Ali from the 'burbs
@grissallia.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Ambigenderous trans misfit. Mood whiplash generator. Three coffees in a trenchcoat. Australian. Parent. AuDHD. Pronouns: any
“Always try to be nice, never fail to be kind.” - the 12th Doctor
“Always try to be nice, never fail to be kind.” - the 12th Doctor
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I've ranted about LLM "AI" elsewhere, and in replies, but to reiterate it in a thread that I can pin now:
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
One of the fundamentals of computer science is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". I learned this as a child, learning to program, over 40 years ago.
You cannot put bad data in, and get good data out.
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Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.
It’s not just land animals you need to worry about in Australia…
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It’s not just land animals you need to worry about in Australia…
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I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):
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What should you do when you write something in which no pun was intended, then you realise it contains a pun, which you wanted have intended, had it occurred to you five seconds earlier, and now it’s Schrödïngër’s Pun?
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
What should you do when you write something in which no pun was intended, then you realise it contains a pun, which you wanted have intended, had it occurred to you five seconds earlier, and now it’s Schrödïngër’s Pun?
Last night my 13yo messaged me to tell me they missed me, and asking if they could show me a YouTube intro video they’d created and edited in Vegas for their 12yo friend’s Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel.
I suggested waiting until I got home today, because the WiFi wasn’t great.
I suggested waiting until I got home today, because the WiFi wasn’t great.
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Last night my 13yo messaged me to tell me they missed me, and asking if they could show me a YouTube intro video they’d created and edited in Vegas for their 12yo friend’s Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube channel.
I suggested waiting until I got home today, because the WiFi wasn’t great.
I suggested waiting until I got home today, because the WiFi wasn’t great.
I have something of an unexpected love/hate relationship with the PS Portal, but this was an unexpected surprise in this month’s PS Plus additions…
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I have something of an unexpected love/hate relationship with the PS Portal, but this was an unexpected surprise in this month’s PS Plus additions…
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nightmare on elf street, when
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nightmare on elf street, when
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
Your honour, in my own defence, he DID tell me “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.”
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Your honour, in my own defence, he DID tell me “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.”
Punctuation makes a difference.
So… this is Christmas?
And what have you done?!?
So… this is Christmas?
And what have you done?!?
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Punctuation makes a difference.
So… this is Christmas?
And what have you done?!?
So… this is Christmas?
And what have you done?!?
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She works as both a psychic and a physical therapist. The medium is the massage.
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
She works as both a psychic and a physical therapist. The medium is the massage.
I’d really like to know what the difference is between the endone at the hospital and the prescription endone from the pharmacy.
The take home pack pills are considerably larger, and also seem to have somewhat less of a kick.
The take home pack pills are considerably larger, and also seem to have somewhat less of a kick.
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’d really like to know what the difference is between the endone at the hospital and the prescription endone from the pharmacy.
The take home pack pills are considerably larger, and also seem to have somewhat less of a kick.
The take home pack pills are considerably larger, and also seem to have somewhat less of a kick.
Could I get the address of this garage please?
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Could I get the address of this garage please?
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A lot of people ask why deepfake sexual abuse is legal—in theory, it’s not. But why perpetrators aren’t often held to account follows the exact same patterns of inaction regarding all forms of sexual abuse
December 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A lot of people ask why deepfake sexual abuse is legal—in theory, it’s not. But why perpetrators aren’t often held to account follows the exact same patterns of inaction regarding all forms of sexual abuse
Slightly awkward moment with the urologist this morning:
Him: "OK, so we're prescribing anti-inflammatories that are suppositories..."
Me: "I'll have to boof them. OK."
The look that crossed his face was indescribable.
Him: "OK, so we're prescribing anti-inflammatories that are suppositories..."
Me: "I'll have to boof them. OK."
The look that crossed his face was indescribable.
December 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Slightly awkward moment with the urologist this morning:
Him: "OK, so we're prescribing anti-inflammatories that are suppositories..."
Me: "I'll have to boof them. OK."
The look that crossed his face was indescribable.
Him: "OK, so we're prescribing anti-inflammatories that are suppositories..."
Me: "I'll have to boof them. OK."
The look that crossed his face was indescribable.
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Project 2025 was 48% implemented yesterday.
Ticked up to 50% today.
Terrible times ahead.
Ticked up to 50% today.
Terrible times ahead.
Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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December 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Project 2025 was 48% implemented yesterday.
Ticked up to 50% today.
Terrible times ahead.
Ticked up to 50% today.
Terrible times ahead.
Feb 17, 2027: A bearded, 82 year old man, stands outside of the TCL Chinese Theatre holding a protest sign.
It's like Disney pulling out their animated films from the Disney Vault. Guess the original Star Wars masters are there too
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Feb 17, 2027: A bearded, 82 year old man, stands outside of the TCL Chinese Theatre holding a protest sign.
Them: “Why are you trans?”
Me:
Me:
… and he SERVED ✨
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Them: “Why are you trans?”
Me:
Me:
Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds, Wocka Wocka.
December 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Now I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds, Wocka Wocka.
These are valid points, but a genuine question (not snarking at the WGA): how exactly is this different to a Skydance acquisition?
These points would be equally as valid there?
I think that merger should also be blocked (but wouldn’t be, because Trump).
I don’t know what the solution is.
These points would be equally as valid there?
I think that merger should also be blocked (but wouldn’t be, because Trump).
I don’t know what the solution is.
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
These are valid points, but a genuine question (not snarking at the WGA): how exactly is this different to a Skydance acquisition?
These points would be equally as valid there?
I think that merger should also be blocked (but wouldn’t be, because Trump).
I don’t know what the solution is.
These points would be equally as valid there?
I think that merger should also be blocked (but wouldn’t be, because Trump).
I don’t know what the solution is.
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Reality show, along the lines of Grand Designs, following the disasters of an amateur developer trying to build a ballroom that defies architectural tradition and good sense.
The East Wing, coming soon.
The East Wing, coming soon.
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Reality show, along the lines of Grand Designs, following the disasters of an amateur developer trying to build a ballroom that defies architectural tradition and good sense.
The East Wing, coming soon.
The East Wing, coming soon.
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Let’s be CRYSTAL CLEAR:
If a man born Chet Williams became Chet Anderson when his stepfather adopted him as a toddler, and Samuel Anderson as a young adult because he didn’t want to be named after the man who abandoned him, his name on that wall would be Samuel Anderson.
There’d be no question.
If a man born Chet Williams became Chet Anderson when his stepfather adopted him as a toddler, and Samuel Anderson as a young adult because he didn’t want to be named after the man who abandoned him, his name on that wall would be Samuel Anderson.
There’d be no question.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Let’s be CRYSTAL CLEAR:
If a man born Chet Williams became Chet Anderson when his stepfather adopted him as a toddler, and Samuel Anderson as a young adult because he didn’t want to be named after the man who abandoned him, his name on that wall would be Samuel Anderson.
There’d be no question.
If a man born Chet Williams became Chet Anderson when his stepfather adopted him as a toddler, and Samuel Anderson as a young adult because he didn’t want to be named after the man who abandoned him, his name on that wall would be Samuel Anderson.
There’d be no question.
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Tao Te Ching: The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
Paul Mockapetris: that's going to make it really hard to issue you a DNS address
is not the eternal Name.
Paul Mockapetris: that's going to make it really hard to issue you a DNS address
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Tao Te Ching: The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
Paul Mockapetris: that's going to make it really hard to issue you a DNS address
is not the eternal Name.
Paul Mockapetris: that's going to make it really hard to issue you a DNS address
I’m home.
It’s so beautiful.
It’s so beautiful.
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m home.
It’s so beautiful.
It’s so beautiful.