Robin LeBlanc, from work

Robin LeBlanc, from work

@robinfromwork.bsky.social

Perpetually tired award winning writer. Queer. Disabled. Always asks for the aux. Horror, humour, craft beer, fragrance and photography. America's sweetheart 1984-1992. She/Her

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Oh, uh, hello new followers! I don't quite have anything to plug right now, but I'm a writer and film photographer and I mostly talk about music, craft beer, culture, queer stuff, disability stuff, and other such things, sometimes with a PR person lens. Also I have a cat named Leopold. He's cool.

Robin LeBlanc, from work reposted

Man, I'm salty. Kickstarter "help" scammers stopped using AI and began an email convo with an actual legit question an actual legit potential backer would ask. That sucks. Help combat this suck by being a real one! Back this all-trans Kickstarter (if able) and share (which you are able)!

kickstarter.comChasing Cars: A NovelA coming-of-age novel, based on the author's experiences, about an autistic pregnant trans teen boy in the Canadian foster care system.

So this weekend I put together a NAS and got my media server up and running, adding Jellyfin for my own personal Netflix and Navindrome/Symfonium for my own music streaming app. I still need to go through updating the metadata of over 26 years of audio downloads and rips, but what a cool project

I will say, the biggest surprise if this project is how easy it was. One could set up a similar thing with an old laptop and a cheap external drive. All the programs are free and have massive communities behind them willing to help

Robin LeBlanc, from work reposted

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/

Yeah. I think the important thing to remember is a lot of the hacking we know of in movies is really more of calling someone stupid enough to be fooled by a person claiming to be a Password Inspector. In this case, it's an AI assistant.

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social

people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

With Bioware being shut down, I'm downloading the first Mass Effect. With its flaws (god damned Mako), this was probably the first console game that really clicked with me. Hell, it even made me cry. Also that perfect soundtrack!

I'm sorry, but I don't think github and tech subreddits being flooded with vibe coded programs that won't work outside of the uploader's computer is living "near the digital frontier." It feels more like drinking sewage water and dying of dysentery before even heading out to the frontier.

The Verge@theverge.com

Bill Gates thinks we need to prepare for roughly two decades of AI disruption, and he says this period could be so painful it might split society in two — between people comfortable living near the technological frontier, and those who reject it. Read, watch, or listen: buff.ly/5e6qf4M

Provided the afterlife even exists, my dude not only will it be irrelevant because you'll both be naked in flames while being force fed demon shit, I don't think the founding fathers are going to talk to you without using a lot of slurs

I feel like this is the tenth time in the last few years where the tech industry tries to soft launch the return of phrenology

CNN@cnn.com

Researchers at Mass General Brigham in Boston have developed artificial intelligence models that they say can predict a cancer patient's biological age and chances of survival using nothing more than a single photograph of their face. https://cnn.it/4i5ERBv

Robin LeBlanc, from work reposted

CHASING CARS features a vulnerable, authentic voice, a friendship to rival any romance, and epistolary elements that explore what the protagonist struggles to say out loud. It is at turns both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Back this Kickstarter with an all trans team now!

kickstarter.comChasing Cars: A NovelA coming-of-age novel, based on the author's experiences, about an autistic pregnant trans teen boy in the Canadian foster care system.

I'm sorry, did YOU have a very weird sex scene with Emma Stone? Because this man did

Lucy@lucyxiv.boontavista.com

I feel so out of touch with my fellow woman. nathan fielder is not fuckable. that guy is not hitting it crazy style

If the higher powers that can actually enact global change have explicitly said they don't care about the environment and we're getting more data centers, can we at least bring plastic straws back? I feel we're owed at least one thing

I don't know what beautiful sicko at Warner Brothers decided to put money into making billboards for Ken Russel's THE DEVILS and to have them put up mostly in Texas, but I'm here for this revival of 1970s exploitation marketing

oh my god the tech industry keeps trying to remake Second Life

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS HE BELIEVES MOST PEOPLE IN GERMANY WILL MOSTLY WORK INSIDE A DIGITAL TWIN OF THEIR COMPANY, BUILDING DIGITAL CARS WITH DIGITAL BRAINS, WITH AI ROBOTS BUILDING ROBOTIC CARS INSIDE ROBOTIC FACTORIES

Graphic Designer for this lady's production company. She was a famous fishing personality? Worst boss ever. I quit after a week and she wouldn't pay me the rate I did and instead how long she thinks it should have been. Anyways, her house burned down and I felt pretty good about that.

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Okay. The thinkcenter arrived and the NAS has been purchased. The drive... is arriving on Wednesday. In the meantime, I have remote access to the thinkcenter set up on my laptop and some of the programs I'll be using downloaded.

I am not happy with the Crossed movie coming out. Back in the day I was a mod for Avatar Press' Whitechapel forum, which was being shared with Crossed fans. They were the most toxic fans. Just so many rape jokes.

Remember, folks. Barbera Thornhill won't see your jokes about her, but your friends who survived having their faces eaten by Hannibal Lecter will.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

She's simply going to hide in the corner of the human traffickers' rooms in the dark. Babadook situation, 90% fatality rate.

Jesus fuck, it is THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER. I should be snuggled up in a cozy fleece sweater drinking pumpkin spice lattes while watching the trees change colours and instead I'm sweating my ass off while wearing shorts and turning the AC on full blast.

Metallica, the band who wrote "Disposable Heroes," which focuses on the military-industrial complex manipulating young soldiers into the meat grinder and "Leper Messiah" about religious leaders who exploit their followers' faith for money and power... Want you to know they aren't political.

Maj@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app

"You should come to a show to avoid politics & not push political agendas!" Usually when this gets said? The person turns out to be an undercover red hat...you'd kinda have to be to make St Anger. share.google/m43xIJqrPPw5...

Yeah, this. I didn't realize just how much twitter was eating at my soul until I finally left it and felt the weight lift. I honestly don't understand people who are still on it.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social

I left X almost exactly two years ago because of the violent, celebrated rape culture that was dominating the platform. Two years later, I’m undeniably better off, and the culture around sexual violence at large is arguably worse. I believe X has played a serious role in that.