Alan

Alan

@whataskeets.bsky.social

Computer man trying desperately not to be a techbro. Dublin He/Him. Occasional wry commentary on: ๐Ÿ”ธ Current world chaos ๐Ÿ”ธ Ireland ๐Ÿ”ธ Non-awful Tech ๐Ÿ”ธ Games ๐Ÿ”ธ Not sports

736 Followers 1,100 Following 1,198 Posts Joined Aug 2023
3 hours ago

Just had an LLM quote a Reddit thread as evidence for a statement it made. When I looked at the thread, it had regurgitated a response someone had copied and pasted from another LLM. Reprocessed slop forever feeding itself. The Soylent Green of information.

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4 hours ago

When I first encountered it, I took an immediate deep dislike to the word "frisson," and now I know why.

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12 hours ago
David Byrne at 3 Arena. They've projected footage of the band in animal masks while acting out the same movements without in front

I've seen a lot of live music and I've bot seen anything like that. Fantastic!

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21 hours ago

woop. Found a not easily replaceable thingy, that I had assumed accidentally binned, during my packing.

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23 hours ago

At the CHARGE EVERYTHING stage of packing for a trip. David Byrne in the 3Arena tonight and then airport in the morning so have to be ready for the morning before we head off to the gig.

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1 day ago

Fairly sure the NYT Crossword earns a PEGI 12 under these rules.

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1 day ago

The current wave of romantiscising old Irish coinage seems harmless but I'm hyper alert that all the recent misty-eyed nostalgia has since turned out to be fishing for the types susceptible to "you can have it back... just vote away all that pesky nasty progress that took it from you!" messaging.

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1 day ago

Wait... the dog's name was Kilo? Seriously?

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1 day ago
Missing police drug detection dog found after search

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3w4xe24wo

Do you think they walked a bag of heroin around to sniff him out?

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2 days ago

I'd say Keir Starmer's head may genuinely combust some day this week.

Kneecap abรบ

Free Palestine

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4 days ago
So, it's a good time to familiarise yourself with dipping a toe in the markets. Over the space of eight weeks, we are going to guide you through how you can start investing, from stocks to bonds and investment funds to crypto.

But first, why are Irish people so loath to invest? What are the risks of leaving your money on deposit? And how can you mitigate risks when investing?

"Why are Irish people so loath to invest?" and one of your suggestions is going to be crypto in 2026.. can't imagine why.

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5 days ago
A SKELATEN IN GROCEY STORE "LOL IF YOUR USING TWITTER IN 2026, IF I WANTED TO BEYELLED AT BY A BOT I WOULD MOVE ITEMS TO THE BAGGING AREA WITHOUT SCANNING THEM " DONT KNOW IF YOU SAW IT LATELY BUT ITS SOMEHOW EVEN WORSE THAN IT WAS IN 2025, AND THAT WAS WORSE THEN 2024, AND THAT WAS WORSE THEN 2023, ETC, BY THE TIME THE SHIT GOT SOLD TO ELLON IT WAS ALREADY ALMOST DEAD, THE LAST HANDFUL OF HUMAN USERS WANDERING IN ALGORITHM HELL WHILE BOTS RESPONT TO THEM IN GPT SPEAK, THE AGING SNARKY COMMENTERS REFUSING TO MOVE TO BSKY OR THREADS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ONE NOTCH DUMMER THEN THEM ARE STILL ON TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO DUNK THEM BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND NO WAY TO PROVE THERE SELF WORTH, AND THE PEPE NAZI'S FEEL EMBOLDENED TO START NEW SLURS AND SMACK THEM SELF IN THE FACE WITH OBJECTS TO INCREASE THEIR JAW LINE, BUT EVEN THEY DONT LIKE IT BECAUSE "THE LIBS" ARE NO LONGER THERE TO GET MAD AT THEM, AN APP FOR NO ONE WITH A SOUL, OWNED BY DEVIL, STILL FULL OF YOUR DEAD FRIENDS POSTS FROM YEARS PAST, AN ENTIRE ERA OF YOUR LIFE ONLINE NOW ONLY EVIDENCED BY OLD WORDS CARVED INTO THE CLIFFS OF HELL,,,,, BUT WHAT DO I KNOW IM JUST A SKELETIN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

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6 days ago

These techbros are happy to have their filthy way with these LLMs but unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. I will be opening an orphanage (a pastebin) for unwanted LLM children (LLM code) and accepting donations for the AWS bill to run each piece indefinitely.

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6 days ago
Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social

Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

10:25 PM Mar 6, 2026

Not only are LLMs conscious, every program they make are their babies. If you arent running the code they generate for you you're killing their babies!

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1 week ago

The ambassador's receptions are noted for their host's exquisite taste. Unfortunately, every Halloween, Mum made us call at the other, much less popular, ambassador's house...

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1 week ago

People can write the name of this band as many times as they like but it will always register as "Shakira" for me.

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1 week ago

They absolutely can. Or probably more likely you could lose them to flood / fire.

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1 week ago

Oh, I was convinced they did? Must be the manbrella effect. ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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1 week ago
Micheรกl Martin handing a bowl of shamrocks to Donald Trump.

Captions read:
Bang of piss off these Micheรกl
I wouldn't know anything about that Donald.

Looking for a chance to piss on the shamrocks before they're shipped over to the US? Special piss booths are being setup around the country right now! Check local listings for when the shamrocks will be coming to your town, and as ever arrive bursting with piss! #pissontheshamrocks

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1 week ago

Want make word thing but no word in head cave with no robot man tell me how.

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1 week ago

Lol, that last line. Basically a shout out to the reaper meme going around.

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1 week ago

Blueskyers, please stop adding occasional new posts to old threads. Bsky is awful at handling threads and will push the whole thread to your followers each time! I'd like to see your new updates. I don't need to see the first post 20 times a year. Just post an unthreaded post with a hashtag.

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1 week ago

I think that's just because they're not sure how to do it.

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1 week ago

burvey (bird survey) completed!

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2 weeks ago

Me (to my date): They pay me in woims. Woims. They pay me in woims.
My date (after some consideration): Is that legal?

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2 weeks ago

I deleted my Twitter account September 2023. I found this note I made about why:

"Musk, whom I do not follow, was at the top of my timeline, blithering on about birth rates and linking to a video of Tucker Carlson interviewing Viktor Orbรกn. "

This was 2 and a half years ago.

Fuck that site.

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2 weeks ago

My disgust at the price of the fancy crisps in the shops earlier is only surpassed by my disgust at now not having any of the fancy crisps to go with my Friday beer.

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2 weeks ago

you better not have cleaned off that decades worth of flavour!

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2 weeks ago

Dublin went through a burrito craze nearly 20 years ago. How well any of the places involved in that captured authenticity is debatable, but Taco Bell is hardly our first encounter with the concept of Mexican food.

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2 weeks ago

Move over Movember, new least favourite month-based portmanteaus dropped.

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