Lumina Sapphira

Lucy in her prime, looking very happy towards the camera amidst a background of a mossy & shrubby river bank in a forest.

Farewell, Lucy ❤️

cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Upcoming ebay listing: "that one weird capacitor that was inexplicably powering a motor for 13 hours"

I had to take off the side panels so I could unplug the fan from the fan controller to get the damn thing to stop.

I feel like I should find and replace a capacitor and sell it as a collectors item.

Turns out its a fan in my PC that's refusing to stop spinning, and the "beeping" was the rhythmic noise of being slightly unbalanced.

That's all well and good, I unplugged the computer, assuming the power supply was just still powering the fan controller for some reason. Sadly, the fan didn't stop.

"Lumina & The Mysterious Case of the Perpetual Motion Fan" was not how I was expecting this morning to go.

case in point: theres a beeping coming from somewhere in my room but the frequency and resonance means i cant fucking find it

C++ is for little worms

one of the many industrial gadgets that i really hope becomes affordable for the average consumer is the acoustic imager.

there's been so often where im like "if i could just pinpoint the source of this sound itd make things so much fucken easierrrrrr"

Fuck yeah bring back penny auctions

The ICAO is who you need to lobby if you want to remove gender from all passports altogether, which is why American trans activists have largely focused on the ability to update/change your gender marker

Relatedly: probably my most individually radical economic position is that anyone selling a house should be required by law to prefer an offer from anyone who will live in the house vs someone who will rent it / “invest” in it, no matter how much worse the offer is.

ive flown on budget airlines that charge more for a carry on than a checked bag

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

i keep reading stories about the shutdown ending so now people can get their food benefits.

i need these authors to make sure its clear that it wasnt the shutdown blocking people from getting aid.

the money was there. theres a contingency fund. they withheld it for political reasons.

I genuinely believe this is a huge part of the LLM worship; half of these people are functionally illiterate

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

me playing silksong, act 2: "oof that lava escape sequence was rough good thing theres probably not another"

me playing silksong, act 3: "ah. i was silly. bamboozled myself. gave myself a false sense of security. hoodwinked!"

what the fuck do you mean i have to do laundry again can't it just stay done

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

> wayland sucks! we should rewrite x11 to work like [describes wayland]

many such cases

You are welcome

Once I own my own dishwasher (no longer renting) I'd be tempted to try it myself. I didn't buy a tape of ESP32s for nothing!

Looking forward to the collab between @techconnectify.bsky.social and a hardware hacker where they hack a dishwasher control board and test different cycle timings

the thing about boymoding is that sometimes when the options are fail at being a woman or fail at being a boy the latter is infinitely preferable

Sure we could try to make new elements by cramming more protons into nuclei but what if we tried to make some actually cursed nuclei. Make Pb-82 or some shit. That'd be funny.

money isnt real. we made it up. we can just give people food.

No there isn’t you Vichy bastards

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