Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧

She/her. Designer & web developer, writer-publisher, mom. Loves: 🦇🐲🐱📚. Enjoys: NodeJS, React, UX.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

every time I buy a new notebook there is a brief but powerful moment where I genuinely believe I am about to become the most organized human alive

[Wise @trikcode]

You basically need to be unemployed to keep up with all this AI stuff.

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

Today's dramatic realisation - backspace in Outlook does not archive, it deletes 🫠 I surely haven't deleted anything important in the last few months...

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

I'm either missing it, or does Claude (the app) not have a way to get the link to a chat conversation? I like to link back to relevant convos in Obsidian and this is really annoying me :/

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

First time doing A+ content on Amazon 😊 How did I do?

[Ibrahim Boona @boona11]

what if 2D game art wasn’t pixels or frames but thousands of living Gaussian splats?

characters can melt and reform. lose splats when they take damage. zoom in forever without hitting a blur. animate without rigs or sprite sheets.

we’ve built 2D games on fixed pixels for decades. the next era might be built from light.

still an early demo, but i’m going to turn this into a real tool for 2D game devs and open-source it on GitHub soon.

#gamedev #indiegame

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This indie team is making a puzzle game where you forge paintings using newspaper cutouts to fool your legally blind boss

- You overslept and missed the art auction
- Cut & place them on the canvas
- Don't lose your job

It's Called Your Painting Sir. Would you play this?

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

This woman's dragon puppet

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

@pablostanley Nice! Would love an embedable version. Would have saved me so much work when I was rolling out my simple version for the letter puzzle tool! https://t.co/a6ZlpwUbx9

[Stijn Spanhove @stspanho]

🏃‍♂️ I've gamified my own run so I can race my own ghost with the Meta Ray-Ban Display.

I built a web app for the glasses, loaded a previous GPX from Strava, and dropped game mechanics on top.

Pick up coins when you keep pace, sprint zones reward extra points if you push, and a mini leaderboard on the lens shows how you're tracking against your past self in real time.

Best part: it actually works. Seeing your ghost 20 m ahead is a way stronger nudge than any number on a watch. 😅

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

In one of the versions it gave the dragon also the sound of a buzzing fly 😅 which was kind of funny.

[Joanna Walker 🇵🇱🇬🇧 @yi5h]

Tried to animate my tiny clay dragon with the new Gemini video feature. It would not keep my design and just kept changing the dragon to a generic playdoh figure 😂

[Alexander Chen @alexanderchen]

Gemini Omni 🐦 prompt in 🧵

[Zack Korman @ZackKorman]

Some people desperately want to believe we're a few good markdown files away from "getting" to fire 90% of people.

[Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo]

Claude mystery: why is a Russian word randomly inserted in a reply?

Is this a “four dots” moment from the last season of Silicon Valley ;-)

[messed up computers @messeduppcs]

Sizes of subatomic particles

[Matt Popovich @mpopv]

the top right corner of vscode is starting to resemble an iq test

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Mo @atmoio]

I’ve been trying to find good analogies for this.

The argument seems to be: “AI is intelligent because it does intelligent-like things, therefore it is cope to say it’s not intelligent.”

Some analogies:

- “The moon is really bright. Therefore it is capable of luminance.” Here of course we expose a manner of speaking. The moon reflects the sun’s light. The models reflect our own intelligence. The moon will never be a star.

- “A snail on the bed of a tow truck is really fast. Look, it’s moving from A to B at 60mph, it’s clearly fast.” But of course the snail is borrowing the truck’s velocity.

Notice how there is no controversy in calling the technology large language models because the term is perfectly apt: a map of language. This points to language as constructed by humans as the true source of magic, and LLMs being algorithms that can traverse this map at light speeds.

Before you think I’m being pedantic, understand that the nature of the words we use is precisely what’s at stake. That the moon *looks* bright is incontrovertible. Insisting however that the moon itself has any concept of inherent luminance is when you start to gaslight people into deranged realities that they will not stand for. Attempting to appropriate ageless conceptions like consciousness and intelligence to corporate technology by playing axiomatic word games is insanity.

Large language models do what they do and this is non-controversial. Personifying it with human-like attributes however is totally uncalled for, when it is easy enough for us to define new words that better capture the phenomenon.

I’ve been thinking long and hard about this and I think a good phrase for these technologies can be—hear me out:

“large language models”

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

American far-right, assisted by the British far-right, spent the last week asserting three young women were "murdered" in Brighton.

Many of the posts suggested an "illegal immigrant" did the murders.

I'll go through how they exploited the information deficit to sew division. /1