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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 7h

My daughter: "someone at school called me GPT today, and I took that as a huge insult - because there is nothing artificial about *my* intelligence."

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 15h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 12h

really looking forward to the @aifortherestofus.live conference tomorrow. lining up the karl marx references for Vibe Coding talk. #aifortherestofus

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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 16h

Patiently waiting for software research to move on from EEG and start applying gut-brain axis models of programming

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 15h

I always share black cats

squillace @squillace.bsky.social · 18h

Black cat in shrimp position

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Fábio Andrade @fassminus.bsky.social · 1d

Amo a temporada do caju! ❤️

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 21h

"digital transformation" was kind of this in its purest form.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 21h

Good morning skitches!

Black coffee in a white cup on a wooden table

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Properly love this for you.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

and your best friends'.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

What's a wallet?

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 1d

This is my base scenario for an AI bust.

Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to think that while "LLMs aren't actually that world-changing" is a risk people have at least started paying attention to, "good-enough LLMs are going to be cheap and ubiquitous and those $1B data centers are going to become a liability rather than a moat" is an equally serious problem

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

THEY’RE HERE PETE!

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d

yes

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

This is either clever or crazy or both: a UK company will install, in your home, a miniature data center, about the size of a heat pump, to serve as your home heating.

UK Power Networks helping SHIELD vulnerable customers from Fuel Poverty

Customers struggling with energy bills could soon benefit from low-cost heating, thanks to an award-winning UK Power Networks innovation that re-uses heat from mini data centres.

www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 2d

"A soldier knows what to do when they encounter another soldier. But an air-humping frog?"

@sarahjeong.bsky.social on the shitposting/aura farming era of American politics.

www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine you are an ant. You are close to the ground, have pretty poor eyesight, and can’t see all that far ahead of you. How are you going to find your way back home?

Turns out ants and other insects navigate by a property of light humans can’t even see.

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A close-up image of an ant, eyes prominent, mandibles open and ready for action.

Image credit Egor Kamelev via Pexels, public domain

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Adam @atmylifeoutside.bsky.social · 2d

Pallid Harrier showed superbly this evening over Llanrhidian Marsh in the soft light. Best views yet. At dusk a male Hen Harrier and (I think) a ringtail joined the party, the former briefly tussling with the Pallid. Glossy Ibis in again behind sewage works. #birdingWales #rareBirdsUK #UKWildlife

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 1d

Good morning skitches!

Light roasted filter coffee in a grey and cream cup on a wooden table

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 2d

Tilly Norwood? Oh do fuck off.

Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 2d

The only thing worse than hustle posting on a Sunday is actually reading hustle posts on a Sunday.

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Richard Arugula @monkchips.com · 2d

Good morning skitches!

Light roasted filter coffee in a cream and grey glazed cup on a wooden table

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