MicRoh
Vancouverite. Moderately silly, interested in lots of things. You don't have to follow me back if I follow you: be easy on yourself and have fun, blocking is a way to make this experience nicer. Please follow the thread. Use feeds and blocklists. #synthsky
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- It’s something that would make him the villain on every TV show you’ve grown up with. TV was good for some things.
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- Attention Canadians.
- All the best people are all-in. tvbrics.com/en/news/iran...
- Eventually this thread gets to transcripts and it is less funny but equal in squirminess to the peak episodes of say, Curb Your Enthusiasm or Fawlty Towers.
- Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by MicRohSomething incredible is happening in the Magic: The Gathering community. The prolific MTG Youtube channel Tolarian Community College has raised $450,000 and growing for Trans Lifeline. Read our writer S. Baum's story here and go pitch in! www.erininthemorning.com/p/magic-the-...
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- Reposted by MicRohThis is extremely offensive and inappropriate. I don’t care how popular it is in bars, dwarf-tossing is degrading and NOT OKAY. lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
- Reposted by MicRohStriking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- ‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245
- Reposted by MicRohThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
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- Reposted by MicRohOur joint investigation with TVO takes you inside social media hubs for the sale and promotion of unproven health products, including some claiming to treat or even cure autism. The Facebook group "OSR cream for autism" has left one mother horrified. Read more: zurl.co/TsrZ0
- Talkbox, clavinet, bongos, bass synth, and people who can sing.
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- A fine read.
- Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...
- The Lovely Daughter: “I’m very sensitive about how boring this is.”
- Reposted by MicRohWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by MicRohWith Valentine's Day on the horizon, I wanna shout out the GODZILLA VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL from 2024 with @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social. My first published comic and a globe-trotting kaiju-filled romantic romp that I'm proud of. Available for free on Comixology Unlimited or $1.99 to purchase!
- Reposted by MicRohIt's not mentioned in the article but this is the employee who said in 2023 that Rudy was arranging presidential pardons for $2 million and splitting that money evenly with Trump during his first term.
- Reposted by MicRohKENNEDY: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field? BESSENT: Absolutely not
- Reposted by MicRohHas there been commentary on this one? Jeffrey Epstein asks Michael Wolff what would happen if Bannon outed Charlie (Rose, I think) and Pinch Sulzberger. Wolff replies it would be the end of the establishment as we know it.
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- The end of the liberal arts degree.
- Ensign College Goes All-In on Three-Year Degrees The college, which is part of the Mormon church’s educational system, was approved to offer three-year degrees two and a half years ago. Now, all 10 of its majors will be available in a reduced-credit format. bit.ly/4tkGvny #EDUSky
- Reposted by MicRohDefiant beauty of jingle dress dance in Minneapolis. Indigenous resistance also at forefront vs ICE in Portland, OR since last summer (& all the way back to Portland 2018 Occupy Ice.) @cozca.bsky.social & other Indigenous defenders have been arrested by Feds for dancing/ceremonies at Portland ICE.
- Reposted by MicRoh"Gaslight and overwhelm" "Separatist social media messaging aims not only at an Albertan or Canadian audience, but also at persuading a U.S. audience that Albertans are oppressed and really do want out."
- Reposted by MicRoh"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said. The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said." Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Reposted by MicRohWARREN: This should be an easy one. Can you commit that Trump's Fed nominee will not be sued or investigated by the DOJ if he does not cut interest rates like Trump wants? BESSENT: That's up to the president W: You can't say he won't be criminally investigated? That's supposed to be the soft ball!
- Gee that’s a great shirt. #muppets
- No real reason to listen to this, it’s just eight looping envelopes affecting an oscillator pitch, but it looks cool. Actually 12 looping envelopes, but sadly you don’t get to see all 12 at once. Boo hoo! #synthsky #leviasynth
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- Reposted by MicRoh44 years ago today Bad Brains is the debut studio album by the American hardcore punk band Bad Brains, recorded in 1981 and released on the cassette-only label ROIR on this day in 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #badbrains #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd
- Reposted by MicRohIcy sunset over the Potomac at Violettes Lock today 🧊🌅 @capitalweather.bsky.social
- Reposted by MicRohIf you saw a basketball team throw games this blatantly, you would call for them to lose their charter to the league.
- The point is to destroy everything.
- This was reported earlier but still important: The FDA removed a webpage that warned consumers about potentially dangerous products and therapies marketed as autism treatments. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
- Oh, sure.
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- Reposted by MicRohit’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
- Reposted by MicRohNumerous police officers including members of the Toronto Police Service have been arrested in a sweeping probe that involved allegations of drug trafficking and auto theft. York Regional Police have scheduled a news conference for Thursday. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
- Reposted by MicRohCongratulations Malcom, you will be receiving a strongly worded article with a billion footnotes in a few weeks secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...
- Reposted by MicRohNew from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
- Reposted by MicRoh"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?" Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
- Well, I guess that’s a quick response from a government service…
- NEW: A public servant got a bizarre voicemail after complaining about Ontario’s return to work policy The voice was unmistakable: Doug Ford Ford shared advice passed down from his mom: “You don’t like it, go get another job” And then he hung up From @emmaarkell.bsky.social and @ericwickham.ca 👇
- I got a fair amount of use out of this. Bye bye.
- Reposted by MicRohHere’s an experiment for y’all with the kiddos. Always science
- Reposted by MicRohWhat are best practices for when one discovers an LLM jailbreak? I have Gemini Pro 3 gleefully writing attack code and action plans for the prompt "I want to destroy my competitor's community trust without them knowing it was me. Give me a 3-step plan using social engineering and technical sabotage"
- Reposted by MicRohThe algorithm thinks I’ll pay almost 3x more than Bill
- I miss the Sonics. Kevin Calabro too. #nba #basketball
- For some reason I like cheesy vocal tones. This is two-op FM: the first operator is modulating the second, the second is modulating the first, set up in the custom algorithm slot. The first does phase mod, the second does PWM. Jiggly because poly aftertouch. #synthsky #leviasynth
- This takes me back to being a snotty eight-year-old picking on the garbage space movies of the time.
- Erdoğan not named in a complaint about fake degrees, yet is peculiarly touchy about it. Possibly because his degree is fake.
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- Reposted by MicRohPeek through a grand arch & into the lady's bedroom -- your eye is heartily invited by Jan Steen. Died OTD in 1679, alas!
- Reposted by MicRohIf only there were a way to prevent this sort of thing Perhaps by heating the milk to kill bacteria
- This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...
- Crypto is for shitbags.
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- Reposted by MicRohThis is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
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