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@quentincole.bsky.social

Woodworker, designer, developer, sarcastic cynic, occasional barbecuer.

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*wins

05.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wind are a team stat, not a QB stat.

Mahomes may still be the better QB, but wins aren’t the stat line to make the argument for him.

05.07.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI’d rather read theΒ prompt” Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. The ChatGPT rhetorical style is distinctive enough that I can catch it, but not so distinctive to be worth passing along to an honor council.

β€œI’d rather read theΒ prompt”

Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an…

09.05.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The journalistic malpractice in this country is crazy.

They understand their new role perfectly fine. It’s the American people (well, journalists) that do not appear to have shifted their mindset.

They’re doing exactly what they were hired to do.

16.04.2025 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have spent far too much time talking about how we should navigate an economy/job market/creative industry flooded with AI, and not nearly enough time talking about why we should be pushing back against it, and not just for IP theft reasons.

14.04.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Splitting hairs at this point, no?

14.04.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We have CIA black sites, Guantanamo Bay, and now we even ship Americans and legal immigrants to Venezuelan prisons.

So, yeah, we do that too.

13.04.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

why the hell does everyone want social media to be a debate zone. fuck off! debate my balls!

13.04.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œWe must tolerate all views” is itself fundamentally flawed, even for the people who want to be as tolerant as possible.

Not all views deserve to be heard. Not all opinions are valid. Not all feelings are real. Despite recent recent history, you can’t just make up your own reality.

13.04.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Man, turns out the entire tech industry is ran by sniveling, cowardly, greedy losers.

Quelle surprise

www.theverge.com/command-line...

28.03.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

23andMe is filing for bankruptcy β€” so, you should reach out to your family members who might have ordered these kits to get them to request deletion of their data. And if you signed-up yourself, you should absolutely do the same!

24.03.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

everything started going downhill when people replaced β€œsurfing the web” with β€œscrolling social media”

20.03.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

Well, that’s unfortunate.

17.03.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œLess people do my kind of coding, so it’s more high-IQ” has to be the lowest IQ take I’ve seen in a while.

Who are these people?

17.03.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But hey, at least he isn’t a woman, right?

09.03.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your outie applauds when a guy who keeps crashing rockets into the ocean dispatches unproven AI to sift through your private financial data.

07.03.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is basically what every tech announcement sounds like to me nowadays.

07.03.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This rules, did you model these yourself? Can you share the files?

06.03.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quit chrome first

05.03.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They just did a search for β€œtrans” and flagged everything.

05.03.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Going down a flat earth twitter rabbit hole is a weird way to start your day.

05.03.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The work is mysterious and important.

(the work is figuring out how to get people to click ads)

05.03.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It turns out β€œIdiocracy” was overly optimistic.

04.03.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

It's also worth noting that this is what people have chosen *instead* of revolution. Inequality is at an all time high. But instead of radicalizing people towards equity, we have a bunch of individuals telling themselves if they can just screw other people *harder" that'll help them get ahead.

03.03.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I haven't changed my tone on crypto from day one.

This reserve is the Big Scam(tm).

I don't argue with y'all. I don't pretend that my decades of academic and lived experience are equal to your 2 second searches and misplaced confidence. I'm not here to make you feel more knowledgeable than you are

02.03.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 715    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

And this is obviously applying to so much more than Go.

02.03.2025 07:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I owe an apology to all James Bond movies. I mocked them for having completely unrealistic, cartoonish villains that simply weren't believable.

2025 has made it impossible to levy that criticism anymore.

01.03.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 28089    πŸ” 3390    πŸ’¬ 497    πŸ“Œ 145
Social media post by Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner
) with the text: 'If you include aid that’s been promised but not yet allocated, Europe is putting twice as much money towards supporting Ukraine.' The post includes a bar chart titled 'Aid Promised to Ukraine: US vs Europe,' showing the US has promised $125 billion ($120 spent in the US, $5 spent outside) and Europe has promised $259 billion ($138 allocated, $121 promised). The chart, labeled 'My @Morning_Joe
 chart,' cites sources from the Kiel Institute and CSIS, with red and blue bars representing the US and Europe, respectively.

Social media post by Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner ) with the text: 'If you include aid that’s been promised but not yet allocated, Europe is putting twice as much money towards supporting Ukraine.' The post includes a bar chart titled 'Aid Promised to Ukraine: US vs Europe,' showing the US has promised $125 billion ($120 spent in the US, $5 spent outside) and Europe has promised $259 billion ($138 allocated, $121 promised). The chart, labeled 'My @Morning_Joe chart,' cites sources from the Kiel Institute and CSIS, with red and blue bars representing the US and Europe, respectively.

Facts matter.

28.02.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4243    πŸ” 932    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 21

If AI eats that whole low-level workload, what’s the pathway to become a senior designer?

I see a lot of senior/design-influencer folks talking about how no one should fear AI because of β€œtaste” and none of them seem to appreciate the learning process of relative-grunt work we all went through.

28.02.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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