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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 6h

Pffft, clearly if you haven't used a slot machine in the past month or two you have no business discussing slot machines! Pulling a lever is so last month, now it's so much easier, first you fire up a dozen agents for each of the three slot windows... (1/387)

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 5h

computational dad jokes

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 9h

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

“no you don’t understand it’s weird and janky and broken because” no I understand perfectly thank you

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

found the original: youtu.be/xqIcOsGL6Cg there’s lots of performances of it online, link your favorite

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

oh god I posted about two gnu projects in one post and someone I’ve never talked to before decided to gnu at me in return please don’t gnu at me I realize I’m asking for it but we can computer better than this

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Renato Santos @dracontes.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, I did do my time with Magic: The Gathering and like opening packs, my experience giving LLMs the college try is not a whole lot of hits to outweigh what's spent on the misses.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 9h

who called them techbros and not fibonazis

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 21h

the CEV is the good guy, so Roko's Basilisk is a snake with a halo

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Marcel Waldvogel @marcel.waldvogel.family.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

«The gas pipeline has been delayed because Oracle and Blue Owl went full steam ahead on the project before they got all the permits they needed. They hoped for the pipeline to be up and running last month. But now it looks like it won’t be up before late 2027. If then. New Mexico has refused the […]

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@davidgerard I often think about how - if I hadn't done the reading - I'd think that the rationalist AI sex cult was just some crazy made-up story that unhinged spittle-flecked AI haters use to scare passers-by like a bug-eyed street preacher. It's honestly hard to believe. EXCEPT WE HAVE A […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@davidgerard always this was always going to be how it ended for gnome do you know how hard I had to grip the armrest of my chair to stop myself from replying to all the people posting about how gnome was anti-slop with a shout of “until red hat does the obvious”

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@davidgerard it’s still amazing to me how many pearls are still being clutched over LLM vulnerabilities by people who haven’t noticed or don’t care that the glasswing results turned out to be entirely horrible

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

How to force chatbots into GNOME - a proposal to block anti-slop projects from the GNOME GitLab: > Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME, and should be developed someplace other than GNOME GitLab […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

when you read machine learning "science" and it's about the properties of whatever openai had on the API that day

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

Poisoning the LLMs until every response is some variation of "Unionise"

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

a delightful thread on south african stereotypes about scots

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @flere-imsaho.circumstances.run · 22/04/2026

effective altruists are entirely unprepared to meet people who (a) disagree with them and (b) don't want to debate that in thousands words of bad prose.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @flere-imsaho.circumstances.run · 22/04/2026

se gyges feels incredibly oppressed even after creating a three-hundred-thousand-strong blocklist, this should set the new sevres standard of a whiny autoconfabulator pusher

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

SE Gyges made his long Bluesky thread "AI safety is mostly a sex cult" into an insanely long substack post, then hastily deleted. Fortunately*, it was multiply captured. archive.ph/3B8Bo original thread: skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social… so it's probably […]

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

imagine retaining respect for someone after they become a sloperator

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

shout out to the guy who's saying "hallucinations havent been a problem for a while now" while asserting that _his_ personal experience is meaningful while ours isn't. fully cooked techbro brains

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres APRS and helping local communities fight back www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDXbDrzKoWY… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Kat Jones of APRS, in a red coat and a wool hat on a hillside

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

me on BBC Radio WM this afternoon, talking about the dangers of getting just a bit too involved in the chatrbot www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkxwWb2k_k

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I use Google Docs a lot for collaboration on texts. It's great, absolutely the tool for the job! What I'm after is a live collaboration editor that will be suitable for someone who doesn't and won't use Google, but has even somewhat similar usability for collaboration. What do you use?

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Kat Jones: how Scotland is winning against the data centres APRS and helping local communities fight back www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDXbDrzKoWY… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

TL;DR All of the most powerful in US AI companies are in different factions of the same doomsday cult going back almost 2 decades, which of course is fascist and eugenicist. They believe an AI apocalypse is inevitable, someone will create «god»/AGI. The goal is that it’s them, because reasons.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

penciled in for 4:20pm on BBC West Midlands to talk about chatbot addiction after two frickin years i'm *finally* getting the media calls about ai

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers when you can’t fiddle the numbers any more www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261001-anthr… - podcast time: 6 min 56 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Pivot to AI is more profitable than OpenAI and Anthropic together please gimme $100b in my IPO it's AI

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: circumstances.run/@davidgerard/1172… Just found that this film is on Kanopy as well, which can be used with a Toronto Public Library account.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

best conspiracy theory: the Super Intelligence thing is so Trump could sell .si domains in Slovenia which benefits Melania in some unspecified manner

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@zzt I blame the Cold War, the time that brought you Threads and multiple songs about flaming nuclear death going to No. 1 in the charts 70s as well as 80s, Scarfolk is just really what the UK was like and that's the joke

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

is there a name for the genre of mid-80s through 90s children’s entertainment where, probably due to the aftermath of lead poisoning and cocaine, the people making it decided it should be fucking horrifying like, growing up in that era involved so much emotional backlash because a given piece […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

if you're in the US you should be able to see this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQzVLtvdv8 i'm on a VPN to the US (AirVPN) and I could but now I can't. Can anyone else who uses a VPN with a US exit see the video?

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk what if we made a computer you just couldn’t rely on www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5_no4quNQ… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260930-new-a… - podcast time: 7 min 02 sec

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

rationalist funding thread. it's always the ones you most suspect

The Weirdness of Dating/Mating

Let's put all that together.

I claim that most women have a “deep” preference for nonconsent in dating/mating. It’s not just a kink; from the first approach to a date to sex, women typically want to not have to consent to what's happening.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

we need that for a meme format: How Do You Like That, Richard Stallman not sure what it would be. something that's free software done in a way he would fucking hate tho

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

you know, you absolutely don’t have to play devil’s advocate for fucking mozilla of all corrupt nonprofits

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@jschauma What's going on here seems to be a culture of "every bug is a CVE, because was can't adequately ensure that this wrong behavior doesn't lead to *something* security-relevant going wrong". Which makes the concept of a CVE meaningless. This should be read as "1313 bug fixes" or even […]

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