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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 15h

human bodies ooze too much

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 2d

”Rebreak story, CGIs locked.”
“Incoming strings 2x budget.”
“Pri1 bug, inconsistent repro.”
“Why don’t we just…”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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christina 死神 @chhopsky.tv · 23d

In space, death is contagious. When we die, the Scarabs decontaminate our ships and lay us to rest.

But when Dalia gets cleanup request from her childhood home, she finds something she’s never seen before: a contamination that doesn’t want to be cleaned.

This is Ambrosia Sky.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 7d

I've never had any luck defeating my self-doubt. That asshole never shuts up.

So instead I try to see it as an encouragement. If I'm 'never going to be good enough', if I'm 'going to fail anyways', why put it off? I can just do it now. More often than not, I surprise myself.

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Larry Nemecek — Dr. Trek! @larrynemecek.bsky.social · 16d

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 17d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Kayla 💛 @kobcritic.bsky.social · 18d

the sacred text 😔

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 17d

Mmm, a nerds rope!

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 21d

Time to take critical emotional damage!

A computer screen showing the title for Expedition 33

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 25d

'I'd just buy it/pay someone else' that's why I specified mindset! It's not just about having the thing, it's about deciding to make something, learning how to do it, and putting forward the effort and time to do it yourself, for the joy of doing it. That's what they're missing.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 25d

I'd bet money on the hunch that a lot of them would be more content if they were able to get into the mindset of wanting to crochet a scarf, or bake cookies from scratch, or make those wooden diorama kits you can buy online, or anything that isn't the pursuit of 'number/line go up'.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 25d

Like I genuinely think a lot of people are deeply unhappy because most of their lives revolve around heavily-abstracted actions that are separated too much from tangible results, and this is why finance bros and their cousins, tech bros, are so fundamentally empty.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · 25d

My totally unsolicited and unsupported-by-evidence belief is that a lot of people have so wholly divorced themselves from the experience of 'making something real and tangible with your own two hands (or appendages of choice)' that it's actually toxic to their minds.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 13

How does he do this

A tuxedo cat sprawls on his back on a grey couch. His back feet are braced on the couch back cushion, while his front paws flop aimlessly.

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𝖘𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖙 𝖛𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 @stvulture.bsky.social · May 22

Discover the secrets of alchemical processes, the hidden secrets of world and even deeper secrets hidden within us…

All Living Things has a steampage, wishlist to be notified for the upcoming early demo!

store.steampowered.com/app/3681340

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 10

It is my great joy to have already imagined this, and I hope everyone will love my giant dripped out murder robot children as much as I do ☺️

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 10

and we let them bet on cards!!!

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 10

Closing in on a week since I was supposed to get internet installed at the new place, with no eta on when they’ll be able to come out. I’ll just keep calling every day I guess!

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · Sep 9

WRITING IS FUN AND COOL

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 9

god I love writing lore and seeing it in the wild and knowing it is a real thing I wrote that exists now

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is exactly the right way to think of this; precisely what I'm saying, yes

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · Sep 9

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 9

a woman in a floral shirt is laughing with the fox logo in the background

Alt: Kitty Forman laughing wildly

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Skelesse 💀✿ @celesse.bsky.social · Sep 8

I found this pecking chicken paddle toy at the antique mall today and my life is filled with joy 🐓💕

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh, I feel this so so much. I’m sorry. I wish doctors were better at considering those of us who are edge cases. So much misery could be prevented by thorough investigation.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s kind of funny that AI is better at performing the appearance of an action than the actual action. I suppose in that sense it’s totally the right tool for the tools who think that’s a complete substitute for learning a skill.

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Lynne @overquailified.bsky.social · Sep 7

@arden.rip had a great section in our PAX panel about this—how talking about making a creative project is way easier than actually making it, while giving your brain that hit of dopamine.

Sargoth (antediluvian atavism) @longersky.com · Sep 7

The famous sociologist slash rhetorical scholar Kenneth Burke once posited that self-help book fill a function by making you feel like you are doing the thing, without necessarily leading to you actually doing the thing. I sense that this notion, formulated in the 60s, might be relevant again

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Sep 7

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

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