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My wife has a maths quiz on Thursday. So tomorrow, we're gonna take the car to get new tyres, then have a date where we eat sushi and do maths problems. Younger me would be so fucking pumped at how our life turned out.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 10h

My brother lives in Brisbane. He's survived a lot more fires and floods than the rest of us. Good for him, but I'm happy where I am.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thoughts: you can make this point without AI, and you should, especially if you wish to not further enrich Donald Trump.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just realised I didn't know you were bi until I read this but I 100%knew you were bi

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Don't let your dreams be dreams

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very interesting perspective here.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've got a slightly modified version of the opening theme song to the Nickelodeon show CatDog stuck in my head, and that's the energy I think Batman movies should adopt moving forward.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really enjoyed this Sudoku. Immensely satisfying. If you like variant Sudoku you might want to give it a go. logic-masters.de/Raetselporta...

logic-masters.de

Casino Royale — Rätselportal — Logic Masters Deutschland

Die Webseite des Vereins Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Got confirmation today that my birth certificate is being updated. I am legally female. Just don't tell them I was doing it illegally before, yeah? #trans

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In five years, my beavers could build a dam for all their coffee 😍

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" said the president of the Stone Throwers Club, stone in hand, actively aiming it at a nearby homeless person. #onenation #auspol

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'll never understand the defense that users opt in to tracking for advertising purposes. No one is knowingly opting into that. No end user gives a fuck about the ads they get. No one wants them personalised. Who the fuck is buying this?

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Between a driver and a cyclist/pedestrian, only one is operating a lethal machine. That comes with a responsibility too many don't appreciate. A car is dangerous to everyone around it.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey now: A: You're a all star; B: Don't dream it's over; C: This is what dreams are made of; D: Other (please specify).

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That's, what, five times they've achieved AGI now?

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My wife and I have been talking about starting a family for a while. Our plans fell apart a few months ago, when our donor revealed himself to be...unsuitable. We had a chat tonight about our next steps. So, we're going to start our journey. I might yet be a mum 🥲

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The environmental, economic, and political cost isn't zero. Neither is the benefit. But, I will pretty confidently say that I'm not interested in art produced by a computer. AI models don't implement creativity, they approximate it, and I don't ever want human creativity automated.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've already copped to using AI at work, so I'm certainly not going judge you. Coding is one of the clear use cases. I question the scalability, but it clearly serves a need, and it's great for personal projects. I can't say it's absolutely fine, and I know that of my usage as well.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The question as being about generative AI. I do see a future where some of the generative AI we've developed is put to good use, but we don't have a clear vision of it yet, and the drive behind its development and deployment is largely greed.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Developed by the worst kind of people who've spent nearly two years brown nosing a fascist, sold on the promise of displacing human labour, without consent of those most impacted by it. It's also killed people. Of course, there are other types of AI which are undeniably good, but I interpreted 3/

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Works, without the permission of copyright holders, with no compensation in most cases, by creators who knew it was wrong. The question was specifically on whether it's netted us anything good, and I'd say no, because that implies weighing the good against the bad. It's a useful technology 2/

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I use LLMs at work all the time. They're great at navigating complex code bases, answering specific questions quickly, debugging issues, etc. They undeniably have a use, and I don't think it's limited to coding. That is true at the same time that it is true that they were trained off of stolen 1/

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh, and one more thing: If I illegally download a work of art, and am subsequently inspired by it, I still did theft.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Develop and promote said service. Comparing a machine learning model's training to human creative inspiration is, I think, a pretty flawed argument. They are very different processes, and one of them is unavoidable. We have a choice in the other. But it's also not what's happening.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Seen, launch a website where you will happily reproduce said copyrighted works. Not in style, but in content. Like, it's not in the style of the Simpsons, it's literally Simpsons characters. Charge money for use of this service, or otherwise monetise it. Take vast sums of investor capital to 2/

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In general, no. Your creation is the output of a human brain, which is legally distinct from any computer algorithm. However, I think your hypothetical needs reframing. First, pick a work which is indisputably copyrighted. Now, instead of merely making your own art inspired by that which you've 1/

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Is illegally downloading copyrighted content not stealing now?

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've worked in a data centre. There giant buildings that have maybe a couple dozen people working in them at a time. Once built, there are almost no jobs to be had, and those jobs won't be filled by the same people who built them. This is a lie. The profits aren't for the community around them.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I get it and it is highly hypocritical But, Monica Lewinsky was sexually harassed by her boss. She did not freely consent to sex. Let's make points without whitewashing the stories of what happened to victims of sexual assault.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My wife and I helped an older gentleman who was taking a table from the side of the road. And I just really like when older people take the time to tell you about this person they know who also got gay married. The world progresses slowly, unevenly, often in the wrong direction, but there it is.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My fitbit is upset about my sleep quality. I only got 1h 57m, my sleep score is low. At 11:27. That was a nap, my friend. That was a two hour nap in the middle of the day. I feel fantastic.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel really bad for CSS people. "Look at this cool effect I achieved using just CSS, and it wasn't even that hard to set up!" I'm so sorry. Your bar was in the stratosphere, and now you're looking at one at the top of Mount Everest and marveling at the fact it technically can be done on foot.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We were told we have to use AI because it will make us faster. So I started using BMAD. The current discussion is why it's making us so much slower. I like this trajectory.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

He's going to outlive every present day voter As far as anyone can prove

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Vaccine conspiracies are easy to spread in part because of how effective vaccines are. People don't take the threat of measles seriously if it's never been a threat in their lifetime. It's easy to think it's not a big deal if it's never been a big deal for you. We have vaccines to thank for that.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh no mine was silver. Not soul silver. Silver.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excuse me ma'am, what the blep???

A picture of a tabby cat with her tongue poking out.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We've got this face wash, and on the back, it starts out with a bold "developed with dermatologist". Which seems to me kind of like putting a sticker on a banana proclaiming it began friendly. Like, yeah, I think developed with dermatologists is kind of expected. By dermatologists, even.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Lightyears are great because it makes it really obvious when the writers didn't have access to a calculator (usually)

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I think every programmer has, at some point, thought they could validate a name. Not enough subsequently realised how foolish that was.

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Isobel @appsolutelynot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I grew up with a composite name (Dutch, with a van, lower case) that was constantly getting mangled. I changed that when I came out as changed and then married and got a hyphenated surname. I hate assumptions about names. No computer knows how every name works.

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