Reposted by taoEmelia @thisismissem.social · 14/09/2026Hey friends, could you do me a favour and star github.com/roostorg/coop if you like the Roost Coop project?github.comGitHub - roostorg/coop: Review and moderation, your way. Online safety dashboard, queues, routing and automatic enforcement rules, and integrations.Review and moderation, your way. Online safety dashboard, queues, routing and automatic enforcement rules, and integrations. - roostorg/coop 1425
tao @btao.org · 12/09/2026Finished reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares ★★★★★ 000
Reposted by taoDave @dave.9000ish.uk · 03/09/2026but kitten should worry, that message was sent from inside the swarm 0453
tao @btao.org · 26/08/2026i hate to say it but i think if you get caught up in the clanker discourse you might really need to touch grass 140
Reposted by taomori @moribot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source. — Osho 011
tao @btao.org · 18/08/2026> Learning about the world through 500-character snippets, or 30-second videos, is not a serious way to engage with knowledge. It triggers our worst instincts in terms of tribalism and groupthink and makes us intellectually lazy. 1301
tao @btao.org · 18/08/2026Anyone know how I can deactivate my Bluesky account, but keep my Eurosky PDS account active? 100
tao @btao.org · 18/08/2026I don't enjoy the Internet any more btao.org/posts/2026-0...btao.orgI don't enjoy the Internet any moreThe pale is growing 2325
tao @btao.org · 26/07/2026www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-...noahpinion.blogWhat will more intelligence actually do for us?A lot, actually. But it won't look quite like what humans do with our intelligence. 000
Reposted by taoEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026LLMs will likely be the most powerful propaganda tool that has ever existed arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475arxiv.orgAI systems out-persuade expert humansMany societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has... 613634
tao @btao.org · 23/07/2026heuristic: if there are entire companies built around <feature X>, then don't try to build it yourself in-house 020
tao @btao.org · 23/07/2026substack: “read distraction-free on substack!” also substack: adds social features and ads for itself 090
tao @btao.org · 23/07/2026@epochai.bsky.social i love that you guys are posting here! did you know that you can set your handle to be @epoch.ai by adding a DNS record to your domain? would look a lot more official! bsky.social/about/blog/4...bsky.socialHow to verify your Bluesky account - BlueskyHere's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username. 000
tao @btao.org · 22/07/2026one thing that's really important to remember about the luddites is that they lost 2240
tao @btao.org · 22/07/2026lookaway continues to be a great piece of software; so worth it lookaway.com/blog/2026/07...lookaway.comLookAway 2.3 - Quieter, Smarter, and More FlexibleThis update makes LookAway even less annoying with better idle time prediction and gives you more control with custom on-demand breaks and advance skips. 131
tao @btao.org · 22/07/2026i will never love any software as much as i love the Stickies app that comes with macs 020
Reposted by taoAlex Becker @alexcbecker.net · 22/07/2026things just got more cyberpunk (and that’s bad) 3672
Reposted by taoBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read. 584962803
Reposted by taoEdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com · 21/07/2026🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Tuesday’s headlines: Crags fire risk continues for 'days', plea for Leith trams return, Causey traffic island revamp is closer + bakery forced to change name ⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg... Photo: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social 1114
Reposted by taoGordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026re: tools for thought and AI, the problem is no longer blank page anxiety, but rather generating too much insight and getting lost 3275
Reposted by taoRollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026To be honest, I think these mindsets are as seductive as they are deeply incorrect. This nihilism of "my work never mattered" assumes multiple things: a final end state to realms of cognition; a world where past work doesn't inform future progress; a world where meaning has a sort of metaphysics. 2674
tao @btao.org · 19/07/2026that ishowspeed song at the world cup closing ceremony is a lot like what i would come up with if i was satirising how americans act re: football 120
tao @btao.org · 18/07/2026if you're going to the edinburgh fringe, i made a little website where you can see if a show has audience interaction. hopefully useful to some! isthereaudienceinteraction.comisthereaudienceinteraction.comIs there audience interaction?Know what audience interaction to expect at Edinburgh Fringe shows. 030
Reposted by taoCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 18/07/2026logged into Mastodon for the first time in a long while it’s a lot of software developers egging each other on into career self-harm, I don’t know how else to say it if your career is symbol processing and your response to a new paradigm in symbol processing is “no” that’s a career off-ramp 818021
tao @btao.org · 17/07/2026i can't imagine willingly engaging with the rails community at this point tbh; even if individuals disagree, unfortunately that world is centered around a far-right extremist 020
Reposted by taoA. H. Zakai @kripken.com · 16/07/2026"Older AI didn't work, but it was very efficient." 1292
tao @btao.org · 16/07/2026i joined instagram recently and it's really shocking to see the discourse around data centres on there... and don't even get me started on the conspiracy theorists makes me extremely saddened about our information environment; i kinda don't think it can be fixed 120
Reposted by taoCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 15/07/2026Code is now ~free good software that solves a problem… that’s still much more expensive 57610
Reposted by taoAndreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact 171273435
tao @btao.org · 14/07/2026someone sent me a podcast recommendation and i don't know how to tell them that i strongly suspect it's AI-generated (written and maybe also voiced) 000
tao @btao.org · 14/07/2026another point for the "LLMs just make existing best engineering practices more important" 0200
tao @btao.org · 14/07/2026i'm noticing that when i suspect that a piece of writing is AI-generated, i have a much harder time grokking it and idk if that's actually real, or like an instinctive mental protection thing? as in, if i read the same piece of writing in 2022, would i have understood it just fine? 270
tao @btao.org · 14/07/2026there are so many coding harnesses out there but none of them really describe why you'd use that one in particular over others like, why should i use crush over opencode? or polytoken over pi? i don't really wanna spend time trying out each one of them 252
Reposted by taoJake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 02/10/2025show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunaticjakelazaroff.comDHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.comDHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable. 29490174
tao @btao.org · 12/07/2026so far GPT-5.6 Sol is really good, but i am screaming "MVP!!!" at it a lot 180
tao @btao.org · 12/07/2026@ohcraphey.app hi! small piece of feedback: it feels a bit odd that i can enter the HH:MM i reached out to someone, like almost too granular. i always end up ignoring this field! 010
Reposted by taoSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/07/2026Let me also give a shout out to www.givingwhatwecan.org for encouraging people like me to pledge 10% of their incomes to charity as well. It has 5 to 10x'ed the amount I give to charity, annually, and may be one of the best behavioral interventions for doing good out there. 2131
tao @btao.org · 11/07/2026i emailed my MSP (member of scottish parliament) about AI & data centres, and not only did he reply, he said that he would value talking more about it! if you work a lot with AI and have concerns, i suggest trying the same, you might be pleasantly surprised 100
tao @btao.org · 11/07/2026i think this is true today, and also i think that a holistic understanding of your codebase is going to become less and less important with time seangoedecke.com/in-defense-o...seangoedecke.comIn defense of not understanding your codebase 4382