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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Water stations are the greatest innovation in warm-weather festivals in my lifetime. Brought a one-liter bottle and stayed hydrated all weekend. Honorable mention goes to tasty packaged iced coffee, nicely counteracts the drowsiness induced by sun, beer & pot.

a huge water dispenser with multiple spouts in the shade of some eucalyptus trees

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Basking in the afterglow of an all-timer Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend in Golden Gate Park. New and old favorite artists singing new and old favorite songs, hanging with new and old friends, in perfect weather. All the things a festival should be! #HSB

Big crowd in front of a stage on which stand David Rawlings & Gillian Welch. In the background are big trees and blue sky

David Rawlings, Gillian Welch, and Peter Rowan playing Bird Song > Friend of the Devil

William Tyler & Yasmin Williams seated on stage, each with an acoustic guitar

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So I think these are important questions, and I have some answers myself. But I don't think the sociopolitical framework we use for human learning is likely to be illuminating. Maching learning/human learning is a metaphor, not an isomorphism. Attaching cameras to a computer doesn't change that.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The magic of open source!

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Array sorting was long an intern/starter project, so I imagine it must've come up. @verwaest.bsky.social would likely know

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The root of our difference of opinion is that you’re intent on personifying AI while I think that’s a category error. Public libraries are there for residents (for municipal libraries) or students/faculty (universities). “My computer program wants to check out a book” is nonsense to me.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It seems like you’re treating “AI” as an autonomous agent. But Scalzi’s talking about decisions and actions made by people at the companies that built these systems (they did not build themselves). Why should those people not be constrained by the same norms and laws everyone else is subject to?

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sadly I don’t think I can pull off Brendan’s mic-drop TC39 proposal style, so if someone wants this to happen they’re gonna have to do the work

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 05/10/2026

Sorry, sorry, I like Don Cab okay but sometimes math rock sounds like three different cars tuned to different stations with their doors open in an underground parking garage, but it's okay because the most normal men in the world are here to explain how time can be fun to you.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let's just add Array.prototype.numericalSort()

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Somewhat surprised that I used "we" to refer to what V8 does. Guess I worked on this stuff for a long time!

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, Float64Array.sort is easy mode: with no args, we call straight into the runtime and run std::sort on the backing store (github.com/v8/v8/blob/m...). To get Array.sort close to this speed, you'd have to already have the right backing store, and then inline the comparator somehow.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Where does it rate on the Megalopolis scale?

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EL-P @el-p.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All it takes is a few days of active engagement on these apps to remember that it’s mostly an exercise in badly landing jokes and literal responses to abstractions that never meant anything in the first place be still we march on lord forgive us all

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well that makes a lot of sense, to tell the truth. I’m in!

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess I’m supposed to be rooting for the White Sox?

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can’t tell if lack of baseball posting in my feed is just because the M’s are out, or if there’s genuinely not a team to root for as fun as last year’s Blue Jays

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All that said, I find it totally understandable if someone doesn’t find “SP” to be helpful. I guess I’d like to understand better how it’s actively bad.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I suspect this is one reason many folks who are familiar with the technical details find SP bewildering as a rhetorical device. It really is obvious to those folks, and thus provides no explanatory power. But it’s not for them!

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t think Bender intends SP to stand on its own as a predictor of LLM behavior. Rather, it’s a way to say “LLMs generate tokens based on context and statistical modeling of training data” in two words to a non-technical audience.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As an ex-tech AI-refusenik like myself it was interesting to see this post the day after I tried something similar by dumping my upcoming show calendar into Claude and asking it for local shows I’d missed. It did a good job! There used to be upcoming.org, and this is basically a personal version.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I grok what Bender was saying: I hear it as a response to stuff like the linked story, where OpenAI announce that their new LLM is too dangerous to release. They expect people to tie this to the Hugging Face story, though the LLM was not in the top 5 “unsafe” things about that incident imhoo

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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns (Gift Article)

The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For a bare LLM, I take it that her response is not “secret calculator” but just “secret training data/process”. And that it’s only in the open source model context where the question of how this might work becomes interesting, because the inputs can be part of the discussion.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think she was just being sloppy in that thread with regard to what system she was describing. In the follow-up, she puts “LLM” in scare quotes and elaborates:

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/09/2026

i'm reminded that when "social media" started it was called "social networking," and i'd always thought the shift was arbitrary. but i recently realized it's because networking is concrete, it's a direct method for forming relationships. media is definitionally an abstraction of reality.

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

join me in the sky, beaming out new music & other delights on the frow show, from now 'til midnight ET on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

a pixelated lady's face sliced into four with text between: the frow show, tuesday 9pm-12am ET, wfmu.org/91.1 nj/91.9 nj

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

was at this show with (nearly) the same view. can confirm!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come see our discussion

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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Naylor being like "oh. No thank you" here on this awful throw that set him up to get trucked at first is very much the experience of watching the 2026 Mariners

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

rise up into the perfumed evening with the frow show, 3 hours of new music, etc., from now 'til midnight on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

$fractal-like clouds or cloud-like fractals in purple and blue and red$

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll...

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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I somehow managed to miss out for decades on Jon Hassell’s incredible Eno/Lanois-produced ECM album—spiraling minimalist ethno-chug of the highest order—so I am now urging you not to make the same tragic mistake.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It’s an interesting choice. I felt like Eddington’s reception was hurt by its sheriff’s point of view being on the right wing side. Civil War, instead, just ends up feeling oddly blank. I’d like to revisit both down the line.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Spending the afternoon in Santa Monica to beat the heat before night 2/3 of Jeff Parker IVtet. LA: not bad! Especially thanks to rail transit (shout out to Metro A/D/E and Metrolink VC lines)

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wednesday at the Neptune! Also Friday at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, and I’ve got two tickets for that up for grabs.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Can’t wait to see ‘em next week in Seattle. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen him with a band!

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Rose City Band 🌹 @rosecityband.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

2 nights in SF this September 🌈✌️🌹 Tix: thechapelsf.com/calendar/?li...

Rose City Band poster for September 25 & 26 at The Chapel in San Francisco

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

David Bowie wore the famous zig-zag ‘lightning bolt’ face make-up just once: for the Aladdin Sane album cover shoot in January 1973. Just that one time.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/08/2026

Again, woke 1 was not silly. None of the things that Black people asked for were inappropriate or unnecessary. Y'all just stopped listening to Black people, and started talking amongst yourselves about what you thought woke was. Then you called that silly. You listen to nazis over Black people.🤷🏿‍♂️

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Michael Calore @snackfight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

People of the San Francisco Bay Area! My funtime dance party cover band @nascum.bsky.social is playing LCD SOUNDSYSTEM songs on Friday Aug 21 at Rickshaw Stop! We're performing with a Daft Punk tribute. All ages! Tickets here: wl.eventim.us/event/lcd-so...

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Say more? Like most folks this is my take on the movie but I've always felt like I must be missing something.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There’s rarely enough Discourse about the best films these days, sadly. Reichardt’s stuff tends towards the sad (as do most of my favorites 🙄). How about Perfect Days? Don’t know anyone who’s seen that one and not loved it

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

For something a bit more off beat, Kelly Reichhardt’s my favorite working director in low-key brilliance: “First Cow”, “Showing Up”, and “The Mastermind” are all great. But some find her stuff too slow

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’ve got all sorts of recs but curious what sort of feeling you’re looking for? “Sentimental Value” was a fav from last year, but is very much in “self-serious Eurofilm” territory. “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” is my favorite documentary of the past five years (very much experiential, not educational)

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