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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Notably this problem is also solved 100% without any AI and instead, at zero cost, by journals adopting format-agnostic initial submissions (as many journals have already done)

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

This is a weird review... Louder Than Bombs is almost definitely Joachim Trier's *worst* film, a good though flawed English-language debut that doesn't touch any of his Norwegian films in terms of depth or the unique quality they have www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert alone

www.theguardian.com

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Condor Puma Serpiente @toad.city · 1d

Honestly kind of surprised it took this long to automate blackmail

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Basically this seems like an ethical uncanny valley. It aims to simulate an encounter with an actual mind, but one where the pseudo-mind is incapable of actual enjoyment or arousal, rendering those things irrelevant.

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

hahaha, you're right, ah well

Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha you're right, ah well

Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you're running out of money without telling me...

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, I fixed the typo hahaha

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Love that in a few short weeks OpenAI has gone from pretending to be about LLMs as a restrained social good to creating a pure slop TikTok and turning ChatGPT into an explicitly sychophantic fuck machine for gooners

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 2d

Actually not even a little bit representative, I just opened a new box. H, T, M or S

Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 2d

Based on this not very representative and misleading survey of comics and graphic novels in my collection, it's best to have a surname that starts with T, M or S if you want to make it in comics*

*My bookshelf

#datavisualisation

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 6d

I've been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 5d

Predictably I now love Foxy Shazam's Oh Lord. Have to imagine James Gunn gets some nice thank you cards for these features

Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · Sep 3

Relatedly: what maniac at DCU headquarters thought it was a good idea to change the theme music for season 2 of Peacemaker?! Are you insane?

Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · Aug 10

Peacemaker really has one of the few unskippable opening credits sequences. Also, with The Boys, Watchmen (tv and original comic) and Invincible, the superhero critique franchises remain much better than the original superhero content

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 6d

I've been spending a lot of time on LinkedIn

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · Nov 6

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 8d

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 10d

So let me get this today’s drama right:

* Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait
* Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week
* Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay
* But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

If nothing else it is a bit weird to slam your users continually

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not confused, this was illuminating! Thanks

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

Can anyone fill me in on why everyone hates Jay Graber here now? I love this place but occasionally it does dip into very "I've just turned the tv on and apparently we're 5 eps into some drama I'm completely not on top of" vibes

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

Yikes, but yeah, probably people in your friends list do (for whatever reason, could be research) and/or you fit some part of the demo of someone who would (I mean, me too, it'll give it a go, we just are more likely to notice it and go "EURGH, NO THANKS")

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

Still unconvinced that your phone is listening to you – it doesn't need to, and most people have no cookie/general online hygiene. Especially if you use LLMs, any marketplace, and you never VPN, your phone doesn't need to listen to you. It's a vaguely targeted gun firing into a barrel of fish

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Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10d

After getting served an ad for a saxophone mouthpiece this morning on FB and thinking about "targeted ads" and people's ongoing theory their phone must be devoting unnecessary server time listening to & processing our speech to serve us ads, this is what I have seen in the last 3 mins of scrolling

An ad for "CorrectToes" which are toe spaces to "align and strengthen your toes"

An ad featuring "a busy mum of two" using "Minbie" a small baby bottle washer and steriliser

An ad from a page called "Perth mum vibes"

An ad for an "all-in-one" wearable breast pump

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 12d

oh but when *I* write a song about Travis Kelce’s dick,

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