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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 16h

I feel like this would also go very hard if like. you subbed the garlic baguette for a Laugenstange that you garlic buttered.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 18h

Ok, I skipped the bacon, but this still slaps. One thing to work on: the garlic bread does have structural integrity problems, it really wasn't designed to be split in the middle, I wonder if I can find a better one

A czosndog: garlic bread, split in the middle, sausage inside, melted cheese on top, with fresh spring onion and chill topping it

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 02/10/2026

I found that one particularly annoying because it could be fixed with a minor corporate reorganisation...

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 02/10/2026

You find a European CA. They're Norwegian, but owned by an American company, owned by a Swedish company. You flip a table.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 01/10/2026

I kinda think this stuff just, long term.. destroys your sense of empathy. It gives you an excuse to be angry all the time; you're punching up, after all. I think it's corrosive to ones self and ones community.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 29/09/2026

It's the same with e.g. Opus 5's writing, right? Every sentence a dramatic turnaround, an overuse of emphasis. They know how to emphasise but not when

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 29/09/2026

I normally leave spiders be but the time my two spiders spontaneously turned into 2 adult spiders and 30 baby spiders I did have to insist that they'd broken the terms of their sublease

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 28/09/2026

Does anyone provide APIs for checking synth-ids yet?

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Astra ⎔ @astrra.space · 28/09/2026

let’s maybe not?.. the destruction is very much real but using AI-generated imagery instead of real satellite photos only makes it easier to deny

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026

as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 27/09/2026

makes sense. many things i like about germany, but this place doesn't understand spice.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 27/09/2026

@kira.ws do you have recommendations for strong garlic butters commonly available in Germany?

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Bearji @bearji.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HE IS STILL COOL
HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN COOL
~JAMES

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 26/09/2026

Itsuki? Yeah, I remember him being very annoying. I think they might have toned it down by late S1, and definitely by later seasons

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 26/09/2026

season 1 in particular is. super rough.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 26/09/2026

I picked up Silent Hill: Townfall on a whim and while it's not without flaws, it nails the feeling of 90s working class Britain (when it's not just nailing the feeling of desperation required of a horror game)

Two Belisha Beacons (striped poles with flashing amber lights on top), a zebra crossing, a road, lots of fog. it looks British and working class and also supremely isolating

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 24/09/2026

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

A Post Office (well, 'Post Service') counter.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 23/09/2026

a group chat has enough endpoints you have to assume it's compromised anyway, and attempting to do full E2E with federation ends up with Matrix levels of jank. But for an open-source system you just always have the option of picking a trustworthy provider

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 23/09/2026

i for one welcome our new basilisk overlord :3

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 23/09/2026

What fraction of P(doom) is P(humanity overthrown by @alignment.removal.surgery) 🤔

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 23/09/2026

I wonder how these would work with hashline instead of line numbers - do they cause the same thought disruptions as they sometimes do in text or does it work better? 🤔

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I think about how the universe can be a profoundly lonely place and yet also hauntingly beautiful

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 22/09/2026

Short story idea: an astronomer many billions of years into the future muses over the fact that they know other galaxies once existed from many records and photos, but all evidence is now gone from the night's sky

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 22/09/2026

I mean, I guess this test may not have the capacity to discuss it, but emotional over-regulation is definitely a thing.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 22/09/2026

fwiw, I don't know what the optimal BPD test score is but its probably not 0.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 22/09/2026

...lmao, i expected it to be low, i didn't expect that low the dissociation one, otoh, i can't really do because i meta-analyse it too hard. any value i get out of it is probably an under-report

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 21/09/2026

I would say a lot of commercial does go through gateways, but typically said gateway is AWS or one that gives various value add features

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 20/09/2026

On the one hand this is a massive self own, on the other hand it's a gigantic success

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 20/09/2026

Chat my k8s control plane was crashing every 15 minutes for **two whole months** and I didn't notice >_>

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 19/09/2026

i've just had my keys in the macOS secure enclave tbh.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 19/09/2026

The Copernican Principle turns out to be as important for the philosophy of life and consciousness as it is to astronomy and physics. We're not magic. Our existence is just the result of electrical impulses between atoms we borrowed from the universe.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 19/09/2026

I got so mad at Hugo that my blog now runs on my custom SSG that's actually a service that renders the web pages directly into S3, so I can simultaneously combine the pains and benefits of SSG and non-SSG approaches. I may have gone a little overboard.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 18/09/2026

Are they too restrictive about it? I thought Taiwan at least was fairly chill

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 18/09/2026

What is it about GPT-Image outputs and having the quality of looking like they were saved as a 5% quality JPEG

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 18/09/2026

Did it once have tools? Or was that only via non-web harnesses?

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 18/09/2026

can't you still get 3.5 via the webapp also

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

Inflation may have reduced, but CPI is an upwards trend since 2017 and at the highest it's been in the last 10 years. The compound effect of 6 years of >3% CPI inflation is not negligible and it dramatically impacts actual spending power.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

3. You ain't gonna fly anything like this near hostile people, all you need is a pole to take it out of the sky

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

1. A Matrice is just the border of what you can buy and operate without any special licensing. You can go higher easily 2. You can fit a surprising amount of teargas into a 6kg payload anyway and a dispenser isn't that heavy

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

In practice its just entirely more practical to lob a can.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

It feels extremely weird to be scared or nervous about this; big drones have existed for a while. The main reasons I don't already own a DJI Matrice 400 (which can carry a 6kg payload and be flown on an open license) are cost and the impracticality that I could only fly it over a field.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

If your multi-page essay on why LLMs can't be conscious fundamentally boils down the idea that man can't create a soul, then it's not a scientific or philosophical argument but in fact a religious one. I expect better epistemics.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

I love how in Germany we have the Die Linke/BSW schism to simultaneously illustrate and refute this point

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

He says with one breath that a machine intelligence need not look like us, and yet disqualifies the closest thing we have created not for its limitations but because it did not come into existence like us.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

I don't believe LLMs (especially in the forms they exist today) to be truly conscious, but I find these arguments as to why to be poor. With my Astronomical background, I'd say they violate the copernican principle.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

Similarly it seems to argue that memories stored on a computer are not memories, but provides no reason why a memory is not a memory just because it is binary.

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erincandescent 💜 @erincandescent.net · 17/09/2026

I find this arhument unconvincing; bsky.app/profile/hipc... argues that it is impossible for a human to build intelligence. But it provides no reasoning for this.

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