bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I'm reading a copy of *The Martian Chronicles* that, despite being 47 years old, has apparently never been opened before, and thinking about all the books which have been printed but never read before being destroyed, or which will never again be read now that LLM companies are winnowing them all 000
Reposted by bkconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026gift linkbloomberg.comSignal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass SurveillanceThe president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance. 0173
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Pulling out the 650s after not being able to use anything but $20 bluetooths for a month and a half feels like the aural equivalent of putting on glasses for the first time all over again, almost worth the interim 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I'm in a weird camp where I'm unwilling to use Chrome but totally fine with their decision to ship some model weights. I'd much rather a small, CPU-runnable model be baked into Firefox for their Smart Window feature instead of me having to juggle my GPU between my local workload and browser features 110
Reposted by bkGeorge Steffanos @gsteffanos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Blaze of autumn, west slope of the Giant's Head, Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, Connecticut. October 10, 2025, 5:08 PM. #hiking #autumn #forest 1283
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'm going to name my first 2 children Chandra and Surya after these OCR models 000
Reposted by bkDavid Brooks @dgbrooks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026One of many gnarly japanese maples at Portland Japanese Garden: WOW…. just WOW! #PNW 2648
Reposted by bkDen 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I haven't posted any trees or forests in a few days so I guess I'd best remedy that. Have a good day. We have some sun here this morning so I'm off to the mountains. 👋 #Hiking #Photography #Scape #Trees #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland 417015
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Wish I had a better camera for shots like this, but I don't! So here's a lonely and somewhat blurry hawk 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'm curious to know what percentage of people lauding this would instead revile it if they realized it was entirely LLM-generated, for better or for worse 000
Reposted by bkPiccalilli @piccalil.li · 15/06/2026From the archives: A fun little side quest to show you how applying styles to alt text can really elevate your user interface. piccalil.li/blog/you-can...piccalil.liYou can style alt text like any other textA fun little side quest to show you how applying styles to alt text can really elevate your user interface. 193
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm here to be a community, talk trash, and post nasty pics in little private rooms. And I'm all outta community 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Today, among 3 other songs it knows I've heard 2 dozen times minimum, YouTube Music thinks I need to "daily discover" Sunshine Of Your Love 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I've seen many YouTubers decry the new summary generation feature, but they don't seem to have stopped to consider that many of us deeply resent having to sit through their interminable scripts 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Completely derailed from making a haircut appointment because I noticed that the barber's booking site is randomly switching between Abel and Averia Serif for the display font and now I have to crawl the full site to see if they've made any other incredible choices 010
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Hard to overstate my antipathy for the portfolio websites of lauded, long-career designers who use sub-AAA color schemes for their dark mode pages 000
Reposted by bkMicroplastics Sommelier @eephus.mov · 28/03/2026there are those who have questioned my vision 522030
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Every day for 2 weeks YouTube Music has placed "Which Witch" by Florence and the Machine in my daily discover, as though I didn't discover it yet, and hadn't "discovered" it a decade ago 110
Reposted by bkJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever. 125140284034
Reposted by bkKip Conlon @kipconlon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of. 5169021352
Reposted by bkErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 23/03/2026If you want mass adoption and you don't already have dominance, I think you have to get people who genuinely enjoy understanding the problems and needs and desires of Actual Others involved from the beginning. I do not think there is a cheat for empathy and taste. 29111
Reposted by bkJonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 05/03/2026We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy. 122
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026That old IBM slide smuggles a lot of assumptions about what AI can actually do, and makes no useful policy prescriptions. More practically: > AI CANNOT MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION > > THEREFORE A HUMAN IS ALWAYS ACCOUNTABLE Workflows don't instantiate from thin air. Someone authorized them. Who? 100
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I have never seen a steelman that was anything more than a coward's superficially polite or generous strawman 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Ditto "you reap what you sow." I see some people sowing continuously. I see many people reaping what others have sown. I think there's more to the story 020
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Increasingly confused by the lack of a "turn off retweets" setting per profile on this app. Also increasingly confused by otherwise sane-seeming people who retweet each of their fairly new posts 4-5x over the course of a few days 000
Reposted by bkCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I have an unfinished paper about how tools shape our thinking, but also, here our thinking shapes our tools. Malleable interfaces offer that. To me the ways we are able to share strategies with each other & offer each other small experiments in shaping our tool use differently is really remarkable 1101
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I so unbelievably, greatly appreciate that this app doesn't auto-refresh every time I open it after getting distracted into other apps by links or messages 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Incidentally, those detection tests poorly map to actual issues of LLM composition, which tend to be --syntactic and ++semantic (surprise surprise), unraveling over more context than ~100 words. They're improving but still a long way off from mapping the galactic Pareto frontier of >graph quality 100
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Choosing to interpret this as it having a loose or tangential commitment to agency without intelligence 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Split the difference and let it live in a podman container with your project folder mounted, as god intended 000
bk @bnknndy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026More interesting than whether most writing is drudgery, or the value of a voice, are the questions of when and how much something needs to prove work done by a human. Increasingly I bounce immediately when asked to put effort into parsing effortless text outside of, say, docs. It's never worth it 200