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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 3h

I've not linked my analysis because it's not done but rest assured it's much more rigorous than your "I let sparkling autocomplete that's optimized for sounding plausible and sycophantic yank out all my critical thinking skills"

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 3h

LLMs too, with the only difference being no guaranteed payout 🙃

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 5h

I heard you just fine, that doesn't make it data. Let me put it like this. Some people undeniably win big at the slot machines. Does that mean we should all put our retirement money there, or even that the winners make a net positive when they keep playing?

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 5h

Ok I need to be more explicit I guess. You're telling a subjective success story. That's an anecdote, not data. In the last weeks I've reviewed a lot of vibe code from high profile players like Apple or the Unicode consortium and the results are in: they're victims of the *illusion* of productivity

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a design consultant of a certain vintage, this is about my 4th round of some flavor of "everyone will build their own apps".

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Sylvia Ritter @sylviaritter.bsky.social · 9h

Meet 🌟 Stonking Stingray 🌟. Created with Krita, Blender and 1% Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program. It took a month to paint it. Inspired by the Ubuntu release name 26.10 scheduled for release on October 15! #art

A colorful stingray portrait inspired by Ubuntu release name 26.10, created with Krita, Blender and 1% Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program.

There are at least 220 species of stingrays. The cownose ray caught most of my attention, probably because it looks so cute. Stonking, a British slang adjective, describes something massive or heavy, something extremely good (no pressure!) or impressive.

The stingray spends most of the time on the ground of the ocean.
It camouflages by burying itself in the sand.

Therefore I was drawn to the moment it casts a shadow on the ocean floor.
The shadow developed into an oasis in the desert surrounded by sand dunes and puffy clouds. It also resembles the nights sky on its belly.

This tiny oasis (at least in comparison to the giant stonking stingray floating above) is celebrating the annual stingray festival. You can see lots of tents in different sizes, sand buildings, flora (palm trees & shrubs), stingray kites, fire places, boats, jetties. You can also get a glimpse of the inhabitants celebrating with their friends, families, visitors and pets.

This stingray is also giving everybody a cooling break from the extreme heat in the desert. A special moment captured for eternity.
Happy Stonking Stingray Day! :)

It took a month to finish this artwork.
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Stonking-Stingray-1389931075

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 8h

this has been extensively discussed, you need to catch up

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

slight error there, you mean crack team. A team on crack.

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

that sounds juicy, got a link with more info?

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Hornswroggle @hornswroggle.bsky.social · 17h

I've been a QA tester in my current project for about half a year now and the amount of JIRA tickets that have stalled on the board for upwards of 4 sprints (equiv. 2 months) because someone had to "wrangle Claude (or Gemini) to do what I want" is genuinely disturbing.

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

uhmm. how do I say this nicely... velocity is not the same as productivity. Yeah, let's go with that.

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

people also by and large have completely given up on reviews and just yolo the worst imaginable garbage straight to production, I've read a lot of aipilled code from heavyweights like Apple or the Unicode consortium in the last weeks, it's quite the sight

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

did ChatGPT write that garbled husk of a post for you or

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 16h

I've got great news for you, it's a skill like any other that you can also just learn instead of relying on the slop machine that produces trash that's optimized to look plausible and also suck you off

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 17h

cool story bro here's some things you can look up on Wikipedia - motivated reasoning - how gambling addiction works - special pleading - cognitive biases - Clever Hans

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Dead_Eye @deadeyedave.bsky.social · 20h

Good engineers think about downstream effects. I haven't worked with a lot of good engineers.

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RV @rv-enigma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bei den steigenden Fallzahlen wird auch wieder mehr sequenziert: 32 neue Sequenzen aus KW33-38. Das RKI identifiziert PQ.16.1.1 (gehört wie die anderen PQ* wohl eigentlich zu der NB.1.8.1-Familie) als neue "Variante von besonderer Bedeutung". Mindestens so spannend finde ich die 7 Sequenzen XFZ.4.1

Punkte: "Varianten von besonderer Bedeutung" und XFZ.4.1 nach überlappenden Doppelwochen.
Linien: Mittel (zentriert) über 3 überlappende Doppelwochen
graue Balken: Anzahl der Sequenzen in der Doppelwoche.

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gettier* says no. But we can definitely come a lot closer than LLMs - so if you thought you had some kind of gotcha, no you did not. If you disagree, come back to me once you've made sense of this: github.com/Architeuthis... --- *) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier...

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Gettier problem - Wikipedia

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dude I'm not interested in what you have to say, you already demonstrated you're gullible and not engaging with *actually relevant* academic research

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they'll never succeed because LLMs categorically cannot determine truth or factuality.

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dude it doesn't matter that the AI doesn't "get anything out of it", the models are *trained to sound plausible, convincing and sycophantic*

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Project Orion stan account @dngrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I did. #1: lots of flaws, mostly: not contrasted with "beliefs created or reinforced thru LLM" nor "beliefs changed thru human dialog"; selection bias #2: same + quite unethical #3: same + not peer reviewed #4: HAHAHAAHAHA ADL HAHAHAHA NOPE

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 04/10/2026

When doing Good Dissent workshops I added flipside of Bad Dissent - Bad Faith and No Consequences. Asking questions as pollution

Card explaining Bad Faith (just asking questions as polluting discussions) and No Consequences (speaking horribly knowing that nothing will happen to you)

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brantnerkarl.bsky.social @brantnerkarl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Darum kann ich auch die derzeitige Ikonisierung Habecks nicht nachvollziehen - stand er doch wie kein zweiter für das schwarz-grüne Projekt, und mir kann keiner erzählen, dass eine Koalition unter Merz/Habeck nicht vergleichbare sozialpolitische Grausamkeiten geliefert hätte.

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Thomas Knorra @thomasknorra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Die Fehler im Umgang mit der Pandemie bestanden und bestehen vor allem in fehlenden Luftfiltern z. B. in Schulen, in zu wenig Aufklärung, die Schwurblern entgegengesetzt wird, in kostenpflichtigen Impfungen, in fehlender Forschung zu Folgeschäden, generell im So tun, als wäre Cvid19 Vergangenheit.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the average artist works really damn hard for generally pretty bad pay and/or bad working conditions but I think passionate people engaging in skillful work should be recognized and rewarded! this feels extremely obvious to me but maybe it's not anymore, in this productivity obsessed hellscape

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I genuinely don't understand why so many people have an almost instinctual feeling that artists don't deserve success, or worse, that success is somehow necessarily antithetical to being a true artist it's like there's no way to win, except for total self-sacrifice and devaluing of your work

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man when this shit bottoms out in a year and all these shit services get cancelled I just wonder what's going to happen to all these people who got too reliant on them

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is so much damn work to keep up with which organizations are now owned by private equity. Half the time, I only find out because I experienced something bad—or someone else did.

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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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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

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Simkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

anyone else feel like this

A digital illustration of a quetzalcoatlus perched on telephone wires among a flock of crows

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We just had a discussion on this in our editorial meeting of Internet Policy Review. It would be great to hear from other academic journal editors what are their policies around researchers using synthetic data. -> www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

pewresearch.org

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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SunnyPinguin @sunnypinguin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#XFG #Impfung So, Impfung für alle ist drin. Leider dieses Mal mit nicht so guten Erfahrungen der Reisepraxis Frankfurt. Ärztin hat diskutiert, meinte, Covid ist mittlerweile nur noch Schnupfen 🙄Der Mann daraufhin:"Und warum gibt's dann Impfstoff??Und warum empfehlen viele andere Länder

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Chris Whittall @chriswhittall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Paramount credit default swaps going parabolic in the wake of its $50bn-plus debt sale More in our story here: www.ifre.com/bonds/249336...

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