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Malcolm F. Cross

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Lazy. Writes. Is known to write fiction. Is almost fictional. Sometimes furry. Homepage: https://sinisbeautiful.com/ Patreon: http://patreon.com/MalcolmFCross Raw live draft for writing/creativity/motivation advice: #HacksawDraft

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · Sep 15

For the sake of promoting my own work, my latest novel, Mouse Cage, and its first pages. More details here: sinisbeautiful.com/mouse-cage/

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 6h

From this day in 2016.
#Halloween

An IKEA instruction sheet for "NOSFERATU" that shows the bald-headed IKEA man telling you you'll need a hammer and a wooden stake for this. The next panel down shows two images. The first has a frowning IKEA man kneeling next to an open coffin while the moon is up. No, IKEA man. Do not do this. The next image is the same, but the sun is up and he's smiling. This is the way, IKEA man. The next panel shows IKEA man struggling to move a coffin on his own. The large black 'X' across this image shows what a terrible idea this is. The adjacent image has the bald-headed IKEA man getting the help of curly-haired IKEA man and moving coffins as a duo is now a doddle. The bottom panel shows a puzzled IKEA man staring into the open coffin while holding the stake and hammer. The last image shows IKEA man being bitten by the swirling figure emerging from the coffin. He's dropped his tools and is looking to curly-haired IKEA man for help, but curly-haired IKEA man has already shit his pants and is giving it legs in a cowardly act of self-preservation. Don't be surprised when bald-headed IKEA man comes tapping at your window in the dead of night, curly-haired IKEA man.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 2h

This is perfection, but the alt-text is icing

Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 6h

From this day in 2016.
#Halloween

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Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath @orderwithchaos.bsky.social · 1d

"We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems,” Welsch added, “but this was not the case.” 🤦🤦🤦

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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

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WobblyPython: 🐍 @wobblypython.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I just realized I didn't actually render this whole clip. Have the very slightly extended director's cut.

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WobblyPython: 🐍 @wobblypython.bsky.social · 4d

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

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Cam @malaiseforever.bsky.social · 4d

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

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🐁 Luka The Mouse - SQUEAKROSS 🧩 @lukathemouse.bsky.social · 4d

Professor Squeako here... If you use gen AI to do tasks for you, what are you doing with your life!!! Say YES to using your brain 🐀🧠

26- Rats against AI!

#rattober #rattober2025

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 6d

Just a little reminder that everything you've ever said to a chatbot is, by design, recorded and saved for future reference.

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chatgpt has E-stroke

YouTube video by Michael Reeves

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 6d

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Alley-Piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 9d

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Packwolf Lupestripe 🔜 Scotiacon, NFC, CFz @lupestripe.bsky.social · 7d

Picked up Skyway on Tuesday and it’s a fun steampunk-inspired read - the perfect escapism from the modern world

Kate Shaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow is my birthday! I'd love it if I sold a few books. Here's a page with links to all my available books, and thank you! www.patreon.com/posts/birthd...

Birthday Books | Kate Shaw

Get more from Kate Shaw on Patreon

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 10d

Hey hey it looks like "Don't Ask If I'm Okay" is in Kindle Unlimited, so if you've been wanting to read it but you're tight on cash (or don't like libraries ;D ) you can read it for free! You don't need a Kindle, you can download the reader app!
Tell your friends.
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Don’t Ask If I’m Okay

Amazon.com: Don’t Ask If I’m Okay eBook : Kara, Jessica: Kindle Store

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Jess Owen @authorjessowen.bsky.social · 7d

A man I did an Instagram collab with on men’s mental health said “Don’t Ask If I’m Okay” was..(and I quote): “please.. take this the right way. It was easy to read in the best possible way.”
High praise, actually, thank you. If you need some catharsis and some hope, check it out 👆👆

Screenshot of a social media post that reads: Writing is like being a ballet dancer. Close up, you see the effort; the dancing on broken toes; the pain; the years of practice. All the audience sees is the dance; a seemingly effortless movement. Books are like that: an “easy read” is the result of tremendous effort and skill.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 8d

From Gaping Void newsletter, an important reminder about behavioral contagion. It's in our DNA!

I dramatically changed my life when I changed my inputs.

Let’s say you’re feeling good. Or bad. Either way, there’s a decent chance that your mood is just a mirror of the mood of the last person you interacted with.

Talk with a cheery customer service rep on the phone, and you start feeling sunny too.

Get stuck on a project with a grumpy coworker, and you start feeling down as well. A controversial 2012 study by Facebook even found that showing people more negative social media led people to post more negative posts themselves – without even realizing it. (The reverse was also true.)

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Jim @jimstewart.bsky.social · 9d

Someone designed this.

Then someone approved it for production.

Then someone printed it.

Then someone bought it and attached it to their car.

Decal on the back of a van or truck window that shows a heart and a bone with words that read, "I my dog".

Does the owner love the dog or does the owner bone the dog?

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 9d

... There's scams that start like this, because the scam is designed to look like fanmail, yes.

The writing is a LOT, if legit fanmail. Which can happen, too - people can be very... overwhelmed when trying to reach out to creators they admire, and that has them saying things they didn't intend.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 12d

Who had lead and cadmium poisoning in their options...?

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years

Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

It strikes me that in reality, the product these people are selling is 'how to use an analogue notebook'.

It is training in how to use paper.

... The removal of this sort of skillset from public schooling has clearly opened up a market gap.

Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

Anyway that was a rant-thread, wasn't it?

Here's the AI I made from research code. sinisbeautiful.com/artwork-dopp...

Artwork: Doppelganger

Doppelganger Malcolm F. Cross Materials and composition Signed by artist on interior in silver sharpie. Recursive neural network encased in monolith-style enclosure, with interface terminal display…

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

And you'll burn magnitudes more processing power than if you'd just... fucking... used a calculator.

Because neural networks are a powerful tool. But they are not a tool suited to any of the purposes AI evangelists think, and the tools that would be suitable take good computer science to achieve.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

Trouble is. Trouble always will be.

A neural network confirming that an answer is correct will always be limited to its training database. If you're trying to take a number and square it, unless it's been trained on every possible combination... put in 3, you'll get 25.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

(If you look at GenAI image generators, some of them, you can get snapshots of the process - images go from blurry noise to something that looks like something. This is the accuracy-measurer sort of running backwards. 'The blur is not accurate! What would be accurate-r? This! Repeat...')

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

One of the reasons the current crop of genAI was so revolutionary is that it plugged in an 'answer-generator' to a 'answer-accuracy-measurer', using complex math, to run both kinda... backwards and forwards simultaneously, so each iteration would make the answer look more accurate.

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Malcolm F. Cross @foozzzball.bsky.social · 14d

That is the near-universal issue with neural network based computation. If you don't know what the answer looks like, if you cannot independently measure the accuracy of the answer, the system will spit out useless garbage in a quantity large enough you will never be able to find the answer.

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