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Chris 🧪⚒️

@chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social
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Geologist, map maker, and partially-reformed trainwreck. Not TikTok famous either. linktr.ee/chrisdoesrocks

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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 19h
There was a time that people argued with the Pope about the nature of salvation, or at least about the proper behavior of bishops in relation to the monarchy. Now it's about if a chatbot can really love a grown man who moderates 3 different anime body pillow subreddits.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unsurprising that the guys who think probabilistically generated text is proof of super intelligence also think that the path to popularity is a brightly colored mascot.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This stumbling, bumbling fool has a last minute defense of his administration of "I'm not a complete invalid".
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because he finally learned to spell how his father described everything Donald ever said.
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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not to be "too woke", but I don't trust a library that's got 50 James Patterson books and 0 James Baldwin.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I had a typo and spent the time trying to varnish mine. I guess I'm apologizing to Kyle tomorrow...
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mechwarriors were landed gentry who had a monoploy on the most powerful military equipment in the Succession wars. And the Clans are even worse with a literal caste system that puts them at the top. Not sure Welsh people qualify though. #battletech #Mechwarrior
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Joey should have had the money.
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TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Very cool! I'll definitely be checking it out.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026
great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm the only person I know that would rather spend a Sunday afternoon arguing about politics than watching football. Not because I love cyclical arguments with people who aren't interested in honest discussion, but because football bores me that much.
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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Innit.
Nearly 60 years ago, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles wrote an essay
 titled "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!". She argued that the work of
 maintenance is often unappreciated and devalued - "a drag; it takes all the
 fucking time" - next to the more celebrated work of creation. "After the
 revolution, who's going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?" asked
 Ukeles, who has served as the artist in residence for the New York City
 Department of Sanitation since 1977. She argued that society "confers lousy
 status" on those who do maintenance.
 This is perhaps truer than ever in the era of the "creator economy" and tech
 industrialists who burn and build and move fast and break things. To the
 "creators" go wealth and prestige while the maintainers work in the
 background, scraping rust and justifying their existence to a society that takes
 them for granted.
 Add to this a generation of generative Al tools designed and marketed as
 instruments of creation. These tools have made it trivial to make images, write
 novels, build software and pollute the internet with slop. Rarely has a tech CEO
 touted an AI tool that will "supercharge maintenance".
 ". Maintenance is careful
 work and not easily shortcut.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 90s were weird enough that I could see that getting published under a side imprint.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026
Humaning.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"
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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
TODAY'S COMIC: Someone! www.sheldoncomics.com/comic/someone/
PANEL 1: A tubby, bald man wearing a white collared shirt, with a blue and orange striped tie, holds a AR-type riffle with one hand, shooting into the air. The bright yellow light casts harsh shadows on him.
MAN: Please! Someone stop this weapon that I’m clearly shooting!

PANEL 2: The man bends over to reload the weapon with a “KLAK” sound.
MAN: The weapon keeps reloading itself, with SERO INVOLVEMENT FROM ME!

PANEL 3: The man continues to shoot in to the air.
MAN: I have no agency here! Nothing that I could do —SAY WITH MY OWN FINGERS — could end this!

PANEL 4: The man, still shooting the gun, turns his back, still yelling over his shoulder.
MAN: WHY IS NOBODY STOPPING THIS THING I KEEP DOING???
On the back of his shirt reads: LITERALLY EVERY A.I. COMPANY.

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Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The real threat is that AI will continue to provide misinformation ti a shockingly credulous public and politicians who are painfully inept. AI won't kill us intentionally or directly, it will just make people confidently wrong in a series of worst case scenarios.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I guarantee you an LLM is not going to provide the skills and knowledge to operate a bio-lab at the level required to do precise genetic engineering. A 4 year degree doesn't consistently turn out people who can do the work.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mineralcup making me finally learn how to pronounce the minerals I has to learn as a freshman. Cassiterite is one that always slipped through the cracks during lecture, and somehow never came up.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That enough prospective agents were worried about the charge, combined with the rate that Jan 6 rioters and Proud Boys are being recruited by DHS, really puts this in a horrifying light.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was looking up a mineral this afternoon, and the invasive AI didn't want to recognize it. It told me that I was misspelling a different mineral (I was not) or that I meant a city in Greece (again I did not). AI is so inaccurate that its easier to gas-light users than make it work.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
More than Tom Cotton can say.
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Paul Southworth ☢️ 🐟 @southworth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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#923 – Blind Ambition, Part 2: The Nausoleum - LAKE GARY
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I also noticed the typo a day later. The hazards of posting at 11 pm. 😭
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This was foretold by @sadbeige.bsky.social. Truly a Werner Herzog level choice.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I was having a good night, then I found out about cylindrite and I have too go down a rabbit hole about crystal structures and nm scale forces at 11 pm. The perils of being a science person! #mineral #geology
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No argument for the usefulness of A.I. will get me over the fact that the whole point of it is to manufacture a guilt-free slave class.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Its more that Ezra Klein believes that the political opinion class should be free from critique or consequence because he is as much a part of the grift as any nutjob podcaster and he wants to protect that industry.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 30/08/2026
This 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay shouldn't still be so current. www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 08/09/2026
you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just realized yet another problem with generative AI keeping it non-viable. It relies on training data pulled from social media, especially reddit. But social media accounts get hacked regularly and converted into bots. Its got a built in vulnerability before the software level.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 07/09/2026
When people talk about out how any form of AI tech “changes the nature of humanity” I encourage you to stop, pause, reflect on their demographics and ask yourself how the impacts of such technology disproportionately affects those who do not have the same demographics, as the people saying this.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People who sell apps built out of prewritten modules selected from a pull down menu are enthusiastic about a technology that can select the modules faster. Experts in subjects outside programming are screaming that the AI produces 70+% error rates while degrading real resources and tools.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The greatest proof that ChatGPT isn't actually intelligent is that it hasn't blocked Sam Altman.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Back in the 90s the US was defaulted to the Robison projection (which is pretty good outside the poles) and Mercator was a historical curiosity. This obsession with Mercator is a relatively recent thing.
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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He's also in and expedition that's gone well beyond the borders of human space. He's an adventurer who has explored new regions, has experienced things never witnessed by humans, and made friends with the leaders of the Empire's newest species. He's the legitimate version of a pulp hero!
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Much better leg room, but trying to back into the driveway is going to be a pain.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Having seen the "viral marketing" to social media intern to focused grouped marketing posts, I fully expect AI such tactics to be used to get users to provide custom data sets. The only defense is to get people to stop arguing with people on the Internet, and that seems to be impossible.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It would be an easy ploy to get social media users to provide specific training data, and all it took was having a couple of influencers do a 2 minute video looking slightly dumb. Probably cost less than $500, and people jump on the chance to show how they're better than the dumb influencers.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Conspiracy theory time. I'm seeing people on video social media respond to videos about lists of words that people can't read by reading smugly reading off the. But the list is all common words that trip up AI, and they're providing a video that's ideally formatted as training data.
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cybersecurity experts: Your password should have characters from 14 different writing systems and change every 8 hours Normal people: I can't remember all that Cyber Security: Just use this password manager *password manager is hacked* Cybersecurity: You left your passwords vulnerable
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Do you think putting text over screenshots from a movie requires AI?
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Chris 🧪⚒️ @chrisdoesrocks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We can only dream of such a beautiful future!
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Dorkly @dorklybits.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The History of the Pokedex Written and Illustrated by @jhallcomics.bsky.social
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