coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 1hReminder: NCSBE is forging ahead with their maximally-hostile rule changes, some reports had indicated they needed leg. review first but they did not. Looks like this is trickling down even to sane counties. 000
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Anecdote: plenty of R voters in my precinct (though mostly D), usually the board has to find a Republican judge from out of precinct (I have had a couple from within). So far they have yet to assign one to my precinct. They will probably find one by election day though, I've never been without one 100
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, if you want to be a passive observer (inside or in the no-campaigning zone), look into the requirements. In NC you have to be trained and represent a party. AFAIK there is no place you can just walk into polling places and observe, without some sort of prearrangement and vetting. 110
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today in Raleigh I saw a Tesla with license plate PDOOM-99. 000
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026can't believe the car that runs on millions of tiny explosions transmitting energy through a complex series of oily metal parts doesn't last as long as the one that's four wheels attached to a battery 14604123
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That last bit's important. Even IF someone altered the machine results, nobody just trusts those. 001
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We can't accept absentee ballots at election day polling places in NC, and I invoke this when explaining it to people, and they're usually sympathetic: "They issued me 1500 ballots, if I bring back 1503, very uncomfortable questions will come up. Also please don't throw it away here, ... 100
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is why I don't expect election day Fed shenanigans in Wake County. It would be terrible triage for them. Our 2 House districts are heavily D because of R gerrymandering. Our Senate race is no longer close enough to win by point shaving. A poor use of limited goons. 010
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought. 1873897
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My wife and I did that in 2020, returned ballot in person. No harder than taking it to a post office IMO, if you drive and get around OK. 010
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I got some unsexy exposure to them long ago, 2010ish? I went to a few NC LessWrong meetups. When describing it to my wife she said "sounds like a cult" and I replied "oh, it totally is." This was not long after the Roko debacle, I think. They saw cryonics as a no-brainer. 100
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I started going to life drawing so I could ogle attractive men and women. I've been going for so long now that I've accidentally become good at drawing 182985
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Ooh, I should turn this loose on one of work's Yocto builds 110
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Btw, even among pro AI friends, this concern is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Devs wondering how we get senior devs if the ecosystem for junior devs goes away. Doctors talking about not needing interns. Lawyers not needing paralegals. There's an ecological aspect to this and we need a plan. 2674575
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11/09/2026the thing about this is that this isn't an AI problem. AI is *accelerating* the problem, but industry investment in training, mentoring and developing employees has been waning for decades, what's different is that it's going to hit white collar work in the way it's been hitting the trades for years 25692107
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I would. Almost all outrages/scandals are forgotten in a couple weeks anyway. Knowing anything about policy is frustrating when Democrats run things and just a curse when Republicans run things. Maybe a bit of research around primary time. 001
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Right. Concerns about recursively-self-improving AI causing catastrophe long predate LLMs e.g. I saw people talking about that ~2010. Also this would be pretty bad marketing, equivalent to "our cars are so powerful they're likely to explode". 120
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialBobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026/comes scrambling back to the podium, grabs mic paleolithicc 536318
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Endorse. I think LLM skill with language makes them so easy to anthropomorphize, people are seeing imminent AGI where it probably isn't. TBF a year or two ago I'd have said definitely isn't; they are improving awfully fast. But it still seems like the difference is kind not degree. 000
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialGerry Cohen @gercohen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wake Co NC absentee ballot for my household was accepted by USPS last night (outgoing barcode gets read by USPS HIGH-SPEED scanner and transmitted to NC BallotTrax, BTW this is longstanding and has nothing to do with new USPS rules). One image from text, another from website) #ncpol 242
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If you want to do this don't wait too long, there's training to do ahead of time, so get hold of your county elections board right away. I've done it for 20 years in Best Carolina and love it. 17224
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Fortune 170 I work for did this in a crazy way - started excluding, didn't tell anyone (just buried it in the SPD), grandfathered in people already on them. How I found out: I hit bariatric surgery in 2019. In 22-23 or so I was regaining because of course. Bariatrics doctors got me on Wegovy... 100
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026After a breakup, and fighting a drinking problem, a man impulsively hops on a flight to follow his ex, and doesn't get sick. 000
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialJoseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I can understand being deeply annoyed by someone, but if anything proves the notion that these damn electric bricks are doing bad things to our brains it’s that some people are asking their devices to TELL THEM when someone they DONT LIKE is saying something so they can go engage with them MORE. 4371
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Tired of shitting yourself because the GOP's trying to steal votes? Here's info from a veteran. I live in the US capitol of ballot fraud! The good ol' NC-09. I've personally been hit by two (2) NATIONAL NEWS-level GOP attempts to steal elections. BOTH 👏 FAILED 👏 because we WORKED. Here's how. 11739304
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We kept our votes because we WORKED. And there's a lot of preemptive work we can do to to keep votes from being stolen in the first place! You can: Sign up as a poll worker at your local polling place! www.powerthepolls.org This is the #1 thing to do to protect elections. And it's paid work!powerthepolls.orgPower the PollsPoll workers power democracy. We help recruit them! Sign up now to make sure we have safe, fair, efficient elections for all! 3328102
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 24/08/2026there is no level of fuckery they can manage that will counteract the blue wave that's coming in november and I hope every prospective dem officeholder is taking note of exactly how far this court is prepared to go to fuck them over in future, closer races 650157
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 22/08/2026at the line level, the code is fine that code is about as perfect as you have attention to demand it to be the problem is that the LLMs seem to be poor at modeling and executing the overall system, the relationships between components and this level of detail is hard for humans to parse 2814
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The preferred term is "person experiencing spreadsheets." When you use the term "spreadsheet people," it turns into their identity and suggests that there is no possibility for change. Spreadsheets are what they are going through right now. It is not who they are. 1450951
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialMatt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 19/08/2026They sometimes claim to have a specific ask, but it's invariably legally and practically unttainable, like reversing the outcome of some long-since-certified election. That's just a red herring. The real goal is to prime you to reject the outcome of the NEXT election. 1174
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This caught my eye on Democracy Docket because I thought everyplace already required multipartisan oversight of everything. E.G in NC you have 3 election judges per polling place, at least one D and one R. + www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comMinneapolis must employ bipartisan election judges in time for midterms, state supreme court rulesIt’s a task the city has said it’s not equipped for and could disproportionately affect voters who cast ballots early, a popular method in the state with one of the highest voter turnout rates. 101
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.social☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Going from hand washing is bullshit to mrna vaccines in a century is wild 220719
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialFluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 12/08/2026AI company should be legally mandated to build *everything* to work on renewables only. Everything. Oh, solar energy is intermittent? Then build wind turbine and batteries as well, and sell the surplus to the market. 2497
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Dudes love a podcast that claims it's telling you about how to attract women based on like, EVOLUTION. But not a single one of them are giving the real mating advice that I have seen in the scientific literature! Not a single dude has ever rolled me up a ball of dung at a bar and it shows. 41748123
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I lived the downsides of not doing this, a long time ago. I started at THE Ohio State the first year that they offered full scholarships to National Merit Scholars(tm), 1991. Terms involve keeping a 3.2 GPA. There is no college for me without scholarships, my family is broke. + 120
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialLorcan Roche Kelly @lorcanrk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Well, of course they'd say that :) From here www.ft.com/content/161e... 08818
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14/08/2026It’s not shameful to be fat! It isn’t a personal failing! But it is a disease! No, the BMI isn’t perfect! Yes, being significantly outside the correct BMI is a symptom of a disease! 2756
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A neat article. paxmachina.ai/value-drift-... Spotted an idea here I don't see many places: businesses are made of people and people are basically good, so they act somewhat more ethically than a naive "only shareholder value matters" model would predict. +paxmachina.aiValue Drift in Institutions · Pax MachinaInstitutions can end up serving proxies that nobody actually values, even when everyone can see what has gone wrong. Understanding how this happens reveals why some forms of value drift become self-re... 100
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I deal with NC's requirement on election days. Here, the address you use is your home address 30 days ago. (Address is important for districts). When are you legally considered moved? It's kinda up to you to say. The law says home is "the place, when you are away, to which you intend to return" + 110
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026That's part of my dread of workslop - everything becomes this. Writer: "Copilot, expand X into a longer document." Each reader: sees something that reads like a padded-out student essay, says "Copilot, summarize that." Copilot: "It says X." What a waste. 110
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialDavid Rheinstrom @icarusfloats.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I have long applied Peirce's theory of signs to fruit-flavored stuff: it doesn't really matter that peach-flavored snapple doesn't taste like Real Peaches™! Instead, we can just say it bears an indexical or symbolic relation to peachiness and move on to appreciating it on its own terms. 5444
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialBitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"If it weren't for LLM I would not have immediately destroyed this code base. I would have destroyed it slowly, over time" ;) 1652
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Agree - I think a lot of people are assuming the death threats Republicans get are "being a woman on Twitter" style, there's a good chance they're "crossed the local Mafia" style. 010
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Knock knock Race condition Who's there? 611723
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A tangent: I'm very aware of them because they are my daughter's worst sensory aversion. Though it's only the horn "chirps" like when you lock and unlock. She barely notices regular honks (like when someone doesn't notice the light is green). 110
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Yeah, trying to imagine fully-ad-libbed edutainment videos and they would be pretty painful to watch. 010
Reposted by coreymutter.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I think the right move, which I don't see enough of, is developing a synthetic philosophy of how to co-exist with all this, as humans have had to try do in past industrial revolutions. If I could convince a think tank to hire a cartoonist, I'd be doing it tomorrow instead of between projects. 1226416
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026reverse engineer biodigester glucagon-like peptide hard disk edutainment One that surprised me that it's the same age as me: "video game" One that didn't: "Watergate" (it was just a hotel name before then) 000
coreymutter.bsky.social @coreymutter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Timeline synchronicity. FWIW I think a lot of "AGI is here/almost here" sentiment is from (subtle, subconscious) ELIZA effects. Then again AGI has to be possible unless souls are a thing. 000
