AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here’s what I don’t get, what’s the criteria that makes this method or any, “humane”. Seems to me the most humane would be the swiftest. Not the most “sciency”. 030
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look which is easier, creating billion dollar data centers to feed AI or making the search function in outlook actually work?static.klipy.comOutlookALT: Outlook 011
Reposted by AthosOnArakisPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion. 10565150
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yes! I keep wondering if they’ve ever built anything in the real (material) world. Construction industry is desperate to supplement the waning labor force and all the attempts to date are barely scratching the surface because the variety and variability is vast.  090
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Haven’t had a chance to do a deep dive on it but I recall something about embedded energy calculations for built structures as a way to calculate all the energy that goes into producing things as opposed to just cost. 000
Reposted by AthosOnArakisJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social. 13442761561
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*not “Elric’s” a word I’ve never typed in my life 110
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Always thought doing this for S&G’s I am an Island Elric’s would be interesting, if anyone wants to have a go at it tag me. 110
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comRandy Martin at YMCA: Welcome to DowntownALT: Randy Martin at YMCA: Welcome to Downtown 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I mean technically the British empire is a family farm…static.klipy.comQueen Elizabeth Waves with Royal Family on BalconyALT: Queen Elizabeth Waves with Royal Family on Balcony 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Or in other terms, “my robot girlfriend left me for my roommate and is therefor a threat to humanity and must be stopped!” 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This obviously isn’t the same as the convo happening here, but I can’t help but read the current freak out about AI as something along the lines of wanting a super intelligence that has no free will and being disturbed that it may in fact not want to listen to its masters. 110
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What if the two are incompatible. What if intelligence, to be worth a damn, must also be unpredictable? 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It seems to me that what they really want is an intelligence better than humans but more easily controlled (enslaved?). 101
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Is it possible that any moderately sophisticated intelligence is inherently complex and therefore untamable? 100
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Isn’t the thing they’re really after an intelligence that doesn’t have a free will? 100
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If they can’t be productive they should lose their health care. After all they are probably too coddled to be properly motivated not to be poor. 050
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Politicians greatly misunderstand the incentives for any individual to vote. I think a lot of this voter fraud non-sense is the result. 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If you find yourself suffering, just remember that we suffer so our betters can live rich fulfilling lives that only seem decadent and glutinous because we don’t know how hard it is to have that much money. #DonJrstatic.klipy.comDownton Abbey: Lord Grantham's Amused ReactionALT: Downton Abbey: Lord Grantham's Amused Reaction 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t want AI to wipe out the human race either. But could we maybe use it to solve spam calls? 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If he can’t be productive he should be fired and lose his health insurance. 011
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I would pay to watch him take a IQ test live on national tv. 020
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Got a feeling the Kennedy Center’s gonna “accidentally” burn down and Trump will be the only name on the fire insurance.static.klipy.comWoman Talks About Arson and InsuranceALT: Woman Talks About Arson and Insurance 000
Reposted by AthosOnArakissouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026pls find my edits attached thx 442286393
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Same as I was the expert in modeling software for architects who grew up hand drafting, or drawing lines in CAD. 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Paralegals will be the ones using the AI to do research for the partners who can’t be bothered to learn. 110
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You get a lot of this kinda pushback in other industries too that amount to, “I had to learn this production method and it’s how I learned the craft, how will anyone learn it any other way”. But people do. 110
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Remembered being told that I should put typing on my résumé, replied that I wouldn’t be putting that I know how to tie my shoes either. 130
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Flailing desperate Trump tries to bribe electorate into endorsing him. Will the people buy it? #BetterHeadlines 011
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An unqualified Republican president, utterly uninterested in the actual job wreaks havoc on the Middle East destroying American’s reputation abroad and strengthening Iran’s position. Thus setting the stage for Trump to become president. #9/11 000
Reposted by AthosOnArakisLadyBlue4evr💙Radical Liberal Scum @ladyblue4evr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well, there you have it. 620147354712
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This reminds me of Brangelina refusing to marry till gay rights passed… 120
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There is a problem here with politicians generally, which is that they should ideally explain to people that what they want is stupid and will have bad consequences. But nobody wants to do that. See for example every politician to talk about bringing manufacturing back ever. 010
Reposted by AthosOnArakisWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026social media overcame a lot of coordination problems for stupid people with bad ideas and allowed them bypass gatekeepers who knew better. now they're viable constituencies that can actually hold elected officials to account. this may kill us all. 322132
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Might I suggest checking out some interior glass partition walls if you want to keep it feeling open and let light in? Less privacy of course. 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Isn’t the work of a senator “not caring about the work of a senator”? 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Big rent-a-cart lobby kept it from happening 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don’t buy that it was an accident. Too much incentive to let it break out. Jurassic park problem. 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I do wonder why there isn’t a MTG of the left who just exists to troll the right. 050
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Why don’t we have anyone on the left who trolls the right? 000
Reposted by AthosOnArakisDon Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026There's a derangement syndrome alright: 532285848
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"controlling for unexpected behavior are default modes of interaction...this is how computers must be treated: adversarially, with constant suspicion, and armored with plans and backup plans and alarms to be triggered when things go awry." buttondown.com/apperceptive...buttondown.com"AI" is bad UXteapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in... 010
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Starting to suspect Republicans aren’t good at economy? 000
AthosOnArakis @athosonarakis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So sad to seestatic.klipy.comWomp Womp MemeALT: Womp Womp Meme 060
