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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Putting half the active user base on a massive block list then casually mentioning that your lead programmer no longer works for the company. That's the bluesky way

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not NYC, but the Northeast - hearing country music in Logan and elsewhere in greater Boston earlier this year was jarring. I understand the genre, but. Not here. Hearing it in particularly fancy bits of Cape Cod was so dissonant. Why is this playing in a high end seafood restaurant?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

prescription drug coverage is some of the most demonic shit you will ever encounter in your life. my doctor prescribed me a medication and somehow there are now at least two third-party corporations involved for no apparent reason and nobody knows what is going on or what needs to be done

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's not *just* the water usage, but how polluted the water is when it comes *out* of data centers. Nothing quite like dumping a high concentration of PFE forever chemicals and other nasty stuff into watersheds. It's sure as hell not pristine on the way out and into our drinking water.

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salad bar ham cubes @flangy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(Jeff Bridges) The wheel. An analog frontier.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How To Talk To Your Children About Cujo

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's a software engineer in the loop for most of these clicking "yes, execute that command" (or they've foolishly & negligently) turned off that "safety" step. ...and because the engineers don't actually *know* anything, they've got no understanding of the command(s) they're about to run

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Ron Cobb's original signage designs for Alien 📽️

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Idly googling "Volvo electric semi usa" and it appears there are already hundreds of them in the US and Canada. Hope this fails for Tesla as spectacularly as their stupid cyber truck.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 24/09/2026

(to the tune of Girls On Film) I hate Teams

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have lost track of the number of times I have watched The Battle of Algiers and I'm not sure that's entirely healthy (I am now watching The Battle for Algiers)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

2 things, in ascending order of importance: 1) Polls are Possibility but they don't vote; don't stop working. 2) El-Sayed has Massive support in a mid-west rust-belt state while vocally supporting transgender kids & adults/directly Dismissing claims that trans people are "dangerous." Learn from that

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In Ohio, Acton's disgusting statements and behavior is clearly aligned with this and it should be *punished*. There's no way I'm voting for the Republican or the libertarian candidate, but man it really makes me not want to vote for that position. Thanks Ohioans for giving me three bad options.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wouldn't say it's the best part of living in a purple or red state, but it does give me great satisfaction to fuck with push pollers if I have the free time. Absolutely annoying to deal with and one of the reasons we don't watch cable TV. The ads, my god the ads...

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Watched season 1 of True Detective. Generally good, great casting, photography, etc. weak ending compared to the start. Anyways, it started to auto-play season 2 and... Oof. Not good.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Google really does love running ads containing the most foul bigotry. SLF PAC can get fucked.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Havertz one-on-one with the goalie and shooting right at him is one of the reasons Chelsea got rid of him.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One thing that irks me re:LLM hype is that in the inevitable collapse, there will be pushback in using neural networks in legitimately useful ways. The classic hyperplane separator use-case is great. You want to approximate solutions with a high dimensional space? They're a great tool to try.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/10/2025

"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition." On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks. doi.org/10.1007/s421... 3/n

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On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks - Computational Brain & Behavior

In the cognitive, computational, and neuro-sciences, practitioners often reason about what computational models represent or learn, as well as what algorithm is instantiated. The putative goal of such...

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have worked with metacognition systems and this is both a painfully obvious finding, and a reminder to folks to actually look to other sub-specialties of artificial intelligence to see just how much snake oil propaganda the LLM boosters are pushing.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First, the famed Rosie the Riveter image that is a feminist icon is in fact an anti-union image created by Westinghouse during the war. All discussions of memories of women and the war should start with knowing this fact. thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

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Myth-Making and the “We Can Do It!” Poster - Sociological Images

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My son the night before the ACT: I need to print out my ticket for the ACT! Me: that printer hasn't been used in 6 months. Prepare to panic. 3 printer head cleanings later we did get a successful printout.

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Jamie Hardt @jamie.squad51.us · 18/09/2026

I feel like everybody was pretty solid on the whole “committed line counts are not productivity” idea but also everybody seems to have decided to forget that sometime around 2024.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People ask "where are we going to get tomorrow's senior developers if AI is eliminating roles for junior developers" but have you seen what is happening to TODAY's senior developers??

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's not even close who the most prolific exporter of violence around the world has been in the past 75 years.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_w...

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Cowgirl (Hackers Soundtrack)

YouTube video by hackerssoundtrack

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why the fuck are you still employed in this field you sick fuck?

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heartbreaking and enraging to see folks in the pickup soccer group chat being afraid to come out and play because of ICE.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Forget "what if there was a school for kids to learn magic up in the Scottish highlands" and embrace "what if Merlin ran the computer science department of a research university deep in the Soviet interior"

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem with a Warhammer show is you know they'll take it seriously when it should be Drunk History just trying to explain the lore

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Made some amazing mushrooms with garlic and shallot. Not pictured, too delicious.

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TubaPeter dot com @tubapeter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*Kif from FUTURAMA voice* "What's Aella?"

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 15/09/2026

ed sheeran surrounding himself with irish people and then going "oh you know I don't know" on palestine is a world historical failure to read the room

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Szobolai's shot was amazing.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Obviously woefully wrong, going past funny wrong to dangerous wrong. Anyways, for the people who say LLMs are great at writing software, this is the sort of quality you expect them to generate in software too, so anyone proclaiming they're awesome at it (or at least decent) can be safely ignored.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

33 1/2 Revolutions Per Monkee (1969) is some pretty amazing television. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Yn...

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Adam Cook @motorcityadam.com · 12/09/2026

"Disallow advanced compute infrastructure or hardware available to *any* entity, even to those inside of the US, outside of the tightly-controlled Silicon Valley capital and corporate bubble." That is what is *really* meant here. It is a cartel. And it should be broken up.

Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ah yes, the 25th anniversary of putting the most likely to shoot themselves or someone around them armed personnel in airports (the national guard). I recall a training exercise I was observing where I saw a national guard officer *throw* a rifle in a crowded cafeteria to someone else.

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves" is one of the most repugnant things I've ever heard from a politician

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Btw, if you just so happened to be interested in the story of how the 1974 Xenia tornado affected the adjacent town of Wilberforce Ohio, which is predominantly Black.... with not one, but TWO HBCUs, the only two in Ohio. And how they were severely damaged... www.statenews.org/section/the-...

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A half-century on, Wilberforce residents reflect on Ohio’s deadliest tornado

The disaster dubbed "the 1974 Xenia tornado" claimed more than 30 lives. The impact in next-door Wilberforce has often gone ignored.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love how my Gmail doppelganger in NY has used my email address with Uber and there's seemingly no way to fix this. So instead I get his receipts and that's just super creepy seeing where he's going. At least he's not a bad tipper.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you can just jack off missiles all over the Persian gulf, piss away billions in various rescue attempts of the yen or your own bonds that literally bump the number for 15 seconds, jack up spending and borrowing to record levels. don't tell me we can't do medicare for all. you can do anything

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da spreadsheet lover @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

people have twisted themselves in knots for a long time re: musk's politics. it's really not complicated. he's a white nationalist who saw the opportunity to hurt a lot of non-white people and he took it, gleefully.

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Seamus @combinatorial.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extra hot golden curry was a hit tonight (vegetable curry with chicken thigh katsu).

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