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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3m

It certainly stopped aging in those sled dogs!

A Doll In Every Pot @tobellz.bsky.social · 4m

but the guy he bought it from said it stops aging!

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6m

"these edibles ain't shi---"

"my dear comrade, these are not edibles. they are in fact rejected bioweapons from project biopreparat, procured from a dodgy ex-GRU officer in a hong kong hotel room."

"i'm gonna.....start.....a podcast"

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12m

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12m

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12m

the irony of "you can just do things" taking off as a slogan is that it emerged from within an environment (Twitter) that was extremely structured to produce particular kinds of mass collective behavior

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13m

i keep on recommending this essay in spite of the fact that the de rigeuer neoliberalism stuff detracts from its point thebaffler.com/latest/high-...

High-Agency Individuals | James Vincent

The exhortation to “just do things” is in part a response to the specter of automation.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

it really is just Gambling

zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 1h

There is the obvious 'the boss is obsessively indexing on the level of the S&P500', but an indirect way that fate of MAGA and that of the current dominant culture in equity/risk markets are intimately related is a similar paranoid fear of being a loser justifying total indulgence wrt downside risk

Financial illiteracy @sparticuszorro.bsky.social · 17h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 11m

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"Google dropped its opposition."

(Think about the fight against KOSA and other such garbage.)

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 10m

Chat is it a good sign when the pope is quoting Arendt

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 40m

Bullshit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 12m

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 16m

Wouldn't surprise me if at some point one of those insane creeps literally rolled a d20 to pick the age of their next victim.

Alan Pennie @telston.bsky.social · 20m

You gotta treat me nice
I have a 20 - sided dice...

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 18m

What's worse, humans also probably perform addition via similarly cursed mechanisms.

I don't know exactly what's going on in my head when I do addition, but until I get to a number big enough where i have to crack out pen and paper, I'm pretty sure it's some bizarro vibe calc like this.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 56m

We did not tell LLMs, “implement addition using this algorithm.” It learned the algorithm upstream of next-token prediction

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Noah @ncallaway.bsky.social · 21m

My Dearest,

Indications are very strong that we shall move tomorrow.

O’er the ramparts their numbers are too many to count. Frogs, bears, and ‘corns as far as the eye can see.

I fear this letter may be my last. Know that if a Pooh should take my life, my last breath will be to whisper your name

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 46m

#WarRavagedChicago

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 1h

Getting banned from Epstein island after my first visit because I totally missed the subtext in the email chain and turned up with Catan and a load of D&D character sheets

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John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social · 2h

You have to admit, it’s kinda hilarious that these guys are all like, “remember, when we’re discussing all the noncing to do it in code, really obvious and really creepy code”

A screenshot from a bbc news story

“The Duke of York was in contact with the US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein longer than he had previously admitted, emails published in court documents appear to show.
"Keep in close touch and we'll play some more soon!!!!" said an email sent to Epstein from a "member of the British Royal Family", believed to be Prince Andrew.”

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25m

yeah the dumbest solution is just to put the two LLMs into chat and see if they gel. no muss no fuss. we had two simulated people and we simulated them at each other

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 38m

i would expect it to be aware of when i would find the other person annoying vs keep talking to them

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 38m

you could definitely predict if we got along in a text conversation given this, i think. it does do a pretty good job of having my energy in chat

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 53m

imho it was literally one of the most horrifying ones specifically because it does look like it's a good way to solve this problem optimally

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 53m

the closest proxy for "do these people like each other" is, if you have a good simulation of the person, just checking

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22m

allowing people to tweak and personalize their agent-representatives like tamogotchis could also be fun

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23m

i've said this before but "delegate matching to interacting agents" is probably the least painful way to make a modern dating app. if you're going to go the accursed route modern apps are, its best to just fully automate it

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