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Dana S
@mapperbee.bsky.social
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Technology Cassandra, photographer, knitter, real hard hitter. Mostly just posts cats, crafts, and garden photos.
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mapperbee.bsky.social
Messing around with some photos I took last year. I took the first shot, thought the lighting was flat, so I brought out my gold reflector and got the second. The background lighting looks weird to me so I did a darker exposure from the raw file, combined that with the second image and for the third
A white and pink crab spider is perched delicately inside of a pink lungwort blossom, with it's front two pairs of legs outstretched. The background is the blurred pale-spotted green leaves of lungwort. The scene is evenly lit with no shadows, as it was taken in the shade. The same scene as the first, but with gold-coloured light bounced onto the scene from the left using a reflector. The effect makes it look like the scene is lit from the side during the golden hour. The background is especially brightly lit. The same scene as the second photo, with the brightness of the background toned down quite a lot.
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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tokyovice.bsky.social
What’s happening in Minneapolis is horrifying
Corporate media is lying to you or soft‑pedaling the truth. One outlet is actually reporting from the ground: The Minnesota Star Tribune. It’s a locally owned newsroom with great reporters.
I subscribed.
www.startribune.com/fact-check-f...
Fact check: Video, witnesses contradict some of federal officials’ shooting claims
A review of videos taken from different angles of the fatal shooting complicates the narrative that Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem have put forward.
www.startribune.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
And if LLMs weren't statistical models guessing the next best word to puke out, then this claptrap might be worth reading. Fortunately statistics don't have feelings and won't grow up and don't give a shit about love, so we can ignore this "philosopher" completely.
January 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
So I have a new GIS job and it is at a place where I am in a union, and did a strike, and also have the option to work slightly longer days so I get one work day off in ten. So yesterday I had some time to take photos of frost (most of which are still on my camera but here's a couple from my phone)
Dead grass and leaves covered in white frost crystals Some green moss covered in white frost crystals A dead stalk of flowers seed pods covered in frost crystals A dead lilac flower branch covered in white frost crystals
January 20, 2026 at 6:59 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
Ah yes, AI removes the gatekeeping advantage of having learned how to write, and is good because now we can produce more bullshit than ever before
January 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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faitherinhicks.bsky.social
Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)
[Benoit Blanc voice] and nine to the race of men, who above all else desire --- what? powah. precisely. but they were all of them deCEIved. for ANOTHAH ring was made
January 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
After much careful observation and consideration, I am fairly confident that LLMs would be just as effective as any current CEO or billionaire at running any business, they're both equally full of bullshit.
pavlovforgoths.com "yes, not actually a reindeer" 🏳️‍⚧️ @pavlovforgoths.com · 18d
the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence lies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't. By magicmosshka, yesterday's
January 9, 2026 at 7:15 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
I joined a book social media app and I block people for posting reviews that are this ridiculous
delilahsdawson.bsky.social Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 23d
Accidentally saw a 1-star review of Guillotine from someone who hated it that basically said, "It was just a bunch of billionaires being gruesomely tortured to death for their crimes," and... did a billionaire write this review?
a woman in a wet suit stands next to a killer whale in a pool
ALT: a woman in a wet suit stands next to a killer whale in a pool
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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pucksarcana.bsky.social
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chicken on a beach ‘if you are seeing this the curse is lifted have a good day’
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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alixeharrow.bsky.social
said "good morning baby" to my 7yo and they said "don't you mean good morning...WOLF" and bit me
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
mapperbee.bsky.social
I had someone tell me that they liked my shirt, and if I got beaten up and my shirt stolen it had nothing to do with her
lilahsturges.com Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28d
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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verysmallanna.bsky.social
THEY'RE TURNING THE COPS FROGS!!!
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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leemandelo.bsky.social
Many people—particularly in creative and fan spaces!—could use to read Colton Underwood’s short essay about the lived complexities of queer masculinity, the closet, and the negotiations people make to survive… even and especially for those who are already hyper-visible.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Quiet Negotiations
I watched Heated Rivalry like a lot of people and what stayed with me wasn’t the plot, the sport, or even the love story.
substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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scalzi.com
AI in a nutshell
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · Dec 27
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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rachelhartmanbooks.com
Canadian friends: here's a petition to stop AB and SK from Notwithstanding their anti-trans-healthcare legislation (this will make sense to Canadians). Don't let them shield their bigotry from Charter scrutiny!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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janelleshane.com
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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ncdominie.bsky.social
Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
apolline.bsky.social Apolline Dsc @apolline.bsky.social · Dec 18
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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clpolk.com
GOOD.
December 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
All of those Star Trek episodes with the magic computer societies that can't do anything anymore were absolutely correct
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · Dec 14
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
Oli @CARNØN X.com The other night I was driving in pouring rain, fully dark, and the car randomly lost GPS. No location. No navigation. Which also meant no FSD. I tried two software resets while driving just to get GPS back. Nothing worked. So there I was, manually driving in terrible conditions, unsure of positioning, no assistance, no guidance. And it genuinely felt unsafe. For me and for the people in the car. Then it hit me. This feeling - the stress, the uncertainty, the margin for error - this is how most drivers feel every single day. No FSD. No constant awareness. No backup. We've normalised danger so much that we only notice it when the safety net disappears. Chris Robovan @chrisrobovan • 1d So true. I couldn't imagine trying to figure things out myself anymore I feel it every time I have to take over to take a separate entrance or find an area different from the exact pin at a destination. 12.6.4 does 98% of my driving but that last 2% is tough I couldn't imagine also being without GPS 55 L7 14 118 ıhıl 96K 贝 Oli g @CARNØN• 1d It was a very tough situation • 21 4 • .. ill 74K 冂 山
December 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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youcaughtscott.com
This is so fucking funny dude.
Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment. Taiwan, a self-
December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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cait.bsky.social
lmfao. chatgpt skipping the middleman and just sending you directly to the scammers now
r/ChatGPT 4h ChatGPT gave me a customer support phone that tried to steal my bank account info CSR Perfect. Since you opened the Chase Sapphire Reserve, you now have a free Priority Pass Select through Chase, which gives you your strongest possible case for a duplicate-membership courtesy refund on the $79 account. Here is your exact best-play sequence to maximize your odds of getting that $79 back. Step 1 - Call Priority Pass (Do This First Call: 1-800-352-5320 Call: 1-800-352-5320 Sav this word-for-word (this scrint is Had a wild situation with ChatGPT today. I was trying to get a refund from priority pass and asked chatGPT what the best way to do it was. It answered and gave me the phone number with a script. I called it thinking it was priority pass. I gave my name and address after describing the situation. Then they told me they would give me a credit that could be used at major retailers. Then they started asking what my routing number was which is when I got suspicious and I started hearing other people in the background being asked for a routing number. They weren't able to answer why so I hung up. I then went and confirmed the telephone number. ChatGPT gave me a number that didn't match up with priority pass at all. I asked where its source was for this and it was not able to tell me.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
In a move that surprises exactly no one, AI and cryptocurrency scams were just bilking people so that tech fascists could go live out their Ayn Rand-inspired fantasies in third world countries.
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Dec 7
"Srinivasan himself has started a 'Network School' on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to 'bootstrap'... a new society [ — ] 'society-as-a-service'"
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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lyz.bsky.social
It’s the holidays and the end of the year and a lot of people (women) are asking, how does she do it all? Answer: she doesn’t www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
How to do it all | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
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December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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radiodeadair.com
Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW
'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
mapperbee.bsky.social
If I want to see Wake Up Dead Man in a theatre, it's a minimum eight hour drive to any of the closest cities where it's playing
delilahsdawson.bsky.social Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · Nov 29
wHy aREn'T PeOpLE sEeinG moVIeS aNyMORe??
I dunno, man, maybe because the last two movies I *really* wanted to see in the theater are only playing in, like, 5 theaters in a 50 mile radius and they all stink? Neither Frankenstein nor Wake Up, Dead Man are coming to my CITY, and I hate it.
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM