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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison

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@beneprism.rip's pre-wife and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry Semiotics, Assyriology, Kuhn, literature, writing, and border collies. Liberal. Words mean how they're used. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.

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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 50m
There is no transphobe belief more bizarre than the idea that cis gays are being brainwashed into gender transition. I can't count the number of trans people I've talked to whose parents implicitly or explicitly told them "couldn't you just be gay?"
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the autumn and the scarlet 🍁 @marcy.beneprism.rip · 1h
Reposting this because I think it's a good photo and because it's still my birthday week
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 4h
Sorry but no, it is in fact notable that the US is doing something only very extremist regimes do. To willingly abandon “this isn’t who we are” as a response is to throw away a very powerful rhetorical weapon.
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I applaud his strong stand against neutrino perverts
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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 2h
I'm actually crying, this is an incredible bit. minesweeper.mikelacher.com
minesweeper.mikelacher.com
Triple-A Minesweeper
Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 2h
I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 6h
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@airbudddwyer.bsky.social
I don't let my kids watch YouTube and on the one hand I sort of feel like one of those parents from when I was kid who didn't allow The Simpsons or Beavis & Butthead but on the other hand I don't want to live with a Christian nationalist radicalized by a guy who does frisbee tricks
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kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.adrierose.link · 2h
you know who else televised executions of enemies of the state? papa doc. i guess that makes america a shithole country too.
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Anthony Clark @nedroid.com · 29/04/2025
A page from the 1993 Cowboy Town Strategy Guide
BE CAREFUL IN COWBOY TOWN! 
There are five major socioeconomic classes in Cowboy Town, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Use this handy chart to help you keep track!
(A complicated mess of a chart with various arrows pointing between Cowboys, Horses, Samurais, Old-Timey Magicians, and Mars Monsters)
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h
This is fucked up
Horses "transform into" and are "friends with" Cowboys
Cowboys are "strong against" horses
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 2h
It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h
He's not wrong,,,
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/10/2026
very bad for me, a person with extremely poor impulse control and tiny feet, to have realised that Skechers sell kids shoes with a CAR GARAGE in the heel in what I believe may actually be just about my size www.amazon.co.uk/Skechers-Boy...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/10/2026
Just in general you should try to avoid a theory of enemy combatants that Curtis LeMay, Mohammed Atta, and Benjamin Netanyahu would agree with
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/10/2026
In every conflict there are tests of basic humanity that are generally easy to pass, like not saying that everyone in your perceived opposition is a valid target, and you should try to pass them instead of trying to push boundaries
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 2h
What's New, Pussycat? Kill, Kill!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 4h
this is the only reason why certain people wanted to know—and spread—her name without her consent. so they can abuse her, too.
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Cornell’s Jane Doe is ‘terrified’ after death threats and a swatting incident, her lawyer says | CNN
One month ago, the woman now known to America as Cornell’s Jane Doe was living in New York City and trying to break into the hotel industry, her lawyer says. Now she’s facing threats and hiding out at...
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3h
if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 3h
I feel like Elon Musk’s assertion that Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate from Canada would carry a lot more weight if he were to renounce his Canadian citizenship.
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Kimberly Scaryne @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm as upset about the election results as anyone, but taking solace in the accuracy of my prophecy that there will never be a Gen x US president
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 3h
yes!
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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 4h
Also some ppl are apparently claiming these data show kids “going cis/straight” which, while not SURPRISING, still makes my little sociologist stomach ache. These are not longitudinal data! They are cohort snapshots! They tell you NOTHING about individual trajectories of gender or sexual identity!!!
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mcc @dryad.technology · 3h
Drawing a political compass where three of the quadrants are Naomi Wolf, Naomi Klein, and Ezra Klein, and then using the fourth quadrant to derive the hypothetical political interests of a hypothetical "Ezra Wolf"
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/11/2024
The authors even take it a step further. If you can always choose environments in which your algorithm excels, then the interesting question becomes *which* conditions and *why*. Each RL algorithm is a special and unique snowflake. What if the real science is the quirks we discovered along the way?
The aim should not be to show an
algorithm is good, but rather understand an algorithm’s properties, potentially
relative to other algorithms.
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/11/2024
The paper is refreshingly concrete, fully loaded with examples, case studies, recommendations, and pitfalls. It's a map to the landmines in reinforcement learning. It's what I would have gifted my younger self.
Key insights: evaluating a fully-specified algorithm
1. A single agent’s performance is informative, however, consider plotting the performance
of individual runs to gain additional understanding of your algorithm.
2. Agent behavior, with the same algorithm and environment, can be very different across
random seeds. Consider reporting this variability using sample standard deviations or
tolerance intervals, rather than just reporting the mean or median performance.
3. Confidence intervals around the mean primarily tell us about our certainty in our mean
estimate, not about the variability in the underlying agents. If you primarily care
about understanding mean performance, then report means with confidence intervals.
If you care about the behavior of each agent, not just the mean, then consider reporting
tolerance intervals.
4. In general we advocate that you do not report standard errors. They are like
a low-confidence confidence interval, and it is more sensible to decide on the confidence
interval you want to report.
5. The required number of runs depends on your performance distribution, which is
unknown to you. It is clear that in almost all cases 5 runs is insufficient to make
strong claims, but even 30 runs can be insufficient if the distribution is heavily skewed.
6. Consider reporting performance versus steps of Interaction, rather than performance
versus episodes. This choice ensures every agent receives the same number of samples
every run. (See Section 2.1)
7. Choose the number of steps of interaction to reflect early learning or ability to learn
the optimal policy, rather than inheriting what was done in previous work.
8. Aggressive episode cutoffs can significantly skew results.
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/11/2024
I mean, look at this opening paragraph. This is written to be read and understood, not to impress and overwhelm. Not for the handful of reinforcement learning researchers in the world, but for the slightly larger handful of people trying to make it work on their machine.
1 Reinforcement Learning, an Empirical Science
Running a good experiment in reinforcement learning is difficult. There are many decisions
to be made: How long should you run your agent? Should you count the number of episodes
or number of steps? Should performance be measured online or offline with test trials?
How should you measure and aggregate performance? Do we use rules of thumb to set
hyperparameters or some systematic search? What are the right baseline algorithms to
compare against? Which environments should you use? What does good learning even look
like in a given environment? The answer to each question can greatly impact the credibility
and utility of the result, ranging from insightful to down-right misleading
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 23/11/2024
Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.
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Cosmic Gall

-John Updike-

Neutrinos, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids through a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.


The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. , 1960
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 7h
The basic standard of "A reasonable* fear of immediate, otherwise unavoidable, death or grievous bodily harm to yourself or another innocent person" applies everywhere. In your car or in your yard, in your home, while you roam, or on a boat while afloat. Otherwise you
may not shoot them, Sam I Am. If you live in a state that passed a Constitutional Carry law, you no longer have to take a class to learn when you may or may not use your heater, but that just means the onus to get yourself educated is on your own shoulders now. Because, my dudes, they will still put you
in prison if you screw up.
*What's 'reasonable'? That might be up to a jury.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h
people get mad at Canadian self-defense laws but this is pretty common sense i think
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 5h
this is the first time i've ever seen it used this was and i have read a lot of mid-20th C brit lit
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Happy HalloCEEn🎃 @ceeceeceeceecee.bsky.social · 11h
Ai is now Si which means my company GoatAi is going to have to have a very unfortunate rebrand.
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Megan E. Human * free Link @zombiscribe.bsky.social · 5h
White people also have a history of turning public executions into a spectacle and there is a whole subset of us obsessed with watching that shit online What Trump is going to do is disgusting but we are not served by pretending he is an outlier. We’ve been binding to this and all
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i cannot parse this someone please teach English to the English
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I am the biggest TMBG fan of anyone I know, and I go to the website and see songs I've never heard of all the time
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 7h
vulpine-dyke on tumblr: "*First time doing denial play* Sex isn't real and you can't have it"

sophiesalacia: "[first time subbing] oh Okay"

hellmo: "<first time on the cuck chair> I guess that's a wrap then"
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 5h
THEY WON 🥳🥳🥳
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David Elfstrom 🍁 @davidelfstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, that coughing and "something going around" discussions is COVID. That nice low summer is over. Toronto's wastewater viral load is showing a consistent upward trend in COVID-19 and nearly zero levels of influenza A & B and RSV. wwater.ca/Ontario/Toro...
Most recent wastewater virus levels for Toronto, with date ending week ending September 27, 2026, showing a clear upward trend in COVID-19 and minimal for influenza and RSV.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 10h
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6h
Also, fwiw, I find ancient Greek individuality easy to overstate: only for adult citizen males, of course, but also even citizens really didn't have any rights the community was bound to respect. It's an individualistic society by pre-modern standards, but I wouldn't say fiercely so.
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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 5h
[intrusive thought of the day] white supremacist extremism in the united states is probably one of the more/most successful extremist ideologies because it can take a more “polite” form one that can be leveraged for politics and culture the scaffold and support structure is just as important here
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Shawn Connolly @divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 5h
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down The Mountains Of Madness
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You're the one that made the equivalence though I think you jumped to a confrontational reading without considering other possible readings I have followed you for a long time but I am muting and if this is how you handle stuff just block me for good bsky.app/profile/angr...
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Queer and Pleasant Danger @monsterologist.bsky.social · 6h
Uncle Buckaroo Banzai Ghostbuster Scruggs Big Trouble in Little Miss Sunshine Children of a Lesser Godzilla
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Correct assessment
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Deep Hurting 🐈🐈‍⬛𓃠 Cats of Antifa @deep-hurting.bsky.social · 15h
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
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kɛbɹah zmɪeʒd @sesquiotic.bsky.social · 15h
On the Beach Blanket Bingo
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 17h
Despite it being so common & normalised, I still find it hard to get my head around the sadism required for so many men to rape. The internal processes that go on, & the male bonding in gang rape. I know there's research, & the men &teen boys who rape need to be put under the spotlight & microscope
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The University of Toronto, by far the closest to Ivy League culture in Canada, banned fraternities in the 1960s because they wouldn't admit black students. Which is another telling dynamic of the history of fraternities.
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