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@quadrifrons.online

this is not main, this is my only account, I cannot be bothered to keep track of what goes where. may contain adult material, including fanfic, politics, and complaining about medical problems. http://j.quadrifrons.online

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I'm rewatching Babylon 5 with Partner, who's new to the show, and last time he saw Bester come on screen, he threw up his hands and yelled, "This asshole again!?" Do you know how good of an actor you have to be to elicit such a strong, instant response? Just a master class in acting.

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Very funny to see ChatGPT replicating the failure state of government bureaucracy ("go to your local librarian" being the answer to needing help with anything)

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

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...

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Opensource benefits from contributions from people all over the world, who speak many different languages. This is absolute BS, and everyone should speak out about it and not let this fly. It's absolutely unacceptable.

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...

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This is not a joke, this is a real proposal! Surely, with all the surveillance and targeted ads being done in America, this is possible. And early voter turnout would SKYROCKET.

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#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 22: If you’re aware of the modern horror space, you KNOW @tananarivedue.bsky.social is a hell of a writer, and Mazywood is a hell of a novel. Come for the creature feature and winter vibes, stay for the even more haunting stories of Black Hollywood and family trauma.

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This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

ghanacitizenship.comGhana-Ivory Coast Cocoa Alliance: Mahama and Ouattara Sign Joint DeclarationGhana and Ivory Coast signed a Joint Declaration to strengthen their cocoa alliance, aligning producer prices and expanding local processing.
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I don't really want to get into it with a random person in someone else's mentions, but this is a fundamental problem with how these tools are marketed

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to be answered with certain specific language? If you have a sensitive issue where your legal team has to vet all responses? If there are certain topics that always need to be escalated to a specific team? You _cannot_ have an LLM responding for you.

For those situations, an AI chat bot is actively worse. If your requirements are "always" or "never," you need an old-fashioned deterministic computer. (And you have to know that, because by default everything goes to the LLM now. Good luck.)

I don't really want to get into it with a random person in someone else's mentions, but this is a fundamental problem with how these tools are marketed

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And that is a _very reasonable assumption to make,_ based on the way LLMs are being marketed and sold! "Just tell it what you want and the AI will do it for you!" But if LLMs were still being sold as just another technical tool we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I work in customer support, the one industry people keep saying that AI really will change beyond recognition. And sure, AI chat bots have a distinct utility in customer support that is distinct from a lot of other industries. But if you're a regulated industry and you need certain questions

I don't really want to get into it with a random person in someone else's mentions, but this is a fundamental problem with how these tools are marketed

Yes, you will get much better results from LLMs if you select the right model for the job and take the time to configure it correctly. Yes, to a certain extent this is true of all tools. The difference is that LLMs aren't marketed as LLMs, they're marketed as AI: as _intelligent_

When someone who isn't technically-minded, aka "literally everyone that 50% of my current crop of youtube ads are targeting" (undoubtedly more after the election), engages with an LLM, when they can't get the results they want, they assume it's a flaw in the product, not a flaw in their use of it

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ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

Nyek London@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

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Replying to @brunodias.dev

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

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If any artist contact you on discord to ask you for commission, reach out to them on a different platform to verify if it's really them. No reputable artist will beg for your money in your dms.

zack 🦇@vampbyte.bsky.social

⚠ PSA to artists and clients on #VGen about a Discord scam going around!! ⚠ a scammer is scraping profiles (both artists and clients) to make fake discord accounts impersonating them, then reaching out to people they've worked with in the past who have their discord info publicly visible

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Frodo wakes. ‘Where am I?’ ‘In the House of Elrond. It is ten o’clock in the morning. The morning of October the twenty-fourth, if you want to know.’ ‘Gandalf!’ ‘Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here, too, after all the absurd things you have done since you left home.’

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wait a democrat is polling +3 in montana’s congressional race and he is a smokejumper that looks like this? why has no one told the thirsty masses?

A couple of years ago I was asked to be in a focus group because I was one of a small number of recurring donors to a local arboretum who wasn't a retiree, and they wanted to know how to get more younger donors

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social

Do they even understand how much they’re pissing people off by doing this. Whatever research that convinces them that spamming everyone is all upside is bullshit. It is like they’d rather have all my contact info to sell to other campaigns forever than receive my donation. It sucks.

They were SHOCKED when I told them that "probability of getting spammed forever" was at the top of my list when considering whether or not to donate to something. They had never heard of this before. Somehow.

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Sometimes all you can do is use a web based remote terminal to write an Apache virtual host configuration in nano on a host you never had a say in the design and configuration of that just returns a 503 html page that says "fuck off we're closed" and hope things are better in the morning.

This is the other reason I'm never buying a smart fridge. I don't have time to deal with any of this before work (where I will undoubtedly spend all day soothing panicked customers and pointing out bugs in the AI slop patches that have already been rolled out), but I can live without my robot vacuum

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this is basically the current state of things Scam site: Hi, I'm Amazon dot com! Microsoft Edge: Prove it Scam site: 4️⃣ Microsoft Edge: Pleasure doing business with you, Amazon