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Jean-Paul BOO-artre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 4h

lmao even the big AI boosters at work are like "this is going to free you up to do so much more work. now yes you are going to have to spend all that time correcting all the stuff it gets wrong" like oh okay exactly what i wanted, more work

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! Wonderful!

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2d

Does anyone know where I can pirate the Canadian show "The Newsroom"? Not the Sorkin one. This one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New...

The Newsroom (Canadian TV series) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 2d

Being able to draw different notches on a ruler isn't really the issue, though, since vectors and forms do pair up canonically (non-linearly) in one dimension. Notches on a ruler only define a form when both the orientation of the ruler and of the planes considered perpendicular to it are fixed.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 6d

moderation is hard, but i’m much more sympathetic when moderators err (i think) in the direction of being overly permissive than when they err (i think) by banning someone.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not only have I never seen Star Wars, I've also never heard of it.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 8d

Damn, the cropping is misleading here. I'd prefer that quoting a quote post would show the quoted quote as well.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 8d

bsky.app/profile/haya...

Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 8d

dumb assholes like this are why the world sucks shit

Fortune @fortune.com · 8d

“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 8d

I turned my thread on Ai from earlier this eevning into a blogpost. jwmason.org/slackwire/ac...

Actual Intelligence – J. W. Mason

jwmason.org

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 9d

I wish it weren't so. I hope Bluesky gets bigger. I wish Elon hadn't ruined Twitter, yet nothing has recreated what it was and perhaps nothing will. The world wants TikTok slop. The short text form is moribund. It was a fluke that it ever got big in the first place, but it only did so at Twitter.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 9d

This part of the audience is annoying, and increasingly a problem, but it remains the case that there is a much larger joke-receptive audience there than I find here.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 9d

The audience for my jokes remains much larger there than here.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 9d

Twitter in 2025.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

The essence of being a normie liberal with Trump Derangement Syndrome is being dismissed as unserious by people like me for being correct too quickly.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 9d

I'm bad with names. In my head, I refer to everyone by a unique numeric ID. That unique numeric ID is 27844.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

Not that it's done much good anyway. No one in power cares about atrocities regardless.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think you can put the genie back in the bottle, but one consequence of the rise of generative AI will be that, as people come to realize that video can no longer be trusted as proof, we will lose the ability to document atrocities in an indisputable manner.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall is survived by one son. Paternity testing has revealed he shares 98% of his DNA with a chimpanzee.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

I understand pushing back against, say, someone who feels Boolean algebra is the be-all, end-all and no one should ever consider Heyting algebra. That would be misguided of them. I don't think one makes strong headway in this pushback by suggesting it is a matter of communism vs. anti-communism.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

It makes me think of Lysenko calling genetics bourgeois. (Though it's not quite as bad as all that, because it's not like Heyting algebra is wrong and Boolean algebra is correct or vice versa.They are just different things one can think about. There are even other things one can think about too.)

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

To call Boolean algebra bourgeois is as silly as calling abelian group theory bourgeois. It's a thing one can think about, that imposes a further familiar axiom on top of another more general thing one can also fruitfully think about. Tying revolutionary politics to these things is silly.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

*do _with_ being

Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

But I don't think you're an asshole. I feel a disagreement with the things you are saying, but it is not of that kind.

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 10d

Be, uphold, whatever. I do not consider Boolean logic bourgeois, in itself. Come on now. It's just another part of logic/mathematics.

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