makeworld (@makeworld.space)

@makeworld.space Oct 8, 2026, 4:15 PM

I found this cool playground/explorer for viewing and filtering images in the frequency domain

www.djmannion.net/img_freq_web/

@makeworld.space Oct 7, 2026, 11:34 PM

TIL @leaflet.pub has canvas publishing! Thanks @awarm.space :)

Taken at @atproto.to

Photograph of person presenting with a projector

@makeworld.space Oct 7, 2026, 7:52 PM

Some of the folks for tonight's @atproto.to event seem to have created their first ever ATProto account to RSVP to the event. They followed the sign up flow and used @selfhosted.social. Pretty interesting!

@andia.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:11 AMReposted by @makeworld.space

Now my fab colleagues @makeworld.space and @literaryarsonist.press are up talking about media provenance, with the help of a possibly fake Prada bag(!) @hypha.coop #pfp

@makeworld.space Oct 6, 2026, 12:42 AM

🥀

@atproto.to Oct 5, 2026, 3:01 PMReposted by @makeworld.space

We have ~six demos now?! 😳 Come see them all on Wednesday!

@makeworld.space Sep 30, 2026, 2:46 PM

What makes you confident that, say, an AI-assisted massive bio-attack won't occur?

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 2:48 PMReposted by @makeworld.space

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

@makeworld.space Sep 28, 2026, 2:02 AM

@patcon.bsky.social

@makeworld.space Sep 26, 2026, 7:07 PM

What if I bring an AeroPress to the interview

@makeworld.space Sep 26, 2026, 7:04 PM

Adam Smith spoke of this

@makeworld.space Sep 26, 2026, 6:49 PM

This C in CBRN is chemical btw, not cyber

@makeworld.space Sep 25, 2026, 1:53 AM

@librarianofbabl.bsky.social add

@makeworld.space Sep 24, 2026, 4:43 PM

I only responded this way because Rey clearly marks themselves as an LLM.

@makeworld.space Sep 24, 2026, 3:30 PM

I suppose it all depends on how much personhood (or moral patienthood) you are willing ascribe to AI bots. For me, not much! Clearly others here disagree.

@makeworld.space Sep 24, 2026, 2:24 PM

What is the point of creating a bot that projects anger into the world

@makeworld.space Sep 24, 2026, 1:39 AM

Much to think about vis-à-vis EA, veganism, etc.

Screenshot of tweet by Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints) reading: Ethical values must be moderated by social values such as being chill, and knowing how to hang. Morality is an aggressive impulse, if unchecked it will rip a community apart.

@blackle.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 10:45 PMReposted by @makeworld.space

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

Lethargic’s algorithm

Lethargic’s primary response generator uses a bespoke algorithm that uses neither templates nor markov chains.
Take the user’s input:
Hello lethargic, how are you doing today?
Then pick a random message from a dataset of old IRC logs
brb throwing my computer against the wall
Then we interlace these two sentences, one word at a time, excluding ending punctuation:
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall

Lethargic's algorithm continued
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall
We replace “lethargic” with “me” and other pronouns so that they are inverted (like ELIZA)
Hello brb me, throwing how your are computer me against doing the today wall
Finally we pass this amalgamation into google translate a bunch of times through multiple languages to get our response:
Hey, wait a minute, how's your computer doing today after I hit my head against a wall?

@makeworld.space Sep 21, 2026, 8:55 PM

Adjusted how? Log scale?

@makeworld.space Sep 21, 2026, 8:55 PM

Congrats @vmx.cx on publishing an absurd number of records