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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 20/09/2025

Popular news media completely avoiding the possibility that people will just be a noetic cloud floating in hyperspace before they finally understand true enlightenment is letting go of all attachments and liberate themselves from samsara

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 20/09/2025

OpenAI: calls them agents even though it's just an LLM with web search Meta: calls it superintelligence when it's just a light agent in a pair of AR glasses that lets you turn down the volume on your annoying Spotify music by sliding your finger on the folding handle

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a group of spongebob characters are standing around a table with the caption oh brother this guy stinks

ALT: a group of spongebob characters are standing around a table with the caption oh brother this guy stinks

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 20/09/2025

The real reason he got all that CIA funding 🍆

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Alex Acosta gave Jeffrey Epstein, a rapist and abuser, a sweetheart deal. Epstein continued to abuse girls while in prison, after which Trump made Acosta Labor Secretary in his first term. #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 19/09/2025

Facts confirmed as having a liberal bias

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood: • How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/... • Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 19/09/2025

Naive AI Alignment without reckoning for geopolitical subversion could potentially become a disastrous global cultural imposition. Not sure if @karenhao.bsky.social is already aware of this paper (osf.io/preprints/ps...) but it reminded me of her work and seemed up her alley..

strat7.com

WEIRD in, WEIRD out - STRAT7

Why today’s AI thinks American - and why that’s a problem. This provocative read from STRAT7 explores how generative AI tools mirror a narrow slice of humanity - WEIRD cultures and what that means for...

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Kepler-138c and d are twice as heavy as the Earth but half our planet's density, meaning they are likely "water worlds": science.nasa.gov/universe/exo... They'd be covered in a massively deep ocean topped by hot vapour atmosphere, transitioning to high-pressure ice at the bottom.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 19/09/2025

First time using Copilot in Outlook to convert a Markdown response from Gemini into HTML in order to neatly insert it into an email, and, it's terrible. You know how Gen Z said Threads was so "Millennial-coded"? This experience was very "Microsoft-coded" 😛

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 19/09/2025

I can't believe how lucky I am, after it's all said and done, that Canada took me in. I hope to grow strong to defend this country and what it stands for, this place is as close to the promised land as I've ever seen if not it.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 18/09/2025

I keep forgetting Trump has a son - or more than one in fact - and still that hasn't stopped him from being this much of an asshole. Should be considered child abuse to be brutally honest.

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Alexey Tolchinsky @tolchinsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On the last episode of MLST Karl Friston said - if he had to pick one quality necessary at a minimum for an organism to have consciousness, it would be being capable of a sufficiently large temporal depth. Temporal depth is exactly what our paper is about www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model

Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

1999: Global solar power exceeds 1000 MW. 2012: Global solar power exceeds 100,000 MW. 2022: Global solar power exceeds 1,000,000 MW. 2024: Global solar power exceeds 2,000,000 MW.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 18/09/2025

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 18/09/2025

gpt-5-codex is better, but only if you’re INSANELY specific in your prompts (maybe use gpt-5 to prompt codex??)

Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ •3h
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I've been testing the new GPT-5-Codex model pretty heavily.
Here's my current thinking:
Is it better overall than regular GPT-5 high?
Absolutely not.
But if you use it right, it can outperform vanilla
GPT-5 high.
What I mean:
If you write insanely detailed prompts (essentially, full, comprehensive specs/ insanely unambiguous instructions), it's noticeably better.
It can think and work for longer, stay cohesive over more code, etc.
And for really simple queries, yes, it's WAY faster.
But it's MUCH worse at intent understanding, so for anything even somewhat vague, it's much worse than regular GPT-5.
I'll likely be switching back and forth between Codex and regular GPT-5 high for now!

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 18/09/2025

My biggest AI flex is that I have a codebase now that costs 176K tokens to get a typical SOTA model to get up to speed with how it works and what to do with it. Apparently this is about as many words as a full-length novel.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/09/2025

This one’s fun! CVE-2023-49565 The cbis_manager Podman container is vulnerable to remote command execution via the /api/plugins endpoint. The web service executes with root privileges within the container environment. CVSS 8.4

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes Here they detail some of the technical innovations that enabled us to generate viable bacteriophage genomes with substantial evolutionary novelty. arcinstitute.org/news/hie-kin...

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How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes | Arc Institute

Going from designing individual genes to complete genomes is an incredibly challenging problem. We have previously shown that the genomic foundation models like the Evo series can generate single prot...

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 18/09/2025

My dad boycotted Papa John's until his dying breath because one of their drivers drove recklessly and nearly hit us kids in front of our house, and when he called the store to complain the manager laughed and hung up on him. I intend to carry on that legacy. Fuck Papa John and his shitty pizza.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 18/09/2025

Usually smells wafting in from my window are either somebody in this place smoking weed, or barbecue, or the smell of burning fall leaves; for some reason the scent coming through the window is... very distinctly... 90s fabric softener..

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JCorvinus @jcorvinus.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I see people are posting about yud's new book. I'm not gonna read it, but this other book seems promising

Generated image of a nonexistent book:
"If anyone loves it, everyone lives
Why superhuman AI would probably just give us headpats" by The Claude Collective ft. Clippy-Chan

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First AmendmentThe guardians of ‘free speech’ sure had a change of heart.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 17/09/2025

DeepSeek published about R1 in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... but the supplementary information is far more detailed. it includes, lots of details on everything from datasets, data processing, hyperparameters, and more static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

nature.com

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature

A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

A good way to defend Canada's sovereignty is to put a lot of distance between the geopolitics of the US, Israel, etc. rather than get entangled with them *especially* when there's potentially extremely serious crimes and evil being perpetrated by those factions outside of Canada.

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Canadian Parliament Applauded Charlie Kirk: Why?

YouTube video by Wrong Enough to Know Better

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Lexxi 🦋 🦋 🇺🇲 / 🇨🇦 💙 @lexximagic.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Rep. Jasmin Crockett is correct. This is bigger than the pedophile president. MUCH BIGGER. Release the Epstein files!

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Epstein Investigation is so much bigger than you can imagine. It is not only about justice for survivors—it is also about the institutions and systems that protected rich and powerful men they knew were abusing women and children: the banks, the government agencies, and other powerful people.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Ontario's deficit rising to $12 billion 2025-26. Ontario's debt rising to $549.3 billion in 2029-30. Ford can save money by cancelling the $2.3 billion taxpayer subsidy for a private luxury spa at Ontario Place and the $100 billion fantasy 401 tunnel. #ONpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/17/o...

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Ontario deficit and debt to grow significantly over next 5 years: FAO report

A new FAO report projects the province's deficit and debt will grow significantly over the next five years.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

it reads like a screenplay intern's first draft

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

In which post-late-stage capitalism realizes that killing all your customers is actually bad for business and maybe metaphorically hooking them up to be milked for a lifetime like cattle isn't just shitty - which *should* be the first concern, but, like, also my bank account, man

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2025

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

I'm so exhausted by this right wing resurgence bullshit I'm easily at risk to fail my DEI course from sheer emotional burnout that sort of bleeds through to the surface. The part of me that wants to do good is halfway morphed into something that just wants to see it all burn now.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

Goddamn imagine liking Biden or Obama so much you'd be willing to send pipe bombs to Mar-a-Lago Absolutely palpable poverty of political choices, just outright brutal

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The piss tank on the ISS is now 49% full.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

>When you define "staying in your lane" as running cover for ridiculously powerful pedophiles to keep your cushy government appointment Now that's what I call ... Kashing in!! 💸💰

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a city skyline at sunset with the letter y visible

ALT: a city skyline at sunset with the letter y visible

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

The one part of the Epstein files I did not need to learn about

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Politicians will tell you to simply look harder to find a job, and yet they're sitting on comfy pensions and six figure salaries 🤷‍♂️

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

vanityfair.com

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Barzin @barzin.sanctus.ca · 17/09/2025

Modern day fascists think the bar for civility is that you'll respond to them like Bertrand Russell and they'll go back to their evil, but the correct response to fascism - however you respond to it - is you still need to shut it down, one way or another.

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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Saw one of these signs on a long New England road trip last weekend. It reminded me: We used to teach people how to drive. And that lanes had different functions. Tell us about those days, grandpa ... [sobs quietly into beer]

Rectangular yellow highway sign just behind a safety guard rail, with 3 boxes. Leftmost one says 'PASSING LANE'; middle one says 'TRAVEL LANE'; and rightmost one says 'SLOW VEHICLE LANE'. With leafless trees in the background.

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