J. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴
@enceladosaurus.bsky.social
But in contentment I still feel
The need of some imperishable bliss.
- Tech & AI ethics, programming, #a11y, eSports, and dogs
- Former astrophysicist & linguist, now CTO & software dev
- Cofounded AAS WGAD & created #disabledandSTEM
- they/them
The need of some imperishable bliss.
- Tech & AI ethics, programming, #a11y, eSports, and dogs
- Former astrophysicist & linguist, now CTO & software dev
- Cofounded AAS WGAD & created #disabledandSTEM
- they/them
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"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors.
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
support fill the dishes — My Grandfather's Cat
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"My Grandfather's Cat" is a cross-Canada organization that helps dying seniors find homes for their beloved animals. They also offer a senior's pet food pantry, to help support low income seniors.
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
Please consider donating as a gift for the pet lover in your life.
www.mygrandfatherscat.ca
Absolute BS. Humans are full of ideas, especially when they are safe, fed, and given the time/money to pursue them! This is just an excuse to keep silencing human voices, stifling creativity, and replacing our ideas with exploitative AI slop.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Absolute BS. Humans are full of ideas, especially when they are safe, fed, and given the time/money to pursue them! This is just an excuse to keep silencing human voices, stifling creativity, and replacing our ideas with exploitative AI slop.
Journalists need to also ask what an interviewee means by "AI", as AI does not always mean GenAI...particularly in fields, like game dev, where the term has been used to mean something different. Given the Clair Obscur team has also said generative AI wasn't used, clarification is definitely needed.
I wish more game journalists would ask the Clair Obscur team how much AI they used and on what, because I definitely get the feeling it wasn’t just that one placeholder asset..
December 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Journalists need to also ask what an interviewee means by "AI", as AI does not always mean GenAI...particularly in fields, like game dev, where the term has been used to mean something different. Given the Clair Obscur team has also said generative AI wasn't used, clarification is definitely needed.
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The spectacular fireworks of two eruptive M-class flares from AR 4299 today. First, an M1.1 around 1921 UT followed by an M8.1 around 2039 UT. Both flares were near the center of the Earth-facing disk and eruptive. The M8.1 CME looks the most Earth-directed.
December 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The spectacular fireworks of two eruptive M-class flares from AR 4299 today. First, an M1.1 around 1921 UT followed by an M8.1 around 2039 UT. Both flares were near the center of the Earth-facing disk and eruptive. The M8.1 CME looks the most Earth-directed.
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Hey Philly!
It’s time!! Come to Starbolt in Fishtown/kensington for the last minute market! We’ll be here until 5pm
It’s time!! Come to Starbolt in Fishtown/kensington for the last minute market! We’ll be here until 5pm
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hey Philly!
It’s time!! Come to Starbolt in Fishtown/kensington for the last minute market! We’ll be here until 5pm
It’s time!! Come to Starbolt in Fishtown/kensington for the last minute market! We’ll be here until 5pm
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This quote from Bianca Bosker's "Get The Picture," a behind the scenes look at the art world, is 🎯 🔥
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This quote from Bianca Bosker's "Get The Picture," a behind the scenes look at the art world, is 🎯 🔥
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
November 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM
everyone who works at openAI should be tried as an accomplice
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Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
I used to pride myself on my Google-fu. There wasn't anything I felt I couldn't research or find. And in the last few years, I can't even get decent results for basic searches. There's so much AI bullshit, unrelated results, etc. It's shocking how quickly and severely the quality has worsened.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I used to pride myself on my Google-fu. There wasn't anything I felt I couldn't research or find. And in the last few years, I can't even get decent results for basic searches. There's so much AI bullshit, unrelated results, etc. It's shocking how quickly and severely the quality has worsened.
My grandfather was born in Kharkiv and has shared memories of being nearly killed as a boy by desparate, starving people. He didn't speak often about the Holodomor, but when he did he was always angry that the world seemed ignorant of such a horrific event.
One of the few surviving photographic records of the Holodomor, taken by Alexander Wienerberger in 1933 in Kharkiv.
“A mother with her starving children.”
“A body of someone who died of hunger lying in the street.”
“A bread line at the market.”
“Mass graves near Kharkiv.”
9/9
“A mother with her starving children.”
“A body of someone who died of hunger lying in the street.”
“A bread line at the market.”
“Mass graves near Kharkiv.”
9/9
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My grandfather was born in Kharkiv and has shared memories of being nearly killed as a boy by desparate, starving people. He didn't speak often about the Holodomor, but when he did he was always angry that the world seemed ignorant of such a horrific event.
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Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
1/9
1/9
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
1/9
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This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
Grumbling that people aren't reading enough while mocking someone for getting into reading (and asking genuine questions) is some next level hypocrisy. Gosh, why doesn't everyone know everything already!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Grumbling that people aren't reading enough while mocking someone for getting into reading (and asking genuine questions) is some next level hypocrisy. Gosh, why doesn't everyone know everything already!
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"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
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Don't threaten me with a good time
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Don't threaten me with a good time
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So, like, are our technolords capable of reading to the end of the wikipedia article before they pick a name?
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
So, like, are our technolords capable of reading to the end of the wikipedia article before they pick a name?
Reminds me of when I brought a Title IX complaint vs a fellow, more senior grad student and I won (do you know how rare that is? That means I had a lot of evidence). Then, when I got barely any support and had to withdraw from the program, they offered this student the chance to return.
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Reminds me of when I brought a Title IX complaint vs a fellow, more senior grad student and I won (do you know how rare that is? That means I had a lot of evidence). Then, when I got barely any support and had to withdraw from the program, they offered this student the chance to return.
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“In predicting who votes for or against Trump, racial resentment is one of the most powerful variables out there—more predictive than income, gender, education, geography, or attitudes about economic policy, gender, or religious traditionalism.”
“The kids are alright. The real problem might be older generations projecting their own racial anxieties onto them.”
This is a must-read piece by two of the finest scholars of U.S. politics, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
This is a must-read piece by two of the finest scholars of U.S. politics, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“In predicting who votes for or against Trump, racial resentment is one of the most powerful variables out there—more predictive than income, gender, education, geography, or attitudes about economic policy, gender, or religious traditionalism.”
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When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
When we talk about disability ancestors, we’re not talking about some distant, abstract lineage. We’re talking about people who fought, organized, wrote, dreamed, and survived alongside us. People who left us tools, strategies, jokes, tenderness, and a politic were responsible for carrying forward.
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In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In disability communities, grief isn’t episodic. It’s cumulative. It layers. It reverberates. We lose people who should’ve had decades more time—because the world is engineered to wear us down. And yet, in that same world, disabled people keep building life with one another anyway.