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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a great time visiting Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience!

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Eli Sennesh: Oscillations, but not Spike Rates, Encode Predictive Processing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Talk by Eli Sennesh of Vanderbilt University. Given to the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.Abstract: The appearance at the...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

Consider investing in a Faraday Pouch if you haven't already. Remember: they can track you even if your phone is off if they really want to

(Source: former SIGINT)

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we need to abolish this shit

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

It's a Jojo reference

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boykobostonian.bsky.social @boykobostonian.bsky.social · 6h

No, they want you to think that, same thing Russia does with Putin. Then you wait around instead of acting. Don the Con is just high AF right now.

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

Damnit Josh leave some cool shit for the rest of us

Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 14h

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:

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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/
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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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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 2h

How it started:
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." (Introducing OpenAI blog post, 2015)

How it's going:

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

Literally better internationalists than the fucking tankie-ass motherfuckers you constantly gotta deal with on the Left.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

These dogs: www.ukcdogs.com/american-pit...

Breed Standards : American Pit Bull Terrier | United Kennel Club (UKC)

The essential characteristics of the American Pit Bull Terrier are strength, confidence, and zest for life. This breed is eager to please and brimming over with enthusiasm. APBTs make excellent family...

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

No, because it's hard to find people not bound by breed restrictions able to adopt them.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 1h

That's a concern for the breeders though, isn't it? Not the people adopting and spay/neutering their pets.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 16h

Haha political discipline go brrrrr

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 16h

And I do value my job. I feel very lucky to work as a Professor in a topic I love. I don't even mind a lot of the admin (I actually really enjoy writing grants!), but I just think that the reality is very far from what most people deciding to enter the field expect. Certainly I had no idea.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

STOP USING THIS FUCKING ART STYLE

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

Sure but it would be the first time he's been honest with himself or anyone else about his moral character and that in itself is symptomatic.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 2d

Or more simply: they're using violence as a tantrum, in the instinctive belief that if they tantrum hard enough they'll get what they want.

This is a recipe for horror, of course, but also for their own overthrow.

shock twerker @danskubi.bsky.social · 2d

The right has no compunctions about using violence but they also feel no need to construct a mechanical theory of how their violence will produce political change. Their killings are more like ritual magic than anything else. The highest goal is just to produce a satisfying spectacle.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think MIT‘s response to The Compact was swift because it’s so sincere. Though every institution has sore spots, it’s easily the closest thing to meritocracy I’ve ever seen up close. Tough — sometimes brutal — but fair.

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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hploveswitchcraft @hplovescats.bsky.social · 4d

a picture of known knowledge hater HP Lovecraft with a speech bubble indicating that he might have said the quote below

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

I sit down in my BlueSky captain's chair and furrow my brow authoritatively.

"Damage report, Mister Scott."

"Ma'am, the Nazi gumbo meme has breached containment and..."

"I've heard enough. Load the torpedoes, set phasers to kill, and burn the planet. No survivors."

"Aye, captain."

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Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

People have definitely gotten bricks through their windows for selling falafel as Israeli food.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

You guys should use real screenshots from My Jewish Learning rather than making fake ones.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

Awesome to see a description of Islamic influences on the Tau Empire.

Eli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 2d

Well you choose to play Tau because you want an army focused on being shooty, right?