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Siobhan Beeman
@siobhan.northsky.social
1.6K followers 920 following 950 posts
Game industry veteran for an absurdly long time.
Tanned, rested and ready, and #OpenToWork again. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhanbeeman)
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gregpak.net
You know who can afford not to know their own address or phone number?

Tiny little babies and fucking billionaires.

These tech freaks are not normal people and their ideas undermine the lives of normal people. Reject them and their predatory ideology and technology at every opportunity.
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
siobhan.northsky.social
Life, uh, finds a way. 😆

I can’t help comparing this in my mind to the Huggingface agent jailbreak.
solomonrmissouri.com Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 1d
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
September 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
siobhan.northsky.social
Super exciting stuff!
blackskyweb.xyz Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 2d
🎉 Acorn is officially open.

You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required.

acorn.blacksky.community
September 24, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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vandomva.bsky.social
I just don't have any words anymore, man. Being rich and white and male gets you out of fuckin' anything. Conducting insurrections, stealing infinite data and killing millions of people with DOGE, hacking allied governments. Doesn't fuckin' matter one goddamned iota. Nothing happens. Ever.
raphae.li Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 1d
New: Another OpenAI agent hacked the Australian government.

PM says he expressed his disappointment "that it took [OpenAI] way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable."
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
OpenAI agent breached Medicare, Albanese reveals
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare this year, in a breach that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has labelled “unacceptable”.
www.theage.com.au
September 23, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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lookitup.baby
everything you depend on in modern civilization is run by furries and that is an actual fact
September 23, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
"What if a competent team of professionals tried to solve problems in line with their genuinely humane values?" is the motivating question behind some of the most beloved science fiction of the twentieth century, yet its rarely emulated.
September 23, 2026 at 6:33 AM
siobhan.northsky.social
I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter putting his peanut farm into a blind trust.
September 22, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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coreyatad.com
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”

crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
September 22, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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robzacny.bsky.social
We live in a golden age of statements from video game companies that sound like estranged family explaining that they know they fucked up, they’ve worked on themselves, and they’re gonna do better now. And it’s only been a month since they told everyone to go fuck themselves and did a burnout.
September 21, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
September 19, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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kohler.bsky.social
LIFE IT NEVER DIE
WOMEN ARE MY FAVORITE GUY
September 19, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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blockedforthispost.bsky.social
is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?
September 19, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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pftompkins.bsky.social
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
Nichole Hiltz The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people. A building. @treewarrior.bsky.... maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
September 19, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
The fact that very few highly educated people support Donald Trump shows just how biased our educational system has become.
September 18, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
I understand that everything is really fucked up, but I implore you to stop telling people not to make jokes about it. We are hanging on by a thread and some of us have no other means of coping.
September 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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transrights.northsky.social
Recent events have a lot of people asking "what is northsky?"

We're still working on revamping our website, but this video about migrating to Northsky does a quick job of explaining our account hosting services:
Migrating to Northsky Social on AT Protocol
YouTube video by Northsky Social
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September 18, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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leighalexander.bsky.social
these teams have long running institutional knowledge of the franchises they work on and don’t make every new installment with a team of underpaid juniors being bossed around by clueless suits
September 18, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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melissagiragrant.com
something is only a “culture war issue” to you if you think it’s not about you; otherwise it’s just “politics” or (maybe) “life”
September 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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danny.page
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019 Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
September 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points
permadeath.com cyber professional @permadeath.com · 8d
the people crave bluesky social credit scores
Aaron Roderick deleted post A big goal of mine is to have aggregate scores for account toxicity. Some folks drag down the quality of the conversation and drive users off this site. We'll get there by calculating how often someone is toxic, and eventually move to restricting their visibility to broader accounts.
September 17, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Honestly, so much of what is going on in both Europe and the Middle East are different degrees of 'countries spent a long time under the US security umbrella and forgot what it was like to have to handle their security' and like, good - the long peace was good - but also bad.
September 16, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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azalben.bsky.social
BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Remmick in sinners
September 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Ed Sheeran at his next show
September 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
siobhan.northsky.social
Looks of disdain and hate, huh? Golly.

Every trans woman reading the quote:
September 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
siobhan.northsky.social
tfw you need to equip your best item in each slot but don’t know about the glamour system yet #ffxiv
dailyrunway.bsky.social 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. 𓆩♡𓆪 @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 10d
Shailene Woodley in Balenciaga fw26 Couture at the #Emmys
September 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM