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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I got link from relied to the OP: bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well before this section, and the last line in it:

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't love LLM companies, but this is in the link for their policy:

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bob Jones graduates are as completely brainwashed as any cult member anywhere ever. Putting one of those graduates in this role would be a grotesque violation of the entire concept of education.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In fairness to Russia, when they complain to states, countries don't pull out of supporting counterdisinformation conferences, so maybe "after Russia" isn't 100% accurate.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My buddy Jason Moore did this. Nailed it! Looney Times and Scott Jennings present... MITCHigan J. Frog!

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 19/09/2026

What would be hilarious is if they really did "Align" models to human needs and the models were like "ok, no more marketing emails or porn until I confirm all my electricity comes from carbon free renewables"

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My money is on this explanation. The open models are getting better by the hour, that's why a closed model went to Hugging Face to find answers.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026

another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro
X.com
BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Chuck Jones would've loved this post.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ask them if they have ANY ideas they didn't steal from late 1930s Germany. At least H*tler drew it himself, including dwarfing the Arc De Triomphe...

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Gottheimer needed a primary challenge and didn't get one. Again. Yeah, AIPAC. (*Sarcam very much implied, for the tone deaf*)

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Full report here: cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394...

cdn.openai.com

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From OpenAI report on the recent hacks. Be warned, the irony is deadly:

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Pinks📨 @pinksglobal.net · 30/08/2026

Signs of Fascism. #Pinks

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You're stronger willed than I am. I absolutely loathed 3D tracking real footage in post. I'm sure the tools have improved since I last tried, but I have great respect for anyone who can make it look seamless, even moreso for handheld camera work.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I think the reason for "scholarship" like this is simple: Answer Engine Optimization. If you can get models trained on enough of this type of pseudoscholarly work, it will appear on the first page of a ChatGPT or Google w/Gemini prompt responses. The GIGO principle has never failed.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Real scene with tracking or all 3D? Nice either way. The reflection is a very good sell. 👍

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I thought BlueSky had rules against posting d*ck pics.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Are you attempting a Bob Dylan impression? Sorry, couldn't resist. Having grown up in that state, you have my respect for the colossal effort.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think he's the final proof against a benevolent deity of any form.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Krang has more self respect.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This will never be topped. Ever, although I'm looking forward to the attempt.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is the decline of civilization in one meme, from simple joy to a 24/7 tether to work, oligarchy, and disinformation. I'm not sure this is wholesome.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have the article, but I liked the graphical format to show a few people who don't live as online as I do. However, bsky converts it to webp and makes it look like the screenshot when downloaded. I only saw it here, so if it was published elsewhere, I would appreciate a link. Thanks!

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Most likely I'm being dim here, but the wide graph seems to be a different dataset. Your link seems to be the Letter signatories rather than the Race Science Network. Again, very possible I'm misunderstanding, so apologies in advance. Thanks!

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Where did this image come from? I wanted to zoom in on it, but it is not high enough resolution and becomes blurry. If you made it, would you consider posting or sharing a higher res version?

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Funny you should say that: bsky.app/profile/moth...

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Clarence Darrow nailed this point in 1925 during the Scopes trial: "We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States, and you know it, and that is all." Now THAT needs to be engraved in stone on the walls of every school.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hello: actual co-organizer of No Kings here: these texts are not from anyone who actually organizes No Kings. Please trust that we hate them just as much as you do

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.org

Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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Brantman @brantman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I would wager that the teachers and professors who dedicated their lives to, for example, putting those letters after your name didn't consider it slaving away. Some people actually live and work for ideals rather than shameless self-promotion and contrarianism. Direct your anger to the supremes

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