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@joi-itos-jibo.bsky.social
Replyguy to the rich and famous. Engineer. Robots and urbanism on MA's north shore.
A diminishing number of our problems can be solved with technology.
Verified by Molly Shah.
A diminishing number of our problems can be solved with technology.
Verified by Molly Shah.
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last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"
anyways, great news! (1/X)
anyways, great news! (1/X)
Neighbor removed the MAGA sticker from his truck, I’ll take the positive indicators where I can get them
August 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Neighbor removed the MAGA sticker from his truck, I’ll take the positive indicators where I can get them
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Memo to republicans in Congress: this will be you next unless you impeach and remove this would-be dictator now while you still have the chance
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FBI searches home of former national security adviser John Bolton reports say: Live updates
The FBI was searching the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, who has become a critic of President Trump, according to news reports.
www.usatoday.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Memo to republicans in Congress: this will be you next unless you impeach and remove this would-be dictator now while you still have the chance
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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We still havent had our tom hanks has covid moment with ice
August 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We still havent had our tom hanks has covid moment with ice
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I mean it's literally the stuff of 1000 sci-fi stories where scientists discover an alien species or whatever and then The Big Evil Corporation comes in and says "okay whatever, scientific breakthrough yadda yadda, but how can we sell them? Maybe food? Maybe weapons?" That's what's happening
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I mean it's literally the stuff of 1000 sci-fi stories where scientists discover an alien species or whatever and then The Big Evil Corporation comes in and says "okay whatever, scientific breakthrough yadda yadda, but how can we sell them? Maybe food? Maybe weapons?" That's what's happening
Amazing timing for my town to have fireworks the first night my girls are in beds and not cribs
August 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Amazing timing for my town to have fireworks the first night my girls are in beds and not cribs
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
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So I started a new blog (it almost actually works, RSS is a WIP and I'm fighting with email sending tonight).
Wrote a thing just now, because I kinda got sideswiped when a Normal Person (not a Normal Man) LLMed about me and it all feels like it bodes ill.
RTs appreciated.
ed3d.net/blog/posts/w...
Wrote a thing just now, because I kinda got sideswiped when a Normal Person (not a Normal Man) LLMed about me and it all feels like it bodes ill.
RTs appreciated.
ed3d.net/blog/posts/w...
Well-Intentioned Obscenity
An LLM lied about me at the office, and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in h...
ed3d.net
August 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
So I started a new blog (it almost actually works, RSS is a WIP and I'm fighting with email sending tonight).
Wrote a thing just now, because I kinda got sideswiped when a Normal Person (not a Normal Man) LLMed about me and it all feels like it bodes ill.
RTs appreciated.
ed3d.net/blog/posts/w...
Wrote a thing just now, because I kinda got sideswiped when a Normal Person (not a Normal Man) LLMed about me and it all feels like it bodes ill.
RTs appreciated.
ed3d.net/blog/posts/w...
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the idea, by the way, was that AI adoption sometimes functions as a kind of “tracer dye”: it can reveal the places in institutions and structures where things have already broken down and a bad “fix” is being used for an actual problem it can’t solve but that still needs to be fixed
August 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
the idea, by the way, was that AI adoption sometimes functions as a kind of “tracer dye”: it can reveal the places in institutions and structures where things have already broken down and a bad “fix” is being used for an actual problem it can’t solve but that still needs to be fixed
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it isn't very much of any of those things! why can people not accept that the problem with this technology is what it does
AI isn't magic. AI is land, real estate, and energy.
Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.
Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.
Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.
August 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
it isn't very much of any of those things! why can people not accept that the problem with this technology is what it does
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in which David Mamet walks out on @samfragoso.bsky.social for questioning his stance on the Columbia protests vs J6 insurrectionists
David Mamet Has Left the Building | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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August 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
in which David Mamet walks out on @samfragoso.bsky.social for questioning his stance on the Columbia protests vs J6 insurrectionists
Bortoleto building a gap ahead of Verstappen? I’ll take it
August 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Bortoleto building a gap ahead of Verstappen? I’ll take it
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oh my god. around midnight last night, CPD flooded an occupied, 61-unit apartment building with tear gas and pepper spray to try to force one guy out.
it didn’t work! the guy’s still there! but they did make a bunch of people sick and displaced instead
it didn’t work! the guy’s still there! but they did make a bunch of people sick and displaced instead
August 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
oh my god. around midnight last night, CPD flooded an occupied, 61-unit apartment building with tear gas and pepper spray to try to force one guy out.
it didn’t work! the guy’s still there! but they did make a bunch of people sick and displaced instead
it didn’t work! the guy’s still there! but they did make a bunch of people sick and displaced instead
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This is something I fervently believe, our problems are stark and awful but eminently fixable with a few sustained congressional majorities willing to govern, which is both not much and also seems impossible
There isn't really a political problem in the states that couldn't be solved with a decade of constructive rule
August 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is something I fervently believe, our problems are stark and awful but eminently fixable with a few sustained congressional majorities willing to govern, which is both not much and also seems impossible
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Everyone in robotics should take a year off
July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Everyone in robotics should take a year off
I emailed Aventon to ask a customer service question and they responded a day later with a receipt for free new parts. Solid e-bike customer service- bike has been out of warranty for a bit.
July 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I emailed Aventon to ask a customer service question and they responded a day later with a receipt for free new parts. Solid e-bike customer service- bike has been out of warranty for a bit.
ALEX ALBON
July 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
ALEX ALBON
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continue to think we are in the very early stages of thermostatic opinion on this and they are already not prepared to handle young blonde white woman screaming get a real fucking job
July 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
continue to think we are in the very early stages of thermostatic opinion on this and they are already not prepared to handle young blonde white woman screaming get a real fucking job
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just absolutely incredible the extent to which the Post is falling apart
Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout.
This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
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This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them:
wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Opinion | 11 tips for becoming a columnist
Here’s my advice for handling the awesome responsibility of this job.
wapo.st
July 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
just absolutely incredible the extent to which the Post is falling apart
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anyone who actually works on this stuff could have told them to their face that it wouldn't work. novel drugs are by definition out-of-distribution, and models respond to out-of-distribution prompts with hallucination! what do they think they are doing here!
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
anyone who actually works on this stuff could have told them to their face that it wouldn't work. novel drugs are by definition out-of-distribution, and models respond to out-of-distribution prompts with hallucination! what do they think they are doing here!
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
July 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
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Automatic speed enforcement "is not adopted or illegal in 25 out of 50 states, even though it has greater public support than is commonly perceived."
"65% of respondents believe their community should vote for automated speed enforcement."
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"65% of respondents believe their community should vote for automated speed enforcement."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Automatic speed enforcement "is not adopted or illegal in 25 out of 50 states, even though it has greater public support than is commonly perceived."
"65% of respondents believe their community should vote for automated speed enforcement."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
"65% of respondents believe their community should vote for automated speed enforcement."
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...