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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 8h

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 8h

Cutting dough with a razor like a vulva call that the yeast infection

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 9h

"hey can you plan out the week and put it on the board?"
"Yeah sure let me submit it"

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 9h

I did not follow his advice and am now weak and sickly and surrounded by invading armies to my west

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 9h

As Sun Tzu said "While ill merely pretend to eat the greasy, fatty food to fool your enemy into thinking you cannot take care of yourself"

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 11h

These are the sort of things that feel like they'd scare some of the walled garden hopes to me lmsys.org/blog/2025-10...

NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference | LMSYS Org

<p>Thanks to NVIDIA’s early access program, we are thrilled to get our hands on the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark. It’s quite an unconventional system, as NVIDIA rarely ...

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 13h

Hmmmm, earth looks a little different

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 1d

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/
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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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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 19h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 19h

Did t like wings of desire so turned it off and switched to the Americans friend which I like more

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 1d

Disco Elysium screenshot, wherein I am extremely rude to Harry (who I would... maybe?... date? but it isn't his looks it's more that he's self-destructive and also wearing piss-stained trousers)

Dialog as follows:

MIRROR - What are you doing with your die, why is your shirt hanging open like laundry on the line...

What does it even *mean*? What is the message you're trying to convey?

YOU - I'm twenty years old. My breasts are juicy and succulent. I am a god damn verdant field waiting to be ploughed, in a *tired 5 acres and an aging mule* kind of way. I possess a certain charm.

MIRROR - That might have been true thirty years ago, but the plot is fallow and the farmer left you for a larger, newer, factory-owned operation.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Impossible: Failure] - It's too late. Like an illuminated masterpiece by the modern master Thomas Kinkade, your value isn't what it used to be. You're dusty, poorly framed, and have lost the fleeting, almost quixotic appeal you had in the 90's.

The jugs have been milked, and you're no dairy maid. You're the mule.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

My cats food pyramid is fishy crackers, cardboard, plastic, pecorino, and french herbs

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Well at least president pedophile illegally paying the troops is offset by his absolute desire to use the moon to determine tariff policy

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

What's your general feel for how The Military™ feels about this or is it just like hey we got paid

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Posting my crimes online for all to see

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

gay

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

And away by the sea that was red
Little Moses the servant of God
While in him confided
The sea was divided
As upward he lifted his rod

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely soak the rich with this one weird trick

panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's an anti corruption angle someone could do where when crypto bottoms out because it's built into the protocol (energy costs rise above mining return or speculation dies) that chasing after all the crypto pump and dump scams to hand out checks to losers is halfway to good politics

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Idk if it's much of a script but setting typewriter mode (scrolloff = 999) and j/k to gj and gk to move by row are my like two favorite settings lol

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Not even sure who's playing or being played anymore lol

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panic! at the alamo @buffaloshuffle.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and Jusant, the Death Stranding genre of just wandering around dealing with mail grows

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