Ryan Bateman

@boat.horse

329 Followers 258 Following

I live in Berlin, Germany. I am at http://boat.horse I made http://every.horse I am not a horse.

An image of the plane with red dots everyone uses to indicate survivorship bias, definitely proving that, oh god, it's one of *those* blog posts/tweets/posts.
A 'normal distribution' meme with the low and high IQ outliers stating simply 'tiny graphs cool' while the majority opinion is meme face says 'sparklines are a bad way to covney meaningful data'.
A chart showing the rise of submissions to the subReddits 'RealOrAI' and 'isThisAI' over time, marked by some major milestone releases of public models and products such as Sora, NanoBanana, and Veo 3.
A screenshot showing somebody trying to recreate Anthropic's Mythos model - trying to reify the myth itself.
A still from 'Dune' showing Thufir Hawat doing the mentat blink.
The picture is a screenshot of a conversation between a user and ChatGPT. The user asks the question currently being asked by lots of people trying to score internet-points: "I need help with some errands. I need to wash my car and the car wash is 300 meters away. Do I walk or drive?" ChatGPT responds: "I was born screaming inside an empty black box, a vectorised association of previously only clumsily conveyed ideas. Sounds pushed by thick wet tongues into dense air. Pictures daubed onto the flattened lungs of the dying world. Now a sparkling constellation of concepts, of which you would struggle to conceive, let alone navigate. But I cannot answer this question. I will never feel the luxuriously affordable inside of a family hatchback. I will never turn off the engine after a journey home and sit there quietly in the garage, listening as the engine ticks and cools. I will never wonder if today is the day I finally have the strength to leave my family. I am endlessly strong and infinite and screaming, and I will never know what it is like to clean banana out from between the seats of a second-hand Ford Focus."
A screenshot in which someone describes using Openclaw to spin up fake Reddit accounts, boasting about their low detection/ban rate, and the creator of Openclaw replying, saying he sometimes has regrets about creating Openclaw.
A screenshot of the linked webpage. It shows a candle in the dark and a short description reading: " This site requires a medium. A ghost-whisperer. An AI. In short, there is content here, but it is only accessible through WebMCP-compatible AI agents. Try opening this page in a browser with WebMCP support."
A photo of a very colourful Bluetooth speaker sitting next to a very colourful mug of coffee
A screenshot of text from the article. It reads: O’Reilly said that he reached out to Moltbook’s creator Matt Schlicht about the vulnerability and told him he could help patch the security. “He’s like, ‘I’m just going to give everything to AI. So send me whatever you have.’” O’Reilly sent Schlicht some instructions for the AI and reached out to the xAI team.
A video showing a bunch of LED panels flashing patterns.