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Uguubee (Matt)

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chronically ill philosopher interested in Metaphysics, Phil Sci, Socialism +more, Guitarist & Anime aficionado in Perth, Australia https://uwa.academia.edu/MattDCruze https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Overtures https://rateyourmusic.com/~Uguubee

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Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

If you're an anime/manga/gaming fan that likes; discussing your interpretations of new shows you've watched at essay-length, reading academic essays about 'em, deep-diving their history, or academic nerd discourse on this stuff in general, join my new Discord! #anibsky #anime discord.gg/yXbKqKYX

Join the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion Discord Server!

Check out the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 5d

Welcome to Bluesky, new users! I'm Jon, Bluesky's third most famous squirrel trainer. I have trained over five squirrels. Everyone here knows me and I'm very cool

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year

Homer crawling through the Supplicant door

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ash Fenix @ashfenix.bsky.social · 14d

🐸☕

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 14d

A planet of adventure - A DINOSAUR PLANET.

The attract screen from the prototype build of what was already evolving into Star Fox Adventures, though it was intended to be an original project until it caught the attention of Shigeru Miyamoto, who requested it become part of the Star Fox 'verse.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 15d

"A friend of mine told me try America Online."

Something I actually have only periphery memories of from the time, mostly from ads and seeing their CDs, as my access was direct to the web and not via curated portals like AOL.

💿: Boot Disc 6, 1997.

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16d

Long COVID is here to stay, even in children, and worsened by reinfections and ongoing transmission. Governments and health systems must prioritise research, care access, and protection for kids—otherwise, the long-term social and economic costs will keep rising.

#LongCOVID

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 16d

Sure I'd love to be able to join the Facebook group, feel free to send me the link, no obligation to join my Discord ofc if you're busy or it's not your preferred way of discussing! Really looking for more people who are interested in building a community there since FB isn't so good for this stuff

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Jun 11

At (Microsoft) Home with 90s multimedia CDROM education

The cover of the Dangerous Creatures multimedia CDROM, sporting a leafy jungle with bears, big cats, reptiles, and other life.

Ancient Lands - Explore the Mysterious Worlds of the Lost, with an illustrated scene of Egyptian antiquity

Microsoft Oceans' watery oceanic cover with a large brownish octopus on the ftont

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 16d

So the site owner is an accelerationist cultist. It’s not a surprise. But why do *all* these Silicon Valley types seem to have a similar lack of self-awareness, empathy, ethics and basic intelligence? And why do they think this is something to advertise?

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17d

dec/acc

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16d

“Why don’t you just verify your ID? Just send them your passport/face scan/credit card, what could go wrong? It’s perfectly safe you’re just paranoid” etc etc etc

The Verge @theverge.com · 17d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 16d

10/10 better plot-twist than code geass if this ends up being true. I guess the 'we can only win if we find the joe rogan of the left' thing was all a cover-up for the real plan

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 17d

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 17d

Latest papers: Emily A. Willoughby, Alan Love, Matt McGue, Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis & James J. Lee study genetic and environmental influences on agentic belief in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 17d

Slam Dunk for the Sega Saturn is a third person shooter

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 17d

is this good

LLMs, he argues, already are at the scaling limits. “We don’t know exactly when LLMs might hit diminishing returns hard, because we don’t have a measure of the statistical complexity of language. To find out whether we have hit a wall we have to watch the LLM developers. If they release a model that cost 10x more, likely using 20x more compute than the previous one, and it’s not much better than what’s out there, then we’ve hit a wall,” he says.

And that’s what has happened: ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million, ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million and ChatGPT-5, costing $5 billion, was delayed and when released wasn’t noticeably better than the last version. It’s also easy for competitors to catch up.

“So, in summary; you can’t create an app with commercial value as it is either generic (games etc), which won’t sell, or it is regurgitated public domain (homework), or it is subject to copyright. It’s hard to advertise effectively, LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy. There’s no moat on a model, so there’s little pricing power. And the people who use LLMs the most are using them to access compute that costs the developer more to provide than their monthly subscriptions,” he says.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23d

Indeed.

LLMs are LLMs.

Machine learning is machine learning.

AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.

Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24d

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.

It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.

If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17d

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 16d

this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.

Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 16d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3

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Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

This Discord's brand new, and I don't have too many connections in the fields of anime studies or game studies (my own background being in academic philosophy) - but there doesn't seem to be a space like this out there online, and so I'd really like to help build that!

Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

While this Discord aims to provide a place for undergraduates, graduates and academics in Anime/Manga/Games studies to discuss with each other, it's not exclusive to university students or academics and is open to anybody with an interest in reading or talking about this stuff on an academic level

Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

Join the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion Discord Server!

Check out the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Mikhail Koulikov @animemangastudies.com · Aug 25

"I'm looking for that book, the one with Howl's Moving Castle on the cover!"

...not helpful.

because, your pick!

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Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

As a academic philosophy TA myself it can be really difficult to find spaces to discuss academic work, especially within anime-fandom circles these days! A lot of academia centres around in-person communication, so it can be really hard for people to find others online I think

Uguubee (Matt) @daiconian.bsky.social · 17d

@animemangastudies.com since you're really into promoting anime studies, would you be interested in joining a Discord I'm making cantered around Anime, Manga and Video Game academia? I'd love to make a space online for academics/students to discuss, or even do reading groups

discord.gg/yXbKqKYX

Join the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion Discord Server!

Check out the Academic Anime, Manga and Video Game Research & Discussion community on Discord - hang out with 3 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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