Rich Seviora

Rich Seviora

@richs.bsky.social

bears, bears, beards and tech

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I used to be one of those dorks that was “oh you shouldn’t block you should talk to people and hear them with an open mind” lol no I was so wrong block with speed and abandon yall

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

apparently “meh because” was not a compelling reason for another election a week after a municipal election like I am reasonably politically aware and I had zero idea what the campaign was about or what they were offering

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social

One Chart That Explains The 2026 B.C. Election

lol I love the DSA because it has such ridiculous people making decisions

Peter Sterne@petersterne.com

The hardliners proposed a resolution demanding Raman meet with DSA-LA on Oct. 31 to discuss BDS. The pragmatists proposed a resolution that instead gave her until Nov. 30 to meet. But both resolutions passed, so now Raman has to meet with DSA-LA both on Oct. 31 and by Nov. 30.

Spectrum from anything regulatory implicated: fuck yes data models and workflow: yes, absolutely To HTML and CSS: never again shall I look at this voluntarily

hailey@hailey.at

new poll: do you still even look at the code?

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what makes claudish different from human text? we're getting real psycholinguistic research! idea is that models are optimizing for information density rather than human understanding. consequences flow from that. i think i buy it. arxiv.org/abs/2610.29162

arxiv.orgWhy is AI-generated language so hard to understand?There is a widespread sense that AI-generated text has recently become harder to understand. In this study, we investigate a set of psycholinguistic features that are known to correlate with human pro...
Thomas Hikaru Clark@thomashikaru.bsky.social

If you've noticed a distinct dialect emerging in frontier AI models and struggled to understand what they're talking about, you're not crazy! We turned to psycholinguistics to investigate what makes the writing style so weird, and why this might be happening 🚨New preprint! 🧵

I think it’s proof that calling an election with two years left in your mandate without a clear reason or clear narrative to sell voters on or a clear villain is stupid

Lindsay Brown@lidsville.bsky.social

Eby lost this election through multiple egregious mistakes, arrogance & lack of political skill. But we also need to see his catastrophic loss as proof of what happens when "progressives" swing to the right. Eby is not the first centrist to be taught this lesson. Can the NDP learn? #bcpoli

Me => MP Peter Julian => Obama addressing the House of Commons in 2016

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

To flip some discourse script for a bit: what’s y’all’s Obama number (ie degrees of separation with the former president)? Mine is 3

does she go to a new high school and become the popular new girl

The A.V. Club@avclub.com

Mike Flanagan's Prime Video reboot of Carrie will return for a second season after the cliffhanger ending and major book changes in the eight-episode first season. tinyurl.com/msf8m3f5

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My unpopular but persistent belief is that almost everything in our lives has gotten better and we’re weirdly incapable of seeing it.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

their CEO hired his sons on, one of them as a “founder” in 2015. Which is a neat trick since the company was founded in 2008 so I’m just saying that maybe these dudes aren’t on the up and up

This is an absolutely astounding press release from eMudhra. No apology, a suggestion that the researcher who found their private keys must have used AI, and an attempt to shift blame to auditors... wow. emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca

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web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

Molly White@molly.wiki

“The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. ... ‘That is extremely in the ‘this should not be possible’ category,’ Valdorda said.”

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snapewhat

Isabel Cooper@isabelcooper.bsky.social

Same. The creators and the majority of people who have played the game think it’s fine. Some people are going all Comic Book Guy about the architecture or math or rules; some are going all Snapewives because the interpretation of a character…

theres no quantification of these alleged harms at all just a complaint that theres not enough equity in their planning this is like Rob Schneider giving Meryl Streep acting tips

the moment I saw the name “Rhein” I was 100% confident it was his own choice and that he was a goddamn Nazi

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

If you choose to change your name from "Ryan" to "Rhein," you might be a literal Nazi