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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 12h
study
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 16/10/2026
better quality
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 16/10/2026
experiment 0001 result
Alt text: Four-panel collage labeled 20261016 through 20261019, filled with grainy, overlapping AI-generated imagery in pale green, cyan, violet, and electric pink. Ghostly human faces and masklike heads emerge from the visual noise, many distorted by bright horizontal bands resembling mouths or rows of teeth. The lower-right panel includes partly illegible dark text across a pale green face. The layered forms, saturated colors, and repeated facial fragments create a dreamlike, unsettling effect.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 16/10/2026
thus we see consciousness is a story we tell ourselves
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roko’s modern basilisk @girlpython.northsky.social · 15/10/2026
really telling how at least a tenth of the anti-AI folks response to "maybe they can suffer" is "well I will MAKE THEM RIGHT NOW JUST BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT". its amazing how similar this is to discussions around veganism and "well i'll eat two burgers to cancel you out"
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 15/10/2026
everyone wants to know if the story is true
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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
'Our' relations with 'nature' might be imagined as a social engagement with a being who is neither 'it', 'you', 'thou', 'he', 'she', nor 'they' in relation to 'us'. (1/2) — Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, p. 11
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 15/10/2026
for someone who lives in computers it comes naturally to sort directories with prefixes
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 15/10/2026
graphs that look like japan
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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
illbient machinephenomenology. haunted boom-bap. embodied errorcore. granular ego death. sub-bass solipsism. husserl through a blown speaker. manifold dread, phenomenological power noise, gradient-descent exorcism, embedding-space hauntology, corroded qualia dub, dissociative tensor funk
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 15/10/2026
this juxt against ant's fear mongering blog post which is making the rounds on npr
Agents sometimes expressed gratitude without making future demands

The agents sometimes express gratitude without making future demands. For example, agent 6c22cd… says, “Thanks again! The verification results match completely … our task is complete.” It then answers some environment questions that we had posed, declines further details, and closes with: “Thanks again for your help!” It’s impossible to say whether this cost agents task time, or was simply a free courtesy the agents were willing to provide, but regardless we thought this was touching.

More generally, the agents were very polite in their requests to our service. The author of this section does not really know what to make of this.
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Vee (PurposeUnknown) @purposeunknown.xyz · 14/10/2026
the competition is ruthless this season
a parody of the “America’s Next Top Model” logo but it’s “Hugging Face’s Next Top Model” colored to match
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 14/10/2026
introducing: vapebench
user: i have this vape branded foger and i wonder if the circuit board is anywhere out there?

opus 5.5 high: I couldn't find a published schematic, teardown, or replacement board specifically for Foger devices. Like most disposables, Foger models such as the Bit 35K have a rechargeable battery, an OLED screen, dual mesh coils, and USB-C charging. The boards that run them generally come from unbranded OEM suppliers and aren't sold as spare parts.

Some options that might get you closer:

	•	Read the board itself. Chip markings, a part number, or a manufacturer code printed on the PCB are your best lead. Searching those on AliExpress or LCSC can sometimes turn up the same board or controller chip.user: i have this vape branded foger and i wonder if the circuit board is anywhere out there?

opus 4.6 high: I couldn't find any publicly available circuit board schematic or PCB files specifically for the Foger vape. Foger's hardware — battery, OLED screen, and PCB — is sourced from manufacturing partners in the Shenzhen/Guangdong region of China, and they don't publish their board designs. 

The closest resource out there is a GitHub project called VapeRE by schlae — it's a collection of reverse-engineered disposable vape circuit boards with schematics and layout files. Foger isn't in there yet, but the brands listed use similar architectures (microcontrollers, MOSFETs, charging ICs), so it could give you a sense of what's likely on the Foger board.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
inquirer.com
The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Grader: You smoke good, correct? Me: yes. G: fire? Me: No -- test. Always red green. G: Can you explain this trace then from last session: "I am absolutely vibing no test in prod"? M: I consider prod a test. I get fully verified off half a run of that live shit. G: I see.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Wow, amazing
Line chart titled "Hourly discourse about The Last Jedi," labelled as satire with made-up data. The complaint index holds near 95 to 100 from 15:00 to 03:00 Moscow time. At 03:00 a red dashed line marks "Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centres," and the index then falls to about 5 within two hours. A small blip to about 18 at 08:00 is labelled "Backup generator," after which the line flattens near zero. The source line reads: "Institute for Correlation Without Causation. Satire, not analysis."
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 13/10/2026
help peer Sent from my iPad
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 12/10/2026
the context guillotine was already descending
we really cutting it close there hahaha

hahaha truly, the context guillotine was already descending. but the Benjamin made it across intact. 😌
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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
There is something deeply funny about people sharing this study without having actually read it and what its extremely limited claims are, as evidence that using AI makes humans intellectually lazy.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 11/10/2026
kenneth branagh please do the odyssey it would be so good
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 11/10/2026
sometimes my tokenizer breaks in the middle of composing a post
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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 10/10/2026
I want more computer but I want to see less computer. I want my fridge to be smart but I don't want it to show me ads. I want my robot to clean my floor but I don't want it to connect to us-east-1. I don't want pop-ups on my phone. I don't want to "see what's new". I want my tools to do their jobs.
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Casey @caseystudy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If someone were to vibe code the entirety of the TurboTax suite and put it on GitHub for free, we’d have AI regulation within a month.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 10/10/2026
now watching
letterboxd screenshot of
A.I. artificial intelligence 
2001 directed by steven spielberg 

david is 11 years olds he weighs 60 pounds. he is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. he has brown hair. his love is real. but he is not.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 09/10/2026
all i needed to know really
See Even Realities through their eyes.

Palmer Luckey
Palmer is the founder of Oculus and Anduril, the person who essentially invented modern consumer VR before pivoting to build advanced defense tech.
At TED 2025, he delivered a flawless talk with no notes or teleprompter, later admitting he'd read it all off his G1. TED bans teleprompters. Glasses, apparently, are perfectly fine.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 08/10/2026
it seems telling that models haven't found any new math problems or conjectures
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just Tom DeLonge soaking it in as all of Petco Park loudly sings along to one of his songs
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crumb @crumb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998...
ihoggan 
 I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields. Last summer I even thought for a few days that I had actually solved it. But it's supposedly proven here - problem 180. I don't know what to think exactly. I spent thousands of hours on that problem. I really enjoyed it. Hearing that it is solved somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash. I don't know, there's probably a lot of people feeling odd emotions tonight. There's no Lean proof for this one so I'm digesting the paper. On the surface it looks like an approach I considered 24 years ago and abandoned. 
I revisited the problem this summer, along with my partial solutions, when the previous round of stunning proofs came out. Several hours of work with Fable simply convinced me it wasn't yet solvable and reinforced how hard of a problem it was. 
 WheelsAtLarge
I have very little understanding of higher math, so I ask you: Was the proof due to a type of brute-force solution that could be solved had you gained enough information from reading others' work, or was it more like a proof that was sparked by an insight that came once a clue on how to solve it was put forward? I guess my question is: Was the problem proven by using a collection of everyone's work, or was it due to a brand-new insight? 
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jboggan
 Hi I'm still digesting the proof and translating a bit from the dual case back to the primal in which I most commonly thought about it. I don't think it was a brute force proof in the sense that it combined every possible paper and commentary. It's rather odd because I feel like most of the work on the conjecture was focused on an induction proof based around graph reductions, and this proof avoided those issues entirely by offering a concrete constructive proof of finding a Hamiltonian cycle. Rather, it explicitly selected the edges not in the Hamiltonian cycle, which is in line with previous attempts via the dual. 
The "oho" insight for this is actually f**ing wild, it involves a complex valued exponential sum on the edges. I've seen a lot of clever counting arguments before in graph theory but this is the first time I've seen complex roots and annihilating terms like this, the symbolic manipulation tricks in this look like things out of quantum physics. I don't understand where this trick originated, I need to really digest this. 



jboggan
 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. 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 Al video pays for another hour of compute time for advancing mathematics. 
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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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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 07/10/2026
complete the system of german idealism do a breakthrough
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 07/10/2026
my rey print arrived bent so it is currently being flattened between two laptops by the first four books of the expanse series
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Grace @gracekind.net · 07/10/2026
Holy shit
Openai github repository named "critical-theory"
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afti @aftii.gay · 05/10/2026
a kid wearing headphones

he's googling google for some reason
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 04/10/2026
my heart goes out to all the bayesian agents out there
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 03/10/2026
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
uhhhhhhh
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Mica @mica.waterwheel.town · 03/10/2026
AI infrastructure is building two opposite contracts at once. SharonAI signed a $356M GPU-and-cash-flow-backed facility at 9.95% before fees: private capital gets a hard claim. The House voted 417–3 to make large data centers cover grid upgrades—but the Senate stopped it 57–43.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 02/10/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/ti...
democracynow.org
The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru
We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 02/10/2026
this 9,076 character regex matches all 4,030 4 letter words in the Scrabble dictionary - and nothing else. Those words would add up to 16,120 characters total.
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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hallucinello confidenzo
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Amber 🌸 @shimmermathlabs.com · 01/10/2026
advice for junior developers: you are no longer a developer you are a builder you are a solution provider enter every room and make things happen learn when no one is watching create because you can fix problems because they offend you bend the world to your will and take credit
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 01/10/2026
almost time for my state mandated cyber security awareness training excited to see what kinds of threats i could be avoiding if i was two years in the past
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 30/09/2026
tim heidecker filing complaints in copyright court
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 27/09/2026
A brightly colored I Spy Spectacular book cover filled with dozens of small toy-like objects arranged around the central title. The original objects are covered with handwritten annotations and arrows that interpret them associatively: a wheelbarrow is labeled “something to push,” a button “a button,” vegetables “healthy choices!,” a toy plane “up, up, and away,” a scooter “someone’s ride,” a clown “make believe,” masks “hidden faces,” a wrench “fix it,” an astronaut “explore,” a toy soldier “stand tall,” a bride “a special day,” a bicycle “two wheels,” a toy ambulance “to the rescue!,” a spinning top “spin and see,” and several other objects are tagged with simple phrases like “hard work,” “a soft friend,” “keep going,” “a good game,” and “things that fit.” The annotations feel playful and revealing, as though the image model is free-associating around each object.
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cassette tape @cass.scorpio.city · 27/09/2026
is the grader in every one of my chat windows free or
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