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ritchie

@ritchie.bsky.social
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Recovering academic. I make tools for facial animation and game narrative at JALI. (@jaliresearch.bsky.social) posts do not reflect the position of my employer, community, or even myself.

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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🤗 hand-delivered to you for perusal
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“This firefly life of mine” goes really hard
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just realized how similar the Qud color scheme is to the solarized color scheme
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
lol, lmao even
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
and the fake slowing-down / guardrails mechanism is neotenous EA commissars
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Downloaded a Nintendo DS emulator and Brain Age ROM to try and de-stress while being sick and feeling like shit
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One of the studies discussed in the article used BERT, so I think it does actually. Honestly I’m surprised the other study got such high performance using a random forest over simple audio features
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
How do you know it is using general rules applied through on-the-fly reasoning vs. using the info in the weights about how to play this video game? gamefaqs.gamespot.com/sms/588107-m...
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I will put in a good word for Rick Veitch's "Can't Get No" as an excellent piece of art that tries to grapple with the trauma of 9/11
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
a shared bond among all Americans except the brown ones we shot in the revenge killings
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the cognitive dissonance / dehumanization is insane
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
seems to do better than that if you let it think / give it a tiny bit of context of what the goal is
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I feel like many people wouldn’t want to do that for purely practical reasons bsky.app/profile/more...
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Will AI companies steal your neat mathematical proofs? Probably not tbh Will AI companies immediately give any of your data they come across related to planning a protest to local and federal police? Yes
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have some bad news for you about who benefits every time you post on this website
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This but it’s HCA
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Reading the one star reviews for Lake Ontario
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Having fun in blender
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
TIL about WP:TRUMPCRUFT en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Norco mentioned
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
for the linked repo - if my charging station started saying this stuff to me, I would not be a happy customer. I think it would be a challenge to find any task where this level of capability (sampling from a distribution like this) adds value
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Have been watching Disney’s Gargoyles (which is awesome) and people hated it for its unapologetic celtaboo nature. My gripe is that they apparently couldn’t find a single VA who could do a passable Scottish accent
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow what a twist
Taylor Lorenz insta comment @missesbun I love vibe coding and think it’s good that software development is being made more accessible!! :)
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
not to out myself as a redditor, but reddit has just made it impossible to browse without an account, which sucks, but what adds insult to injury is that the unskippable html element that enforces this is called "desktop-dynamic-upsell-dialog"
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
yeah
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"As Mitch McConnell awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The number of uninsured people went down by about 20 million, it's now started to increase again because of removals of subsidies to ACA marketplace plans, 10% of that wiped out in a single year, and with the prospect of greatly increasing in the near future because of cuts to Medicare/Medicaid
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
oooooh yeah that's not so nice
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is going great so far!!!!
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm launching an interview series to explore the spectrum of different reactions to the unrelenting onslaught of both AI hype and real technological progress. Actively soliciting guests: DM me or otherwise get in touch if you want a space to air your deep grievances or unique insights.
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is great! Wonderful that someone did the work to show this and now there is something to point to. and lol @ this
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Taps the sign
The basic problem is that so much discussion of the so-called 'energy transition' treats the problem as a technical challenge of substituting one set of energy inputs with another. This ignores the deeper social and economic logics of capitalism, in which the drive to accumulate is tied to a persistent expansion of energy throughput. More energy is drawn into production, circulation and consumption, even when the amount of energy used per unit of output declines. Efficiency gains do not automatically reduce total energy use. Instead, they support even greater levels of absolute production and consumption.
This is the techno-fetishism at the heart of the "green transition" narrative. By focusing on the changing relative shares of energy supply, it evades the central question of absolute production. It is perfectly plausible for fossil fuels to fall as a share of the energy mix while the absolute quantity of coal, oil and gas consumed continues to rise. This is exactly what is
happening. But the climate does not care whether fossil fuels occupy a slightly smaller percentage of a larger energy system, while the total volume of carbon being extracted and released is increasing. A world in which renewables rise rapidly while fossil fuel use also grows is not a world in transition.
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
wow it's @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
His mind… is so beautiful
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I got an audible ad for this but I feel like it would be really really really hard to get through this as an audiobook
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
 “I challenged one student about why he always wore headphones in class. He replied that it didn’t matter, because he wasn’t actually playing any music. In another lesson, he was playing music at very low volume through the headphones, without wearing them. When I asked him to switch it off, he replied that even he couldn’t hear it. Why wear the headphones without playing music or play music without wearing the headphones? Because the presence of the phones on the ears or the knowledge that the music is playing (even if he couldn’t hear it) was a reassurance that the matrix was still there, within reach.

Besides, in a classic example of interpassivity, if the music was still playing, even if he couldn’t hear it, then the player could still enjoy it on his behalf. The use of headphones is significant here – pop is experienced not as something which could have impacts upon public space, but as a retreat into private ‘OedIpod’ consumer bliss, a walling up against the social.

The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus. Students’ incapacity to connect current lack of focus with future failure, their inability to synthesize time into any coherent narrative, is symptomatic of more than mere demotivation.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
And the one their brother made of them
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My partner made a mood board of me in case you were wondering how I look and act IRL
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And from the appendix: Men do not increase their partnership rates, but if they’re in relationships they leave their partners instead!
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Phoebe Bridgers does not appear to suffer any physical injury when she hits an obstacle in the Phoebe Bridgers subway surfer clone. Instead, the loss of hearts represents the moral injury she suffers when her boyfriend runs over a goblin with his motorcycle.
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
was having fun until
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Did Skrag The Slaughterer write this headline
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ritchie @ritchie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I find this offensive and what’s worse is that I’m right over the decision boundary from the cluster that I actually do identify strongly with - proving again that machine learning is bad
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