Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 5hMy mortgage is semimonthly so I’m taking that as the authority of what word to use for twice a month. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Did anyone from Politico ask him what benefits ChatGPT provides that outweighs the lives of the children who were slaughtered at Timbler Ridge? Or is it rude that I would ask someone to do a basic journalism? 040
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Is the photographer intentionally throwing shade at him? He looks more like he's about to awkwardly jump off the cliff than he looks like he's stoically looking towards the horizon. 020
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is 100,000 words longer than Les Miserables? Jesus Christ. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In order for me to keep my Patreon sub going, I'm going to need you two to read all of this and make an episode about it. I'm sorry. 100
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It would be one of the few cases where it actually make a movie much more watchable. 070
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'm assuming that the ICE officer will shoot her in the face shortly after she says to him "I'm... Gay."? 0120
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Super Yacht $999,998,700 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying 0130
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Help, my net wealth is only in the two comma range. I am struggling to feed my family. 2120
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Man, it's really exhausting watching everybody suffer from gas leaks. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I do not personally see value in this particular thing. Therefore it must have zero value to everyone." - This dude, probably. 020
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm sure buddy here would have a real trouble understanding why a cover band isn't able to sell out arenas the way the real deal can. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We never had a problem with "There is too little music that exists". When people hear music they like, they actually often enjoy listening to it many times over! They get excited when an artist they like releases new music because they feel an emotional connection to the artist. 100
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The idea of LLMs being used to write books is pretty consistent with the techbro misunderstanding of the world where they believe that completion metrics are the goal. Literature would be better if there were 100x the books. Kids will be smarter if they finish homework in 5% of the time. 1413
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026FWIW my chatgpt logs are mostly just about camera comparisons and black and white film development. I asked it who the best black and white film photographer in my area is and it didn't care to glaze me. Maybe that's nowhere niche enough? Or perhaps I'm just a disgrace. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026See, I know USB has been around for a few decades. What upset me recently is learning that Pickle Rick recently turned 9 years old. 010
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wonder if there is a single phone model that supports their network that uses the standard size at this point? 101
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is good news: I am visiting NL early next month so it should cool down a lot of be very rainy then. :) 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a fridge. It works as a fridge. It is a "smart" fridge. It will send me a phone notification if the fridge door is left open. Even that is probably giving it way too much leeway and it's probably going to become part of a botnet, but at least it will still chill my food once I disconnect it. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This dude gets it. There is zero legitimate reason for llms to have anthropormorphized output. 000
Reposted by DerrickDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 10941801441
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No idea what this song is, but has this writer considered that we live in an era of algorithms and "for you" pages? I was looking for the top charts in Youtube music the other day (No, I do not remember seeing a song about Texas) and I had to go like 3-4 clicks deep to actually see what's popular. 010
Reposted by DerrickDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life. 14095442208
Reposted by DerrickJesse Mac @jessemackinnon.com · 26/09/2026uwu i’m just a little fascist Tamagotchi uwu 113234
Reposted by DerrickClimate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break. 25750257
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When vise grips came out we didn't forever have our penises in vise grips. We simply chose not to let the vise grips clamp down on our penises. We chose to exhibit autonomy. We can once again choose to be a society. 130
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The good news is that we live in a society that never takes short clips of people out of context and spends months having everyone attack them for it. These devices would indeed be very unfortunate if we were known to do that! 040
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I like Super Intelligence because now everyone will just call it Stupid Intelligence. 000
Reposted by DerrickTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639411076
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We're afraid that a few bad apples are going to ruin your opportunity to let us spy on you in your most private moments. 0325
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Quote posts are a medium of either praising or dunking. I hate that this is the case but just goes to show that people should be delicate when using quote posts because it’s usually used to announce to all of your followers “Hey everyone! Look at this fuckin idiot over here!” 020
Reposted by DerrickA hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Do you ever feel like maybe you died a decade ago and have been living in a coma world that’s trying to give you subtle clues that your family back home is crying and telling you to go towards the light 202182298
Reposted by DerrickMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now. 382539852
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Seems like damage control to gain broader acceptance for the concept of smart glasses before they kill off the camera-less models. 140
Reposted by DerrickParis Marx @parismarx.com · 16/09/2026The way media has completely bought the AI industry’s contention that AI superintelligence is on the horizon and could be a threat to humanity has been frustrating to watch. Check out my first piece for @zeteo.com where I explain how this is a big distraction and the real threats presented by AI. 413752
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I imagine the same people would pretend to fail to see the difference between a musket and a nuclear bomb when talking about weapons development. 151
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh no, how could humanity ever stop the machine that requires us to funnel hundreds of billions of dollars per year into it or else it instantly collapses? 050
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Imagine spending years going to school and this is what you end up doing with your life. 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hey man, who are we to shut down this idea? Let the word predictors try medicine. Let them try it out on Atlantic writers and let them discover all of the bugs first. 090
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026What are people doing on these black rectangles that they want such instant access to them when they are out and about? 000
Derrick @derrickwb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm confused, how would making sure the File Explorer was functional help create shareholder value over the next fiscal quarter? 160
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.
Absolutely wild. 1/2
[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]
Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]
$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.
10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.
Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.
I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?
[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me
[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreiaanor72a6up5kzdjejmmzvad3lvqqimzavejo6yowdodrqftlzwq)
