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James Aylett@james.tartarus.org |
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The pandemic isn't over. Trying to curate my feed more carefully than before; if I don't follow you it doesn't mean I don't like you. I've built things you've forgotten.
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James Aylett
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This is the kind of thing I'd expect to happen if they bashed the app together using developers who had limited experience of desktop (and specifically macOS) development rather than hiring specialists: the shortest path to things working the way you expected is to turn off modern safety features.
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James Aylett
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I do wonder if part of the problem with Windows sometimes just freezing for a few seconds is the same problem that means Microsoft's own website seems down half the times I visit it.
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Simon Bisson
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A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister. For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
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Dr.DreadPirate
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I'm wondering if the New York Times is too old an institution to be reliable any more. 🤔
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evacide
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I don't think Follow Friday is a thing here, but if you're on the dystopia beat, @hypervisible.bsky.social consistently finds horrors such as this one.
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James Aylett
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Entirely supportive of your point, and also really enjoyed "GRIFTSPAMMER #12" (although I stopped watching after GRIFTSPAMMER #7 when they recast the lead and make it into a clunky metaphor for teenager drug use)
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Kameron Hurley
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Or... PERPLEXITY...or WALDO...or GRIFTSPAMMER #12??? There are so fucking many of these flooding the market that every time we push back we're told to go... vet some other tool. Like, DID YOU NOT HIRE ME BECAUSE I CAN WRITE??? LIKE I CAN DO THE THING YOU'RE TRYING TO GET THE PLAGARISM ENGINE TO DO
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James Aylett
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An intern who doesn't particularly care about developing writing craft OR subject matter expertise, and has limited ambition to get a permanent position.
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Kameron Hurley
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We've fought for a year on the writing team to push back and explain why this takes longer and produces worse work, and we keep getting called luddites. Someone telling me to do my job a certain way who does not understand how I do my job or what good work in my job looks like drives me UP THE WALL
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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James Aylett
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Oh. It's still Friday.
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Keith W. Dickinson
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Clarkesworld
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I didn't plan on making these daily updates, but we crossed into the 200s over the holiday and that seems like a reason to celebrate. Only 286 subscriptions remain before we've erased all the losses caused by Amazon!
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Nat Guest
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Well you're all laughing now but what ARE we going to do about the pork markets?
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
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James Aylett
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Is there a film based on this and if not why not?
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James Aylett
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Hunt: how did I get here? IDS: how did you get in here? Shapps: who am I?
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James Aylett
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Ed.
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James Aylett
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There are people queueing in line to get through the gates and onto the aircraft. I'm... baffled.
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James Aylett
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They still killed each other though, although probably more nicely. Which is why they sometimes used bishops as spies because you might fuck with other countries and families but you didn't want to fuck with the church
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James Aylett
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First against the wall when the revolution comes
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Keifer
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Say what you want about Nintendo but them being a video game company and not a tech conglomerate like Sony and Microsoft makes them far more immune to pressure from outsiders or out-of-touch execs who insist that “X is the future!”
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John Kennedy
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When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
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James Aylett
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The Sun likes to be on the side of the winner. The Times is happy to be condescending and superior no matter what the outcome.
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James Aylett
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For all those people worried about impact on their livelihood, it does feel like there's a route through their elected representatives which might get at the heart of the problem: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Stop blaming unions for industrial action.
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Zoe Kaplan
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The incredibly talented @illustratedpage.bsky.social is launching a writing inspiration deck! It's soo pretty, you know you want it!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...
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James Aylett
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If they clone enough famous dead people we won't need new actors at all and a low birth rate will become a feature not a bug. And then everyone else will kill themselves age 45 because everything sounds the same. Who's reading the news? Oh that's Burt Reynolds. Ad voiceovers? Airport PA? Just Burt.
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James Aylett
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Today I was writing examples for our* taxonomy of AI harms and the causes of harms, and I'm beginning to create characters and little stories and so now I have to teach the analyst who's also working on this narrative, structure, and style * I mean, it's the company's but secretly it's mine
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James Aylett
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Not enough passive voice
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Hypervisible
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“There’s something disconcerting about a sophisticated piece of surveillance technology deployed for something as banal as selling candy.”
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James Aylett
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That "if" isn't load bearing by the way. Under minor pressure it collapses to true.
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James Aylett
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Deployed with cover of something as banak as selling candy? If there are cameras in everything...
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Hillary Monahan
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My left af nonbinary queer partner came from a poor family and wanted to go to college so they enlisted. Wanting to go to college and being forced into the military is not a political party. It's our government being fucking predators and using the cycle of poverty to keep its death machine.
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James Aylett
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Given how messed up nations are becoming I think we need a way to internationalise important industries.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.
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James Aylett
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Considering crowd funding for two years off so I can read all the books I've crowd funded recently.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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No matter where we live or who we are, climate change affects us all. And, as I often say, that means ….
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Katharine Hayhoe
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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵
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James Aylett
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For added juice call it the "1776 will commence again" act, which is a phrase Alex Jones once lathered himself into shouting.
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Michael
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i think this is right as far as it goes, but illustrates why his posture on court reform, ethics investigations, etc, is inadequate. the norms-respecting response to this insane power grab is to put together a package of legislation to reinstate the proper constitutional order, not "do nothing"
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Paris Marx
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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.
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ONeillJones
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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James Aylett
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His polling probably also says that the public cares more about women than about him though, so...
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Hypervisible
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“In its mildest form, looksmax social media creators tell teen boys to wash their faces; in its most extreme, they tell boys to regularly pummel their jaws to induce micro fractures, get surgery, and take steroids. Social media algorithms tend to amplify this content.”
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James Aylett
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Proposal for Anthropic Nu Benchmark funding: persuade me that Anthropic's approach to AI will ultimately produce AGI. If an AI model cannot then it is not a capable model. If it can then it is an unsafe model.
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Jamison Foser
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If anyone can point me to a comparable New York Times subhead shoe-horning in a statement that "Donald Trump, under scrutiny since his conviction on 34 felony counts, was not arrested for any new crimes today" I'd sure be appreciative.
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James Aylett
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Lol at people claiming (in comments on articles about the new Virgin Atlantic policy) that there's "no reason" to get permanent tattoos and suggesting it's a fad that will pass. Scythians had skin tattoos more than two thousand years ago. I think this fad of not having tattoos will pass.
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James Aylett
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It was vaguely funny when I started here because it was always Scalzi outposting the curve. Even then I think I muted him every so often because if I only wanted one voice I'd have a home screen shortcut to a fucking blog. These days I doubt I'd remember to periodically unmute six or seven accounts.
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James Aylett
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Wanted bsky features: * Don't show reskeets of account's own skeets * Max frequency of account posts shown as a proportion of others Because seriously people, scrolling past the one voice for ages is tedious. Without controls this engagement hacking bullshit will drive me away.
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