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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another fun example along similar lines is the Digi-Comp 1 from the ~1960s.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hubris is the death of empires. Also of wannabe empires.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Speaking broadly, pure mathematics has consistently been appreciative of its connection to the humanities. Elegance, intuition, creativity versus computation, philosophical underpinnings, the sociology of collaboration—this is how they talk to each other. The scorn is mostly coming from elsewhere.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nevermind that the whole concept of gender-segregated chess is mind-numbingly ridiculous.

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Mark 🗿🗻🥾⛷️ @hairybadgeridfk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White privilege. The concept is simple. It doesn't mean that white people have easy lives. It means that the barriers present for non-white people are not applicable for us. It means that after every negative interaction we aren't left wondering if it's due to the color of our skin.

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Mikel 🇺🇦 @mikelking.com · 02/07/2026

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

So.... Trump's version of burning the Reichstag is, what, someone pissing in the reflecting pool?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/06/2026

This is the way.

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Kevin Kulp @kevinkulp.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you know Boston, you’ll appreciate this. A perfect Storrowing! (Photo from reddit - www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/R...)

A Ryder truck with the entire roof peeled away by a low bridge on Storrow Drive in Boston.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Star Wars has been washed since The Phantom Menace.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

While this sounds like a dumb question, figuring out your long term story around local LLMs as AI token prices rise isn’t.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Who has borgmon readability?" "No one has borgmon readability...I have borgmon readability." "I am a staff software engineer. I do not get out of bed for less than three peer bonuses." (Broccoli aside, I actually did have borgmon readability.)

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If you’re wondering how much AI vendors have been subsidizing tokens, here’s what a GitHub Copilot user would have been charged for their current usage under the usage based billing model going live next month.

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

*Loud groans followed by shouts of,* "Boo!" *Hiss* "Get off the stage! Go home! Boo!!"

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Ten years? More like ten months. :-(

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Cues "Hell's Bells" by AC/DC and pops "Maximum Overdrive" into the VHS.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One's privilege to serve the American people is only given by, and at the pleasure of, the voting public. "It's his turn" if, and only if, it is granted by the voters. Otherwise, that concept does not apply: this is not the swing set at recess.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

AI saves you time by helping you write emails. You can now use that time saved to catch up on the long AI slop emails you’re now receiving from everyone else.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Well, the world is on fire and seems like it's on track to, you know, end. But other than that? Not much.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Was it supposed to be a three hour tour?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

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The man who watches Trump all day, every day

Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Astonishing story here from noted investigative journos Dan Nolan and Peter Geoghegan: Russian oil and the Hungarian government directly fund a vast network of right wing populist writers and thinkers democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-bri...

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Straight Edge is clearly a drinking song.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

You jerk. Now that's stuck in my head.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yup. So when do they predict these things top out?

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Google is actively partnering with companies to build small scale nuclear power reactors directly at data center sites.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The breakthrough required is that they need to figure out how to make energy demand sublinear with respect to increased capability. I see no evidence suggesting that's anywhere close to being on the horizon.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

But that's not sustainable.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I'm not sure I care about business viability: I care about environmental impact and sustainability. Sure, they can boil the oceans and burn all the coal and dam up all the rivers to generate the gigawatts to meet demand, and they can drain all the water tables to keep the computers cool, and profit.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I think it's a combination. I think it's some gains in efficiency (MoE, for instance), some increases in revenue, and a _lot_ of VC cash.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

That's the thing: no one _really_ knows, and people are making a _lot_ of assumptions as they speculate. That does _not_ give me a warm fuzzy. It seems to me, at a minimum, that a lot of optimism is predicated on the assumption of breaking some pretty fundamental barriers, and soon.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I see data that suggest that they are, and no evidence suggesting that they are not. And yeah, the consequences for the rest of us are going to be bad. There's clearly utility here. Some impressive things can be done. The limitations are obvious, though.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Moore's law necessarily stopped because of physics: you can only double density so many times per unit volume before you hit fundamental limitations of physical reality. But LLMs just aren't the same; when do they top out?

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Again, I go back to Moore's law: compute was driven by semiconductors getting twice as dense per unit area _at half the cost_ for ~40 years. There is nothing comparable for LLMs: an LLM may get twice as good in 2 years, but at 4x the cost, even after efficiency gain factors.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I know. But I'm not sure I have seen enough evidence to agree, and some data I have seen suggests this is not true.

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Dan Cross @dancrossnyc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

They're also huge and and can afford to divert the assets in the short term, banking they'll have an advantage once the bubbble bursts. It's like how the US ran up the national debt to bankrupt the Soviet Union during the cold war.

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