peu plus de vingt-cinq ans, alors que j’effectuais des recherches en bibliothèque dans le cadre de mes études de maîtrise en informatique, je suis tombé sur la traduction anglaise...

Voici un essai dans lequel je démontre, par la probabilité et la statistique, qu'il faut être naïf pour se fier à ce qui sort d'un modèle de langage comme ChatGPT. En passant par un long détour mettant en vedette un ancien champion du monde des échecs.

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