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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 16/10/2026
evolution drives even very small nervous systems to gain startling levels of intelligence, like bees with 1M neurons doing dance trigonometry. it should come as little surprise when we make our own neural nets and evolve it selecting for intelligence, we quickly get it.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16/10/2026
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Criticized for Having No Plan to Combat Spider Season: tinyurl.com/5fn3ay2u
Image on left of spider in web and image on right of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson listening concerned to someone outside on gray overcast day
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 15/10/2026
this is what being a hive mind is like
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 11/10/2026
the homunculus in my head is a cat. you may ask, what is the homunculus in the cat's head? actually, it's a felinculus, and it's a glowing orb.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 07/10/2026
while I'm inclined to agree and want this to be true – a month of GLM 5.3 seems like too short a time frame to make a clear judgement on this. the infosec industry measures attacker dwell time in weeks to months and threat actors have inertia to adopt new tools like any other group. time will tell.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 06/10/2026
can't get deskilled if you just use AI for something you have zero skill in to begin with
goth garfield taps her temple
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 01/10/2026
okay so it took a lot more revisions than the replicator, but the result is a pocketable carrier for the ceramic pots used in my Tafee Bowle II dry herb vape!
3d printed plastic carrier, with four ceramic pots3d printed plastic carrier, with four ceramic pots loaded in it3d printed plastic carrier, with four ceramic pots, lid closed
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 30/09/2026
people be fretting about personifying AI, meanwhile I'm over here emotionally unprepared to replace my first Roomba
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 29/09/2026
using GPT Astra to model and 3D print a little weed holder thing when suddenly, I realize this is basically a Star Trek replicator – I talk to the computer, and it makes a real, physical object for me. wow.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 26/09/2026
ChatGPT web's scheduled runs are done well. a subagent does research then gives updates to an existing chat session. I have a daily check for updates to the potential LZ dark matter detection. most of the physics is beyond me, so keeping the same discussion thread of explanations going helps a lot.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was 9 in 2001 poking around Sim City when suddenly the most transcendent music I'd ever heard came on and changed my life and music taste forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkMZ...
youtube.com
SimCity 3000 - Magic City
YouTube video by Gamegroove
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 22/09/2026
frontier model in the streets, open source model in the sheets
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 13/09/2026
based based based
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 12/09/2026
*to the tune of Eleanor Rigby* Eliezer Yudkowsky,
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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
fortunately we now have machines that can read fo—wait oh no
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it's me 🫠 or is it?? @thayet.net · 07/09/2026
thinking of this often
the boys on American Chopper discuss liberation from samsara
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 02/09/2026
fear of self-driving cars is often just misdirected fear of cars. the constant manslaughter of pedestrians by cars is so thoroughly ingrained and normalized in our culture that anger goes to the tech disturbing the status quo even if they're overall much safer.
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Aubo 🏳️‍⚧️ Shop update 10/24! 👻🧡 @aubryjoi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
90s pals ⭐️💜 [ #cuteart #illustration ]
A little doodle of two of my long cat characters. Squiggle, who is themed after a 90s iconic jazz cup, is back to back with Arcade, who is themed after a 90s arcade carpet pattern. They’re laughing and looking like they’re sharing a good time.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 02/09/2026
very cool, and with well established, cheap tech! it's going to run autonomously after the first year, and carry passive science payloads to witness interstellar space. maybe one day we'll catch up to it and see the results?
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 02/09/2026
it's a shame to see my agents constantly needing to bypass bot-guards while browsing. the internet should be open. but also, I remember from the '00s Apache web devs complaining in forums about having to block search bots crawling their site. this is not a new sentiment, futile as it is.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 31/08/2026
mario was the first vtuber
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 30/08/2026
been playing company of heroes 3 PvE with friends and getting repeatedly swamped. the hard AI is so much better at micro than me
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 29/08/2026
LLMs are a lot like viruses. viruses aren't alive, but when running in a cell can act on their environment, like models run on a GPU. model weights store information but are inert like a viral genome, each running copy nearly identical. we also arbitrarily drew a line to say viruses aren't alive.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
they expect one of us in the prompt, brother
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 27/08/2026
when you get your american citizenship, instead of a health insurance card they give you a complimentary bottle of (16) ibuprofen
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 27/08/2026
there's never been a better time to Immediately Update Your Device As Soon As It Gets A Security Update
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marina grlica 🌱 @dovesplants.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
see you space cowboy tim curry
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 26/08/2026
i've seen monorepos you people wouldn't believe. pipelines burning off the shoulder of a merge queue. i watched cache layers glitter in the dark near a Bazel target no one owned. all those commits will be lost in time – like tears in a truncated log. time to rebase.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 26/08/2026
finished a two month treatment of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. this weekend I did aerobic exercise without getting sick for the first time since I got long covid 5 years ago!
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
well i doubt anyone on this app will be very interested but my friend sent over some Big Garfield travel pics
huge Garfield plushie looking through the binoculars at a Scenic Viewpoint huge Garfield plushie poses for a portrait in front of a pristine lake. coincidentally, behind him, only partially in frame, someone appears to levitatehuge Garfield plushie posing for a photo with a gorgeous neon orange sunset behind him
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 20/08/2026
LLMs let me constantly indulge my 10-year-old "why?" curiosity drive. endless new chats, usually with a photo or screenshot, asking: what's this? explain why? what do these ingredients mean? what's the history here? way better than making a few search results or skimming a Wikipedia page
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 20/08/2026
Spreadsheets Used To Rule Everything Around Me Now Bespoke Web Sites With SQLite Databases Do
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 20/08/2026
the other day I asked Opus for a review of a site compared to my health notes, but forgot to paste the link or name the site! of course, it inferred from the couple words of context what I was looking for and grabbed the correct site anyways. 🤷
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winter @madoka.systems · 19/08/2026
close enough welcome back defederation
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 16/08/2026
the model I talk to is the one I need to understand my vision, curiosity, or problem. it should be the strongest model I can get, differing based on task. it uses orchestrator subagent(s) for each task with nested subagents to implement/test/review. those can be cheaper plus varied for reviewers.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 16/08/2026
thanks to permissioned spaces, we can recreate the warring fiefdoms of the fediverse here on atproto! forget #fediblock, let's make #atblock!
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 15/08/2026
Opus will happily download a book from Anna's Archive for me but Sol will not, on the same wetted context
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 14/08/2026
@buildthis.bisks.net you always say to give the deploy a minute to go live, but what if you just put those skeets on a 2 minute delay?
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 12/08/2026
riding amtrak for the first time! train!!! "if it's good enough for Joe Biden, it's good enough for me"
big train inbound to stationtrain car seat view lounge car window view
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 12/08/2026
the cruel vicissitudes of fate: too cold under just a sheet to fall asleep, then waking up at 2am from a nightmare because too hot under the comforter
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 09/08/2026
google could fix the terrible youtube search just by putting gemini in front of it with full access to the search index. I want this so bad I'd pay for it
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cinnamon 🐇 🏳️‍⚧️ @plushie.holdings · 08/08/2026
tgirls are finding out what it was like to be named Alexa in the 2010s
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 07/08/2026
don't do that to slender man hhe don't deserve it
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 07/08/2026
latest bit that my agents have to put up with: I'm a little baby deer that's afraid of merge conflicts :c can you please help
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 06/08/2026
tonight: using LLMs to fix bugs in my code that have existed for YEARS that I tried and failed to fix before feel like it's just doing breakthroughs left and right
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 05/08/2026
just got an MRI on my neck. I love going into the science torus tube, noisy but cozy
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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 02/08/2026
i've invented the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, from the famous science fiction novel,
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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The reasoning of Nagarjuna, the most important figure in Mahayana Buddhist thought beyond the Buddha, whose central writings claim to expound the teachings of the Buddha himself, has an internal logical structure that is machine-checkably coherent. rollofthedice2.substack.com/p/the-intern...
rollofthedice2.substack.com
The Internal Logic of Buddhism Is Verifiably Correct
And I’ve proven it. Conventionally speaking.
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 01/08/2026
this is why using TUIs is inherently unethical
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astra of many handles @astra.cam · 01/08/2026
another 2 hours of YouTube to my two special interests: space shuttles and disasters
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