Joseph Kohlmann

Joseph Kohlmann

@jkohlmann.bsky.social

He / him · #Manhattan #NYC · Staff software engineer · Design+eng, #HCI, #DesignSystems, listening, empathy, #house #music, video #games, #photography, #cats, Black feminism, trans rights, Palestinian liberation, antiwhiteness, broken systems, #union labor

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Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Replying to @kissane.myatproto.social

I don’t care any more about the brains of managers who choose to write their emails and do their 360s with LLMs, though I feel for their reports. But you would think we had learned to be careful with children’s brains after the recent reading catastrophe, and yet. So much money to be made.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Replying to @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

had a dream where i was about to try a big bag of wario branded potato chips but then a guy walked by and grabbed the whole bag and started feeding it to his baby in a baby carrier he was holding. i woke up mad but have since come to accept that he simply went for the most wario move

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To ‘Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Three American White Pelicans stacked along the shoreline like they’d planned it. Same direction, same patience, bills pointed at something only they could see. #Manitoba #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #Birding #AmericanWhitePelican #Pelicans #Shoreline

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

For those wondering why this account was suspended: Apperantly the picture the other day of a deer "smoking" a bong was flagged for an "animal safety" violation The funny thing is, it was a taxedermied deer, so its not possible for any animal to be in "danger", and tbh, it was pretty obvious #deer

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Replying to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

The wildest one of these I got was a three PDF "press release" rollout from someone who said his ChatGPT sometimes got something wrong and that OpenAI didn't respond to his support ticket and fashioned himself as a kind of big tech whistleblower

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Replying to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

this is happening because big tech customer support basically doesn't exist and desperate people are asking ChatGPT what to do. ChatGPT is sending them to journalists

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

404media.coChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support ProblemsBecause big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

This is a great review of a thing that shouldn't exist.

But Why Tho?@butwhytho.net

REVIEW: ‘The New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Is Completely Despicable: The New Stanford Prison Experiment is a despicable embarrassment attempting to "recreate" the infamous experiment as a reality show.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Replying to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I am not aiming this at MY. I don't live in the same world with that discourse. But, I did want to say to normal people that his comment is not sensible. Thank you.

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Replying to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

You can put aside socialist-leftist prescriptions about how dangerous that alliance is, if you would like. But everything I read, across the political spectrum, agrees that these countries are connected. It is just civic maturity to pay attention to Brazil's election.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Replying to @awintory.bsky.social

To be *EXTRA* clear, I was NOT hired. No one was. I'd had conversations w/ both EA and BioWare over multiple years and prepared this music as a discussion item. The response was extremely enthusiastic from all who heard it but MUCH still needed to happen before it was official

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

Joseph Kohlmann reposted

A twofer for today's BOTD themes. Here's a female Wood Duck, briefly standing on one leg and showing off her pretty speckled breast. #BirdOfTheDay #OnOneLeg #SpottySpeckled #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #ECK

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Help us reach our goal either because you want a zine, or because you want to torture me by forcing us to make a zine, as I am a man who still carries the trauma of nights surrounded by envelopes

Nathan Grayson@nathangrayson.bsky.social

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