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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 09/10/2026

if spam bots did not exist it would be necessary for libs to invent them

someone posting "I’m all for a T-***** artist (or a whole team of them!) stealing this idea and making shirts for sale, maybe even to benefit particular causes…"

barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 07/10/2026

Some LLMs accidentally evolved better math ability. Those were artificially selected because of their benchmark performance (and the rest were killed). This is the reverse of the creationism vs. evolution debate: people ignore the creation process and claim that it's an innate LLM ability.

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 05/10/2026

learn to fish? nah I'll order the fish dinner please!

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 05/10/2026

a ball came off his racquet? that's what you're going with?

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 02/10/2026

but sir, yapping is my primary capability!

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Explain how that happens" is a legitimate request! And critique! I am happy to explain all sorts of ways LLMs could hurt humanity, but all of those explanation involve careless people doing careless things. Not rogue software. I do not like this moment in time where nobody cares how things work.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As the opposite of a computer toucher, I sometimes worry that I'm not keeping up with the development of things. Luckily, I'm smart enough to realize that if the "most dangerous" LLMs need warehouses full of GPUs to function, they can't just "break out" and start running on random PCs.

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 11/09/2026

you're the one telling people they're supporting slavery on the Arabian peninsula

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 11/09/2026

^ wait until this guy finds out about the human rights record of the glorious Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 09/09/2026

congrats on having the exact take liberals have, the reason why they continually find themselves beaten

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 09/09/2026

you're projecting onto him the fact that you didn't know the impact

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HK @henrykrinkle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 08/09/2026

b-but that's a proscribed action!

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phylan @phylan.website · 08/09/2026

"my LLM is so powerful it's dangerous and risks breaking containment!" "ok let's destroy it" "oh, haha, no. no." "let's intensively regulate your company then" "oh, no. no. look can you just put it in the newspaper that it's powerful"

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 05/09/2026

we can speak truth to power by *squints* rigorously enforcing the league salary cap

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 04/09/2026

subsidize demand for car dealership owners, who will pass that surplus on to GOP campaigns... brilliant

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 27/08/2026

it's just that, there's no such thing as a swarm, they are all running in central data centers, and someone is paying to hit the "go" button every time. it's not autonomous!

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 26/08/2026

I'm so glad we have stacked PRs, I need actions to run on each rebased one-line commit from my agent

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 17/08/2026

having a genAI logo seems on-brand

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 13/08/2026

failed the tutorial mission of Scientology Speed Run by alerting all the guards

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 12/08/2026

same as when they protected privacy by banning Chinese 5G providers and allowing western ones to continue violating privacy

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Josh @jman4747.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I wonder how many people will see this and never know that, so far, at least some of the solutions have been found to build off of and plagiarize existing work without siting it? Everyone always sees the press release but never the debunk that comes later: archive.ph/JCl4g#select...

The discovery stunned Francesco Fournier-Facio, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, who studies group theory—at least until he “engaged with this breakthrough as I would if a human had written it,” he says. The result, he and some of his colleagues found, wasn’t as novel as it first appeared. Like a number of recent AI breakthroughs, it pasted together ideas from the mathematical literature to build a new theorem. Once again, the LLM’s trick is its superhuman patience for assembling puzzle pieces, not the ability to make some profound intellectual leap.
In particular, Astra’s key mathematical step combined ideas first found in two papers from 2016 and 2019. Andreas Thom, a mathematician at the Dresden University of Technology, who co-authored both papers, summarized the result on MathOverflow.com, calling it “creative and at the same time elementary.”
OpenAI’s initial press release seemed to ignore—or be completely unaware of—these crucial, recent developments. Fournier-Facio argues that the two preceding papers show humans had not hit a stalemate with the soficity problem. OpenAI’s mathematicians did their best to attribute these ideas correctly in their paper, he says. But, in spite of their good intentions, “there is the big PR machine that wants to sound as impressive as possible and does not care about being 100 percent accurate,” he says.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 06/08/2026

taping a "roombas don't go in this room" sign on a door then leaving the door open and then shooting my roomba with a gun for going through the door

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Think about it this way: what if your tax dollars were used to buy sophisticated surveillance equipment and guns, and then the cops never killed your dog? Wouldn’t you feel ripped off?

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 31/07/2026

there's only one question to ask: who's getting fired

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 23/07/2026

getting injected with medicine that fights disease 👎 getting injected with blood from a boy 👍

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 21/07/2026

"let me speak to the manager" type denial

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 21/07/2026

if they're as far north as Hellyer, freedom may be nigh

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 19/07/2026

you're gonna need at least 2 backups of the mf to survive the curse

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 16/07/2026

full article on MSN www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This isn't true, at least not yet. Most generative AI leaves very distinct digital signatures that aren't so hard to spot. That might not be true forever, of course, and things are changing fast ... but I strongly suspect we could tell the difference with relatively early generation image.

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 11/07/2026

since I had to look it up: Para 9 says US can't in the interim deploy any new forces in the region

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/07/2026

The orgniaziational disrespect of tacit knowledge as a standard practice in business culture, long pre-dating AI, is one manifestation of the social dynamics that would eventually fold into the post-information society.

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 05/07/2026

blue 👏 check 👏 mark 👏

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 03/07/2026

this is what happens when you're "skeptical of woo" in a way where you don't actually know what woo is and how it sustains itself in the world, making your skepticism toothless: a skepticism consisting not of robust analysis of difficult-to-integrate experiences, but of simply not having had any yet

Tyler and many colleagues felt skeptical of any hint of woo. But when they met Anna-Lisa, they agreed to stay the night anyway. “The next day, Anna-Lisa and her assistant practitioners gather us in a circle,” Tyler says. “We start out all making the same ‘huh!’ sound while synchronously throwing our hands toward the group. At the start, I made eyes with other Leveragers as if to say ‘get a load of this!’ but eventually, I started entering a trance-like state. Then Anna-Lisa brought me into the center and started waving her hands around my body, snapping, making little breathy sounds. I felt sensations starting to move through my body that made me shake. According to people watching, my body was instantaneously responding to even gestures that she made behind my back, which I couldn’t see.”

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 01/07/2026

weird I thought he moved the headquarters to Texas

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 27/06/2026

mercifully unplugging the precogs but there are 100 million of them and they're all children gambling on Instagram

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barbarism decliner @2names1scott.com · 24/06/2026

CPU manufacturers' favorite customers are the ones who do this!

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