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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 18h

Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.

He is destroying decades of political messaging.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19h

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 1d

Bertrand Russell wasn't impressed with him: youtu.be/6TK9c-caEcw?...

Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920

YouTube video by Roman Styran

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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Canadian Hammer 🍁🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 22h

One of my favourite authors. Such wisdom seems to be in short supply in 2025.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11h

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

www.wired.com

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Sophie Huiberts @sophie.huiberts.me · 18h

The simplex algorithm is super efficient. 80 years of experience says it runs in linear time. Nobody can explain _why_ it is so fast.

We invented a new algorithm analysis framework to find out.

Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book

Narrowing the gap between theory and practice is a longstanding goal of the algorithm analysis community. To further progress our understanding of how algorithms work in practice, we propose a new alg...

arxiv.org

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Atul @atulnet.bsky.social · 10h

Fwiw, economics is also a social science, with physics envy

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

close the law schools

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re going to post a paper on twitter, why not do it a few days after the bluesky post? No harm to your career but makes clear it’s a slower information source

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 23h

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 19h

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Atul @atulnet.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no! sorry to hear this
Hope you are recovering ❤️‍🩹

It can be frustrating, but pls do seek out physiotherapy if needed

I had a pretty awful bike accident years ago,
; took me a few months of physio to repair my shoulder joint

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in or near Oxford on 7th November, why not come to the Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture, where I will be attempting to demystify quantum mechanics.
www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/the-a...

The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture: Philip Ball | Oxford Playhouse

Join Marcus du Sautoy and Philip Ball for the 2025 Charles Simonyi Lecture, Beyond Weird: One Hundred Years of Quantum Mechanics A century ago, Werner Heis

www.oxfordplayhouse.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 3d

Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.

Tech Venn Diagram
Two circles, one says "Doing work that contributes beneficially to society."; the other says "Making enough income to support a family."

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 3d

Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs

The plan: sandwich a language model in an audio encoder/decoder pair (=neural audio codec), allowing it to predict audio continuations.

kyutai.org/next/codec-e...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 3d

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER — GCN

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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 3d

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

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