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Mikhail Jacob (he/him)

@oroborositron.bsky.social

Machine learning, D&D, music Currently at The Coalition studio, Vancouver.

113 Followers  |  349 Following  |  34 Posts  |  Joined: 20.08.2023  |  2.0283

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Charlie Kirkโ€™s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasnโ€™t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

13.09.2025 21:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Palestinians flee Gaza City as Israel says first stages of assault have begun - BBC News An Israeli military spokesman says troops will deepen the damage to the "terror infrastructure" held by Hamas.

Pure evil stacked upon pure genocidal evil... www.bbc.com/news/article...

21.08.2025 06:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

11.08.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 276    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Israeli defence ministerโ€™s Gaza proposal marks escalation from incitement of war crimes to official planning for mass forced displacement Plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah are โ€˜unviable, impractical and morally depravedโ€™ but should be taken seriously

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

10.07.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniโ€™s dad (same like โ€œmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesโ€) and apparently the New York Times doesnโ€™t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momโ€™s people!

03.07.2025 23:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12233    ๐Ÿ” 3468    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 229    ๐Ÿ“Œ 872
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โ€˜Gaza must be eliminatedโ€™: Israelโ€™s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.06.2025 15:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very interesting... We should try it sometime!

17.06.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sweet! That's only between players or for players and enemies? I was really impressed at the system watching the DnDShorts video on it last year. Looking forward to trying it some time.

17.06.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, damn! ๐Ÿคฏ Time to try Daggerheart.

16.06.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

10.06.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13380    ๐Ÿ” 5278    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 87    ๐Ÿ“Œ 218

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

09.06.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10985    ๐Ÿ” 2620    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 134

โš ๏ธRisk of clams!โš ๏ธ

18.05.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An ad that seems to complain about an amazing thing that I would 1000% support. Ad says, "Stop the CRA Power Grab. Sign the petition. The federal government wants the CRA to calculate and file your taxes for you. Sponsored by Canadian Taxpayers"

An ad that seems to complain about an amazing thing that I would 1000% support. Ad says, "Stop the CRA Power Grab. Sign the petition. The federal government wants the CRA to calculate and file your taxes for you. Sponsored by Canadian Taxpayers"

Don't threaten me with a good time, ad that keeps popping up. ๐Ÿคฃ

Seriously though, having lived in two (2) countries where the government calculated and filed my taxes perfectly well, I don't understand the outrage. Stupid lobbyists astroturfing non-issues.

23.03.2025 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Canadian actor detained at US border in โ€˜inhumane conditionsโ€™ for nearly two weeks Entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who had a role in an American Pie sequel, says she was arrested at southern border and held in detention over an incomplete work visa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Aside from being furious about everything, *gestures wildly around* I love the framing here. You're white, you're Canadian, surely you don't belong in immigration detention. Everyone else obviously does, but you definitely shouldn't be. Cue sympathy and outrage.

18.03.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Emoโ€™d up JD Vance crying mascara in a car

Emoโ€™d up JD Vance crying mascara in a car

when you tried so hard and got sofa
but in the end, it doesn't even matter

16.03.2025 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great article. I also want to add that this sort of research is also super helpful in industry, where we attempt the same mistakes over and over because no one published about them. Looking forward to your article part 2.

10.03.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court for targeting the United States and its allies, such as Israel, a White House official said.

www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

07.02.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Bottle of nail polish remover that reads, "ALL PURPOSE GENIUS REMOVER".

Bottle of nail polish remover that reads, "ALL PURPOSE GENIUS REMOVER".

When you hate smart people...

02.02.2025 00:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a badass trailer! Can't wait to hear more. I've definitely wondered how this project would shape up eventually. All the best!

29.01.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked | Official Announce Trailer
YouTube video by Resolution Games Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked | Official Announce Trailer

Your next great adventure awaits! Today weโ€™re unveiling Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked (@battlemarked.bsky.social).

To learn more, sign up for our newsletter here www.battlemarked.com

youtu.be/cypwLhY8BP4

29.01.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Simply beautiful. Thank you for your amazing work.

26.01.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

21.01.2025 02:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14457    ๐Ÿ” 4537    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 505    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1299

Perfection!

15.01.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can't wait! I just hope we can read it too. I must be one of the last people on earth who cannot sit through a podcast. What do you do with the rest of yourself while listening? How do you do other things while paying attention to the podcast? Mysteries of life I'll never understand...

15.01.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

However, you can find quantized versions of those models that can be run on good single retail GPUs. The Ollama tool (and many others) also lets you try out quantized versions of several great (more) open models without needing to run inference code.

14.01.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chatbot Arena (formerly LMSYS): Free AI Chat to Compare & Test Best AI Chatbots

Some positive counter examples working towards full transparency are AI2 (Allen Institute of AI), EleutherAI, etc.

For trying out powerful models HuggingFace is a good starting point. To find powerful open models check out a leaderboard like lmarena.ai. Most SOTA large models need GPUs to run. 2/?

14.01.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There is a vibrant community of people working on such models. Challenge is hardware availability for training. So permissively licensed models are usually trained by corporations. They rarely share data sources/sets or training code+tricks. They often release model weights and inference code. 1/?

14.01.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That was such a great talk (just watched it)! Was drawn to the mention of Viewpoints. Used it in grad school years ago to help analyze/structure motion improvisation in a human-AI "dance" installation piece. So cool to see that framework used in the games space. Learn something new every day! ๐Ÿ˜€

10.01.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

07.01.2025 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2781    ๐Ÿ” 1453    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95
100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024
YouTube video by People Make Games 100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024

This story is truly horrifying. Serious abuse of outsourced game creators from Indonesia. youtu.be/RR9HQ2C6h_4?...

TW/CW: Descriptions and depictions of abuse of various kinds (physical, mental, financial)

07.01.2025 23:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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