Reposted by Mike StokStuart Watt @morungos.bsky.social · 08/02/2025💯. A widely accepted narrative, even in the AI community, is that models are building a compressed version of their training data. We should use that narrative more. 121
Reposted by Mike StokKinell @sinistercinemastudios.art · 09/02/2025Fun fact Google doesn't give you AI suggestions if you swear 422318923
Reposted by Mike StokTracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2024"Unlike previous over-enthusiastic fans, these men were being entitled, rude and aggressive. Asking me for something and refusing to hear the word no, they seemed a hair’s breadth from anger." I wrote about modern fan encounters, and how nasty they can be. www.newstatesman.com/culture/life...newstatesman.comHas social media pushed fandom to a point of no return?It used to be people would respect your personal space – now, it’s all a bit sinister. 1123687
Mike Stok @mikestok.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #658,501! 020
Reposted by Mike StokNick P @npilon.bsky.social · 27/08/2024“We simply can’t sweeten the offer because the taxpayer is already stretched to their limit.” This taxpayer would humbly suggest MAYBE paying doctors and nurses instead of giving a dump truck of money to Sobeys for a bad “buy local” program. 🤔 5184
Reposted by Mike StokGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/08/2024if billionaires get to "democratize" creativity by hovering up all our writing and art for their generative "A.I." databases, we should be allowed to "democratize" finance by taking all their money for our bank accounts. 10580188
