Sevoris (he/him)
@sevoris.bsky.social
Grad Student in Data Science and NLP. Design, philosophy, sociology, politics, making a better world with listening and networking.
Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.
Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.
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I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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#SaveSpeech
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure...
www.patrick-breyer.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
#SaveSpeech
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.
This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.
Chat Control still needs to be fought.
CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
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Really, most of this sentiment derives from being tired of debating to what extent inequality is biologically inevitable - even if it were, that wouldn't be an excuse not to fix it.
I want to cut humanity apart with a scalpel and reassemble it in a more perfect form.
I want to cut humanity apart with a scalpel and reassemble it in a more perfect form.
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Really, most of this sentiment derives from being tired of debating to what extent inequality is biologically inevitable - even if it were, that wouldn't be an excuse not to fix it.
I want to cut humanity apart with a scalpel and reassemble it in a more perfect form.
I want to cut humanity apart with a scalpel and reassemble it in a more perfect form.
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If patriarchy, inequality, and violence are inherent to human nature, then let's surgically alter human nature until they aren't.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If patriarchy, inequality, and violence are inherent to human nature, then let's surgically alter human nature until they aren't.
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It's wack how much the image of transhumanism has been captured by techbros whose vision of "using technology to improve the human" is, like, putting electrodes in your head to make you productive, and not anything actually transformative
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's wack how much the image of transhumanism has been captured by techbros whose vision of "using technology to improve the human" is, like, putting electrodes in your head to make you productive, and not anything actually transformative
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
The Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators
A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
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As co-convener of Vote Leave, Michael Gove occupied a position of legal responsibility. The unlawful spending & campaign coordination happened on his watch. The denials - proven to be false - ditto. Vote Leave, ultimately, accepted the finding & paid the fine.
There were no other consequences.
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There were no other consequences.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As co-convener of Vote Leave, Michael Gove occupied a position of legal responsibility. The unlawful spending & campaign coordination happened on his watch. The denials - proven to be false - ditto. Vote Leave, ultimately, accepted the finding & paid the fine.
There were no other consequences.
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There were no other consequences.
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The whistleblower of that public interest investigation, @shahmirsanni.bsky.social was viciously smeared by figures around Gove including those in government.
He lost his job. He was outed as gay.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
He lost his job. He was outed as gay.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
The Vote Leave scandal, one year on: ‘the whole thing was traumatic’
A year after revealing that the official leave campaign broke electoral law, Shahmir Sanni assesses the impact
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The whistleblower of that public interest investigation, @shahmirsanni.bsky.social was viciously smeared by figures around Gove including those in government.
He lost his job. He was outed as gay.
2/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
He lost his job. He was outed as gay.
2/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.”
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You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie.
scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪
scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪
Bad mentors hurt people
What to do about bad mentors?
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“It is not acceptable to recruit a variety of students into the laboratory, subject them to a variety of stress tests and abuses, and then keep the students who thrive under abuse and get rid of the students who aren't able to thrive in the lab. That's straight-up exploitation.”
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Shapiro pulled PA out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Arnold makes his money trading in methane gas.
Stitt claims his state has "the most affordable, reliable energy anywhere thanks to...natural gas."
If "permitting reform" is a climate solution, why are fossil fuel guys plugging it?
Arnold makes his money trading in methane gas.
Stitt claims his state has "the most affordable, reliable energy anywhere thanks to...natural gas."
If "permitting reform" is a climate solution, why are fossil fuel guys plugging it?
When you hear the word "innovation" and "permitting reform" know this: You're about to get fucked, the rich are gonna get richer, & the powerful more powerful.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Shapiro pulled PA out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
Arnold makes his money trading in methane gas.
Stitt claims his state has "the most affordable, reliable energy anywhere thanks to...natural gas."
If "permitting reform" is a climate solution, why are fossil fuel guys plugging it?
Arnold makes his money trading in methane gas.
Stitt claims his state has "the most affordable, reliable energy anywhere thanks to...natural gas."
If "permitting reform" is a climate solution, why are fossil fuel guys plugging it?
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When you hear the word "innovation" and "permitting reform" know this: You're about to get fucked, the rich are gonna get richer, & the powerful more powerful.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
When you hear the word "innovation" and "permitting reform" know this: You're about to get fucked, the rich are gonna get richer, & the powerful more powerful.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
Really glad this panel has a diverse array of white dudes representing the political, investor/tech, & media elites.
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One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Bear in mind: it has ever been thus!
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations
Yep. If voters aren't making choices based in actual reality then democracy cannot function
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Bear in mind: it has ever been thus!
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
There's no golden age when information was immaculate & the people devoted to imbibing it all. The midcentury US, with its major newspapers & three networks, was where the basic survey research demonstrating how little citizens know about politics was conducted
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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So the typical bully 'I was only having a laugh' excuse. I doubt this will make and impact with those that hang on to his every bullshit word, but its out there.
Awful, awful man
Awful, awful man
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So the typical bully 'I was only having a laugh' excuse. I doubt this will make and impact with those that hang on to his every bullshit word, but its out there.
Awful, awful man
Awful, awful man
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Software devs - especially new software devs, but often seasoned ones as well - are notoriously myopic, believe they can solve real-world problems with code, and have never seen a Chesterton's Fence they didn't want to knock over.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Software devs - especially new software devs, but often seasoned ones as well - are notoriously myopic, believe they can solve real-world problems with code, and have never seen a Chesterton's Fence they didn't want to knock over.
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...what? WHAT?!
Taking "meritocratic elite" as "people with degrees", aka the PMC, there's not a group more concerned about schools and how we teach children!
Left, right, center, it's a constant topic! Even amongst those without kids! Cause our friends have kids and we care about them!
FO, NYT
Taking "meritocratic elite" as "people with degrees", aka the PMC, there's not a group more concerned about schools and how we teach children!
Left, right, center, it's a constant topic! Even amongst those without kids! Cause our friends have kids and we care about them!
FO, NYT
And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
...what? WHAT?!
Taking "meritocratic elite" as "people with degrees", aka the PMC, there's not a group more concerned about schools and how we teach children!
Left, right, center, it's a constant topic! Even amongst those without kids! Cause our friends have kids and we care about them!
FO, NYT
Taking "meritocratic elite" as "people with degrees", aka the PMC, there's not a group more concerned about schools and how we teach children!
Left, right, center, it's a constant topic! Even amongst those without kids! Cause our friends have kids and we care about them!
FO, NYT
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Engineering can be so much better than this and more than this. It's absurd how much we're resigned to this entire area of human work being held hostage by this kind of culture.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Engineering can be so much better than this and more than this. It's absurd how much we're resigned to this entire area of human work being held hostage by this kind of culture.
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You give good love
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 AM
You give good love
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I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
They also sell everything to companies building LLMs, there's a link offering their "datasets" (books, papers, etc) for tens of thousands of dollars USD. They also auto-scrape everything scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive's Open Library. So. Yeah. 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.