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@irongremlin.bsky.social

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The infamous 2007 Boston LED mooninite stunt sign
A still from the infamous death scene in Soylent Green, featuring an old man in a coffin-like bed surrounded by expansive screens displaying idyllic scenes of nature whilst Charlton Heston's character looks on with a rising sense of horror.
A dumpster, extremely on fire. Burning/burnt trash liters the ground around the dumpster. The air is full of thick smoke. The dumpster seems ideally suited to contain Alex Jones, by which we mean it is a perfectly unremarkable dumpster of the sort one might find in any alleyway in any city in America, in which one would naturally place a bag of common trash.
An image of text reading "Super Massive CM E Event" In the style of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" logo
A bluesky post reading: "scientist 1: how much LSD was the subject given? scientist 2: 600 µg scientist 1: christ he must be seeing the face of god right now (muffled voice inside sensory deprivation tank) " And then, in much smaller, jumbled text: "wooweeeee i know that sleepytime bear got a big ass dick"
A post with a picture of an anthropomorphic stuffed fox, looking raggedy AF, seemingly staring wide-eyed into the middle distance. The post is captioned: "everything stinks, but please enjoy the highest quality jpg of the Stoned Fox I have ever seen"
A post with a picture of Kash Patel with an exceedingly wide-eyed, intense gaze, sitting before the senate intelligence committee. The post is captioned: "Kash Patel really took a gamble on that fart"
A window opened to Google translate, English to Chinese. English prompt text reads: "Hello I am fleeing the century of American humiliation. Can you show me where to buy White Monster Energy Drinks?"
Header: "Is there a backlash building?" Section content: "Plutonomy, we suspect, is elastic. Concentration of wealth and spending in the hands of the few probably has its limits. What might cause the elastic to snap back? We can see a number of potential challenges to plutonomy. The first, and probably most potent, is through a labor backlash. Outsourcing, offshoring, or insourcing of cheap labor is done to undercut current labor costs. Those being undercut are losers in the short term. While there is evidence that this is positive for the average worker (for example Ottaviano and Peri) it is also clear that high-cost suitable labor loses."
A crop of a blue sky feed with two skeets, the first of which is a link to an article titled: "Tinnitus Is Somehow Linked to a Critical Bodily Function", and then the next skeet, which is Cooper saying: "The audio is cutting out for everyone right?"
Image of this user's profile, the words "Thought Leader" are highlighted. Full text as follows: R. Stephen Browning @rstephenbrowning.bsky.social 697 followers 1.3K following 1.8K posts Freelance Writer, Retired Senior Nonprofit Executive, Performing Arts Advocate, Thought Leader, Travel & Lifestyle, Progressive Provocateur.
The same image as the linked post, but instead of "Should I defend the New York Times on social media? -> No." it has had words crossed out with red lines to read: "Should the New York Times media? -> No."
A painting featuring an "unknown" wooden contraption holding a large blade aloft on a rope, the bottom of which is a mostly obscured platform. The platform is obscured by a large black rectangle featuring the words: "This image is censored for no particular reason." Also visible towards the bottom of the painting is another rectangle, cropped, featuring the text: "...fying last moments of ...oinette's turbulent life"
Still from Simpsons showing man with tongs about to drop radioactive glowing rod.
A photograph of one of the more gorgeous, moderately sized waterfalls on planet earth spilling out between mossy rocks into a small creek. Framed by trees at the base of a mountain near Seward Alaska.
6 STOCHASTIC PARROTS In this section, we explore the ways in which the factors laid out in §4 and §5 — the tendency of training data ingested from the Internet to encode hegemonic worldviews, the tendency of LMs to amplify biases and other issues in the training data, and the tendency of researchers and other people to mistake LM-driven performance gains for actual natural language understanding — present real-world risks of harm, as these technologies are deployed. After exploring some reasons why humans mistake LM output for meaningful text, we turn to the risks and harms from deploying such a model at scale. We find that the mix of human biases and seemingly coherent language heightens the potential for automation bias, deliberate misuse, and amplification of a hegemonic worldview. We focus primarily on cases where LMs are used in generating text, but we will also touch on risks that arise when LMs or word embeddings derived from them are components of systems for classification, query expansion, or other tasks, or when users can query LMs for information memorized from their training data.
Screen shot of an e-mailed advertisement from the Washington Post, received at 7:46 AM, May 6th, 2025: Text reads: image of Pulitzer coins The Washington Post wins two Pulitzer Prizes This week, The Washington Post won two Pulitzer Prizes in breaking news and illustrated reporting and commentary. The Post was also honored as a finalist in three other categories. These awards recognize our commitment to consequential journalism and to holding power to account. Support this work by becoming a subscriber today. Subscribe for $40 Billed as $40 for the first year, then $120 per year thereafter. Cancel anytime.
An iconic image featuring a pig's turd resting upon his balls, which has contributed drastically more valuable substance to the American political discourse than the linked and quoted article that it is responding to.
The roll call for the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, in which then senator Joe Biden voted to ban the federal recognition of homosexual marriage.
A discord conversation in two parts. The first reads: The Rent Reducer 9000 - A gun in a box disguising it as a free little library. A raspberry pi scrapes Zillow for open houses nearby. During open house ours, it tells a starter pistol/cap gun to fire a few times. Seen here at an art thing I brought it to: [Included pictures displaying said tiny library] The second part reads: that is brilliant, but also, brazilians: [Omni-man meme including text which reads: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power]
A line of recently black-bagged US residents, head's shorn, faces pushed toward the floor, being forcibly dragged into detention by masked fascists.