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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Guy who sues his toaster to keep it accountable for burning his house down

Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

They say the other books in the Homeric Cycle are lost because they're worse than the Odyssey and the Iliad. We only know of the Trojan Horse second hand. It also doesn't make sense and is written oddly because it's a compilation of oral stories from before written language. That's why it's special

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

LLMs only hallucinate. It's just that sometimes, the output reads equivalently to something a human might write truthfully.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Meanwhile, Debian just voted to allow "responsible use of generative AI" 😭 All comments say this is reasonable and smart, and that AI is inevitable 😢

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/08/2026

So, in the late 90s/early 2000s the US basically deindustrialised by outsourcing manufacturing The bargain was basically "you make the stuff, we provide design, research, services, software, and financial markets" Now they seem to be "de-servicing" as well: 1/3

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just found you via this post. And omg I love the way you draw crows, they're so cute!

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A new post 🙌 I hope the AI bubble pops and it improves things, because all the reasons you list for blog income falling are serious problems. Tech writing collapsing is *bad*. I hope you manage to be seen by a broader audience. Your anti AI advocacy was a ray of light in the darkness for me.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I feel like over the past few months, after never seeing any Nature headline, I'm constantly bombarded with Nature dropping bad article about AI after bad article. How do they even manage it? Consistently dropping worse and worse AI takes, it's shocking.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You get the accents you listen to. This includes word choice. And when you read LLM speak all day long, this is only inevitable. The LLM accent becoming more obvious and my slowly increasing skill to sniff it out are meeting in the middle, I guess

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/08/2026

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it." - Plato

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CurlzMT (scary) @curlzmt.xyz · 03/08/2026

i'm so tired of websites that insist on sending you a one-time sign in code every time you log in instead of letting you set up a normal account with a password. why are we doing this. stop it

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

JOSHI'S WORKSLOP POSTULATE
"l use Al all the time
but I always check
the outputs"
Daniel / David / James / Andrew / Robert etc
Either
LYING
Ridden with heaps
of catastrophic
errors
Definitely quicker
than doing actual
work I guess
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Or
FOOLISH
Checked and
corrected every single
error manually
Took longer to correct
errors than just doing
the work 101
"Always check the outputs for errors" = "please re
information pollution rather than plastic pollu

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes. When you remember it's plagiarism. But big tech pushes us to believe it's not plagiarism. These are machines whose whole design is to fake the appearance of thought. The smartest are most susceptible, and convince themselves that AI is both a tool and another mind. So it can't be plagiarism.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My only thought as an American is that both are positive which means they can be used sarcastically which means both can be bad

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Meanwhile, google is already filled with spam and doesn't let you see what you're searching for. Plus it already does this. But they push us to use LLMs to "fix" that. We are already well down this path 😭. And we know they already fiddle with Grok in this way.

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Freelancer Lazuli @freelancerwells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

PSA: LLMs aren't here to help you. The sole purpose is to erode your ability to think for yourself, and make you increasingly dependent on an abusive dystopian tech company.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Smart people aren't used to being at risk for being scammed, but LLMs short circuit several things that make it incredibly risky for them Even going in with an open mind is risky, which is not normally how stuff works It's incredibly sad to see him fall in the hole. I really hope he gets out of it

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Ewwww, bot. Those are all the easy stuff. The stressful stuff is that I have to use an LLM to "test" the MCP. Just using an inspector tool to bypass LLM use entirely is not sufficient 😭

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was stressed at the beginning of this year with being told to use AI at work Then I found your stuff and resolved to not cognitive offload and that there really isn't any useful aspect of AI to even try to make work. But now I'm required to make an MCP server, and oh wow, I'm stressed out again!

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Used to identify and display myself as a software tech guy. Still am at heart, maybe. But it's all so odious that not only am I picking up other hobbies, I'm identifying myself as those instead. I'd much rather be seen as a wannabe newbie artist than a yucky tech bro 🤮 The vibe is bad indeed

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 25/07/2026

I have been writing software professionally for thirty years or more and there is only one thing I am clear on: it’s an art not a science.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/07/2026

“AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot – Pivot to AI” pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendo…

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excellent article rec. Makes me think of this idea, "AI is the freedom from merit". Perhaps from "socialization" and "thought", too. It isn't actually that freedom, but that's the ad. And it's notably more evil than prior tech promises. I'm not sure what the following entry in the pattern could be

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 22/06/2026

The prevalence of LLM written blog posts on technical subjects is a staggering indictment on our failure to reach people in technical fields how to write

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Learning art is the most cursed thing I've tried learning. I'm good at computers. Very knowledge heavy, yet easy to remember. Exercise, driving, etc: muscle memory but simple, not overwhelming. Drawing: those combined x 100. No amount of force gets it in. Just steady daily effort works its magic.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Because ultimately I don't actually think you can go about learning it all in some highly organized way where you diagram each piece of knowledge together. Because it's all too complicated to keep in your head just as knowledge. Everything needs to be worked into your muscle memory and eye.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

alexhuneycutt.gumroad.com/l/curriculum... Even though it'll be a while until I reach the later ones, it is useful to understand the path. Even though the reality is that all these skills are just overlapping balls of fuzz and the tree is a bit of a lie and who you learn the skills from don't matter

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Alex Huneycutt's Internet Curriculum for the Solo Artist - (RadioRunner)

Do you want to draw, but just can't make sense of everything out on the internet? Save your time with the Curriculum for the Solo Artist!An interactive eBook/PDF I created that collects all of the bes...

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

But honestly you can improve just doing your own thing and figuring out how to get better. Or following any course. What matters is that you try, and try to improve. You may appreciate: soloartcurriculum.com or Radiorunner's $9 updated version of that on his gumroad to have a skill tree.

soloartcurriculum.com

Learn to draw and paint - Art curriculum for the self-taught artist

Links to art tutorials and learning resources, structured in a way to help anyone to learn to draw and paint to a professional standard.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The pen is good so you don't get lost constantly erasing. The boxes are good to have something simple and repetitive yet so overwhelmingly fundamental. And the latter parts of the course are the construction skills you use in everything else (aside from gesture ig). Even if it's a bit soul crushing

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I like Drawabox because I don't have the mechanical and visual skill. I struggle drawing nice lines and picking points. Meanwhile, my skills have jumped enough that it makes gesture and proportion and figure drawing less impossible because I can actually judge angles and distances now. A bit.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Art fundamentals are fundamental. So every course is fundamentally similar, just covering different pieces of the same elephant. You don't need to do anything specific. Many artists doodled and got good enough while young. We don't have that luxury and need to jumpstart that mechanical skill.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

As annoying as it is for so many people to kick explosives, it's really useful for us non-explosive kickers to have someone point out that those are explosives. I really appreciate that you've been talking about this the whole time. I just wish I found you earlier.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Also, wild that we use the same language for AI adoption and rape culture.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

OMG this finished cover is so pretty They should just be selling that version instead of the movie cover version. Excellent work!

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This could be a boss in a Kirby game

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I'd like to see more variety in these types of arguments. The doom/gloom over the BBB has kept its negative impact to the direct, obvious, but limited categories, instead of all the downstream negative effects. Already tens of millions will suffer. But everyone will be hurt in many many more ways.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Arguing rhetorically this way does concede the Overton Window of our values, where we argue about econ instead of making sure that people don't die. And realistically I'm not actually sure these convince people, although caring for people hasn't either.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Medicaid cuts? You're no longer funding hardworking doctors and long term care facilities, decimating massive numbers of jobs. Green energy cuts? You're directly increasing the price of electricity, and also killing a whole sector again. Child tax credit? Parents will have fewer kids, which is bad

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Every time I read anybody talk about SNAP benefits, I think of it as a giveaway to farmers (same with USAID) Rhetorically, they would never be able to get angry about giving subsidies to farmers. It's so ridiculous Every "government handout" has two sides. I wonder if every other example is useful

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“And”???? Should be a comma there

Column titled Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Here in America, we have decided to replicate that but all in one show with Dropout's Game Changer.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

To the extent they even have beliefs, they believe all the crises we have seen have been caused by "the woke DEI left deep state". Ergo, dismantle the opposition, and the crises will go away. It's like how they believe only they have public support. Any support they see for the opposition is fake.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

First Schaffrillas, then Northernlion, now Hank Green. You know creators are real ones when they recognize how good a Minecraft Movie really is.

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Green0Photon @green0photon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

As much as I disagree w/ u, I also must agree. Allowing people to keep jobs for the job's sake perpetuates Bullshit Jobs. Regular people taxes should be ridiculously low and rich should be high, so people support taxes and prevent wealth transfer. M4A would pay for way more than what Europe does.

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