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doomsey @doomsey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Spent the afternoon at a rich asshole estate with my camera and fancy lenses. this is out the window of the car on the way home. // highway #photography

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doomsey @doomsey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New (to me) toy! Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 AI-S. So glad I was too cheap to buy a system lens! I played with the Fujifilm 90mm f/2, and it was a good lens, but boring. The 105mm on my Fujifilm is the first digital setup I have had with proper affordances for MF. It feels amazing. // #photography

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The future is no longer plastics (h/t “The Graduate”) or data science. It’s discernment.

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You got it. The funnel for academy jobs, financial outcomes, and the pace and scale of an early research career convinces the right people they’d rather do their work elsewhere.

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fair. I’m speaking specifically about engineering recruiting.

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also a misread: aspiring PhDs who want to ship was the goal. Folks very big-brained but frustrated at the pace and impact of PhD.

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a misread: never was Ivy-centric. The elite schools historically have a concentration of talent skimmed from the very top of the high school populations - it has nothing to do with the school programs or their status. ”Elite” candidates have declined in quality, evidently.

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Talk about glorious re-education camps!

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But how many gorillas would go down on?

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Getting comfortable with being in the uncomfortable part all the time.

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agree! Learning new shit is the real super power. Computers gives one lots of opportunity to flex this muscle, since all of it above the traces is just made up and written down somewhere,

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics may not be unreasonable at all. Nature and mathematics may meet because both are ultimately descriptions of structure. The surprises occur because humans notice the structures in one domain long before recognising the same structures elsewhere."

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, Morning Sky, 1916 whitney.org/collection/w...

Abstracted image of a sunrise, in bright colors

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

loud and clear, as the boomers say. (Embed looks alright on the web, clicks through real nice)

Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this is real dunning-kruger stuff he's doing, and I'm not a computational linguist myself, but an answer to why LLMs don't think is that they don't understand the *meaning* of words because to understand meaning you would have to also exist outside of a language model, which an LLM does not

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At some point, a strata of mimic-writers starts sounding like chatbots even when they're not using them! (Not sure which is worse).

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've been thinking about this and I think it's that "Free Palestine" is used by both people interested in human rights (great) and those interested in erasing Israel. And a large wing of the tribe (across political positions) stops listening once they hear anything maybe threatening.

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The drone arms race is deeply intertwined with AI control of armed swarms as a balance of powers issue. Aircraft carriers (and their ilk) can’t defeat sufficiently large, coordinated, autonomous swarms.

Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The only worse than having to fight an arms race is losing one.

… and they’re still like cool cool cool get back to me when they’re solved

We can see the seams for now, you and I.

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They won’t be able to tell the difference anyway.

doomsey @doomsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If their AI was any good, it could just explain to your dad.

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gah i don’t know what to post lincoln marsh, last week // #photography

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atlasmind @atlasmind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Devil's Tower, Wyoming USA 🇺🇸

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/08/2026

Curiosity without an agenda is an underrated attribute in a person

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I claim Poe’s Law applies here

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Alternatively, he’s right that Curtis is misunderstood but wrong about who is misunderstanding him.

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Ari Gesher @arigesher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dude misunderstands the difference between “essentially” and stretching a metaphor to competition bungee lengths.