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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 13h

terra invicta... said trans rights...?

one of the in-game organizations as "Sex Change Company". it gives research income and is headquartered in Seattle

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 19h

got my tickets for the Halloween rave and for the post-Halloween rave

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 20h

General contractors will really just text you "can i bring a couple subs over"

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 21h

"At the time of the detainment, ICE had no knowledge of the individual’s age.” for a 13 year old

MassLive @masslive.bsky.social · 21h

Mass. 13-year-old was picked up by ICE after a police interaction and now he’s hundreds of miles from home

Judge orders release by Tuesday unless ICE can show grounds for continued detention of the Everett minor who was taken into custody after police interaction.

www.masslive.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

terra invicta randomly generated landing site name:

Yuri Chaos

Yuri Chaos, a landing site on the main belt asteroid 372 Palma

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

one single step that would do a lot to improve reputation of LLMs would be for Google to abandon AI Mode like they do with all of their other products

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 1d

What's holding back the plague of venture capital in Europe? Well, it turns out the VCs can't get the pension fund money. That's where a lotta the money going to these AI companies is coming from - your pensions. pitchbook.com/news/article...

Europe's pension problem is constraining VC ambitions - PitchBook

The continent's retirement funds manage $3.4T in assets yet only allocate 0.1% to VC.

pitchbook.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 1d

I'm not invested in this but crazy to have an artist publicly undermine another artist's gig like this. You say that you're thrilled it's the other person, you're gonna watch it, you've always respected their work, whatever

NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 1d

She said the decision not to perform is hers and hers alone. on.nbcboston.com/JGBo7JT

Taylor Swift explains why she's not doing the Super Bowl halftime show

Taylor Swift isn’t about to mix business with pleasure.

on.nbcboston.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

discriminatory against autism that resumes don't have a section for rarest video game achievements

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

whatever, no more tech posting. time for Terra Invicta

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

whatever, no more tech posting. time for Terra Invicta

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

What if in 5 years:

- AI agents write all code, the skill that matters is design specs?

- LLM-written lean/coq for all programs; knowing those tools matters

- Programs are just big trained models. Coding doesn't matter.

- All coding/ops automated, only human liability matters. Law degree matters

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

When you use this stuff today you're: picking between a few agents that won't be relevant within 6 months, setting prompts that won't necessarily be effective or relevant for new agents, tweaking an editor you might not use in a year.

Come on, that's a fucking joke. Emacs config tier "skill".

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

Another side to this discussion is that there is *no* indication that any current "use LLMs to code" technology is even going to be relevant in 5 years.

Like, what are people talking about mechanically when you say that developers need to get experience with it ASAP to get ahead?

cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

If there's a narrow window of opportunity where adopting AI/LLMs early even matters... that actually makes tailoring your learning and workflows to them a *terrible* investment, not a good one!

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

In rapidly changing fields having years of experience can easily become a liability, too. If I saw a candidate with "20 years of C++ experience" I would not assume they're the most experienced candidate at *contemporary* C++

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

Are people who early adopted smartphones at a huge advantage in using them? No, not at all, because they're easy to learn. Most "smartphone jobs" don't even go to early adopters.

Skills that are about to be universal are more like "keeping up with professional standards", not exciting.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

If you're right about these technologies reaching wide adoption this quickly, then your skills will no longer be differentiated in just a year or two. (When was the last time you saw "internet user" on a resume?)

So, only a year or two to realize any benefit from being an "early adopter".

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

If there's a narrow window of opportunity where adopting AI/LLMs early even matters... that actually makes tailoring your learning and workflows to them a *terrible* investment, not a good one!

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

Twitter used to have multiple different ways of special casing celebrity or other high-follower accounts. It feels inelegant but that's what happens architecturally when you need to build the "same" experience for multiple-orders-of-magnitude scale differences.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 2d

howard jones is one of my favorite new wave performers because he regularly and meaningfully incorporated Buddhism into his work, even knowing this would make it much less popular

[Verse 2]
Can anybody love anyone so much that they will never fear?
Never worry never be sad
The answer is they cannot love this much nobody can
This is why I don't mind you doubting

[Pre-Chorus]
What is love anyway
Does anybody love anybody anyway
What is love anyway
Does anybody love anybody anyway

[Verse 3]
And maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be
The door always must be left unlocked
To love when circumstance may lead someone away from you
And not to spend the time just doubting

Wikipedia: In the media
Jones has spoken of the media's negative perception of him. In 2006, he said: "My songs are not about drug-taking or debauchery or rock and roll. They're about positive thinking and challenging people's ideas. I wasn't fashionable. I never got good reviews. But I'm proud of the fact that I wasn't liked by the media ... Pop music is so reactionary and bigoted. And I found that what's 'cool' is often very shallow and transient."[22]

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2d

I lived in San Francisco for almost a decade and I never, once, understood why anyone ever referred to the place as progressive. The modal San Francisco politics, across all lines of class or creed, is "Make San Francsico Great Again". Deeply regressive breeding ground for far-right attitudes.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3d

Amazing work by @neselsd.bsky.social and the rest of the @psymposia.bsky.social team reporting on SV hijacking of psychedelic research initiatives via takeover of nonprofits

This is your archetypal right wing tech-money influence network, documented with tons of primary sources

Neşe Devenot, PhD @neselsd.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry"

Now on @Psymposia's website in four parts.

www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

The Psychedelic Syndicate: Executive Summary

A year-long investigation reveals how a small group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic therapy industry — using a network of affiliated organizations to scapegoat critics whi

www.psymposia.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3d

What if the Minoan palace culture simply had bad vibes or was unpleasant to be around

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3d

boring: listing Harvard on the resume as "Cambridge, MA"

petty: listing Harvard on the resume as "Boston, MA" because that's the closest metro

spicy: listing Harvard on the resume as "Somerville, MA" because that's where I lived at the time

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 3d

POV: it's tariff time

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