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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

More progress on the painting!

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Played this recently and I don’t remember a game with a more stylish looking protag. ❤️ @simogo.com games

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am not an expert in AI and Cognitive Science, but I do know a fair amount about linguistics and writing instruction, and some basic comp sci. I find it next to impossible to make uni colleagues believe what I have to say about gen AI.

According to Guest, the recruitment text makes it clear that In'to's staff are not Al experts. 'What they are experts in, for example, is delivering language courses. After all, Radboud University has a Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.'

It is precisely this disregard for expertise that Van Rooij identifies as a pitfall of Al. 'One of the consequences of the Al hype is that everyone suddenly seems to be an expert, whilst genuine subject-matter experts are ignored. When I look at the text announcing this workshop, I get the imnession that the uncritical approach to Al technologies
has worsened in recent years.'

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My South African ass is not made for this.

Weather for Randburg
5°
Feels Like: -2°
H:7º L:4°

Cloudy conditions expected around 17:00. Wind gusts up to 36 km/h are making the temperature feel like -2°.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Let nobody forget the classics

“why did you turn my friends into pigs i don't know maybe the real question is why are your friends so turn-into-pigsable”

Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I really hope we make Disapproving Athena a thing.

Athena, played by Zendaya, giving an expression of disappointment and disgust that would wither me to my bones

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Been playing this lately, and this is peak character design

LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

The protagonist stands in front of the game’s hotel, wearing a disgustingly stylish 1960s Italian-style ensemble of cropped dark pants, a ruffled blouse and double-buttoned short jacket.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Random very English signs and names I have noticed

A station platform with the name “Mudchute”

Two road signs, indicating the street names “Back Lane” and “Streatley Place”

A pillar outside a house that reads “FORTY TWO”

A van that reads “Cumbria Hot Tub Services Ltd”

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Been getting back into reading on Libby since the end of last year.

A graph of loans over time. I borrowed 17 books in 2025, and 13 so far this year. There is a spike up in December 2025 and a smaller spike in March 2026.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Johannesburg is looking dramatic today.

A photo of the city skyline from the West, covered in clouds. Johannesburg, South Africa

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is a monstrous mindset. These things just aren't real to him.

Musk did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article. Last month, in an interview with Bloomberg, he argued that his critics have been unable to produce any evidence that these cuts at USAID have resulted in any real suffering. “It’s false,” he said. “I say, ‘Well, please connect us with this group of children so we can talk to them and understand more about their issue,’ we get nothing. They don’t even try to come up with a show orphan.”

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Skittles is such a beautiful dumbass

A grey tabby looking at the camera in confusiom

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I really liked the Elden Ring manga, though. It leans into being a journal of playing the game, and as a result it is silly as heck.

A scene of the Elden Ring manga in which the Tarniahed encounters Blaidd chasing and catching a Scarab (he's just a dog chasing a ball)

HEY...
WHAT'RE YOU CHASING?

WAIT UP!

THIS GUY'S
NO WOLF.
HE'S JUST A BIG DOG...

AHH, SORRY, FRIEND.
WHEN I SEE SOMETHING
ROUND, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT CHASE IT...

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

She heard I was going to open the tap. I should open the tap for her so that she can look at the water come out.

Peach, the ginger cat, is sitting on the dishwasher in my kitchen, staring at me with a combination of disapproval and expectation.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Peach looking offended that I touched her fluffy cat belly

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Look, outages and software are complicated, so I'm not going to speculate. But why is this *postmortem* like this? This is some kind of facile LinkedIn-style insight from babies reinventing the wheel

you should add extensive observability before you have an outage. We do have a lot, but it's never enough! We need to add per-client o11y as well as get better metrics on when clients send small numbers of large requests.

It was all buried in there, but it was hard to know where to look when so much was falling over all at once. You need to have the mental discipline and high granularity in your metrics to be able to cut through the noise to find the real root cause. It's hard work!

Also, logging too much isn't great.

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Sismrnoth @sismrnoth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Look, outages and software are complicated, so I'm not going to speculate. But why is this *postmortem* like this? This is some kind of facile LinkedIn-style insight from babies reinventing the wheel