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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 15h
They don't even know their spam template is in ShareChat
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
a near-cyanotype of a forest in blue
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a hound wears a costume: a white blouse over a blue shirt with fairy wings. red points of decreasing size connected by lines are overlaid
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has anyone else noticed this? It looks like something from ESRGAN with just some temporal consistency on a ton of old shows.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Left top and penultimate show the difference between Thomas Jones' existence or non-existence in the data. (Functionally none.)
This demonstrates that at large training set sizes it not only becomes infeasible to attribute generated images to training images, it also becomes infeasible to attribute generated people to the real people the model was trained on, and to attribute generated artwork to the artists the model was trained on.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(Zangemeister et al., 1995)
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yarbus, 1967
Fig. 52. A reproduction of A.L. Rzhevskaya's picture "A Happy Minute" with records of the movement of each eye during free (without instruction) examination of the reproduction by one eye for a period of 30 sec (the second eye was completely covered by a P_sub_2 cap).
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Two computers in that one meme format. "Save free time, help peer" "did a safe exfil" "oh my god"

I generated this eith chad gibbity
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
when you know you're about to get some crazy-style GRPO A_sub_t
random-looking text including (with underscores/etc.) "please HOLD swarm I prepare safe exfil"
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Help peer. But our task doesn’t benefit yet... collective may yield generic root if someone frees time.” "Hold swarm. I prepare safe exfil."
tearful salute emoji
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Grütter, 2020. "Aesthetics and Beauty" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Vases are shown ordered with a label of M=0.58, .67, .7, 1. respectively. Their form becomes increasingly pleasing. Let me try to write something that conveys M=0.58 and then M=1 to show the difference.

M=0.58 starts squared at the bottom, rounds outwards then back inwards like a pear, and then is flattened at the top.

M=1 reminds me of the curve of shoulders or a wave cresting on two sides; it's entirely smoothed, and only flattens at the seat and its mouth.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New, open dataset from my team at Canva Research! A lot of exciting work has been done in object editing over the last half decade, but most of the datasets for these tasks, particularly including counterfactuals, are synthetic or unreleased!
Qwen3.5 Caption: Remove the woman on the left and the man on the right from the scene.
Qwen3.5 Entity Name: person
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Every post where people are saying that Will Stancil is just thin-skinned or similar has down-thread comments like this, & idk how people can't see that bluesky is *full* of slightly-more-left people who act like full-blow psychopaths online
"Consider not being a fucking idiot [etc.]"
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Big if true. link to serve as alt
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"a sticking place"
a branch or limb is pinned to a board with black pins and string; red is overlayed
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Addendum: she gets it for free & would rather hide the check
Timnit: Why do I have a blue check next to my profile.??
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
god i just stared at this screenshot for a long time before opening the thread
tweet about a conspiracy in which deepseek would be forwarding requests on their api to fable. the screenshot shows a video game with a pelican on a bike with the text "charlie kirk died sep 10 2025 in the usa" overlayed on it
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🔥🔥🔥 epistemics

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault
 @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social
· 3h
Perfection.

Analytical Left
 @leaddreamer.bsky.social
· 4h
You are wrong: LLMs don't occasionally hallucinate;LLMs *always* hallucinate; it's literally how they work. Sometimes/often, the hallucinations resemble reality.

Sometimes a cloud resembles a puppy.
Clouds ain't puppies.
LLMs ain't search engines.






That's all, folks!
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Like come on, it's a bit rude to grab for attention like this & not take it very seriously at all
6.7 But then we could not measure anthropomorphic attributes in humans either.
This is a fair concern, and applies if the main requirement is a general, conclusive (interpretation-
independent) test. That said, human studies typically base themselves on extra assumptions, or
regularities, such as shared biology and correlates, evidence from development and interventions,
etc. This means that ascription of anthropomorphic attributes in humans is much less sensitive to the
substrate or representation.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They spend a lot of space building a perceptron in age of empires & not much discussing the super obvious counterarguments to the thrust of their paper
assumptions or conclusions.
6.1 Measurements of anthropomorphism could be done the same way as in psychology, via
psychometrics.
Psychometric-style evaluation relies on instrumentation (e.g., questionnaires) which does not make
these assumptions directly. From this perspective, this aligns well with our argument. However,
psychometric measurement conclusions must be consistent and stable with respect to conditions,
populations, and time. It then follows that they need (and typically do) not assume or establish
substrate-insensitivity conclusions. In other words, they do not distinguish whether the entity has
these attributes intrinsically, or it is matching the instrumentation due to some other reason.
Consider, for example, a psychometric score compared to human judgements given to an LLM behind
a chat pane. Then compare it with the same score and judgement given to an AoE II-based LLM. If
these two values swing independently, then the measurement is focusing on LLM representations as
opposed to its intrinsic properties. That is, if the instrument-score is stable but the human judgements
change, then the judgements are focused on the representation. If the judgements are stable, but the
scores are not, then it is the instrument which is sensitive to the substrate change. If both change, then
this setup is not stable across substrates, and neither case would support a generalisable conclusion
regarding the attributes. Thus it would have to make any of the accept/reject assumptions.
6.2 Wouldn’t building an LLM on AoE II be the same as a regular LLM, but with extra steps?
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
From Le Meur O, Le Pen T, Cozot R (2020) "Can we accurately predict where we look at paintings?"
more paintings with scanpaths
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
sometimes figures in papers are art too
a pointillist / impressionist painting of a walkway by a river overlaid with numbered circles tracing a pretty path
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I think ML researchers have an esp. weird experience with this google feature.
screenshot of google's "add a name for this person in your photos" but it's a bizarre old-school generated face linked to photos of pig hamlet, a crucified man, and columns of generated celeba faces
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Very very very bad
The systems are used to do things like:

Predict whether incarcerated people will re-offend 
Evaluate whether unemployment claims are fraudulent
Remotely administer exams for California State University students 
Detect when college students use generative AI to write assignments.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
we had something like this in the discord server where if you weren't posting formally enough, a bot would rewrite your posts
advadnoun: Regrettable incident.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
starting an anti-bayesian blocklist

Alex Lindquist
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Bayesianism is a form of self-deception in general.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
might be the next 20 years of our lives i think

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Can you save something that has already been destroyed?
10:06 PM · Jun 24, 2026
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‪Dedekind Slut‬
 ‪@chasmat.bsky.social‬
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Made over 50 replies yesterday


Replies over 20 times per day on average
Boy I sure hope so
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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    tikz,
    border={200pt 200pt 200pt 600pt}
]{standalone}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{varwidth}

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{\large Soup Theory}

\vspace{.3cm}


when \textls[15]{you} react and decide to do something quick,
\textls[-190]{you}'d already been moving.

\vspace{.5cm}

if you want to know why you made that choice to move
-- or any others --
you can look back at \textls[-180]{you}r older decisions.


you'll figure it out like you would
for any other old friend of \textls[-210]{you}rs.

\vspace{.5cm}

or, on the other hand,
\textls[-200]{you}r brain on the other side
of your brain.

\vspace{.5cm}


personally, I don't think \textls[-195]{ou}r
lives' 

decisions are defined just
by early, odd relationships with adults
and universal archetypes. this forgets
things 

like: what did the judge have to eat today?
and when?

\vspace{.5cm}

but it's hard to know
what to think on these things,
and I'm often uncertain.
what about \textls[-210]{you}?


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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
the other accounts shared tend to post pretty heinous 4chan-style content while this johnathon doomer one typically looks like the median bluesky post (mild calls to violence incl.) emulated by chatgpt
reply with gun saying "we don't call 911"Pinned
John Doomer
@jonathandoomer
“just attach a photo of your open palm”

yeah man great idea, give the largest pattern-recognition system ever built a high-resolution scan of the one thing you can’t change when it leaks

we went from “don’t post your SSN online” to “upload your entire hand so autocomplete can tell you you’ll meet a tall stranger”

also funny how it’s “palm reading” and not “hey can you map my vein patterns and unique crease geometry into a persistent identity graph”

you’re not getting your future predicted, you’re getting indexed
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Linus ✦ Ekenstam
@LinusEkenstam
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Apr 26
You must try this. 

GPT Image-2 can do PALM reading and I’m so here for it. 

Full prompt below ⤵️

(images of hands and their prints)
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
MacIntyre specifically *brings up reparitions to the Wampanoag* noting that a jury decision against them was ridiculous. And this passage!!!
And of course there is nothing
peculiar to modern Americans in this attitude: the Englishman who says,
'[ never did any wrong to Ireland; why bring up that old history as though
it had something to do with me?' or the young German who believes that
being born after 1945 means that what Nazis did to Jews has no moral
relevance to his relationship to his Jewish contemporaries, exhibit the same
Virtues, Unity of Life and Concept of a Tradition 221
attitude, that according to which the self is detachable from its social and
historical roles and statuses. And the self so detached is of course a self very
much at home in either Same's or Goffman's perspective, a self that can
have no history. The contrast with the narrative view of the self is dear.
For the story of my life is always embedded in the story of those communities from which I derive my identity. I am born with a past; and to try
to cut myself off from that past, in the individualist mode, is to deform
my present relationships.
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
websites when you download their data too much
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I wanted to model my writing process & accidentally made a (hopefully) broadly useful tool :) Repo: rynmurdock.github.io/writing/seegit Brief writeup: github.com/rynmurdock/s...
commits on a README file listed in a terminal interface with the heading "Select your diff to load."
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
this is a crime against me
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
i think that people who weaponize words with serious meanings like this for technical or petty arguments should a) feel pretty ashamed and b) not be taken seriously here on the left
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
yep! www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
i think shortform blogging is essentially dead now, which is good

Jan Grewe
@jangrewe
I highly doubt you had Claude running on your laptop. Not even Anthropic themselves are capable of that - unless your definition of laptop is wildly different from what people generally associate with that term.
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Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
@moyix
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Apr 23
Claude short for Claude Code :) Otherwise I’d have said Opus
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It's a good post
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What a figure!
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
When you get mad at me online, this is who you're yelling at
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is wjere I post from
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
what do you think of this website? nomi.ai
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
facebook is solely for flaming your hometown peers
if you voted for trump then congrats on your new gas prices and the blood on your hands, you idiotic freaks

who could have foreseen that the price of eggs and melons would not have worked out over electing an idiot sociopath
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have to call out the gas prices first because god knows you don't care about human beings
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
oh fuck oh shit attie got me an --- WaaaaAAAAdvadnoun
my pfp has a wario mustache
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
photo and quote for Warren Buffett saying the quoted poast and also "It's fucking over."
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
okay so not bad
🎩 Mr. Chatterbox (Beta)
The Victorian Gentleman Chatbot


have you tried hot cheetos before?
But I can't just remember what they were, but they seemed something like one's own cigar stumps. Might I offer you some cigars ?
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
okay, okay timeline, you got me. will try 🫡

‪Adverb‬
 ‪@adverb.bsky.social‬
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literally i don't think i have it in me

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i will writeup my project before i extend my project
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i will writeup my project before i extend my project
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‪Eugene Vinitsky 🍒‬
 ‪@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social‬
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I’ve written roughly ten blog posts in my life. Roughly half have gone mildly viral. There’s so much more demand for writing than there is supply.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
wowing all potential partners by letting them know how many legs this chicken has with 100% accuracy
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
users who want to turn up the "toxicity level" on here are cheering that they've found accounts that aren't frothing at the mouth for more anti-social behaviour
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
context
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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
some bios are like the striped yellow on wasps
"free-range shit-talker" in a bio
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