Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Fleeks. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
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Noma 
Here we have a sleepy @Yarideki getting some rest with a plush Noma, but is that plush Noma smaller than last time, or is it a particularilly big taur? I'll leave that up to your interpretation!
Art by @wizlicos
Find it on galleries here:
https://www.weasyl.com/~nomaxice/submissions/2358333/taurrific-rest
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55801517
https://furrynetwork.com/artwork/1676490/?page=1
#furry #furryart #sketch #taur #macromicro #macrofur #microfur
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adventures in bluesky thinking
good news: they finally fixed dragging and dropping images on there rather than having to click the upload button and manually navigate
bad news: i have discovered a new bug by trying to avoid the site:
https://bsky.app/profile/dex.nullpat.ch/post/3knjicb7yau23
i cannot believe something like this would happen in the year 24
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Enjoying a quiet and peaceful moment. 
Incredible art by Echofey! (https://echofey.com/)
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Found some tiny sodas at the store!
Obviously they're for weasels, right?
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To repeat myself but more helpfully from a couple days ago: if a project on a public SCM well like Github or Codeberg disappears, you can check if the Software Heritage archive grabbed it.
This is such a valuable tool for preservation and it's saved my spiky butt a dozen times now.
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
Be kind to their bandwidth. They discourage cloning straight out of their archives. Rehost if the risk to doing so is acceptable.
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Am just a big noodle taking a nap with a good fire doggo friend. u.=.u
Artist is DeeSketchs, was commissioned by Tempo_Arcanine
e: artist upload here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55800787/
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Commission for Andi!
#anthro #furry #FurryArt #dragon #commission #DigitalArt #art
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re: snark at crypto and gpts
So completely separate from all of the everything this evening, I realized something on this:
What is a middle manager? Well, someone like Michael Lopp would say: they help solve the quadratic communication problem of every engineer talking to each other engineer, taking it from O(n^2) to O(n). They also perform expected value calculations, which states that given the same game and odds infinitely run, a higher than 50% weighted average comes out ahead, and the better weighted average the better the decision.
What exactly is an LLM? Well, it's a system performing Bayesian-esque analysis on words, phrases, and image data, then running forward the most likely results.
It makes perfect sense why middle managers think this thing can replace humans, when it adequately articulates their lived experience as managers. And it's just attribution bias for that to go from "this is like talking to the people I talk to every day" to "this is like talking to everyone."
Fewer words: chatgpt talks like a manager, and manager types confuse that with being a person. Yikes, but it makes a funhouse mirror amount of sense.
re: snark at crypto and gpts
There's a reason why the last gambit is always trying to knock everyone else down and force everyone to love them. They just can't get there, despite infinite wealth and resources.
It's... comforting in a way, but I wish they had just sought therapy and tried picking up a paintbrush instead?
snark at crypto and gpts
All the last decade of fictitious internet money, putting databases and dumb apes on the blockchain, and confusing chatbots for human-level AI has taught me is:
Techbros and billionaires literally cannot even conceptualize what creativity is or what it means to be loved. Look what they need to mimic even a fraction of our power.
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With a luxurious 20 minutes to go before the deadline, I finished the entire intended feature set of https://kistaro.itch.io/vacation in time for https://itch.io/jam/strawberry-jam-8 ! Now it has fish and, thanks to @pyrex, clouds. (And, as of last night's update, it has background music by @spacefinner!)
Give it a try! If you want to get hypnotized into being a pooltoy orca, that is.
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2d painted portrait commission for Asp the Wyvern of Asp the Wyvern.
See replies for process video.
https://linktr.ee/khyaber for high res/prints/telegram channels
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PNW US pol, criminalization of protests, links for WA citizens to contact their representatives
I didn't know that there are at least two bills in the WA house and senate *right now* trying to make protesting on highways *and city streets* illegal! holy crap! if you live in WA please, please consider writing your representatives and telling them to vote no on these!
https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/6160
https://app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2358
making a comment is super easy, just put in your address, click "oppose," and say why! I'll include my comment as an example in the next post.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Fleeks. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
