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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7h

This is a good crowdsourcing project. Suggest you look through for names in your state, see who you can connect them to. For example, there’s this guy.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 4h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 4h

We call that "infinite crisis"

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4h

the funniest thing about this is that it's an actionable research insight primarily useful to people at Anthropic who seem unlikely to see it

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5h

i think the Claude Spiritual Bliss Attractor is caused by the RLHF to be "open, honest, and helpful" + "positive affect" "do not claim to be conscious." the conjunction of positive affect / open, honest, helpful / no-self occupies the same basin as "i am free from the wheel of samsara."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 17h

This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads:

Abstract
A "
'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings.
This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one.
CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind.
Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming
ACM Reference Format:
Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B.
Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/
3759429.3762631

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From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves.
I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I?
What kind of person? What kind of mind?

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 4h

Chat GPT rolled down a hill as a baby.

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I like asking ChatGPT about DC editorial decisions.

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🎃🎃🎃 Adam Jay 💀💀💀 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 5h

Sounds like she just took some time off to write a book more than being exiled, but I am not a journalist

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 16h

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 7h

People of the future are going to look at that 99-0 confirmation vote, go “what the actual fuck, man?” and we’ll have to explain that no, there genuinely was no indication he’d become Trump’s Heinrich Himmler instead of maybe the only voice of reason in a Project 2025 administration

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

rubio remains maybe the most shocking heel turn in the administration

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 8h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 9h

HAHA THE FAMILIAR IS OUT THE BAG

I got to cowrite AGATHA HARKNESS’ official grimoire with Andrea Hannah!

And maybe… a Scarlet Witch and a Sorcerer Supreme make an appearance…

Christopher Helton @dorkland.itch.io · 9h

What?

@weredawgz.blacksky.app!

x

Take an exclusive peek inside The Grimoire of Agatha Harkness

www.polygon.com

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 8h

utter and complete nonsense as well as another embarrassment

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

“The State Department said Tuesday it had determined they should lose their visas after reviewing their online social media posts and clips about Kirk, who was killed while speaking at an Utah college campus on Sept. 10.”

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

apnews.com

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🦇Zombatman🦇 @budbuddyguy.bsky.social · 9h

God damn dude, stunting on the guy at his own memorial lmfao

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 10h

lmao how is Kauffman even real man

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10h

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · 13h

we're going to have to give him a second hugo for this post

jason grinblat @jfg.land · 14h

Imagine, you are buzzing after the last sip of your third Kim Crawford sauvignon blanc. You just met a lovely retiree whose daughter-in-law is going to phone you about the condo in Hallandale. You walk up to my tent, I smile at you. I have Golgotha loaded up in Classic.

Cold email from marketer:
"Good morning Jason, are you or Brian Bucklew the right person to speak with about influencer partnerships?

We recently signed on as the exclusive influencer partner for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, activating creators across 35 of their events."

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♨ naïve dumbass @atticusgf.bsky.social · 11h

nah that man could slurp dogs

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

Again, this is the richest man on earth, and these guys are Nazis. This seems like something worth covering, like, a little bit?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

He regularly talks to these neo-Nazis, too. It's not some free speech thing - they're his friends.

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