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Lana Sinapayen

@sinalana.bsky.social

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京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/ Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology. talking dog insta @iikocookie

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · Feb 20

“Good science ends when you become more attached to your solution
than to the problem.”
Me - 2018

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 52m

The screenshot dunking is so unnecessary in this instance. People told her why it's wrong and she understood. She's not a computer scientist, she's not a petulant young whipper snapper trying to be unethical on purpose. Sending the hounds on her like that is ghoulish.

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 59m

If a quarter of the people shoving their phones in the face of people being dragged by the state would do so much as extend a hand, no one would be arrested. Videos have made people impotent. They're 50 phones against 3 goons thinking they're doing something. No one needs 50 angles of a kidnapping.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1h

Please implement "remove follower" function. Blocking people do not remove the follow!

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 9h

That's what the caption says. I'm still dumbfounded!

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産経ニュース @sankei.com · 13h

【絶叫大会】「コメの値段が高い。変わらないのは旦那の給料」。

大分県産の高級牛肉を食べた後、思いの丈を叫ぶ「由布院牛喰い絶叫大会」が13日、同県由布市の牧場で開かれた。県内外から参加した70人が、日頃の不満や切実な思いを大声で訴え400人近い聴衆を沸かせた。

🔽記事を読む
www.sankei.com/article/2025...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

Racism, famously absent on bluesky. Wtf. And victim blaming on top.

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 11h

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 11h

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 1d

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 4d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone I know falling for it.
Including me...

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

98% of AI bros shaping society right now have no pride for their work at all, and I'm sorry to say I believe that's why they expect everyone else to also not give a fuck

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 6d

I like Bsky more than any social platform I’ve used, but my goodness it has big “I knew them before they were cool” energy.

You mention something bad: “are you surprised?” You mention something good: “I knew about that WAY before you.” This is an exhausting, anti-social way to interact, you guys.

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing too soon can disrupt how the brain’s visual circuits form. Premature vision in ferrets led to abnormal motion processing, offering clues to vision problems in preterm infants.

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 2d

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
Sharing a handful of my 🐙 sculptures with vibrant glowing features ✨ ⭐

🐙 All are hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨🌟

#ArtYear #Art #Artist #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #Astronomy #MarineLife #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A coconut octopus sculpture with bright blue glow in the dark suckers.

A pink and yellow Nebula themed octopus with vibrantly glowing white stars.

A green octopus sculpture with a white pattern that glows in the dark.

A royal blue octopus sculpture with vibrant white glowing stars.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting how the western discourse on Japan went

"The Japanese are so *civilized*, they mask when they're sick to avoid making others sick, we should be more like that"
Pandemic: Here's your chance
"TYRANNY!!!" *never praises Japanese masking again*

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Samuel W. Remedios @sremedios.bsky.social · 2d

This website is super cool. rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=c...

RuleHunt

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 2d

I'm in Kyoto tonight for Mononoke Ichi and the KaiKai Yokai Festival, but that doesn't mean there's no A-Yokai-A-Day today!

Check it out here:

www.patreon.com/posts/140884...

A-Yokai-A-Day: The Yamabushi of Takurayama | Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy)

www.patreon.com

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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 2d

Swipe up to try a new variant on Conway's Game of Life. And another. And another. This is how artificial-life researchers spread the joy after the #ALIFE2025 conference! They say it's like TikTok, but I wouldn't know.... ⚙️🧫 rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7... #cellularautomata #gameoflife

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 2d

It's addictive, like an ALife gacha...

Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.bsky.social · 3d

A tiktok for cellular automata rules!
This project was developed during the #ALife2025 hackathon (can you believe how fast people make things?) and won the hackathon prize!

rulehunt.org?rulesetHex=7...

RuleHunt

rulehunt.org

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 3d

Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

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