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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026

Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...."

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I probably have to write some kind of a thread here on B12 deficiency and why we're basically screwed – most doctors are terribly ignorant about proper diagnostics and treatment, and the existing tests literally can't identify many cases of functional deficiency meanwhile more evidence appears

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

es tiešām nevaru saprast, kā valstī, kura ir tik bagāta ar māksliniekiem un dizaineriem, ministrija sagatavo eksāmenu variantus bērniem ŠĀDI latviešu kā svešvalodas variantos ir vēl trakāk, ticiet man

acīmredzot ar LLM radīti attēli no skolēnu monitoringa darba latviešu valodā (https://www.viaa.gov.lv/lv/media/50020/download?attachment)

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't know what is sadder: that the persons like Andrew Ng or François Chollet, who helped so many people learn basics (and more) of AI (pre-genAI) and DL go totally obsessed by LLMs, GenAI and so on... ...or also how crazy it all has turned into some kind of fanzone with praising comments

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Aaahh!!! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Demonstrating reasoning and language capabilities in computers alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

Eliza is a mock Rogerian psychotherapist.

The original program was described by Joseph Weizenbaum in 1966.

This implementation by Norbert Landsteiner 2005.

ELIZA: Is something troubling you ?

YOU: Men are all alike.

ELIZA: What is the connection, do you suppose ?

YOU: They're always bugging us about something or other.

ELIZA: Can you think of a specific example ?

YOU:

Well, my boyfriend made me come here.

ELIZA: Is it important to you that your boyfriend made you come here ?

YOU:

He says I'm depressed much of the time.

ELIZA: I am sorry to hear that you are depressed.

YOU: It's true. I am unhappy.

ELIZA: Can you explain what made you unhappy?

YOU:

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Why are there pigeons in my Iļģuciems

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

When wife says "there's a geocache nearby, wait here"

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

It's kinda funny how two largest insect repellent brands arouind here are called "MAGA" and "BROS". Both all caps yes. You'd think with those names they'd be insect attractors.

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Танцующий хариус @sjavar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Это полный разъёб

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

A few hours ago the cat living by our house whined for some food (despite certainly having been fed in her life and even today) Now I just walked out to find a tiny hedgehog loudly munching right under her sleepy nose. Do you think it's her friend or her pet

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Imagine THESE levels of delusion from a person with that high academic positions... ...research standards, they said ...academic honesty, they said

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Am I surprised that a sociopathic narcisstic billionaire obsessed with immortality gets upset by negative comments on that he got a diagnosis (which is sooo well known to me, btw) that scares him a lot? Of course not. Maybe there are other reasons to be angry at him among chronically ill people?

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Anything can be "you just need to lose weight" if your doctor is bad enough at identifying illnesses.

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Daily affirmations

Info plāksne no Rīgas Mežiem:

ESMU STUMBENIS, joprojam vērtīgs koks!

Esmu mājvieta un barības vielu avots, slēptuve, un varu būt arī ligzdas vieta dzīvnieku mazuļiem. Es esmu neaizstājamā dzīvās dabas sastāvdaļa, kas nodrošina bioloģisko daudzveidību. Daudzas augu un dzīvnieku sugas bez manis nevar pastāvēt.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm exhausted by fans of strong elimination diets who a) don't see the bias they have (it helped THEM, so it definitely works!), b) don't care about the people with eating disorders or those who can't afford this, c) don't care about confounding factors like AT ALL

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

academy is just so dead now and I particularly despise people in the NLP field, as you know, they've been using this hype for their own careers, and they still do but they speak about the ethical side of all this and DO SOMETHING for, like, I don't know, 1% of the time? even less?

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

geocaching rules (especially as seen by some reviewers): you can't name the source of information, as it's considered "commercial promotion" or so geocaching is still a product of an American company, by the way what is ok and not prohibited by the rules, though: stupid AI slop pictures

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/03/2026

4. As Jevin West and I have been saying for several years now, because a seemingly credible message no longer implies a human sender, LLMs will push us toward more emphasis on reputation and status — and as such serve as an anti-egalitarian force in all aspects of society, science included.

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Noah K @coderanger.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

People keep telling me to treat LLMs as junior devs, as if "a junior dev who is structurally incapable of learning from mistakes" isn't a working definition of hell.

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

one of the coolest historical reenactment events in the Stockholm region is Postrodden, the boat rowing race recreating the historical postal route from Sweden to Finland: the road itself was of big importance, but you know, there is also the sea... sjofartsmuseet.se/Postrodden/P...

sjofartsmuseet.se

Postroddens historia

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

seeing most academics complaining about "publish or perish" culture, crazy academic market, dealing with AI fakes, and other problems doesn't make you very compassionate when you know how non-inclusive this world has been towards chronically ill people either try to change it, or it'll eat you, too

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

one of the best things this year was to discover some farms north of Stockholm (one technically located in Stockholm proper) with Highland cows and alpacas by the way, they have very important work to do, they literally help to preserve pasture/meadow landscapes

alpacas and Valais Blacknose sheep in Törndal, Upplands Väsby

Highland cows by Bögs and Väsby gård, Sollentuna

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I've been rediscovering crocheting this year, and it brings me so much joy (even in the most depressive times)! it's minimalistic (you basically need just a hook and some yarn) and I also want to remind you that it is pure magic www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1TB...

youtube.com

Crocheting Hyperbolic Planes: Daina Taimiņa at TEDxRiga

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

All this to make a handful of people richer. Not even happier, because the wealthy are some of the most miserable SOBs on the planet. Just richer.

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

academy is doomed and citizen science is underestimated, by the way

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

a hot take from your chronically ill friend, extremely tired of all kinds of ableist bullshit: are you even sure that "healthy" grown ups exist? Epstein-Barr and/or HPV are sleeping in, like, 80-90% of population there is constantly growing evidence that they are ticking bombs good luck, ableists

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

honestly, ML researchers and all this stuff turns into a very bad absurd, shameless parody no surprise though, considering all the narcissistic hype that usually comes with as little as zero realistic self-criticism

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

tas, ka latviski nav neviena adekvāta, oficiāla vortāla par veselību (vienkāršā valodā, ar skaidriem paskaidrojumiem un sistematizētu informāciju), manuprāt, ir kauns ja kas, šis arī nav tas, ko vajag: esparveselibu.lv

esparveselibu.lv

Sākums - Esparveselibu.lv

Aktuālais par veselības veicināšanas pasākumiem

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Ukraine gets such a ridiculous amount of support compared to what it's going through that it's unbearable btw, some European countries don't provide real help anymore to the newcoming refugees from the region where yesterday more than 20 persons got killed by a Russian rocket we're doomed

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

it's actually scaring me how agressively masculine the hype around LLMs is, all this with narcissistic and agressive pushing of tech (which they themselves declare to be the biggest progress), treating authors almost as their slaves and ignoring the risks and real problems which LLMs can't solve

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I found I still had a couple of the process pic videos for some of my aerial embroideries! Here's one of them - 'The land is a patchwork rainbow', 2023, which was inspired by Dutch tulip fields. This embroidery landscape was so fun to create! 🌈🌷🌸 #art

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

man vajag vairāk jauku HI kaverversiju (jums arī) dziivoklis.bandcamp.com/track/acis-nogurst

dziivoklis.bandcamp.com

Acis Nogurst, by Printerpuika

track by Printerpuika

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

btw, the people pushing this idea seem to have no clue about many neurodivergent people and their habits: we HATE when we don't control the process and can't switch between tasks JUST BECAUSE OF OUR MOOD SWINGS when they removed the parallel paths in Duolingo, it just became SLOW AND BORING

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

My Autumn aerial embroideries I made last Autumn... I've made a start on this year's landscapes now! Lots and lots of colourful and brown trees coming soon 🧡💛🍂 including another geometric one maybe? #embroidery #art

An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts an Autumn farm scene with winding roads sheep and evergreen trees.

A tilted embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape depicting a geometric garden in autumn.

A tilted embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape depicting a round hedge maze in autumn.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/10/2025

Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o... Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Open AI commercial about using ChatGPT to plan a road trip

Hannah Read, 37, tried to use an AI chatbot to plan a trip to Norway with her partner and three children.

She wanted to drive from her home in Flintshire, north Wales and cross the North Sea by ferry.

"I thought it might make for a nice drive," Hannah says. "I asked ChatGPT if there was a ferry from the UK to Norway and it said there was one from Newcastle to Bergen."

She later checked a ferry travel website but found no such route exists.

A travel blog detailing how Brits can reach Norway says the last time the route operated was in 2008.

"I did feel a bit disappointed when I found out the information on ChatGPT was incorrect, as I'd got quite excited and had started planning the trip in my head," Hannah adds.

"My advice is don't rely on AI 100%, it's better to still do proper research."

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Why has no-one written a Latvian-set hardboiled detective novel called ‘Riga Mortis’?

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

tātad ar visām sievietēm bija runāts un visām tām bija mentori? vai varbūt ir arī kaut kas cits iemēsls? nav aizdomu, ka destruktīvu uzvedību bērni/pusaudži kopē ne no nekā? ka tā radās vidē? un kas ir tie modeļi, sievietes vai tomēr vīrieši?

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I already had almost no hope to find literature on toponyms with Lilla/Stora and their possible relation to the historical change of status of some farms/villages, and here I am, just came across this while reading a student essay, YEAH gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/ha...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/07/2025

We're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it.

Starting October 25, 2025, Google will no longer support the Nest Learning Thermostat (1st gen) introduced in 2011 and Nest Learning Thermostat (2nd gen) launched in 2012. Over the years, we’ve brought out newer thermostats with even more ways to help you save energy and stay comfy. As part of our ongoing efforts to provide the best possible smart home experience, we are transitioning our thermostat infrastructure to a new platform offering significant advancements in performance, reliability, and features that will greatly benefit our customers. Unfortunately, we’re not able to move our older thermostats to this platform.

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I was quite disappointed to discover that the digital archaeology lab at Lund University (www.darklab.lu.se) uses those typical soulless AI-generated pictures for their webpage feels almost like an insult, knowing how many wonderful ACTUAL images and awesome illustrators there are in this area

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/07/2025

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

abi varianti apšaubāmi, vai tiešām nav citu risinājumu? VAI TIEŠĀM???

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will have been preventable @virtulis.loud.computer.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

Ah, no, last week was only the end of the _world_ , the end of the _season_ is today! #doctorwho

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dudievins.bsky.social @dudievins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Herbert Henkel from Naturskyddsföreningen i Sollentuna is the author of several amazing books these two are quite exemplary in their scrupulous descriptions of boundary stones in two forests north of Stockholm, just amazing sollentuna.naturskyddsforeningen.se/skrifter/

the cover of Boken om Råån, Rör och Rösen i Törnskogen (the book on boundary stones in Törnskogen, Sollentuna/Upplands Väsby) by Herbert Henkel

the photo shows a boundary mark of several stones in the pine forest

the cover of Boken om Rån, Rör och Rösen i Södra Rösjökilen (the book on boundary stones in several forests north of Stockholm, Sollentuna/Upplands Väsby) by Herbert Henkel

the photo shows the conifer forest with a boundary mark consisting of several stones

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