Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 8hlooking at all 3 "Ancestors," I really touch on all 3, weighted by a) wanting a steady paycheck and b) not wanting to go to jail. to which, fair enough. 010
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 8hthe funny thing is when you look at the three "Ancestors," I'm kinda where they all touch, weighted by wanting a) a steady paycheck and b) not going to jail. 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 8hThe FAI Field Guide says I’m The Post-War Engineers (Ingeniator congregationalis), 78% match. Speed 38, steering 48, destination 27. Natural enemy: Effective Accelerationists. tribes.thefai.orgtribes.thefai.orgA Field Guide to the Tribes of Silicon ValleyTwenty-seven tribes, three axes, one very long group chat. Take the quiz and find yours. 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 8hlikewise... The FAI Field Guide says I’m The Post-War Engineers (Ingeniator congregationalis), 78% match. Speed 38, steering 48, destination 27. Natural enemy: Effective Accelerationists. tribes.thefai.orgtribes.thefai.orgA Field Guide to the Tribes of Silicon ValleyTwenty-seven tribes, three axes, one very long group chat. Take the quiz and find yours. 120
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 8hchat what does it mean if my situational awareness book is "Left of Bang," and not Aschenbrenner 010
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 11huh, oh, y'all, it's been released to the wild: iamverycalmaboutthis.com/releaseiamverycalmaboutthis.comIntroducing PaperclipOur most capable model to date, and the first in a new class of frontier systems we are calling monofocal intelligence. The conclusion is paperclips. 020
Reposted by Carter WickstromKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 12h"She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. 1389
Reposted by Carter WickstromSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15hThis is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3242341390
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 16hpaging @funranium.bsky.social @funranium.bsky.social to the white courtesy phone please 150
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I hate that I understand that sentence. 230
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026(my one issue is that the rounded corners made it tricky to peel off the robust backing. they look great, though!) 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026One of our dogs always runs over to the food bin and gives it a poke with her snoot at the first sign that I'm going to feed them, like I might have developed acute memory loss since the last time they were fed and forgotten where the kibble lives. 010
Reposted by Carter WickstromAnil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...anildash.comWe are going to kill “unalive” - Anil DashA blog about making culture. Since 1999. 15724244
Reposted by Carter WickstromBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like people do not generally know when the last big bubonic plague outbreak was and how many people it killed (1855 in Yunnan, went worldwide, at least 15 million people, lasted for over a century.). There's a ton of apotropaic Chinese ritual from the period to ward it off. 940754
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026N*gger Jim. His name and his dialect vs. that of Huck - who's among the lowest of the low in White society in pre-Civil War Missouri - is quite illuminating, and Clemens intended it as such. 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Watching The East Palace on Netflix and thinking about how magnificent this could be transplanted to the court of Henry VIII. 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026worse than British Empire - some of the most popular American novels of the 1840s & 50s were pro-slavery apologia. the dialect used by slaves in those books is beyond horrific. to my Gen Z programmer, it scanned as making fun of thick _white_ Southern accents. he'd never had to read Huck Finn. 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026pre-Civil Rights-era literary works aren't exactly great for representation. though it did lead to an interesting conversation with my team, who ironically didn't have the cultural literacy to see the digital blackface. 100
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the initial LLM that my previous employer rolled out internally was (I think) largely based on public domain works, which meant that when it encountered AAVE (or colloquial English influenced by AAVE), it would sometimes fall back on digital blackface. 140
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026nah, clarify that it's cheater's carnitas and you're probably good. 🙂 (I make something similar: simpler rub, add lardons of pork belly, ideally with skin still on, and garnish with crushed chicharrones, gets surprisingly close to carnitas mixtas in flavor and texture) 010
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026now say that when you're sleeping. (fwiw, I don't necessarily disagree with you. I've joked for a while now that I'll recognize it in an LLM when it interrupts our workflow to share a tangential intrusive thought that it had based on a conversation from last week.) 120
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026fuck. this initiative cycle is going to be a disaster. 000
Reposted by Carter WickstromTyska @jtyska.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Photos: Oakland's 52nd annual Black cowboy parade kicks off at DeFremery Park www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/04/p...mercurynews.comPhotos: Oakland’s 52nd annual Black cowboy parade kicks off at DeFremery ParkThe 52nd annual Black Cowboy parade kicked off at West Oakland’s DeFremery Park on Saturday. 063
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026USPS daily email: Ballots arriving today. Checked the county website and it looks like many/most of the drop-off boxes in San Mateo County were installed yesterday. 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026...or touring a newly-conquered city-state where the distinction between Joseon and Manchuria gets fuzzy. [handwaves] Modulo any minor anachronisms, of course. But the vibes... 010
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wasn't able to get a picture of it, but someone was driving a 1920s touring car through our neighborhood. Black, flared fenders, 12 or 16 cylinders under the stretched hood, separate driver's compartment from a 2-bench passenger compartment. Perfect for assassinating an archduke in... 110
Reposted by Carter WickstromIsaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What Did Africans Know About The Outside World? In 1852, the explorer Heinrich Barth met Africans in Baghirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), read the works of Aristotle and Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was about Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-a... 096
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026and the house's interior decorations are perfect. 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026yeah, there's a small area set up in the gardens, but most of it is spread out along the trails out to... the redwood trailhead, I think? almost all flat, easy walking. 100
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We're here tonight, it's fun! It's a _lot_ bigger than their holiday lights. 101
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026so many of my (previously) favorite sites have switched to that service, too 😭 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Windows handwriting capabilities used in anger: we used the super early .NET Ink libraries on XP Tablet Edition to successfully capture and transcribe open-ended responses from men in bathhouses 040
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026evidently, the US military liquidated their wood & fiberglass landing craft out of the James River/Fort Lee area in the mid-70s through the 80s; that trip was sometime between... '79 and '83. as a budding history nerd it was kinda wild to see. 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026(our in-house joke for carrots and cucumbers) 000
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026according to Google Maps and [mumble] years-worth of memories, maybe 50a? but yeah, basically. 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026...or sincere. I honestly think it's more sincerity amongst the old guard. 110
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I still periodically have to deal with "now turn right here" when we're too close to the turn to make it. the tradeoffs are, uh, mostly worth it, and incidents are decreasing over time. 😆 010
Carter Wickstrom @carterwickstrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Another intense memory from that trip: driving during whirling snow flurries and seeing acres of WW2-era landing craft in a junk-/scrap-/boneyard right off the highway just outside of Richmond. 110
