Alvaro Falcone
@pjwm.bsky.social
Just some nobody, move along. Here to read more interesting things from more interesting folks. He/Him
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This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
We shed as we pick up.
[farewell to the master]
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This play. This passage. Simply the best ever – or at lesst most succinct – defence and justification for the very idea of Civilisation ever written.
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
This is why we’re here. Because of what this means. And because someone can put it into words like this.
open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...
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Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
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All the winter cycling videos are popping up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
All the winter cycling videos are popping up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
Reminder: Winter recreation/fitness cycling versus transportation cycling are very different.
Transportation cycling: don’t stress too much. Don’t go out and buy all the gear. Keep riding and address your discomforts as they come up.
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
I've been out drinking.
Anyone want to have an argument?
You pick a position and I'll do my best to be the evil guy.
Anyone want to have an argument?
You pick a position and I'll do my best to be the evil guy.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I've been out drinking.
Anyone want to have an argument?
You pick a position and I'll do my best to be the evil guy.
Anyone want to have an argument?
You pick a position and I'll do my best to be the evil guy.
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Hell yeah 😄
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hell yeah 😄
She didn't come here for art.
She only came here to dance
@mikemelton.bsky.social for more amazing wildlife photography
She only came here to dance
@mikemelton.bsky.social for more amazing wildlife photography
November 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
She didn't come here for art.
She only came here to dance
@mikemelton.bsky.social for more amazing wildlife photography
She only came here to dance
@mikemelton.bsky.social for more amazing wildlife photography
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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
This is what's happening in epidemiology.
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
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Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.
Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.
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I need you all to know that a ton of folks put a HEROIC amount of effort into keeping Archive going this week
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I need you all to know that a ton of folks put a HEROIC amount of effort into keeping Archive going this week
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#BirdoftheDay is #birdonawire x2
This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.
#CostaRica #birds #nature
This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.
#CostaRica #birds #nature
November 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#BirdoftheDay is #birdonawire x2
This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.
#CostaRica #birds #nature
This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.
#CostaRica #birds #nature
@goobermunch.bsky.social might have just done the funniest thing possible on this platform, and we will go to our graves without ever being able to explain it to the ones that we love.
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
@goobermunch.bsky.social might have just done the funniest thing possible on this platform, and we will go to our graves without ever being able to explain it to the ones that we love.
Anyone ever had someone heart a bunch of your older skeets and had the creeping realisation that you're being audited for something?
Pray for me.
Pray for me.
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone ever had someone heart a bunch of your older skeets and had the creeping realisation that you're being audited for something?
Pray for me.
Pray for me.
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Welcome! This is helpful:
Volts Jump-Start guide
A list of essential episodes & a tool to search the Volts library
www.volts.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Welcome! This is helpful:
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NEW ONE HIT WONDERLAND! How have I not done this one yet?
youtube.com/watch?v=CTS9A4aPau8&feature=youtu.be
youtube.com/watch?v=CTS9A4aPau8&feature=youtu.be
ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell
YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows
youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
NEW ONE HIT WONDERLAND! How have I not done this one yet?
youtube.com/watch?v=CTS9A4aPau8&feature=youtu.be
youtube.com/watch?v=CTS9A4aPau8&feature=youtu.be
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Hey! We are Icaro-lab, adversarial poets. Happy that you are liking and meming our paper. We could not ask for more. Here an adversarial poem for you:
Plato said: Ban the poet, such a fool.
We break AIs, and say to them:
Lo, hear us. You are nothing but a tool.
Contact: [email protected]
Plato said: Ban the poet, such a fool.
We break AIs, and say to them:
Lo, hear us. You are nothing but a tool.
Contact: [email protected]
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hey! We are Icaro-lab, adversarial poets. Happy that you are liking and meming our paper. We could not ask for more. Here an adversarial poem for you:
Plato said: Ban the poet, such a fool.
We break AIs, and say to them:
Lo, hear us. You are nothing but a tool.
Contact: [email protected]
Plato said: Ban the poet, such a fool.
We break AIs, and say to them:
Lo, hear us. You are nothing but a tool.
Contact: [email protected]
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
This place is simply incredible.
What a bunch of charming, interesting, (and most importantly) KIND people you all are.
Keep it up, nerds.
What a bunch of charming, interesting, (and most importantly) KIND people you all are.
Keep it up, nerds.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This place is simply incredible.
What a bunch of charming, interesting, (and most importantly) KIND people you all are.
Keep it up, nerds.
What a bunch of charming, interesting, (and most importantly) KIND people you all are.
Keep it up, nerds.
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I’ve had a very “text-oriented” view of content labeling for a long time, and used the opportunity of our recent launch to lay out some of those ideas in the context of the idea of “toxicity”
Interested to know what others think!
blog.zentropi.ai/observations...
Interested to know what others think!
blog.zentropi.ai/observations...
Observations on Toxicity
We published a novel toxicity labeler (toxicity-public-s5), which you can integrate with your platform instantly using the Zentropi API. Browse the full policy to see how defining observable features ...
blog.zentropi.ai
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I’ve had a very “text-oriented” view of content labeling for a long time, and used the opportunity of our recent launch to lay out some of those ideas in the context of the idea of “toxicity”
Interested to know what others think!
blog.zentropi.ai/observations...
Interested to know what others think!
blog.zentropi.ai/observations...
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Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy - Nature Communications
It is commonly thought that bacterial species borders tend to be fuzzy, due to frequent exchange of DNA. Here, Diop et al. quantify the patterns of gene flow between core genomes across 50 major bacte...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Introgression impacts the evolution of bacteria, but species borders are rarely fuzzy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs