Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 7hBut he did the 🚨BREAKING thing, can people do that even when nothing is breaking 1190
Reposted by Bennett TomlinProtos @protos.com · 29/09/2026Trump-related American Bitcoin has lost more than 90% of its value protos.com/trump-relate...protos.comTrump-related American Bitcoin has lost more than 90% of its valueTrump-led American Bitcoin has lost more than 90% of its value since its reverse merger, far outpacing the 25% that BTC has declined. 082
Reposted by Bennett TomlinMeredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. No one should have to verify their identity (much less send their ID information to a tech company) to access patents. <END RANT> 39028
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026They actually told Trump that his intelligence was Super after his twelfth dementia eval this year 0112
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026This reminds me of the doomsday clock and how the atomic scientists want us to believe we are several minutes closer to doomsday now than we were during the Cuban missile crisis youtube.com/shorts/j-hWe...youtube.comI hate the Doomsday ClockYouTube video by Bennett Tomlin 040
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026yeah, but if they felt the same precarity when things actually changed then its not actually evidence that its driven by "all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving" 100
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026Not all the things with the economy kept getting worse, several important measures for people got better 190
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026The problem for me is that things like real wages did grow under Biden 1152
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026I don’t have any sources inside OpenAI so I can’t help you there 110
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026I mean other people who have sources will probably eventually have their own reporting on it, for now I guess you gotta deal with the reality that this is the outlet that has it now 110
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026I’m not good enough at computers to figure out how they train things, this isn’t like the old days when I was fine-tuning GPT2 on my tweets 010
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026Enough researchers probably out their fears over the insane models in writing so that they don’t want the liability of this one 120
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 29/09/2026It kinda seems whatever OpenAI is putting in the reinforcement learning water may actually be making their models a tiny bit insane 3220
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026In the Claude code harness it also seems better at taking advantage of the harness, suggesting certain things for work trees, knowing what the tools are and when to reach for them, but I don’t know if that generalizes to other harnesses 010
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026Making a to-do list also involves understanding (a portion of) your life as a collection of tasks 130
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026I bet this lasts about as long as their NFT marketplace they thought might be bigger than their crypto marketplace 3370
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026I think it’s good when Nazis leave Nazism and mostly bad when Nazis who left Nazism minutes ago get national coverage 1291
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026They should come up with a word for people who work to become a model follower of a Nazi movement 3292
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026what do you think i'm trying to get the cascoin foundation board to do this week 020
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026It’s incredible that it’s 2026 and the statement “tether is useful for money launderers and money launderers are useful to Tether” is still true 290
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026I’m not going on X to try to find the clip of her throwing tokens out of a toilet but it exists 120
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026Its not clear to me that this is a violation of an enterprise level agreement 100
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026I’m trying to write a Kafkaesque short story about that concept but I’m not Kafka 050
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026“Scapegoat” is the stand-in term I’ve been using for companies retaining humans who are nominally responsible for checking AI agent outputs so that firms have someone to fire when compliance type issues come up 171
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026You might never get the chance to learn how to use an agent to do your job more efficiently. One day you’ll do your work the disorganized way you have, the next day you’ll meet with a consultant who’s shadowing you to see what can be automated, and one week later you’re being retrained as scapegoat 170
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026So you might not end up using the agent to build the tooling, but your company might hire Accenture or McKinsey to send in a team of agent using devs to automate whatever they can and insert agents where they’re reasonable 140
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026Tons of workers have things they should automate, that was one of my jobs back when I made code 280
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026Otherwise you just use the agent initially to build the tooling to automate things 170
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026You only need the agent when you need to simulate some amount of “judgement” around the inputs 160
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 28/09/2026I mean if your task is structured enough you don’t need an agent at all 3140
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/09/2026Denver population (proper not metro) grew by the equivalent of 7 data centers from 2010-2020 190
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/09/2026Political poison for GOP to appropriate tax money for that, and may even be worse to add it on a fee to businesses you’re regulating, that’s red tape, that’s anti-innovation, that’s a whole bunch of BS they don’t actually believe but have to say 010
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/09/2026Yeah but the SEC is under resourced and for the CFTC’s enforcement budget to match the SEC (not enough) it would need to grow by like 1,200%. Get every GOP member to agree to get executed if they fail to raise the CFTC budget by that much and I’ll believe them, otherwise there’s zero chance 100
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/09/2026Like it wouldn’t make sense for any legislator who actually cared about regulation to give in on that point, because the GOP demonstrably hates funding regulators and sometimes even steals money from regulators for other purposes even when it’s constitutionally forbidden 100
Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 27/09/2026But that’s a bad assumption! There’s no evidence that the legislature would actually cough off more for the CFTC to regulate 100