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This is Laika’s magnum opus. The story is simple, but gripping. The world feels alive and dangerous. The danger itself is real (people DIE in this). The animation is so good, I forgot it was stop motion at parts. Art in motion on screen.

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Living in Ypsilanti, Courtney is facing not one, not two, but three proposed new data center projects within just a few miles of her house. I believe there should be no new data centers until guardrails and protections have been established at the federal level.

Everybody being so hyped about the photoshop clone, this is just more AI hype propaganda pretending to be a fight against adobe. It's using their own crimes against them. In what way is that better? Decompiling or generating source code is not "open source", that's not what that term means.

The better thing to do would be to... learn a different image editor. But I know, I've said the forbidden word: "learn". We don't do that anymore, I guess.

Learning that 3b1b is entirely vibe-coding Manim now was such a gut punch. I always thought he was an artist, a scientist, a mathematician, someone who cared about attained intelligence, not just pumping out quantity over quality, cost it what it may. Grant was such a pillar of the math community.

At this point, I could just say "I wrote a new paper! I put it into the library of Babel. Reviewer, it is your job to go and find it!"

Julianne Dalcanton@dalcantonjd.bsky.social

Like many scientists, I’ve been mulling over the impact of LLMs on our fields. I’ve not yet seen it articulated, but I think there is a largely unspoken “invisible labor underclass” framework at play.

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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

For some reason, I thought in order to use a custom domain handle I needed to host my own PDS. But that's not the case, so I switched to bsky's own provider, as hosting costs would be too expensive for me lol

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