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@beatrix.bsky.social

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she/her. trans and proud of it. software engineer. functional programmer. #jj-vcs, #elixir, #rustlang pragmatist big on civic tech and social democracy has takes about too many subjects product of Somerville and Lexington, MA

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · Jan 29

don't let your sadness become despair and don't let your righteous anger become interpersonal nastiness, I've been seeing both a lot lately and we're going to need to avoid these if we want to have any hope of building a future for America rooted in love and justice instead of cruelty and cynicism.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

I made signs expressing points of disagreement with the government

Guy holding posters of Indiana Jones captioned “Professors: Good; Nazis bad”

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 7h

Free Charles street from cars.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

Michelle Wu has the sauce, I don’t get why people don’t talk about her as a national figure more

Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 7h

Michelle Wu’s address at No Kings was basically “We are actually awesome, cities like this and LA and Chicago are what make America great and that bothers some people” lol

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

That's right, it's funded by Israel

Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 7h

Andrew Cuomo says the DSA is funded by "Middle East money."

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20h

goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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Jerome @fjerome.bsky.social · 7h

We comin

Sign saying “this is our fucking city” with David Ortiz hitting Trump out of the park

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 9h

Little old ladies fedposting on signs in public. I do not regret to inform you that we are going to make it

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 9h

Immortan Chu

Pikachu plush wearing an Immortan Joe mask in a chair on the sidewalk

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 9h

Bluesky is real life.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Poster

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 9h

Especially when you’re not even playing on a Lighthouse Passage.

boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 9h

I really like Trials of Osiris as a game mode but it’s the worst feeling ever when you’re losing and one of your teammates quits because they’ve decided you’re not worth playing with.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

without any feedback on what actually works, though, it's basically just daydreaming about solutions.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

I think they really need an oracle of some kind to be remotely useful for most things, which is why I am skeptical about them being immediately useful outside of software. But software has oracles everywhere: compiler error, test failure, program crash, etc.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

what I'm saying is that it generally takes me more than one attempt to write a program that works, so having another one that doesn't is at worst an illustration of what not to do, which is still useful.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

And if socialists and communists want to show up I think they should but I think they should try to use their signs and chants to make it clear it's not kings it's capital and capitalists.

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 1d

In a well-ordered universe, saying that socialists and communists don't think kings are a meaningful problem compared to capital would cause Marx to rise from the grave and beat you to death with a hardcover copy of Capital

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2d

"The anti-capitalist left should go to the no kings protests....to rebut them!" is peak. Pack it up, we're done

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 2d

sky when somebody with an account more than three years old posts weird

thufir hawat thinks so hard he goes blind. happens to me too but when i’m thinking about beautiful women and not accounting

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

HPE salesguy

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 2d

ok here's my nyc policy idea: create the post of Chief Weirdo. The job goes to an iconic freak whose job it is to maintain our world-leading weirdo levels. Curtis Sliwa can be the inaugural officeholder

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

I think this chart is kinda weird though because I'm not sure there's actually anyone in the upper right quadrant.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

left side, leaning blue. how far blue depends on the day, some days I'm like at the bottom and other days I'm closer to the middle, but I rarely feel like this is going to be net-positive.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

interesting exercise, where do you land on this?

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

i think this is somewhat inverted from what's going on mathematically but i believe it's a useful mental model.

boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

the way I think about it is that the prompt is a function between the model and the result you're looking for. if you don't know what result you're looking for, the only way to write a function that produces it is by accident.

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boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

it's still mildly shocking to see it solve a problem like I would, but frankly it doesn't need to do that to be valuable. it just needs to make some of my mistakes for me to save time.

boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

here's the thing: even when an LLM fails to solve the problem it is tasked with, it still produces an exploration of the solution space which is useful in its own right, and which humans have to spend approximately no time making themselves.

boo-atrix 👻 @beatrix.bsky.social · 1d

My experience is along the lines of "it is more or less trivial to one-shot simple scripts with little to no experience, and takes more effort and skill to do a lot of realistic software engineering tasks in mature codebases".

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