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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh! I also did the impossible recently and *finished* a side project! I know, I didn't know that you could do that, either! I read up on geodata visualisation in python and made some pretty pictures from the data of @josemonkey.com, the #geolocation YouTuber I enjoy. I think these came out nice. 😎

World Map in a dark blue theme with lots of little green and magenta dots, indicating found and failed locations. Most of the dots are in the eastern half of the US but they are sprinkled all over the globe.

World map in a dark blue theme, showing a geodesic from Western Australia to Bermuda, the two locations furthest apart, just 80km shy of the maximum possible distance of 20040 km.

A world map in a dark blue theme, displaying a heatmap of how many locations were in a given country. Runaway winner in bright yellow is the US followed by Canada, Mexico, the UK, Australia. Many countries in Africa and Asia don't have any entries yet. Some disputed territories are highlighted in pink.

City map in a dark theme showing a line between two locations each side of a country border between the US and Canada, showing the shortest distance between two locations in different countries, just over 40km.

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's "recovery from a workday full of camera-on meetings" activity: messing with LaTeX and continuing to write my Demon: The Descent supplement. The layout is starting to look *real* nice. 😌

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

everyone on this earth but especially people who hold forth about media literacy absolutely must inscribe "your media literacy can't end at the subject at hand. there's a topic above the topic." directly onto their brain. tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who called it "Moving the Goalposts" and not "Debate and Switch"?!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

men have figured out a new dating technique and it's "less personal grooming" it's a bold strategy cotton let's see if it works out for them

"some men are skipping showers before dates to embrace a new trend called "pheromone-maxxing" hoping their natural scent will make them more attractive

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Franca Parianen @fparianen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wahlkampf, die Jahreszeit in der die Berliner SPD so tun muss, als hätte sie nie Berlin regiert, wäre gerade erst angekommen, und ehrlich gesagt auch ein bisschen schockiert von den Zuständen hier

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Remember, it's always morally correct to lie to get a vaccine

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in less than 24 hours? That's fucking rough.

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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer @radobrien.myatproto.social · 28/09/2025

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

You would be surprised how rarely you fall for AI slop if you simply do not engage at all with images that lack alt text.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

FRONTIER LABS: We turned up the sycophancy because it produces addictive behaviour, and had to turn it down because of all the lawsuits. We promise to find a good midpoint between revenue and psychosis PROGRAMMER: Thank god technology is neutral FRONTIER LABS: We're building a god, actually

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI Guy Asks AI To Help Him Read Difficult Books

4 panel comic

Panel 1: Orange Guy holds up book and says “I’m gonna read a book”

Panel 2: Orange Guy looks at book cover and says “hmmmmm”

Panel 3: Orange Guy types a query into his phone

Panel 4: Close up on phone screen reveals AI responding with “a chocolate factory is a factory made of chocolate”

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

From now on I'll be pronouncing "gnocchi" as *deafening clown honk*

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 09/08/2026

"The nice thing about NixOS is that once you get your configuration just right you never need to touch it again" - girl who keeps touching it again

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.

Telegraph article: John Cleese: I trust Rupert Lowe more than any other leader
Monty Python star backs the Restore Britain founder in a series of social media posts

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Els @geekingthething.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

No. And your question asking privileges have been revoked.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 14/07/2026

happy bastille day

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

god I can't wait to speak ill of the dead

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/07/2026

Subtitles as paid upgrade? On behalf of everyone with disabilities, fuck you very much

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

/Sam Reich voice/ "Get ready for a GAME CHANGER! Tonight's guests: Shuffling his opening hand back into his library and drawing one fewer card, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan!"

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just saw "Glass Onion". Excellent film! I really liked the part where Rian Johnson himself came on, looked directly into the camera and said "Vigilante justice is great, actually!".

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Not-The-Conversation-Starter @convobreaker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This will become ever green

ohhh okay see what you did wrong is neurons are supposed to fire while you watch things. you're supposed to comprehend the information presented and think about what it means

did you know that things characters do in stories are often supposed to tell you something about their personality or motivations. did you know that elements in stories wouldn't be there if the author didn't put them there on purpose, and so there's usually some kind of intention behind them.

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

☀️🥵 I do not like the Summer Heat, it only makes me feel defeat. 💀 I do not like it here or there, I do not like it in the air. 😤 I do not like it any day, I do not like it June or May. 🗓️ I do not like the Heat at all, I can't wait 'till it's finally fall. 🍂

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride, you beautiful motherfuckers 🌈💖✨

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations

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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

A summation of the situation where people are directed to focus their ire at fraudulent benefit claimants rather than at the rich who are the cause of all poverty.

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Gotta remember to use more funky punctuation. Who doesn't love an interrobang‽

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you've been looking for an explainer of how LLMs work (for yourself or for others), I recommend this one: alfredvc.no/blog/intro-w... It is short, insightful and assumes no technical background. I really like it.

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Do you even know how LLMs work? | Alfredo

This post explores LLMs, the models behind services like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The goal is to give you an in depth but approachable understanding of LLMs, how they work, and how they are traine...

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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Jane SCREAMix 🌙 @ayliffe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"lots of women have a cock!" in the exact same cadence as Eccleston off Doccy Who saying "lots of planets have a north!", send post

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

So Palantir are like Fascist fascists i see yeah maybe we shouldn’t integrate the nazi computer into the NHS

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I know exactly why I saved this clip when I did. It has been paying dividends ever since!

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

today somebody asked me for help with designing an arduino-controlled circuit with software to drive a transistor that switches between two sets of LEDs. me in engineer mode, we got down to the actual requirements: a passive toggle switch. not an MCU, not software. "but AI told me i need an ardunio"

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If you have coverage against your teeth spontaneously falling out of your mouth, the medical field likes to call that coinci*dental* insurance.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Maybe the scandal is that the asylum system is so cruel and fucked that people whose job it is to help desperate people willingly skirt the lines cause it doesn’t actually matter if youre gay or not to deserve a place in a safe society but what do i know

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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λTotoro @lambdatotoro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

/stares in the adventures of Tom Turbo, the intelligent crime-solving bike equipped with a working lie detector, an ice cream machine and a plot-powered toilet brush, who shoots lasers from his nose, can emit sleeping gas and travels through time. Oh, and the two children who built him, of course./

A 1:1 scale model of Tom Turbo in an Austrian zoo. It's a bike with eyes, clown nose and a mouth painted mostly in bright yellow and orange. It has several boxes stuck to it in different places and has two antennae with red balloons at the end of them. It's quite a surreal sight.

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