River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The annoying problem with China export taxation is that with the robotics stuff I am doing, the parts become more expensive and many of these parts don't have EU made alternatives. So I'm forced to give up on projects or spend more money building stuff 010
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@mitsuhiko.at on an updated test, I am noticing that Pangram is flagging test I have written without the use of any AI whatsoever as AI detected very frequently. I am going to write an upcoming blog post about this, and film myself writing text that is detected as AI, this service is unusable. 210
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart 21333228
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026my interpretation of the Nathan Fielders Documentary was that he absolutely hates Elizabeth Holmes lol and he 100% feels like they're using him as a way to get public sympathy 000
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know banning is controversial, but what would you guys think of banning AI-generated blog posts altogether? and making it legally forbidden? 000
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026OH MY GOD HOLD ON IT'S A SNEAK PEAK 15894181
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026ofc the only correct way to it a burger is middle to out? 100
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Quentin Lichtblau @lichtblauq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ich warte ja immer auf die "Warum wählen so viele junge Menschen links?"-Berichterstattung aber im Gegensatz zu den 3000 Storys über AfD-Teens kommt die irgendwie nicht ??? 30907180
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️zeu @zeu.dev · 19/09/2026a reminder that i got called slurs for saying that linux is what they call “woke” and that DHH isn’t a good guy. do NOT normalize bigots in our tech communities. it isn’t political, it’s just human decency. retract all omarchy funding. be good. 323136
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s... 19475116
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I attempted to recreate Armin's experiment river.berlin/blog/pangram... I got different results, and ended up getting 100% human upon retranscription.river.berlinRiver's Blog: Blog - Attempting to recreate Armin Ronacher's Pangram experimentAttempting to recreate Armin Ronacher's Pangram AI detection experiment 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026@noz.am try this (not mine) enclose.horse/play/qGVkyn I got a 100% 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026most chess victories are pyrrhic victories, that set of pieces isn't likely going to survive another battle 000
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One annoying thing with university is that I can't avoid using AI, like when grading I am noticing that the reasons my grade is having losses is because of the same reasons that AI tells me a certain section is bad, even if I personally feel as if it's fine. Like for certain subjects I can see that 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 011
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/09/2026made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars 83459
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The problem with being instantly able to do stuff instead of having to organise things is that you get an excess of things and a loss of being able to capture and audience for anything 001
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Es gibt so viel 'Wie kannst du deine Job möglichkeiten verbessern' posten auf linkedin jetzt. Ich frage mich ob das eine scam ist, aber ich bin nicht ganz sicher. 100
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"Why should my tax dollars go to giving houses to people who can't afford them?" Why should MY tax dollars should go to satisfying your desire to see desperate people living desperate lives? I'd rather save money and solve the problem, rather than spend money to exacerbate it. 152032403
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Manchmal ich habe ein großes problem mit 'zufreideinheit' ohne vergleichheit, beispielsweise, 'warum hab ich nur 5 likes' u.s.w., Ich habe dafür in vergangenheit ein browser extension geschafft, so ich sehe kein likes mehr, trotzdem, jetzt ich sehe dass ich habe die gleich problem für veranstaltung 110
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026was ich finde hauptsäslich schwierig mit deutsch ist definitiv wenn mann sagt etwas und ich weiß nicht ob das positiv oder negativ ist beispielsweise omg das ist so krass ich finde hund so doll u.s.w es ist eine großes "Aladeen" moment (von "the dictator" film) 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's really interesting, because I was at the c-base meetup and I was the only person who spoke out against DHH (after a presenter made a reference to omarchy);The presenter, took back his presentation to his credit and asked people not to use omarchy after I told him about other things DHH has done 220
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Just because there's a lot of pessimism on this site, did you know that a ton of African economies are finally hitting rapid development? E.g. 1247549
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I worry this sort of... generalized political and economic pessimism just makes everything feel pointless, but if you zoom out, things are getting better along almost every axis, and the biggest problems we face are all solvable. 1015914
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I get there are lots of reasons for pessimism, but a lot of desperately poor nations are developing, global child mortality has tanked since I was a kid, malaria deaths are way down, extreme poverty is *way* down, access to water and power are widespread, solar power is booming... 929833
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026things that can be used for black hat stuff can also be typically used for white hat testing as well - huggingface had to use open source models for finding out where stuff went aury during it's resistance. I mean I know the "good guy with a gun" whatever is bullshit, and it is better not to have 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026There is really something to say, with the USA making enemies of good people and purposefully pushing a nation into starvation (Iran) and how awful that is. None of this is clearly having the impact he thinks it's having, all it does is harm people. 020
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi" 674227902
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026yk the thing is I am completing things faster with AI; but the scope of my projects has increased so much more that the "grand" projects I am trying to build just end up taking so much more time. something something product engineering chokepoint. 010
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️BHNT @bhnt.c-base.org · 18/08/2026RSVP for BHNT114 @c-base.org next Tuesday! Your hacks do not have to be connected to the title(awesome if they do though - e.g. a hack using eclipse IDE would be stellar). We use these names with relation to recent events similar to release titles of software. platform.openmeet.net/events/bhnt-...platform.openmeet.netBHNT #114 - Eclipse HacksTue, Aug 25, 7:00 PM GMT+2 · c-base, 20, Rungestraße, Heine-Viertel, Luisenstadt, Mitte, Berlin, 10179, Germany BHNT #114: the first BHNT after a beautiful solar eclipse visible from the location of 055
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026definitely blown away by how far gemini 3.7 has come, this is better than claude at the moment (and a steal at 5€ per month for 2 months) 000
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 17/08/2026This is the genuine logo used by the Amazon location that destructively scans books 77324
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I just realized community did the "rating" black mirror episode first 010
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I wrote a small blog post on how to control robots with runpod.io ! river.berlin/blog/runpod-...river.berlinRiver's Blog: Blog - Autonomously control robots with lerobot and runpod!how to use lerobot with runpod 010
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026there's this company that grows chairs directly from trees (fullgrown.co.uk/product/tours/) - no not cutting a tree, that is an upside down chair! I'd do this but for like entire housesfullgrown.co.ukCome and have a tour of our Chair Orchard - Full GrownWe now offer the chance to participate in an exclusive tour of Full Grown! 2 hours, tea/coffee and nibbles in the cabin, a visit to our workshop to sit in a Grown Chair, a signed book, plus pick up fr... 010
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026@zachweinersmith.bsky.social I think this is the first time I have properly actually considered cancelling my claude subscription 000
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Lovely meeting the folks at the css working group! 040
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026CSSWG, last moment discussion lol because I am late here 100
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026@xeiaso.net you missed the opportunity to call Anubis related security benefits to be called the Anubliss! 010
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026There is hope, We outnumber them, We are better as one – We have come so far, the dream that we are all comfortable, we are are financially fine and nobody dies poor, hungry or unclothed is so much closer than you can imagine river.berlin/blog/there-i...river.berlinRiver's Blog: Blog - There is always hopeThere is always hope 000
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I was in Berlin bhnt hack and tell! bhnt.c-base.org/2026-07-28-n... I spoke about how to use the SO101 robot arm with ArUco tags!, presentation slides : docs.google.com/presentation... blog post : river.berlin/blog/so101-a... cc : @ligi.de @c-base.org 093
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️Oliver Ash @oliverjash.me · 28/07/2026I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you! 23122
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ligi @ligi.de · 27/07/2026Tomorrow will be the next @bhnt.c-base.org on board of @c-base.org The first one after a small summer break and @getdweb.net camp Looking forward to you and all your hacks! Please RSVP: platform.openmeet.net/events/bhnt-...platform.openmeet.netBHNT #113 - DWebCamp hacksTue, Jul 28, 7:00 PM GMT+2 · c-base, 20, Rungestraße, Heine-Viertel, Luisenstadt, Mitte, Berlin, 10179, Germany BHNT #113: the first BHNT after a summer break and [DWebCamp](https://dwebcamp.org) You 054
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I'm in Amsterdam to meet some friends, if anyone is here, feel free to reply and we can meet! 000
Reposted by River 🏳️🌈 ❤️BHNT @bhnt.c-base.org · 21/07/2026Tuesday next week we have Berlin Hack and Tell 113 on board of @c-base.org The first BHNT after a summer break and @getdweb.net camp Please RSVP and bring your hacks (they do not have to be connected to the title - bonus points if they do though) platform.openmeet.net/events/bhnt-...platform.openmeet.netBHNT #113 - DWebCamp hacksTue, Jul 28, 7:00 PM GMT+2 · c-base, 20, Rungestraße, Heine-Viertel, Luisenstadt, Mitte, Berlin, 10179, Germany BHNT #113: the first BHNT after a summer break and [DWebCamp](https://dwebcamp.org) You 075
River 🏳️🌈 ❤️ @riverofberlin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I made a small website (instant.river.berlin) to control the SO-101 and pick and place items using ArUco tags! Here's the corresponding blog article - river.berlin/blog/so101-a... 110