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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · 8h

Yeahhhh

aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · 9h

So please, if you can, visit our campaign page and read about our cause, donate if you can, pass the link if you can, and come watch us play games!

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · 9h

To raise money we're joining in a yearly effort to complete at least 24 hours of video games over Friday 17th, Saturday 18th, and Sunday 19th October - streaming them at www.twitch.tv/cheesethieves

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · 9h

Every year a few of us get together to raise money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, in a few days we'll be doing it again for 2025. Please check out our campaign page at justgiving.com/page/teamche... and donate if you can - it's an incredible charity that touches a lot of people's lives.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jun 1

beautiful

Sky ✨🌙✨ @sky-writes.bsky.social · Oct 10

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A figurine of a mouse playing a trumpet, in a museum. The card reads

Bronze figure of a rat playing a trumpet
Roman, 1st-2nd century AD

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🦇Scythe Brand🦇 @tartanllama.xyz · May 31

At the top: the caption "become a master of ai tools" with a disgusted face. At the bottom: "disappear for 1 month" with a face that's considering it

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Fighting Fantasist @coopgames.bsky.social · May 9

Gary Chalk #oldhammer

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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · May 6

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · May 3

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yesssss

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Apr 12

Good luck with the session!

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Apr 7

Nice, and that’s okay to go into blind? Looks like it might be hard to find / buy?

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Apr 6

This joke led to me reading a bunch of wiki pages about the IDW plot lines, and I am now totally mind blown about how little I apparently know about the transformers (my childhood passion) now. I didn’t realise it was a “reboot” and now I need to learn more.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · Apr 2

I need you all to know that the Croc remaster that came out today has an extensive feature that teaches you how to crochet your own Croc plushie.

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · Apr 2

RANDOM TARIFF ENCOUNTER TABLE (D8)
1 - 25%
2 - 34%
3 - 10% (but you must buy our chickens)
4 - 49% lovely people but they've been ripping us off
5 - 20% and 2d4 ogres
6 - 31%, roll again on treasure table C
7 - 25% (28% for elves)
8 - Roll again combine both results

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oooOOOooorbette @orbette.bsky.social · Mar 14

Let me just shock you, I love art

Claudia Friedlander @voiceteachernyc.bsky.social · Mar 14

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · Mar 14

I love "Roomba discovers that their entire kingdom is but a fraction of the world" stories but I hope Roomba doesn't resent us too much when the robopocalypse comes

A screenshot of a Reddit post from r/mildlyinfuriating that says the following:

Roomba accidentally saw outside and now I can't delete "room 1" and "room 4"
The roomba automatically updates the map everytime it cleans. Normally I leave the door to the backyard closed. But today I forgot. As it was cleaning near the gate (vertical red line at the edge of room 10 & 11) it saw the backyard. The app has no way to delete a room. Very mildly infuriating indeed

The accompanying image is a floorplan of a house, with a bunch of rooms labelled as room 3, room 4, and so on. On the left-hand side of the floor plan are two new, irregularly-shaped rooms called Room 1 and Room 4, which are separated from the house by a red dotted line that represents the gate.

It is easy to imagine that these new rooms are Roomba's interpretations of The Outside as new places to explore and clean, as they follow Roomba's lines of sight in big diagonal stripes.

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Mar 11

Today I found myself at a bit of a loose end and wrote for the first time in what seems like forever. I wrote some of the questions I ask myself about AI, learning, and testing. Have a read: aah.run/testingandai...

Ramblings on Testing and the Advances of AI Systems

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Mar 11

Today I found myself at a bit of a loose end and wrote for the first time in what seems like forever. I wrote some of the questions I ask myself about AI, learning, and testing. Have a read: aah.run/testingandai...

Ramblings on Testing and the Advances of AI Systems

aah.run

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Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · Mar 5

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · Mar 6

Monkey Island 2 remains one of the most beautiful games ever created.

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aahrun @aahrun.bsky.social · Mar 4

Also reading the hobbit with a five year old at the moment, and I do find myself paraphrasing more than I expected. It’s wonderful though.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · Mar 2

My favourite episode is the one where Poirot gets a shoulder-mounted cannon.

A promotional still of David Suchet as Agatha Christie's Poirot, with (I think) an anti-aircraft gun peeking over his shoulder.

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actioncookBOOk @actioncookbook.com · Feb 13

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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McNeely 🐀 Rat Verified @mcneely.online · Feb 11

I can assure you that while this thread seems unbelievable to you, it is something that every senior engineer has sat thru at least twice. Once when they were the incredulous junior who "doesn't understand why it needs to be so complex", and once as a senior eng explaining, why in fact, it does.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Feb 9

Then some 25yo likely neo-Nazi former Palantir intern who couldn't code his way out of wet paper bag goes back to Musk and tells him "Boss, this system is fucking crazy. They don't even deduplicate SSNs. We need to do a total rewrite"

And Musk immediately tweets it out. Just like he did at Twitter.

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