Reposted by Spooky SimonsonKit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Another successful week, by at least one measure. 62168
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Just walked through Penn Station and saw ads for five different legal AI companies. Most of them claim they’re gonna replace lawyers. lol 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Airplane: 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 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026a desperate half-measureflipboard.com 100
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026THEY 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. 201
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Cory 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 […]lingo.lolOriginal post on lingo.lol 102
Reposted by Spooky Simonsonhighly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib 5935
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Amazing we’ve gone from a single beeping ball to 24/7 live photographs of Earth www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulld… 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026what 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 100
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." […]lingo.lolOriginal post on lingo.lol 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026TIL that Christopher Rice, son of Anne Rice, is using one of my gmail accounts as burner 200
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonKilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do 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... 21013
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: flipboard.com/@npr/health-930k6cv1z… noflipboard.com 101
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: sfba.social/@markmetz/1173541816224… the hype class itself is projecting its own shallowness and uselessness on to everyone elsesfba.social 102
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonGlyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026The "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 […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 119
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Dune 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 101
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… GPT-6.1 embarrassed about itself, realizes it's "cringe."mastodon.social 012
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026The toilet paper aisle at Wegmans: the perfect place to discreetly hit a vape. 100
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonLiam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systemsThis is a modern motherfucking website.Zero of the bullshit. 920124
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Getting 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. 100
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Was wondering if these would ever make flowers this year and finally got one 000
Reposted by Spooky Simonson🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026Remember 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. 001
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026resolving a clusterfuck with a spin anti-parallel clusterfuck so that they cancel out 000
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 000
Reposted by Spooky Simonson🎄🎅🏻🎄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 […]sfba.socialOriginal post on sfba.social 001
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@404mediaco/1173157… AI = "An Indian" strikes againmastodon.social 100
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026the fact that the Venus De Milo has no arms says something about the patriarchy 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117311… Oil-land itself is creating EVsmastodon.social 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026RE: 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 […]lingo.lolOriginal post on lingo.lol 101
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026OpenAI started sending promotional emails out recently, which is embarrassing, but it's even funnier they started going to spam 100
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026a 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" 100
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@calyxinstitute/117… wow. that sucks!mastodon.social 101
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026just 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 […]lingo.lolOriginal post on lingo.lol 000
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026One 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 […]lingo.lolOriginal post on lingo.lol 202
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Some 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 002
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonAure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND! #AureFreePress #News #laborday 61374
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonBeko Pharm @bekopharm.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025Updated 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] 124
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonJeremy 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 113
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026A sensory deprivation tank for the mind 100
Reposted by Spooky SimonsonTomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026PRO-RED CHARGED IN ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY #content_review #art #fediart #mastoart #inktober 2628
Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Growing 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. 000
Reposted by Spooky Simonsoneclexic @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] 101
Reposted by Spooky Simonsonarclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026UI 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 […]oldbytes.spaceOriginal post on oldbytes.space 001