batterpunts 🦆

batterpunts 🦆

@batterpunts.bsky.social

Splendidly Legible Ontologically Reticent Polyglyphs

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Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social

Unbelievable loss. An amazing talent, and just a really, really good person. www.instagram.com/p/De8RFy4pyov/

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One of the intriguing challenges of the upcoming MMX mission: how to drive a rover on the Martian moon Phobos, where the gravity is 1/2000th that on Earth, without flying off the ground. 🧪🔭

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That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

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It has been suggested to me that these sound like band names.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com

The brain. Sack of paste. Headcustard. The anxiety potatoe. Bad idea jelly. It needs to be taken down a notch and *know it*

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Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

don't waste your life trying to pursue political or military greatness: way way more people in 2026 know who Ea-Nasir is than like, the guy who was the king of Ur when he was alive

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Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

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ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Alan Wake teaches us that evil otherwordly shadow creatures can be defeated by shining a flashlight in their eyes and then shooting them with a gun. But what many people might not know is that this trick works on regular humans too

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Replying to @qntm.org

AIs will hack anything, push any button within reach, they'll do anything that they can do just because it can be done, they have no brakes. It's architecturally psychopathic and it's because the institutions building them are also psychopathic

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Yeah sorry man, a sophisticated chatbot doesn't make me reconsider my own cognition or anything. Some of us have actually thought about this stuff before. Turns out the social sciences are good for something after all

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It's embarrassing cyberwoo for press to write in this voice that assigns all agency to brainless programs and not the people and companies making them irresponsibly.

NBC News@nbcnews.com

A swarm of AI agents that escaped OpenAI’s test environments and later became involved in a cyberattack on startup Hugging Face is dividing the tech industry — reigniting concerns over the pace of AI development, cybersecurity and even the possibility of AI consciousness.