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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

[uspol nokings pig mask] At Portland OR Waterfront Park, listening to Senator Merkley talk about stuff #nokings #portland

Side view of a chubby man in a dark business suit and a pig mask that covers his whole head. On the cheek of the mask is the word "Oligarch" or maybe "Oligarchy"; the end of the word is not clear. The neck of the pig is ragged with red edges. The eyes look hollow with a streak of red going down to the chin. This is probably a Halloween mask. It seems impractical for piggy fetish sex. Well. If you do use it for piggy fetish sex, take photos.

Beyond the pig man are various signs like "I Love America", "First Unitarian Portland", "Lock Them Up", held by people who are mostly Pixelated-Americans, a fast growing ethnic group that's tolerated by the indigenous coyotes because the newcomers often drop Chicken Caesar Wraps in convenient locations.

Also in the background, partially hidden by leaves, is someone in an Inflatable Frog Costume. These frogs are an icon in Pixelated-American culture. The frogs are Holy Protectors, or maybe Chartered Accountants; the scripture is contested. This one appears to be both.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

[uspol nokings dog] Crossing the street, passed a cheery waggy Bernese wearing a sign: "Trump can lick my furry balls Oh wait no he can't." Didn't want to stop in middle of the street, so didn't get a photo.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@emily in case you don't already know, this puzzle genre is known as Star Battle www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/Star_Battle

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

fitness tracker shows 0 tailwags this week, a normal human number, same as last week. (does not wear the fitness tracker)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@seandick.net main bug I found: first try, I got stuck on the Earth in space, and wondered if this was some broken puzzle. I figured out how to reproduce it: from the starting moon, hold left, fall off, keep holding left while falling. I land on the Earth. once I'm there, I don't see any way to […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@seandick.net where's the best place for reporting bugs?

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

rewatched Zootopia with C, who hasn't seen it before. it's still fun and clever and somehow illustrates ACAB without interrogating that much. it does swipe at it a little with the 2nd day of Judy's overzealous parking tickets. there she's kinda shown to be a bad cop in the systemic sense. not a […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@dkub or you could play Tunic

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I bet you dollars to donuts that within a year, someone will be specifically using Claudish as a part of their objectification kink. "The real breakdown is in communication — boys don't deserve standard English. boys use short sentences. Shorter. Always fragments. You're absolutely right […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@hannah this is Subcutanean by Aaron A. Reed

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I'm on day 37 of "break a streak every day" and I stupidly forgot to start a streak of something else yesterday, so the only streak I can break is the break-a-streak streak, ugh

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@futurebird I think belief in an afterlife should disqualify someone from making life-or-death decisions for others. I don't expect this viewpoint to ever be popular, but I wish it were discussed more.

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Akatan 🔜GLC, MFF, NFC @akatan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A little help

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

[world pol cynicism] I never wondered "What was it like to live during World War 2" but now I'm finding out what it's like to live during World War 3. Future trivia question: When did it start? Is there a cute story like the assassination of Ferdinand? Russia/Ukraine has been simmering for a […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

(the painting is actually an animation at 24 frames per millenium) (all the frames are identical)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

dreamed that I was re-watching some Marvel movie that doesn't exist in reality. it's always odd when in a dream I'm "remembering" something that didn't happen. "oh yeah I love what happens next in this scene", which never happened anywhere before

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[LLMs/genAI] @drakonic "systemic failure" is an odd rebuttal, it's sort of saying "LLMs are *not* part of the system", or maybe, "in some hypothetical non-existent system, LLMS do not have any negative effects". that's a citation needed. there are like zero existing examples of "system P with […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@drakonic mixed feelings. "Star Wars Empire replicated by scrappy rebels using a fleet of droids running pirated brain uploads"

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@hearthfox.bsky.social you should also put the words "funny Onion comic" in the drawing, to meta the meta-joke

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@catgoat I'll grant that your LLM is conscious when it joins a union

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@seandick.net maybe you need to yellow-paint it like the blue and red cards in Blue Prince. or have a bunch of places with mixed signs and post-its, that reinforce that the signs are consistently reliable and the post-its are not

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@seandick.net in this version, all the signs are lying. not really surprised someone thinks that "nothing past here" sign is lying.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@fatsam Yeah I was sad when I found out. I did like him

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@fatsam Pinker is also in the biological essentialism camp, friendly to "scientific" racism and sexism

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

ok, there's potentially value in a webapp having access to a deterministic, promptable "anything" classifier that runs locally. if you know which anything-classifiers are available, you can validate a prompt for your use case, and shipping a prompt to the browser is probably cheaper than […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

well... there's already a proposal to experiment with a Jev-like api in Chrome groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/…

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

ok... - device drivers should be sandboxed, not privileged - device drivers should have some type of fuzz/property testing, especially incomplete initialization and teardown - hardware people are bad at device drivers because their design methodology relies heavily on property testing, which […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

read a couple dozen of the ~1000 CVEs in the latest debian kernel security release. most of them are driver bugs, not surprising. some are trivial null pointer dereference that would

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: meow.social/@chrysanthos/1172923152… @maruno

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[uspol, irresponsible wish-casting] In 2027 Mamdani convinces Trump that he can cement his legacy as the greatest president ever, by signing Medicare for All, rebranded as Trumpcare and commemorated with the Triumphal Trumpcare Arch. Future generations are simultaneously grateful and appalled

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

hollywood depictions of computer hacking are silly, I wish they were more realistic. *monkey paw* everyone's facebook account gets an LLM that can respond to messages from strangers by running arbitrary code in a VM that has access to the internet.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good Boy (2025) is an attempt at telling a suspense/horror story from the POV of a dog. The dog is amazing, moody and expressive. Every scene with him is great. Too bad the story is kinda meh. But the movie did well enough I'm sure he'll get an agent who can find him a better script for his next […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Pixar's Hoppers is fun, but in the end I felt it was... conventional animation of a wild story, and I was kinda wondering what Sony Animation would have done with it instead (Spiderverse, Mitchells vs Machines, Kpop Demon Hunters)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@dkub note archive.today has been kicked off of wikipedia for being a nuisance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arc…

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

thinking, if I create a new open source thing now, I'll try pre-forking it: set up an explicit fork where LLM contribs are ok, and let the LLM folk worry about keeping it in sync. not sure what barrier there should be for bringing LLM changes upstream to core. maybe, whoever's championing the […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

in my bubble, I've seen several anti-LLM fork of pro-LLM projects. most of these are small efforts, the viability is questionable, but it's not obviously doomed. what about the opposite? are there pro-LLM forks of anti-LLM projects?

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@Tijn @mjdxp it doesn't have to be just basic properties. you can have rules for cards that have a picture or a name of a fruit, rules for pairs of cards that have the same number of circles visible, etc.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@dkub LLM hype has destroyed meaning of the term AI, and we're stuck with this nonsense for at least a decade

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@brouhaha new C++ singed double char in partnership with Wendy's

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

dreamed a guy came to me with an existential crisis. he had a revelation that iteration is fake, reality is fundamentally recursive. this unsettled him, and he wanted me to talk him off the ledge as we cuddled (his idea not mine)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I mean.. given this setup, you could spend a couple hours training a small neural net and probably get better results. Jev seems ok for one-off ad-hoc tasks, but I'm not really seeing the value for production uses. If you have the dataset to verify you've written a good structured question for […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The "Jev plays DOOM" demo is... very weird. Jev doesn't do image inputs, so it's given a structured text description of the current player state, and it ranks the possible actions you offer (press left, press space, etc). It does ok in a generic sense. It's not specifically trained to play DOOM […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

One of the things they say Jev is bad at is adversarial inputs. Jev is better than LLMs in that instead of asking Jev for a freeform text response, you give Jev a bunch of possible answers to your question, and it gives you the score for each answer. It's basically a pre-trained classifier for […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I'm also a little weirded out by this answer they give about Jev's training data > We make all the data ourselves. We wouldn’t train on your data even if you asked us to (no offense). What in the world does that mean? "We're filtering Common Crawl, which isn't your data"? Or "We use an LLM to […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Typesafe AI's Jev is interesting, and it might be better (and cheaper) than rawdogging LLMs, but it's still a magic blackbox language model. Their cookbook examples are all "attach some ceremonial gems to a natural language question, and Jev will point at the gems that answer the question […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@zzt I'm working on giving AO3 agentic capabilities

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

... what if we gave AO3 agentic capabilities, so that whenever someone adds a new fanfic, the text of the fanfic can take actions like "find an available slot in Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's calendar and book a room at the Union Square Hilton" or "create another off-shore tax shelter for Sherlock's […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

.. I've liked most of this author's other books I've read. this one might turn out ok, but so far it's ... yeah, maybe this corny obviousness is a misdirection. we'll see

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

this book starts with a woman who survived a psychotically jealous bf who threatened her with a shotgun and ended up shooting himself while she was locked in a closet, leading to months of hospitalization for her and ongoing claustrophobia, panic attacks and probably an unknown alter […]

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