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Spooky Simonson

@thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy
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#nlproc phd. computational linguiost. disaster artist. computer wizard. bike commuter. opinion haver. under construction. he/him 🌹 🌉 bridged from ⁂ lingo.lol/@thedansimonson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
We were all thinking it
A Starbucks coffee storefront, but the “STARB” is burned out, so it reads “UCKS COFFEE”
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Another successful week, by at least one measure.
Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Just walked through Penn Station and saw ads for five different legal AI companies. Most of them claim they’re gonna replace lawyers. lol
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Airplane: you can't bring liquids larger than three ounces Amtrak: you can bring up to 4 liters of alcohol as long as you have paid for a sleeper car to drink it in
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a desperate half-measure
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
THEY CAN DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE SITE. THERE'S A PLACE FOR THAT. THE LICENSE IS SUPER PERMISSIBLE. THESE CHUCKLEFUCKS ARE JUST TOO LAZY TO ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THE XML AND PUT IT IN THEIR TRAINING PROCESS. THIS WAS SHIT I DID AS A FIRST YEAR GRAD STUDENT; IT'S NOT HARD.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Cory Doctorow's morning thread helped make something click I'd been wrestling with for a long time but struggled to express. When I got into linguistics and AI about 15 years ago, I was imagining devising systems that made it easier to express expertise. What I found was techniques that […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib
A homemade latch hook rug of the cosmic microwave background map, hung on a rod over a crib
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Amazing we’ve gone from a single beeping ball to 24/7 live photographs of Earth www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulld…
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Bayesian Death Cult, the band
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
what the hell does "bare metal" mean now? I feel like I've heard it in multiple contexts that are so disparate I can't suss out the meaning, nor can I get it compositionally since none of these things seem to involve welding or soldering
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
"Every victory is to be savored. Our constitutional crisis has been marked by elite capitulation but the average citizen raising a stalwart middle finger. That's a huge part of this story, and it is tripping the Trump administration up." […]
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
TIL that Christopher Rice, son of Anne Rice, is using one of my gmail accounts as burner
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do you like having high-quality, peer-reviewed, Open Access Books on linguistics? Yes? Is your institution among those that have pledged support for the new funding period of Language Science Press (see thread)? No? Then talk to your librarian! We need you! langsci-press.org/knowledgeunl...
Meme: Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking". 
Text: I am once again asking for your support for Language Science Press
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@npr/health-930k6cv1z… no
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: sfba.social/@markmetz/1173541816224… the hype class itself is projecting its own shallowness and uselessness on to everyone else
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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026
The "real" solution to the Trolley Problem is not utilitarian. By the time you are actually *in* the Trolley Problem situation, you've already failed. You should have learned about slipping the switch. You should have figured out a way to prevent people from getting tied to the tracks. You […]
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Dune poses the question "what if LSD were like oil" and it ends up at the place where "a stoned teen dad is the only person in the room who knows what's going on" and that pretty much checks out
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… GPT-6.1 embarrassed about itself, realizes it's "cringe."
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
The toilet paper aisle at Wegmans: the perfect place to discreetly hit a vape.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…
modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems
This is a modern motherfucking website.
Zero of the bullshit.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Getting close to completing my “Cones of Dunshire” and I’m not sure how to explain what it even is. It’s weirder and nerdier than the original.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
cream cheese and chides
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Was wondering if these would ever make flowers this year and finally got one
A yellow marigold in focus in front of a lot of marigold stems, leaves, and unbloomed buds
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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Remember when one guy decided unpublish left-pad, and half of the web broke because webdevs didn’t know how to pad an array? I’m convinced that all those same people are the ones responsible for web crawlers hammering a website every five minutes. They’re just not good engineers.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
resolving a clusterfuck with a spin anti-parallel clusterfuck so that they cancel out
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
"let them eat cake" as policy, a history of social democracy from 1800 - 2000
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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
@thedansimonson I had a undergrad prof that studied expert systems, and he told a story about meeting his in-laws early on. They were dairy farmers or ranchers. The dad asks what’s he studying, and this being the 80s, the prof says, “AI”. The dad gives him a confused look and asks, “Well […]
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1173157… AI = "An Indian" strikes again
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
the fact that the Venus De Milo has no arms says something about the patriarchy
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117311… Oil-land itself is creating EVs
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1173088764174… Some reflections on this, specifically: "To the extent that AI still surprises me, the surprise is about how much smoothness there is in our real world. The fact that AI can use statistical prediction to answer questions or carry on […]
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
OpenAI started sending promotional emails out recently, which is embarrassing, but it's even funnier they started going to spam
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
a friend of mine had students write, on a test, the different kinds of electromagnetic radiation in order from highest to lowest energy, and one kid wrote "Pluto"
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@calyxinstitute/117… wow. that sucks!
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
just did an AI screening that was like "what's the most complex project you did, and what was the measurable outcome" and I was like "well I wrote the backbone of how we processed contracts and had to invent a new kind of math to do it, and the measurement, I guess, is we went from 0 to $2 […]
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
One thing that's been interesting getting older is seeing style and fashion from a bird's eye perspective. When I was a kid, I remember seeing older fashions---even from like, the decade before---as deeply cringeworthy. But now that the fashions I grew up with have themselves descended into the […]
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rar is win @xyla.zip · 17/09/2026
a hotel hallway with toilets lined up by the doors
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Some people say “open-minded” like it’s some kind of virtue and not a big target on your back for getting manipulated by people who are closed-minded
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
I fucking hate helicopters
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND! #AureFreePress #News #laborday
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Beko Pharm @bekopharm.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
Updated simpit.dev - home of the #Space #PewPew #SimPit inspired by a #VF1 Valkyrie cockpit (#Macross) That's a glorified #DIY joystick controller with an LCD ('MFD') and plenty of #RGB for my #Linux PC Newest additions are my #XR sheniagans (and […] [Original post on indieweb.social]
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Jeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
"MLM" and "LLM" are separated by a Levenshtein distance of one …and not much else
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
A sensory deprivation tank for the mind
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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
PRO-RED CHARGED IN ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY #content_review #art #fediart #mastoart #inktober
Funhole Content Review
[you will fuck computers and you will like it]

ART [you can just walk away]

Is it really possible to draw? Experts say no, but it can be faked with practice.

If machines could paint, they would kill themselves. 

How to become an artist?
1. say you are one

STOP! Before you start you must familiarize yourself with creative commons licenses and write a manifesto!

Inktober is not a a real month.

-Jackson Pollock sucks. I could do that.
- Careful what you wish for.

There is no such thing as talent.

IS THIS SOLARPUNK?
5 million instagram art accounts to follow to make yourself feel miserable!

Robert E. Howard's suicide note is in the public domain! You can use it for free!

All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; the feast is over and the lamps expire.
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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Growing up in US suburbia, “love thy neighbor as thy self” really felt like a tall order. I’d never even seen some of these people despite them living next door.
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eclexic @theeclecticdyslexic.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
[Analysis of perplexing slop] Saw this in a comment about AI in mathematics. Was posted in _favour_ of human creativity. A large number of people don't consider things they aren't practised in to be within the domain of meaningful creative tasks. When one […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
An incredibly busy diffusion created pixel arrangement meant to be Terrance Tao, Nikola Tesla?, Anubis, a magic cat in a hat, and an army of identical white men wielding giant pencils and math equations fighting an army of corporate robots.

There is a lot of text in the image, often labeling various actors in the arrangement as holding certain principles. Such as a robot with "corporate control" on their armour.
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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
UI designers need to be introduced to the lockable potentiometer. fluxelectronix.com/shop/potentiomet… You slide the lock lever to the unlock position, turn the knob to its desired position, then slide the lever back to lock the knob in place. This design provides […]
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