Evelyn
@evelynmitchell.bsky.social
Open Source, Mountain Time. Machine Learning. Linux Ops. Sometime painter. Friend to dogs. Cat servant.
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"somewhere near the core of Technopoly is a vast industry with license to use all available symbols to further the interests of commerce, by devouring the psyches of consumers"
- Neil Postman, 1992
- Neil Postman, 1992
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"somewhere near the core of Technopoly is a vast industry with license to use all available symbols to further the interests of commerce, by devouring the psyches of consumers"
- Neil Postman, 1992
- Neil Postman, 1992
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The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life. An Essay by @karenlloyd.bsky.social
The discovery of aeonophiles expands our definition of life | Aeon Essays
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life
aeon.co
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life. An Essay by @karenlloyd.bsky.social
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"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia."
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia."
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....
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favorite prompt lately: reread the file and review it for consistency
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
favorite prompt lately: reread the file and review it for consistency
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GPT 5.2 is now included in our R code generation eval! The -Pro version is slightly SoTA at a substantially higher price point than similar performers.
Read more: skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud
Read more: skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud
December 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
GPT 5.2 is now included in our R code generation eval! The -Pro version is slightly SoTA at a substantially higher price point than similar performers.
Read more: skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud
Read more: skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud
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At my niece’s wedding, where I learned she and her husband’s moms were waitresses together at several restaurants near Hudson, WI, pregnant at the same time, and they used to joke about what if their kids got married someday. They met working at the same bar.
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
At my niece’s wedding, where I learned she and her husband’s moms were waitresses together at several restaurants near Hudson, WI, pregnant at the same time, and they used to joke about what if their kids got married someday. They met working at the same bar.
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To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.
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'tap' is a big deal for backend devs!
it gives you more of the benefits of AT, and makes the interface simpler at the same time.
it makes backfill easy enough that you can re-index the network as part of your ops workflow. handles re-synchronization so you never miss a record event...
it gives you more of the benefits of AT, and makes the interface simpler at the same time.
it makes backfill easy enough that you can re-index the network as part of your ops workflow. handles re-synchronization so you never miss a record event...
finally landed it!
Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all!
give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues
docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...
Tap is your all-in-one sync tool for the Atmosphere: webhooks, backfill, filtering, signaling collections, no cbor/msts/signatures/cursors. this thing's got it all!
give it a go and let me know what you think & if you run into any issues
docs.bsky.app/blog/introdu...
Introducing Tap: Repository Synchronization Made Simple | Bluesky
Just about every app built on AT needs data from a repository at some point. For many use cases – feed generators, labelers, bots – streaming live data through a Relay or Jetstream works well. But som...
docs.bsky.app
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
'tap' is a big deal for backend devs!
it gives you more of the benefits of AT, and makes the interface simpler at the same time.
it makes backfill easy enough that you can re-index the network as part of your ops workflow. handles re-synchronization so you never miss a record event...
it gives you more of the benefits of AT, and makes the interface simpler at the same time.
it makes backfill easy enough that you can re-index the network as part of your ops workflow. handles re-synchronization so you never miss a record event...
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This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
December 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
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29% weight loss, 71 pounds!
That what the triple receptor GLP-1 drug retatrutide achieved in a placebo-controlled trial
Plus 3-fold complete relief of knee osteoarthritis pain
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
That what the triple receptor GLP-1 drug retatrutide achieved in a placebo-controlled trial
Plus 3-fold complete relief of knee osteoarthritis pain
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
Major Weight Loss and Knee-Pain Relief Seen With New Eli Lilly Drug
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
29% weight loss, 71 pounds!
That what the triple receptor GLP-1 drug retatrutide achieved in a placebo-controlled trial
Plus 3-fold complete relief of knee osteoarthritis pain
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
That what the triple receptor GLP-1 drug retatrutide achieved in a placebo-controlled trial
Plus 3-fold complete relief of knee osteoarthritis pain
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/h...
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"...and 3 mcdoubles"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"...and 3 mcdoubles"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
💀"WITH NO PICKLES"💀
"...with no pickles please"
💀"GRINCH SALT"💀
"yes of course your holiness"
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has everyone already made the joke about bluesky complying with australia's new social media policy for minors simply by dint of the nature of its existing userbase
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
has everyone already made the joke about bluesky complying with australia's new social media policy for minors simply by dint of the nature of its existing userbase
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For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.
Swear your oath ON the dome.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.
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'pydistcheck' (github.com/jameslamb/py...) is a CLI for finding portability issues in packages (wheels, sdists, and conda packages). Stuff like "file is too big" and "compiled objects have debug symbols". v0.11.0 now available 😁
(example in thread)
(example in thread)
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
'pydistcheck' (github.com/jameslamb/py...) is a CLI for finding portability issues in packages (wheels, sdists, and conda packages). Stuff like "file is too big" and "compiled objects have debug symbols". v0.11.0 now available 😁
(example in thread)
(example in thread)
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
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Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar • Everyone seems to love this #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery, she breathed (2018). It appears on the cover of the anthology Sharp Notions arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Shar...
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Day 8 #ArtAdventCalendar • Everyone seems to love this #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery, she breathed (2018). It appears on the cover of the anthology Sharp Notions arsenalpulp.com/Books/S/Shar...
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Will be of interest to quite a few I know - new Open Access book "The Visual Life of Climate Change" by Saffron O’Neill, critiquing the often formulaic imagery of climate change, and presenting a manifesto for opening up its visual discourse. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...
December 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Will be of interest to quite a few I know - new Open Access book "The Visual Life of Climate Change" by Saffron O’Neill, critiquing the often formulaic imagery of climate change, and presenting a manifesto for opening up its visual discourse. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...
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Cults looove appearance control.
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Cults looove appearance control.
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New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
martin.kleppmann.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
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I swear, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social get the dumbest scam attempts.
The popular one these days is someone who wants, like, 100 copies of the exact same title. Not a distro, not a school, not a store, just some rando.
Like... bro. Normal people don't do that.
The popular one these days is someone who wants, like, 100 copies of the exact same title. Not a distro, not a school, not a store, just some rando.
Like... bro. Normal people don't do that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I swear, @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social get the dumbest scam attempts.
The popular one these days is someone who wants, like, 100 copies of the exact same title. Not a distro, not a school, not a store, just some rando.
Like... bro. Normal people don't do that.
The popular one these days is someone who wants, like, 100 copies of the exact same title. Not a distro, not a school, not a store, just some rando.
Like... bro. Normal people don't do that.
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Lmfao
mcp is bananas, we are literally doing rpc over markdown here
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Lmfao
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On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
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Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
December 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Did you or someone you know dance on Soul Train in the 1970s?
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
I’d like to talk with you or them about that experience for my research
Thanks!
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A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Byron Cook is incredibly sharp, and just a nice guy in general.
A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Byron Cook is incredibly sharp, and just a nice guy in general.