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CBLAPP
@cblapp.bsky.social
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Swiss (Bio-)Statistician, Currently unemployed. Still not quite sure what vibe I should be targeting on this website, but I'll likely be sharing both nerdy professional stuff and funny nerdy things.
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
few realize that as a cultivar of brassica oleracea, a christmas tree is, technically, genetically identical to cabbage
Brassica oleracea (a common wild mustard) Figure 16-9 Discover Biology 3/e Cauliflower Cabbage Brussels sprouts Kale Broccoli Christmas
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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sunyidean.com
Love it 🙌
Things You Can Make ChatGPT Write for You - Hayley DeRoche Your last words But before them What to murmur to a lover in bed What to say in the group chat when someone's Sister mother brother is dead and The apology you could never quite get right for a friend And hell why not make the robot compose your proposal Your wedding toast, too Your best friend's birthday roast You could ask it to write a custom lullaby For the baby snuffling at your breast. You can cradle to grave away Every warm human word You could ever have said And when they chisel your gravestone For your final rest We can ask ChatGPT Because it knew you best
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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nullconvention.bsky.social
If you've ever needed to feed 10,000 fighters for 50 years have I got an article for you.

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/wha...
How to Feed 10,000 Rebel Fighters for 50 Years
Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC, Colombia's disarmed guerrilla group.
www.atlasobscura.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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antlervel.vet
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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statsepi.bsky.social
How do I get people to understand that high quality data collected with intention and analyzed by experts have even more potential to revolutionize health care?
dylanmackayphd.bsky.social Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · 9d
Can't even make jokes anymore because Deloitte did use AI to say that AI is good...

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...
Deloitte wrote that generative artificial intelligence tools have “the potential to revolutionize health care by enabling faster and more accurate diagnoses, more personalized treatment plans, and improved patient outcomes.” It specifically recommended that Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services investigate the use of a “digital human teammate,” or an AI-agent that could interact with hospital patients.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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elmore.zone
"Jobs don't exist anymore" is a phrase I've repeated to myself a lot. No idea what the hell most of you do all day but if someone is paying you to do it, hold on for dear life, because if it goes away it feels like it's probably not coming back. Either that or I'm just particularly unemployable.
antlervel.vet Stella Claus I Guess @antlervel.vet · 10d
“Stella why do you put up with x or y” what would you like me to do man. I was unemployed for 18 of the last 36 months. Jobs don’t exist anymore. We take what we can get now, warts and all.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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retr0.id
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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edgarallanbro.bsky.social
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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rincewind.run
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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jtp.bsky.social
its cool how the internet actually works like this xkcd comic from 2011 now
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
Retrophrenology: It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone's character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone's character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that's the main thing.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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unormal.bsky.social
Imagine if we took all the funding we gave to AI for one year and gave it to someone like dolphin speech experts or primatologists or blacksmiths or something. Like just try it and see what happens
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
the only instance in recorded history of a traffic collision between a car and a u-boat!
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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marawilson.bsky.social
Every time I see a social media meme about being an introvert, which is at least once a week, I think about how the modern conception of introversion was popularized by a book by a woman who worked on Wall Street who felt that she was so different and special compared to her coked up male colleagues
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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grimalkina.bsky.social
Feels like some fields are big on citing only by precedence, but don't realize there's another side which is NOT citing the work that is outdated, misleading, had poor methods in the first place, or otherwise made choices an author considers poorly done. I exercise this judgment constantly
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
This is sounding more and more like the Council of Nicea who meet behind closed doors and poke the chatbot until it says it feels something.

arstechnica.com/information-...
Expert panel will determine AGI arrival in new Microsoft-OpenAI agreement
New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives.
arstechnica.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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foone.bsky.social
neurotypical fuckers are always like "autistic people have trouble following directions" and then hand me a form that asks if I have a history of bike helmet
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
12:01 ÷73 + r/AskAnthropology •• What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that... 11 upvotes • 1 comment As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you. The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is: Little Baby in the dark house You have seen the sun rise Why are you crying? Why are you screaming? You have disturbed the house god. 'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god. 'It is the baby who has disturbed you! 'Who scared me?' says the house god. 'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool. He has disturbed your sleep! 'Call the baby now, says the house god. • 4 Reply A & Vote & Join the conversation
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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lisyarus.bsky.social
"z²+1 is never zero for complex z" at this point it's just trolling, isn't it
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM