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@trickofthelight.bsky.social

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Former epidemiologist, writer, gamer, knitter and obsessed with my dog. Lots of TTRPGs. I like to make people sad over fictional characters for fun. 41, lesbian/kinky, disastrous, she/her.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6h

Also, thinking about the pandemonium when someone says "Alexa" in a podcast, or on a video call, or anywhere else where you might be listening to it without headphones.

That except now Bob in the cubical next door just accidentally restarted your computer with a few careless words.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6h

Not a HIPAA or FERPA concern at all, I'm sure.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 21h

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 7h

That's ... so weird.

Art is one of those things a lot of people feel guilty buying because it's not "essential" ... getting it as a gift is a great way to bypass that to have beautiful things around.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 7h

He heard he was super smart so much he got really arrogant about it.

By the time we were in high school he was an ignorant jackass because he decided he was too smart to need to learn anything more when he was like 10.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 7h

Whenever I think about this, I think about this boy I went to school with from grade through high school.

He was arguably one of the brightest kids when we were in grade school (and he was a raging dick about it, like he declared himself the 'first brain' and ranked other kids accordingly.)

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 1d

No, partly because we keep excusing it as boys will be boys instead of going with the old reliable "Nazis get punched."

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, they are not children, of course. But even if they were ... "Nazi" isn't normal healthy adolescent rebellion.

Those Idaho mountain compounds are an outlier and should not have been counted, but Vance is just leaning right on them.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 1d

Telling on himself.

I knew a lot of teenage boys when I was a teenager myself, and there were plenty of them who knew better than to say that kind of horrific shit. It goes beyond edgy.

Fascism is not a phase adolescent boys go through.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

Darwin has never screamed.

He does what I call "puppy-yips" that sound like that noise many cars make when their alarm system arms.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

That's really cool, especially the sip valve thing for them.

I'll need to get some. I have a FLOMask I like, but it doesn't let me drink during air travel without taking it off, or have it on for hair appointments.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 5d

The Enigma of Amigara Fault but with Sherman, the dog, yelling "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!" edited into the picture.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

Welp.

The CDC is basically toast.

Time to get slightly high and play Dorfromantik until I can't keep my eyes open anymore.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

I haaaaaate it.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

For a second before I realized she had three arms, I thought she was holding the mic in her cleavage.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

I know I should blend between skeins, but I don't like juggling two balls of yarn AND a growing sweater.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 5d

Finished seaming and weaving in ends tonight. Then it needs a block it's good to go. :)

A little annoyed that one of the skein transitions is noticeable, but it's not with just my eyeballs so I think it's the lighting and the angle. #knitting

A dark brown sweater with a lot of cablework against reverse stockinette background, and a cowl neck.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

I had seen the part about how it's usually Lego kiddos, no clue why my brain was like "Ah yes, all the archaeology requests are Lego related, makes perfect sense. No questions."

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

And even then ... there better be UBI or I'll pay other people to do those things instead so they can pay their rent and feed their families.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

So for me, that's like ... dishes, laundry, yardwork, fixing/doing maintenance on my car ...

It's *not* writing of any kind (including coding), thinking, or having social conversations.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

My take on AI is ... if it were a) reliable and b) not a massive energy commitment that is ruining the environment and communities around data centers ...

AI should only be used for things that you do not fucking care about enough to learn to do them/want to retain the skill yourself.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

And honestly, three times was enough unless the people who write the check that pays my bills tell me it's not.

And if using generative AI became a big part of my job description, I'd be looking for a new job.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

Of the three times I've used it, two times it was a massive fucking waste of my time. Once it was helpful.

But I would NEVER trust it without doublechecking everything, and so I don't think the benefit to the work I do helping people outweighs the environmental and sociopolitical cost.

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Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

So I've used it a few times with that in mind. The work I do at least FEELS important, so that is different to me then just using it for funzies/generating shit no one needs on the back of plagiarism.

Trick of the light @trickofthelight.bsky.social · 6d

In light of that, my boss feels it's important we have some understanding of how it works, including at least a little experience with it. I grudgingly agree with that.