Reposted by OrangetronicMary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 30/09/2026But obviously that’s true in our actual jobs too And since I work in a factory, these problems will ultimately cause injuries , workers in the factory, people who eat the food we make , etc There will be a palpable embodied harm from this growing malaise and disinterest 2222
Reposted by OrangetronicJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 129572
Reposted by OrangetronicIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14480331972
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026listening to the first Bonny Light Horseman album and thinking about all of the people who have died for stupid causes and all of the people who will die for stupid causes. 100
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026prompt: 1hr ambient dub techno mix lofi visuals hashtag no ai 020
Reposted by OrangetronicShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The time has come to revive the practice 16413
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026meta engineers gotta be first against the wall, man. imagine clocking in and building this? 050
Reposted by Orangetronic🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 121121915183
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026structurally indifferent to truth is a useful framing like, yeah, it will get a lot of shit that's well represented in the training data right, but it has no mechanism for differentiating between that and generating output tokens for things that aren't well represented in the training data. 171
Reposted by OrangetronicPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073672301
Reposted by OrangetronicLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You should have to smell the dead when you disinter them. 3348115
Reposted by OrangetronicBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this *is* very cool but imagine telling Otto von Bismarck that this is how his descendants spend their time. you would die from collateral damage after his exploding head sent dozens of extremely sharp moustache hairs through your own skull at lethal velocity 108018
Reposted by Orangetronicabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026the reporting on this stuff is a form of pareidolia. all this is explicable by a set of automatons stochastically exploring a state space and host environment with whatever predictive capacity an LLM affords them. absolutely no intent is required, they do not "know" what they are doing 1297119
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i have been mucking about with a new clone of an old 35mm lens and it feels almost like a paintbrush 060
Reposted by Orangetronicchee rabbits @chee.party · 22/09/2026bet it feels so good to hold onto the bottom of a mermaid and be shaken about 011
Reposted by Orangetronicchar stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I made this spreadsheet to impress a hinge date and it didn’t work out so now i made content about it #outkast 64815
Reposted by OrangetronicSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026Real baddies don’t use AI 111295365
Reposted by OrangetronicStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026Share if you agree 189103383304
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the LLM boom is basically like if the economy could get cancer, isn't it. 120
Reposted by Orangetroniclaura “thirty years old” cavegift @cavegift.bsky.social · 28/05/2026sorry boss, i got sundered so i can’t come into work today. but good news: fourteen diminutive, debased shards of my soul will be there 1030581236
Reposted by OrangetronicAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/09/2026hot take: it matters how things work if you are making things for other people, you should know how those things work "but then a lot of things wouldn't get built" yes correct 410819
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026is this good? www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 020
Reposted by OrangetronicJamie Hannigan @jamiedotdotdot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Struggling to think how anyone living or working in a seaside community would even consider doing this to RNLI volunteers aka THEIR OWN NEIGHBOURS WHO WOULD DROP EVERYTHING TO SAVE THEM FROM DROWNING WHEN THE CALL CAME IN 121352
Reposted by Orangetronicqntm @qntm.org · 09/09/2026We are hard-wired to accept most things that most people say as truthful because the density of lies in the world is, or was, relatively low Now we need to fact-check every sentence, image and video. The friction added is hideous 28711
Reposted by OrangetronicGene Hunt 🇨🇦🇵🇸 @avin-oops.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Middle England today 151540383
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026title case on “Something Went Wrong” goes crazy 050
Reposted by OrangetronicSol @solexposure.bsky.social · 25/05/2026New! From a little known gem south of Phoenix. Taken w/ the Polaroid Spectra Pro & the first attempt Impossible made to make the film. Has an almost iridescence to it. www.sol-exposure.com/product/tres...sol-exposure.comTres Rios WetlandsA 8×10 print on true photographic paper, developed with chemistry (not an inkjet print). Available as a print only, or matted in a 11×14 white mat for an additional $20. Can be framed in … 0117
Reposted by OrangetronicSol @solexposure.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A look I can only strive to achieve w/ my minimalist paintings the expired Polaroids do perfectly. Grab this set from Sedona today & I’ll include free shipping! www.sol-exposure.com/product/sedo...sol-exposure.comSedona Set – FramedTwo 10×10 prints, on true photographic paper, developed with chemistry (not an inkjet print). Signed & dated. Matted & framed in *two* white 12×12 high quality mats & framed i… 01810
Reposted by OrangetronicJess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 14/09/2026Inevitable that they’d be in opposition, he’s not called George ANDwell 3272
Reposted by OrangetronicGarrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026okay coyote, take it down a notch 033788
Reposted by Orangetronicjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap 9778993172
Reposted by OrangetronicMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026like you apparently have to make some money to live in society but it turns out you don’t have to care about it and if you just read books and go on adventures the rest of the time nobody can really stop you? wild 240218
Reposted by Orangetronic👁️👅👁️ @alisonbuki.bsky.social · 09/09/2026all these latest AI scares are revealing is how many people who work at labs prefer to enrich themselves over the next few years than do anything to stop the extinction-level threat they believe themselves to be building 073
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this guy was basically handed a life where he managed to turn running a photography blog into functionally infinite money by a one time historical anomaly and fumbled it by focussing on the infinite money instead of the photography blog. rookie mistake 04111
Reposted by Orangetronicceej @ceej.online · 09/09/2026an apple ceo's first "one more thing" incites in their body a deep release of physical pleasure otherwise only achievable by practitioners of the "Unyielding Viper School" of tantric self love 31699
Reposted by Orangetronicrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026imagining a genre called ‘math ska’ and pissing my self off 1061938227
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026absolutely lush bit of electronic experimentalism, this! 041
Reposted by OrangetronicMinestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"OpenAI just claimed a huge math dis-" shut the fuck up SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT THE FUCK UPPPPPPP 021
Reposted by OrangetronicArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 08/09/2026The Squirrel of the Day for September 8, 2026 is a stunner #sqrlpix 58012
Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026it is important to understand that if you are doing work with a commercially available LLM product, that fundamentally isn't private work. you are sharing it with a corporation which may or may not have your best interests at heart. 131
Reposted by OrangetronicQuinn Norton @quinn.yoyodyne-it.eu · 06/09/2026And it's just so venal. "I want to write code a bit faster" as a reason to immiserate the world, destroy the environment and hand power to fascists... Well, your grandkids are going to be disgusted with you, as they struggle to survive a burning world, made so much worse by your selfishness. 252