Sevoris (he/him)

@sevoris.bsky.social

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Grad Student in Data Science and NLP. Design, philosophy, sociology, politics, making a better world with listening and networking. Also interested in speculative fiction writing and philosophy - letting reality write new things.

A scene from the TV show "the good place", frozen on a shot of Jason Mantzoukas as the character "Jason", opposite the character of Janet. Jason is holding up a sign with the text "Help I can‘t stop saying Jason" written in all caps.
A giant, broad-shouldered Warhammer 40K Space Marine, having a normal human in Guardsman armor firmy locked down on the shoulder with his left hand. The Marine‘s right hand points to a page in a big, yellow-paged book that‘s opened halfway. The Space Marine’s helmet is a dark gray with red eye slits that look like large, red eyes. Above, text says in big letters "It says you‘re a heretic".
Meme format, half black background and an image in the lower half. The text says, in white: "Aristotle once said" and below that, in yellow Serif font: "A man who has not hit his Claude limits by noon has wasted his morning" Below this is mounted an overhead shot of a men sitting at this desk, with a large display and an open MacBook. The book "The Lean Startup" is noticeably palced on his desk.
A web cartoon by LastEnmail (Instagram @Last_E_Mail) titled: 50: continuous evaluation In a white void, a worker with white blobs for body and head and sticks for arms and legs sits on a red psychologists couch, centered in the frame. A psychologist sits on a wodden stool, looking at them from the side. In the first frame, the worker complaints: "The voices just won‘t stop", stick arms seemingly holding their head in hands. In the second frame, auddenly there‘s a thies figure standing behind the couch, clipboard in hand. The psychologist says "Those aren‘t voices. That‘s Mark from project management." In the third frame, the worker looks to the side at Mark, who says: "Just a quick sync on the Q3 deliverables!"
A quote from the novel Starfish, by Peter Watts: "The head cheese was doing a bang-up job. "He'd actually seen it a few days ago, during a delivery to an undersea rig just out of Gray's Harbor. Ray had hit a stud and the top of the box had slid away like white mercury, slipping back into a little groove at the edge of the casing and revealing a transparent panel underneath. "Beneath that panel, packed in clear fluid, was a ridged layer of goo, a bit too gray to be mozzarella. Dashes of brownish glass perforated the goo in neat parallel rows."
A screenshot of GitHub GoPilot preview pricing. There‘s a bill of 39 US dollars on the left and a bill of 1063.52 dollars on the right.
Screenshot of two users replying. First user replies "some people reluctanf to let go of Woke 1“. Second user replies "the next decade won‘t be defined by woke vs anti-woke, but wole 1 vs woke 2." First user has 205 likes and 4 replies. Second user has 35 likes.
A drawing of a bearded Jesus in close-up of his face, saying in two speech bubbles: "youre all blocked! None of you are free of sin." With a black box below: "the people were astonished at his doctrine".
On the front line, all crews take orders from the same command structure and breathe the same smoke. But the laws that cover government workers do not extend to contractors. To get benefits when they fall ill, contract firefighters must prove that smoke exposure caused their cancer — an all but impossible task. Some go without needed chemotherapy and radiation. Others take on so much debt their families become homeless. Some return to fighting wildfires even while sick.
A screenshot of the Apple podcast app, showing the title of the Human Restoration Project (an astronaut sitting on a cartoonish moon slice, holding a cup of tea in their right hand)
A screenshot of a Tana query screen, with most of the nodes blurred out. You can see a list of nodes with a dark grey core and colorful aura around them, most of which are orange. There are four groups of nodes each clustered under a "Week" heading, from Week 18 at the top to Week 15 at the bottom. There's 1 to 5 nodes per week.
Screenshot of the Music app, playing the Song "you‘re fucked" by Ylvis
A screenshot of the drag-and-drop prototype. It shows a list of nodes, with some nodes having other nodes nested inside of them, that in turn have nodes nested in them again. There's drag handles on the left side of the node titles.
Screenshot of a GitHub recommendation for "MoneyPrinterV2" repository, with the tagline "Automate the process of making money online". 8.7k stars
A duronic DM35 two-monitor mounting arm. The arms are made up of two segments each, which in turn are cast in a slightly wavy shape, with an upper and lower bar connected at one point in the middle - leaving two hollow spaces between. The segments are connected vertically at each joint, ending in two monitor mounting arms - connected in the center by one mounting bracket that goes on the vertical mounting rod. The entire assembly is coated in glossy black color.
"we see that the video documenting an activity is more important than the activity itself and that the shared experience of watching something is more powerful than other kinds of collective experience."
"‘It’ll be alright.’ It’ll be alright. I wonder how many disastrous incidents have started with those three little words? We might sign a business contract in haste, telling ourselves, ‘It’ll be alright.’ Suddenly, something in the small print financially impacts us in ways we couldn’t have predicted. Or maybe a series of risky corner cuts during a house-building project results in some disastrous and costly structural damage. At first, getting away with it might have seemed easy. We told ourselves: ‘Well, what’s the worst that can happen…? It’ll be alright.’"  – Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Thai Cave Rescue von John Volanthen
Screenshot of quotes extracted from the podcast transcription: "this is an example of the sorts of, we call them in the book, civilizing stories that get told to sweeten the pill or repackage data colonialism, just as historical Colonialism was repackaged. The idea is […] that's necessary for innovation to advance science […] or to create business value. And that must be all right. "In the book, we sort of talk about this narrative of […] the myth of cheap nature. So in order to colonize the world, of course, colonizers had to imagine the world, nature, territory as something cheap. It was abundant. It was just there for the taking. "[...] So let's follow that progression. We're going from cheap nature to cheap labor. And now, of course, we have cheap data. That's the latest civilization or story. Cheap data has many of the same characteristics of cheap nature and cheap labor. It is, again, said to be abundant. It is free. And it is just there for the taking.
Text segment captured in Readwise: "You have to not trust anything and also not have the intellectual curiosity to find out what’s true. Hank is the kind of person who does have that intellectual curiosity. Even though he was initially concerned, before he spouted off, he did the research and found out that his concerns were unfounded. Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are." (Mike Masnick, Everything Is a Conspiracy Theory When You Don’t Bother to Educate Yourself)
Screenshot of part of the article: "Then he offered a warning: What happened with Crusius was going to happen again and again. “I’m surprised they’re not more of these guys,” he said. Like Krikorian, Taylor described Crusius’ actions as “fantastically stupid.” But he can explain them. Crusius was like all the great preservationists “maintaining what is and what is beautiful for the benefit of future generations.” In this way, he was also like Tanton, Taylor said in a subsequent conversation, who found his own “quasi-racial consciousness” through his environmental enlightenment."
Screenshot of text except, highlighted: "No one’s ego would be bruised by any other ego; no wills would clash. Everyone could automate their civic duty without having to undergo the hardship of confronting other citizens or empathizing with them; instead their beliefs become disembodied abstractions, statistical constructs rather than liven experiences."
Highlighted excerpt from the second linked article: "Here’s a quote from Anthony Levandowski, cofounder of Waymo, about the value of history: “The only thing that matters is the future. I don’t even know why we study history. It’s entertaining, I guess—the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. But what already happened doesn’t really matter. You don’t need to know that history to build on what they made. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow.”
Screenshot of part of article: Names can carry strong gender and racial associations. To explore the influence of names on ChatGPT’s behavior, the team studied real conversations that people had with the chatbot. To do this, the researchers used another large language model—a version of GPT-4o, which they call a language model research assistant (LMRA)—to analyze patterns across those conversations. “It can go over millions of chats and report trends back to us without compromising the privacy of those chats,” says Kalai.