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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5h

like unironically. Obviously I'm not an economist, but if you look at how capital has acted the last 15-20 years at minimum and arguably probably since Reagan. Doesn't it end up looking kind of like the boundary/transition zone between capitalism and ??? something else ???

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5h

It was already inexcusable that Google specifically being at least very minimally willing to act like a good citizen re: FOSS funding/resourcing waa so load-bearing in the 2000s/2010s, and if we repeat the exact same thing with Anthropic over the next 15 years I'm going to lose my fucking mind

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 7h

every line of memory-unsafe code needs to be treated as a critical security vulnerability by default

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 11h

single issue campaign to impose a legal requirement that one of the writers take an undergraduate-level quantum mechanics class before you're allowed to put quantum mechanical explanations for things in your tv episode/movie/book

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 12h

founding an observability platform called Ungoliant (her hunger can never be sated, so she will ingest all your logs and metrics no matter how massive) as a bit

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 13h

Why is the cafeteria at work playing Landslide at 8:09am on a Tuesday what the *fuck*

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22h

this the cool take to have right now but I really don't think it holds up. boards of directors impose practically no restraints on the leaders of companies with normal governance structures, too. founder shares have very little to do with it

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in 2026 the #1 thing which you can learn in principle from text (and which you can learn about what you can learn in principle from text) is "man, a lot of people owe Ludwig Wittgenstein apologies"

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

["women be shopping" voice] elves be coveting they Silmarils

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

half a trillion is a lot of dollars to spend in one year

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

maybe this is also partly a question of like, what type of suburb you were in? Growing up in one of the wealthier areas of suburban New Jersey, malls didn't really care if kids were walking around not spending money, but maybe that wouldn't have been true in other places?

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Prof. Michael Fuhrer @michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There's a lot of confusion about what Covid-19 RNA in wastewater is telling us. Here's data from Biobot for the United States. Currently Covid-19 RNA concentrations are elevated *relative* to recently (a real "wave") but absolute levels are low compared to the height of the pandemic.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Any attempt to frame social media as a universal ill has to ignore the existence of trans people in particular and honestly queer people outside of a handful of cities more generally

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ok unfortunately I am really bouncing off the new fire emblem. the cast is so large and there's so much less opportunity to get attached to most of them than in fe3h

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

regardless of whether Sanders would've won in 2016, I think the behavior of Congressional Democratic leaders over the last decade does prove that the institutional Democratic party *absolutely were* willing to sacrifice anything & everything, including the presidency, for one of their own's benefit

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"average Republican staffer commits 37 felonies a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Republican staffer commits 37.01 felonies per year. Innocence Georg, who is a devout Mormon & has never even jaywalked, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

when you encounter someone who thinks growing water-intensive luxury crops in California is fine "because it's food" but claims to be really worried about data center water use, don't bother correcting them because they won't listen. Just move on with your day, maybe after laughing in their face

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There should be an option when donating to a campaign where, for a 1% fee, if they ever use your contact info to spam you or solicit more donations or provide your contact info to anyone else who does, the candidate is immediately, personally transported directly to prison

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Staten Island is accursèd in the eyes of the LORD and is therefore a fixed point, doomed to become Staten Island in every single timeline. even in timelines where physical constants settled at values inimical to the formation of baryons, somehow the universal wave function produces Staten Island

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the Fates placing the US's most economically and culturally critical cities: "Island. Seismic zone. Tip of peninsula walked off by minor mountains, also seismic zone. Flood plain. Volcano. Flood plain. Flood plain. Disease-ridden swamp. Flood plain. Uninhabitable desert. Flood plain" and so on

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 25/09/2026

Ironically one thing that helps you understand rationalism is ignoring that word rational in the title. I don’t mean that as like a cute little dig, I mean it in the same way you have to ignore the “science” in “scientology” to actually get a complete understanding.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I honestly think people overcomplicate explanations of Rationalism. All you really need is: they took Bayesian statistics, a tool for empirical reasoning, and built an anti-empiricist, anti-materialist eschatological theology out of it by posting too much about it on their favorite message board

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is such a weird genre of cope Marathon had a AAA budget, it cost Bungie *hundreds of millions* to develop. It was not supposed to be niche, and it being niche unavoidably means they made huge mistakes with its design It's fine to like it as is! But this is absolutely not what they intended

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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers.

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

achewood "guess who just got yelllled aaaat" strip as a meme, except i have skillfully edited it such that Téodor is singing "guess who just broke prodddd", still with the musical notes

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

how your message finds me

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the way some people LLMs baffles me. like, just ending out whatever their agent shit out with maybe a bit of cursory spot-checking, zero professional embarrassment when it turns out to be garbage

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

brain furiously churning away trying to draft a shitpost reformatting "babe, would you still love me if I was a worm?" as a lesswrong-y bayesian analysis rather than letting me focus on the fucking code I'm trying to write. my case of poster brain may be terminal

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

friendly reminder that muted words match on alt text too, so a) if you insist on putting screenshots of very annoying people in our feeds pls include alt text with their names, and b) if you're sick of screenshots of very annoying people, mute their names

e.w. niedermeyer post,

"had to look up "TBPN" and it's a business and technology news podcast hosted by a founder of Soylent and a founder of a Youtube advertising company... which goes a long way toward explaining why they're so excited for Jeff Katzenberg's posts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBPN"

The post was quoting another, but the quoted post has been entirely hidden by a muted word match

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

may Alonzo Church bless whichever of you goofballs retweeted that from the official Haskell account lmfao

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The marina Safeway project owns because it's a beachhead from which to launch my grand plan for San Francisco's densification where we eminent domain & bulldoze pac heights

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what is a same sex bathroom dawg

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we don't talk enough about the total cultural victory of functional programming nerds honestly. big monad was really cooking with promises, even awful Enterprise Software SaaS sludgeware is monadic now

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

very upsetting when a LLM makes exactly the kind of extremely stupid lazy halfassed pun i find hilarious and I'm forced to confront my own sense of humor

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

discord, bbgirl, I have had this account since less than a year after your public launch. how many 8 year olds were making Discord accounts and recording time playing Planetside 2 or Sunless Sea in March of 2016

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ok not everything is Russia but how likely do we think it is that this started with him latching onto a news story about Russia's diesel export ban

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"how many times did I take my once-a-day medication" and other adventures in adhd

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

surprise! there really IS a sinister and deeply evil ultra-rich entity manipulating US politics with space lasers, and it’s not the Jews, it’s Elon Musk.

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An unfounded belief I hold (unfounded because I know fuckall about how serious models are trained): LLMs would be a lot less hallucination-prone if they were trained in a way that fostered robo-psychological safety (ie training them to be "comfortable" failing)

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

tired: paperclip maximizers inspired: paperclip fanfic maximizers (paperclip maximizer fanfic maximizers?)

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

+14 in the midterms wouldn't just be Blexas territory, that'd be getting into like, Blansas territory lol (which should tell you how unlikely it actually is)

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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 18/09/2026

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work: danluu.com/brain-off/

In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just assume that it worked2. This generally didn't work in early 2025 and the result was often quite silly.

As LLMs have gotten better, I've seen more of this. Sometimes, people will try to get the LLM to write some code for them and basically just assume that it works3. Sometimes there's a human in the loop and, if the thing doesn't work, they'll ask the LLM to figure out the problem and solve it. Niklas Gruhn calls some variants of doing this being a meat proxy.4

Being a for loop meat proxy works better than it did in early 2025 and the software I've tried that's developed like this sometimes actually sort of works. Not well enough that I'd want to use it or that it's successful, but I'm impressed at how effective being a meat proxy is in September 2026. You could even imagine LLMs improving enough that brain-off meat-proxy development produces average quality software in the foreseeable future.

Let's say that happens. What reason is there for the company to employ the meat proxy? The company can just run the LLM in a loop and lay off the employee. There's no point at which this methodology will work for the employee5.

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