sophie malice

Dan @danxduran.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:28 UTC

Always wanted a game set in Auckland

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

my elder son does earthworks, as a general theme, for a living, it encompasses heavy diesel engineering, digger operator, class 5 H driving i'm a little bit pissy that longcovid took this view from me as first-person, but that's life as i get to live it it's lovely seeing the images occasionally

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:14 UTC

how many times do i need to ask this on bsky

and don't tell me our GG is unaware of #nzpol, Cindy Kiro, or maybe her advisors, are not fit for purpose if that were true

this government is incompetent, can we have an election, pls

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:02 UTC

par for the course a government predicated on self-aggrandisment for its Ministers would be remiss if it avoided gaslighting those who keep its infrastructure functioning

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:52 UTC

i learned the intrinsics of piaffe from watching my 12yo son coming up our driveway from the far paddock, bareback, halter and leadrope he perhaps would've taken out a world dressage competition in Germany with the agreement he had happening — how did you do that? — do what? it was just fun

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:43 UTC

horse "breaking" is an awful term, i use it under protest the rednecks don't understand mutual agreement, too woke i s'pose — wha! a fucking predator sitting on my back, fuck off — we're not all predators sweetie, some of us can join with you oh ok this is rather cool, eh, wanna piaffe?

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:28 UTC

never worked with a Haflinger, farrier friends have huge respect for their intelligence i've dealt with most breeds in Aotearoa, from mini's to Shires, and way too many self-centred TB's, our Kaimanawa's are a fav, too smart by any measure

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:16 UTC

one of the bizarre things about being a farrier (half of my lifetime here, the other half was geekette) was being expected to be able to fix problem horses — i'm a farrier, not a horse breaker — but you just shod my horse, no one else done that in years *sighs* give me a bridle

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:10 UTC

oh, so much this suggesting, not driving having the gall to be seen as maybe wrong until all the avenues have been investigated "oh, you were right, eh teach"

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:06 UTC

my hormones are out of balance atm, the estrogen high is a problematic thing i've yet to come to terms with but it's such good fun

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:58 UTC

i could develop a crush just on the basis of that skeet

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:53 UTC

not saying it won't get there, burn enough gigawatts of power trying to recreate human understanding, it'll happen eventually hopefully before we kill our planet trying to get to that point, but then we'll have another problem to address, involving creating sentience 4/4

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:52 UTC

¹that was the fuckup, human intelligence doesn't rand(), it attempts a closeness within the author's domain of understanding, which can be interpreted by the broad context of the author's writing 3/4

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:51 UTC

make another array of the lexeme that's most likely to occur after the current lexeme oops, lots of them have equal weighting use rand() to choose¹ the next lexeme branch back and consider the total result still statistically correct, continue 2/4

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:49 UTC

primer for how LLM's work this is grossly simplified, k acquire huge volumes of text — it's a large LANGUAGE model — but don't bother about the context, that's an out of domain subtlety yet to be addressed this is a ginormous array of lexemes, inappropriately constrained to mean words 1/4

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:19 UTC

the layers of terf bigotry have become quite sophisticated since i've been online — ya mean since forever, sōf — ok, i'm old sweetie they need an equally sophisticated response, or our minorities will shoot themselves in the foot trying to disambiguate the pigshit

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sophie malice @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 07:13 UTC

thank you fact checking when the original, and as far as i can tell, only source to date is a terf-island disinfo site, is important if Gaiman's guilty, alguds our community doesn't need that even if he's edge of the envelope, bigots will spin it to being mainstream

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