Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yeah I don't think they're conscious, but that means that on some level you're still talking to yourself, right, which is another reason not to be cruel. OTOH I don't want anyone to start feeling deferential to Flock cameras or security robots, and it's arguably a slippery slope. 120
Reposted by Peter LewisSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 06/10/2026RIP to Eva Marie Saint, a lady with a nose for bullshit www.avclub.com/from-on-the-... 543167
Reposted by Peter LewisEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think most people who have been closely watching AI for the past few years are likely surprised by how relatively rare terrible AI incidents have been, given a billion users overall and hundreds of millions of corporate users. Doesn’t mean that will continue, but still its surprising. 1317811
Reposted by Peter LewisRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is a thing confirmed by research, to an extent. It’s also why ensuring content shows up in retrieval and in training data is the new battleground. 215034
Reposted by Peter LewisHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Really does seem like because these flock cameras are basically a marshmallow test for police officers that they do their own negative publicity. Every day you get another couple of stories about “cop found to misuse device with obvious audit trail”. 3436
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Switching from Brick to Apple Configurator as a phone distraction blocker, and it's funny how similar they look 000
Reposted by Peter LewisSean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I will never forget the time that IT services at a hospital let me install Rstudio, but they drew the line at also installing R to go with it 1162
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Yeah, and some of the most concerning targets might also want to keep it quiet 020
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of my favorite false memories (from around that age) is that the cafeteria was right under that whale, I was looking up at it while eating french fries 010
Reposted by Peter LewisJoe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026not to both-sides it here, but there's a sort of "one sided demand for nuance" issue where proponents and critics of rental regulation often do a sort of a la carte thing with the assorted costs and benefits. or have reasons why the general contours of the literature dont apply in <my special city> 131
Reposted by Peter LewisGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026this is a well-reported piece with an awful lot written between the lines, and one of the things that jumps out at me is just how ill-informed these people are. the trucker, his partner, his mother — they can’t even agree *amongst themselves* on a shared understanding of events 19825144
Reposted by Peter LewisSridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'm old enough to remember smoking on airplanes as a child. I hated it but they made you do it. 363213363
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"What if you listened to a record, and you loved it, and the end of the record blew up your stereo?" 010
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Haha, it was a better turn of phrase than I expected from this interview 020
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Safety is a past-tense word. You think you're safe now, but it just went by." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Wd...youtube.comJosh Homme: The Architect Of Desert RockYouTube video by Rick Beato 121
Reposted by Peter LewisLevi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A false doctor is not a kind of doctor, but a false god is a kind of god. —Iris Murdoch, Bruno’s Dream 0122
Reposted by Peter Lewisceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time 663167482
Reposted by Peter LewisRI Smith @rismith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026theonion.comCollege Basketball Star Heroically Overcomes Tragic Rape He CommittedColorado star Jacob Ross faced the biggest obstacle of his life when he committed a shocking and sudden rape. But he found the strength to return to his game like nothing had happened. 052
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026open.spotify.com/track/4xLZnZ... New Pärt album too, the dance floors are gonna be packed this weekendopen.spotify.comPassacagliaArvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer, Geneva Lewis, Andrei Pushkarev, Kremerata Baltica · Pärt: Passacaglia · Song · 2026 020
Reposted by Peter LewisTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41120473122
Reposted by Peter Lewisconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026great bandyoutube.comBeing Dead - Firefighters (Official Video)YouTube video by BeingDeadVEVO 061
Reposted by Peter Lewiseggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Bloomberg with the working class content I need 193
Reposted by Peter Lewiszeu @zeu.dev · 30/09/2026remember that they sold reddit posts to openAI for training data they don’t want you to have free data if they can sell it, they think they own all user generated content on there 2142
Reposted by Peter Lewis𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 @framerated.co.uk · 27/09/2026Terry Zwigoff’s adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel GHOST WORLD remains the ultimate anthem for cynical outsiders, deadpan alienation, and post-high-school dread. Read @jonosimpson.bsky.social’s 25th anniversary review! www.framerated.co.uk/ghost-world-...framerated.co.ukGHOST WORLD (2001) • Frame RatedA retrospective review of Terry Zwigoff's 2001 comedy-drama Ghost World, starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson & Steve Buscemi. 053
Reposted by Peter LewisChristof Spieler @christofspieler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Stumbled across this from the Swiss Rhätische Bahn -- is there any other railroad in the world that publishes daily rolling stock assignments on its website? www.rhb.ch/en/railway-e... 5243
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/ess...nplusonemag.comHeaven’s Melodic Strains | Colin VanderburgThe Illinois Jacquet’s 1956 sextet rendition of “Harlem Nocturne” wasn’t simply playing but occurring, happening. Jimmy Jones’s piano glowed like the sun’s last gleam, taking the day with it. I fumble... 000
Reposted by Peter LewisSpaceTessContinuum @eigenvalue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We are rapidly entering into an era where the old joke "Everything is open source if you can read assembly" is not a joke. 721821
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's true that stock GIF replies are lazier than text, but one happy medium is to make your own GIFs, as I once did with Norm MacDonald being thrown into a dumpster 000
Reposted by Peter LewisJoel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the graph in Joey's thread/article that makes me think AI had very little to do with these losses. This is a chart of the streaming wars, covid, a surge to finish delayed projects, and the end of the streaming wars. 4816
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The other candidates are more cynical and slice of life, like Corpus Christi Bay or Levelland 000
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes! and this is another one I just remembered youtu.be/151ZPzZWdbYyoutu.beCowboy Bebop Knockin' on Heaven's Door 'Clean Opening Titles'YouTube video by Jihun.S 110
Reposted by Peter Lewisthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers 4161881292
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Many of the best country songs about Texas are really about relationships or rodeos, but this is the first one I heard as a kid that’s about Texas itself, and maybe still my favorite in that subcategory m.youtube.com/watch?v=joX_...m.youtube.comGary P. Nunn With Jerry Jeff Walker - London Homesick Blues (1991)YouTube video by Jan Hammer 110
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I’ve seen very little anime, but the first race in Redline and the city montage in Ghost in the Shell are already two of the best soundtracked scenes I’ve seen in any movie, full stop… and in completely opposite ways 110
Reposted by Peter Lewisrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026so much of what's wrong with right now is rebranding things which were always understood as vice as being a type of virtue 211467158
Peter Lewis @plewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Finally listened to Choosin' Texas, which sounded like a different kind of country song from the title, but in fact it's the best sign yet that country music is finally getting sad again. I don't know what this presages because I never thought it would happen 030
Reposted by Peter Lewisrob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 24/09/2026mitch mcconnell is playing pickleball at the park across the street from me right now. not really talking though which is worrisome 5753
Reposted by Peter LewisSean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Research data managers receiving new excel files from clients after this changestatic.klipy.comKaboom Nuke: Massive ExplosionALT: Kaboom Nuke: Massive Explosion 1125
Reposted by Peter LewisAlex Riviere @dangitalex.wtf · 25/09/2026I have been introduced to a new tool that is going to make me very very happy, and make many many designers scream out in terror. bastardica.mitpit.combastardica.mitpit.comBastardicaA type foundry for bastard web fonts. 8318
Reposted by Peter LewisKate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 25/09/2026I want a Lovecraft edition where the narrator stops telling me how to feel about everything: "They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that they overlapped" becomes "They were present in profusion, and I saw that they overlapped" 131
Reposted by Peter LewisEzra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The Second Bakery Attack" in addition to being a fantastic short story in its own right, also contains my favorite passage in all of literature. 152
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