Derek Devnich
@devnich.bsky.social
Provisional wing of the Moomins.
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It’s really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it’s clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it’s all “please don’t forget you have to feed your troops” and “if someone asks if you’re going to attack them consider lying about it”
April 23, 2024 at 5:28 AM
It’s really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it’s clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it’s all “please don’t forget you have to feed your troops” and “if someone asks if you’re going to attack them consider lying about it”
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techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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column in this week's New World on Brigitte Macron calling feminist campaigners "sales connes", and the difficulties of translation: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
column in this week's New World on Brigitte Macron calling feminist campaigners "sales connes", and the difficulties of translation: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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we had little league which was fun and localized and essentially free but no one was getting rich off it so now we have travel ball which sucks and everyone hates but thats what we have
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
we had little league which was fun and localized and essentially free but no one was getting rich off it so now we have travel ball which sucks and everyone hates but thats what we have
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ive had an epiphany that everything is travel ball now, we are living in the travel ball-ification of everything that was fun in america
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ive had an epiphany that everything is travel ball now, we are living in the travel ball-ification of everything that was fun in america
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gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law
December 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
gravy boats imply the existence of gravy maritime law
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They fine-tuned an LLM specifically only by feeding it out-of-date bird names, and it started talking like it lived in the 19th century
December 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They fine-tuned an LLM specifically only by feeding it out-of-date bird names, and it started talking like it lived in the 19th century
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Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
December 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hey Millennials, you should congratulate Gen Alpha on their first successful kill
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Tortellini raise a question that I believe can only be answered by exploring a "dumpling space"
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Tortellini raise a question that I believe can only be answered by exploring a "dumpling space"
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Here’s a model: It all starts on the slurry - assemblage continuum. from there determine if you’ve reached the wellington- sandwich frontier, and then you simply apply pure logic and reason. qed.
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Here’s a model: It all starts on the slurry - assemblage continuum. from there determine if you’ve reached the wellington- sandwich frontier, and then you simply apply pure logic and reason. qed.
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This description of a cursed magic rock from an ancient (1981) issue of DRAGON magazine is just a cell phone.
December 2, 2024 at 5:52 AM
This description of a cursed magic rock from an ancient (1981) issue of DRAGON magazine is just a cell phone.
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Or there’s also this. I am full of helpful explications. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Or there’s also this. I am full of helpful explications. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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One of the great joys of growing up in America is having doctors not diagnose your problem correctly for decades and relying on ideas to treat yourself in the short-term from Reddit poster GloomyBasket-57, the only person in the thread not talking about the dangers of aluminum in your deodorant.
December 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One of the great joys of growing up in America is having doctors not diagnose your problem correctly for decades and relying on ideas to treat yourself in the short-term from Reddit poster GloomyBasket-57, the only person in the thread not talking about the dangers of aluminum in your deodorant.
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the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation.
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity
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This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This bird’s greed delights me
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In Grape Leap Forward, China’s Answer To France’s Reign Of Terroir. vino-joy.com/2025/11/03/m...
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In Grape Leap Forward, China’s Answer To France’s Reign Of Terroir. vino-joy.com/2025/11/03/m...
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I’m no expert, but I’ve seen this paper described as an important justification for claims about the safety of Roundup. And now it has been retracted by the journal it appeared in. 🧪
RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy)This article has b…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I’m no expert, but I’ve seen this paper described as an important justification for claims about the safety of Roundup. And now it has been retracted by the journal it appeared in. 🧪
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
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Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Previously, these belief systems tended to collapse under their own weight. Contradictions and memory gaps made them hard to sustain. Now the AI removes that friction, it produces timelines, summaries, and "forensic" explanations on demand.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now
September 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now