iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hyperfine 2.0 is out, and it supports lots of new metrics, e.g. benchmarking RAM usage, CPU instructions, cache hit/miss etc! (screenshot from Charlie Marsh) github.com/sharkdp/hype...

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 9h

👀👀👀👀👀

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 9h

yes. i’m a nerd who was on #SecureScuttlebutt

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 9h

need. tempted to see if a meta headset is rootable…

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 19h

I don’t understand why people think this isn’t the most obvious question in the world. No, of course not. You don’t know what the distribution of responses will be; that’s why you do the survey.

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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 17h

DEFAULT You didn’t choose me. You just didn’t uncheck the box.

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Kimberly Scaryne @kimberlydairine.bsky.social · 22h

CS improv troupe who realizes they can build any scene out of "Yes NAND"

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aly @aly.codes · 12h

just tax Nvidia, it’s not rocket science. I don’t know why people think w ended some new regime or more of power to do this kind of thing. I don’t know why people think we need some hyperspecific corruption bait law or some new censorial regime. Just raise taxes.

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 9h

fucking fantastic

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hailey @hailey.at · 12h

today’s verge reporting on anthropic’s model welfare policy burying the lede about their whole “we are further restricting access to orgs doing surveillance,crime prediction, etc.” with the addition of “we allow some partners to do this”

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19h

i would bet that if public key cryptography broke 1) it would not be public 2) it would be immediately forwarded to the NSA

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Tom Slee 🇨🇦 @tomslee.net · 19h

It does seem likely that the trusted sphere that gains advance notice of dangerous new innovations will be entirely US-based. That makes this non-American feel distinctly queasy.

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WIRED @wired.com · 06/10/2026

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

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The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 07/10/2026

curious how you rate iphone texting then, if you switch languages similarly (and have iphone) 👀

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Almost all major media (LLMs included) is now owned by a very small number of people / governments. An exciting propaganda war looms on the horizon

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the biggest AI misalignment risk is pointedly not anthropomorphising them wherever convenient

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 07/10/2026

ye. have you tried the macOS 27 dictation? i'm on m1 max, so I haven't seen how the new version does - I'm sure it doesn't do this shit tho

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 07/10/2026

If Turing lived 75 years later he'd be such a tensorfucker holy shit phil415.pbworks.com/f/TuringComp...

I now proceed to consider opinions opposed to my own.
(1) The Theological Objection. Thinking is a function of man's immortal soul. God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to any other animal or to machines.
Hence no
animal or machine can think.
I am unable to accept any part of this, but will attempt to reply in theological terms. I should find the argument more convincing if animals were classed with men, for there is a greater difference, to my mind, between the typical animate and the inanimate than there is between man and the other animals.
The arbitrary character of the orthodox view becomes clearer if we consider how it might appear to a member of some other . religious community. How do Christians regard the Moslem view that women have no souls? But let us leave this point aside and return to the main argument. It appears to me that the argument quoted above implies a serious restriction of the omnipotence of the Almighty. It is admitted that there are certain things that He cannot do such as making one equal to two, but should we not believe that He has freedom to confer a soul on an elephant if He sees fit? We might expect that He would only exercise this power in conjunction with a mutation which provided the elephant with an appropriately improved brain to minister to the needs of this soul. An argument of exactly similar form may be made for the case of machines. It may seem different because it is more difficult to "swallow". But this really only means that we think it would be less likely that He would consider the circumstances suitable for conferring a soul. The circumstances in question are discussed in the rest of this paper.
In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.

(2) The 'Heads in the Sand' Objection. " The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so."
This argument is seldom expressed quite so openly as in the form above. But it affects most of us who think about it at all.
We like to believe that Man is in some subtle way superior to the rest of creation. It is best if he can be shown to be necessarily superior, for then there is no danger of him losing his commanding position. The popularity of the theological argument is clearly connected with this feeling. It is likely to be quite strong in intellectual people, since they value the power of thinking more highly than others, and are more inclined to base their belief in the superiority of Man on this power.
I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate: perhaps this should be sought in the transmigration of souls.

I do not expect this reply to silence my critic. He will probably say that such surprises are due to some creative mental act on my part, and reflect no credit on the machine. This leads us back to the argument from consciousness, and far from the idea of surprise. It is a line of argument we must consider closed, but it is perhaps worth remarking that the appreciation of something as surprising requires as much of a 'creative mental act ' whether the surprising event originates from a man, a book, a machine or anything else.
The view that machines cannot give rise to surprises is due, I believe, to a fallacy to which philosophers and mathematicians are particularly subject. This is the assumption that as soon as a fact is presented to a mind all consequences of that fact spring into the mind simultaneously with it. It is a very useful assumption under many circumstances, but one too easily forgets that it is false. A natural consequence of doing so is that one then assumes that there is no virtue in the mere working out of consequences from data and general principles.

It will not be possible to apply exactly the same teaching process to the machine as to a normal child. It will not, for instance, be provided with legs, so that it could not be asked to go out and fill the coal scuttle. Possibly it might not have eyes. But however well these deficiencies might be overcome by clever engineering, one could not send the creature to school without the other children making excessive fun of it. It must be given some tuition. We need not be too concerned about the legs, eyes, etc. The example of Miss Helen Keller shows that education can take place provided that communication in both directions between teacher and pupil can take place by some means or other.

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 07/10/2026

bsky.app/profile/cale... (comment thread)

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 07/10/2026

I would love to see this provide both public and private spaces - basically let me make a public/private forum/subreddit here. Sometimes what's useful is having a moderation space in a public sphere, right?

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 07/10/2026

AHHHHHH

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Grace @gracekind.net · 07/10/2026

Expect to see a lot more things like this

Hacker news comment:

jboggan 12 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [-] I went back to that Fable chat and showed it this new preprint. It coded up the new constructive algorithm and ran it against the existing test suite, that looks good at least.
It has been super helpful in delineating where the crucial concept came from. The proof is rather simple as graph theory proofs go, but it does seem to use some constructions that would only seem obvious if you had serious physics experience with partition function and calculating energy states that cancel out. *It's not a wholly alien bolt from the heavens, but I can also see how there hasn't been a human being with the broad theoretical physics knowledge combined with the deep graph theory experience in planar graphs to come up with this idea.* (emphasis mine) I don't know, I'm looking for precedents of this formulation and some old papers of Penrose counting the number of edge colorings of this same graph type are coming up, the line of argument at least rhymes.
But I agree with the thought that this sort of progress should not be siloed inside those companies. I propose a tax so that every slop cannon AI video pays for another hour of compute time for advancing mathematics.

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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 07/10/2026

HOLY SHIT! Haiku 5.5 is out! It mogs Luna, it got a price cut, and under 100k context it's basically free! Under 100k: R: $0.01 W: $0.125 O: $0.50(!!) 100k+ R: $0.05 W: $0.625 O: $2.50 www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku... Oh also Sonnet 5.5's cached input price was halved lmao

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 07/10/2026

waiiiiiitttt i didn’t even think about it being REAL™️ linux 😍

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philpax @philpax.me · 07/10/2026

it is so unbelievably refreshing to have a standalone headset that runs real Linux and lets me do whatever the hell I want. immediately worth the cost of entry

the makima coding agent running on the Steam Frame

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East River Source Control @ersc.io · 06/10/2026

We aren't quite ready to invest in lava lamps, but we are thinking deeply about randomization ersc.io/blog/when-ra...

ersc.io

When random is not actually random enough

A short lesson in API design

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 06/10/2026

Trump’s AI czar is a war-centric choice

MTS
@MTSlive •2h
Anton Leicht says Jay Clayton becoming Al czar of America's new Super Intelligence Force shows Washington now treats Al as a national-security issue:
"It is crazy that within a year we've gone from the Al czar as a venture capitalist, an investor, to the Al czar as the spy chief of the US government. That's a very different vibe."
"How much more of this will be classified. How much more of this will be behind closed doors and only very limited communication between the labs and the US government, but not that much public oversight."
"It would be really good if there were very pronounced checks and balances around what happens on Al policy within the executive.
Congress should do something. Third parties should do something."
"The trade-offs that are made there aren't usually as pro-market and pro-diffusion as Silicon Valley might be used to from David Sacks'tenure."

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 06/10/2026

haha it took me forever to learn that while you turn the heat up to get it hot for the leidenfrost effect, but that you then *turn down the heat* and let it cool????? instead of just cooking at high temps 😅😅😅

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

finally. cornco.bsky will be possible

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brennan @brennan.computer · 04/10/2026

I regret to keep spamming you with beautyslop but LOOK AT IT

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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wisp.place @wisp.place · 03/10/2026

tangled.org/aly.codes/tg I really want to shout out @aly.codes's tg if ur using tangled. everything just works and you almost never have to touch the webui when pushing things up like PRs or creating a repo. plus your lil guys in your computer can use it too

tangled.org

aly.codes/tg

An unofficial terminal client for Tangled, optimized for humans and agents.

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cinnamon 🐇 🏳️‍⚧️ @plushie.holdings · 02/10/2026

sickest logo i've ever seen

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So much of cooking is about exploiting the fact that boiling water holds things at a constant temperature. I bet there is a whole world of other cooking techniques available if all of our cooking tools could hold things at temperatures other than boiling.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/10/2026

i guess openai’s interest in frontier math wasn’t purely as benchmarks but also to further SOTA of ML

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Man it's been like a month since navier stokes and nobody has used the Al Death Star to prove anything useful for Deep Learning. SAD!
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East River Source Control @ersc.io · 01/10/2026

JJ-Con was a great time! And if you couldn't make it this year, we missed you, but you can still watch the talks: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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JJ Con '26 - YouTube

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 01/10/2026

IG with the power of atproto, "subreddits" can just be individual forum pages on the internet... login w/ atproto, your participation is in your PDS, we could get the self-hostability of www.discourse.org w/ the conversation portability of #reddit???

discourse.org

One platform. Any community.

Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.

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caleb @caleb.jasik.xyz · 01/10/2026

I wonder if there's overlap w/ @roomy.space's explorations? feels like moderation is the hard part? frontpage.fyi but w/ N groups is the vibe, right?

frontpage.fyi

Frontpage

Your frontpage to the internet.

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