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@struthious

Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️‍⚧️.

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critical slop studies@struthious· 11d

labels working as intended

screenshot of the skeet I'm replying to showing that the quoted account is hidden due to being labeled as 'anti-cyclist by labeler.bikesy.social

critical slop studies@struthious· 20d

A bit on the nose that this is the first page of the pamphlet of the history of bakery square (formerly nabisco factory, now tech offices)

Photo of an old ad advertising a “tokens sandwich”: “two dainty biscuit - a creamy filling - raspberry flavored”

critical slop studies@struthious· 22d

My new workplace has a well equipped bike room (though the racks are not my favorite) and i pass a ludicrous number of supermarkets on my way home.

Photo of spacious bike room with pump and tool stand

critical slop studies@struthious· 26d

is there a reason why smoke tends to be denser over the lakes themselves ?

screenshot of air quality index heat map over the great lakes region showing that the lakes are colored more darkly than the terrestial parts

critical slop studies@struthious· Jul 11

US developers put in good windows, challenge near impossible

Screenshot of skeet from bouie showing a picture of redeveloped public housing with horrible sash windows

critical slop studies@struthious· Jul 4

a lot of the conversation around housing is very silly because most people refuse to believe that building new housing under the current policy regime is in fact this expensive. ggwash.org/view/92306/w...

“ TOTAL DEVELOPMENT COSTS: $584,900

You may be thinking: “$585,000 for one three-bedroom apartment is extremely expensive!” And you would be right. Building new housing is always expensive, but the significant increase in construction costs in recent years has made it even more challenging.”

critical slop studies@struthious· Jun 20

Not happy about the Brazil result but at least the view on the way home was nice

Photo of sunset over the north hills of Pittsburgh

critical slop studies@struthious· Jun 5

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

critical slop studies@struthious· May 30

Lmao

Screenshot of bsky trends with the 2-5 positions being “eze”, “Epstein coverup”, “Canada politics”, and “Irish exports”

critical slop studies@struthious· May 26

The hierarchical structure of economic vibes. From the 2025 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking just released by the Fed. (Credit: Fintech Business Weekly fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/cfsb-hit-w... )

graph from the link showing the percentage of adults saying their own finances are "doing okay" or "living comfortably" constant at 73-78% since 2017. Meanwhile, the percentage saying that the "local economy" is good or excellent tanked 63% --> 43% from 2019 to 2020 and hasn't recovered. The percentage saying the "national economy" is good or excellent tanked 50%-->26% from 2019 to 2020 and hasn't recovered.

critical slop studies@struthious· May 20

Update: the ratio on this may be the worst I’ve ever witnessed

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critical slop studies@struthious· May 20

sorry but it's hard to feel sorry for hoteliers. I have a high credence that this group of people mostly voted for this outcome. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

graph from the linked article showing a majority of hoteliers in every us host city except atlanta agreeing that their world cup bookings are underperforming

critical slop studies@struthious· May 20

Genuinely curious whether this is a bsky thing or whether it’s widely believed

Screen shot of skeet with text: “ French peasants actually had time & energy to cook. A medieval peasant's workday was shorter & less exhausting than a modern workers.”

critical slop studies@struthious· May 15

Fat cat Friday

Photo of a grey cat with tuxedo pattern in a ludicrous position

critical slop studies@struthious· May 5

Angles

critical slop studies@struthious· May 1

Engaging in self care

Screenshot of Bluesky settings showing that “Maine” and “platner” are muted words

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 28

This is a good way of understanding what's wrong with the 'polls über alles' stance Source: www.are.na/block/684687

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 28

This point actually has the opposite valence on me than what it intends. 17k cars are sold in the US alone *every day*. partnershiponai.org/wp-content/u...

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critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 25

I don't agree with the anti-data center or generic anti-AI sentiments in the post but a number of these scenarios are things I'm also suffering through ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

"An engineer adds 12,000 lines of code affecting your app’s authentication. They ask that it be reviewed and merged same-day. Another engineer enlists a “swarm” of AI agents to review the code. The code merges with no one having read the full set of changes.
A designer is tasked with exploring a new feature. They prompt an AI tool for an interactive prototype. Design crit is spent analyzing visual details in the generated prototype, with minimal discussion of core ideas, goals, or tradeoffs.
One of your pull requests has been open for a few days. You ask other engineers to leave a code review. Minutes later, an engineer pastes a review that was generated by an AI tool. There are no additional thoughts of their own.
You point an engineer to the relevant section of a library’s docs in order to request a feature. They tell you that the feature request is not possible, and send a screenshot of their chat with an AI tool as proof.
Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether."

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 21

screenshot from quoted article with text:

"It is also worth understanding where AI’s water footprint actually comes from. Most of it is not water running through a data center’s cooling towers. Most of the water used for AI is from generating the electricity that powers the servers. That is scope-2 water, the water consumed at power plants through evaporative cooling and steam generation. We do not hold this against any other electricity consumer. Nobody is calculating the water footprint of your refrigerator or your electric car or the subway.

But when AI uses that same grid electricity, suddenly it is labeled a water crisis. The water is real. The inconsistency in how we talk about it is also real."

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 12

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 7

sad if this is true. d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/7260767/orig...

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 7

For my personal Bsky louvre

attempted murder is bad! Maybe don't make it the only way your constituents get a say in stopping the pollution slop bubble from making their neighborhood shitty!

critical slop studies@struthious· Apr 3

under our last mayor the city didn't even try to deny that it was in charge of properties that were dangerous due to lack of maintenance, they just wanted an exception from state law that requires conservators to maintain their properties well. bloomfield-garfield.org/wp-content/u...