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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 1d

I had a Chomsky phase. The tattoos are wild.

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Szymon Bęczkowski @owiecc.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 1d

My favourite podcasts @TheWarOnCars and Volts by @volts.wtf made a crossover episode. Both podcasts handle the biggest issues I see in the world currently.

The War on Cars https://thewaroncars.org is about our over-reliance on personal cars.

Volts https://www.volts.wtf is all about energy. How […]

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much.

Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, stay in school, it's cold out there.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 19

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 17d

If, in the brief time it is fulfilling a model search, the LLM is conscious, and at the end of the search the consciousness is extinguished, our every web search is an instance of mass murder.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17d

I really don’t understand this decision from the Sora team. Why prioritize AI slop videos from my friends? It isn’t videos about them or their lives, why should I care about my high school friend’s deepfaked video of drinking a beer with Tupac & JFK over that of an influencer?

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 18d

The province is supporting a high-density student housing build for the University of Victoria, which aims to alleviate affordability and availability challenges for students that often lead to long commutes and less time spent on campus.

510 beds planned for UVic with $178M high-density student housing build

The province is supporting a high-density student housing build for the University of Victoria, which aims to alleviate affordability and availability challenges for students that often lead to long commutes and less time spent on campus.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 18d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 18d

“Good news, kids! Mommy and Daddy are getting a divorce,”

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 19d

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · 22d

Clearly, you get to be Secretary of War. There can be only one.

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Elizabeth Garrett Christensen @sqlliz.bsky.social · Sep 17

@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us!

www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...

PostGIS Day | November 20

Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.

www.snowflake.com

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 9

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University of Victoria @uvic.ca · Sep 9

UVic receives $5M investment from the Mastercard Foundation to strengthen education initiatives for indigenous youth.

🔗 Learn more about this investment: news.uvic.ca/media-releas...

UVic welcomes $5M boost to scale Indigenous priorities and reconciliation - UVic News

UVic is recognized for its national leadership in advancing education for Indigenous young people with a $5-million investment from the Mastercard Foundation.

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Was that an earthquake?

Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 8

1/3 of road space for cars, 1/3 for transit, 1/3 for active modes! Balance!

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 7

You are the worst person in the world.

Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad FOSS4G news, Darrell Fuhriman, who organized the 2014 event in Portland, and has been a giving and supportive open source person forever, is in a bad way. If you can help in any way, please do.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-darre...

Donate to Support Darrell’s Care: Help Hire a Home Caregiver, organized by Lacey Fuhriman Hughes

In July of 2024, my big brother and best friend, Darrell, was… Lacey Fuhriman Hughes needs your support for Support Darrell’s Care: Help Hire a Home Caregiver

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Paul Ramsey @pwramsey.bsky.social · Sep 1

#freedom !!!

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Natalia Barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bike math is paying virtually nothing and getting a lot in return.

Car math is selling your soul to waste your life in traffic and inhale kilograms of particulate matter.