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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 12h

IIRC in southern alberta when i was growing up these were graphics of skulls on the side of the van your friends older brother was working on.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16h

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 12h

The reactionary centrist position is that postponing the election bc of racist violence is the middle ground between canceling entirely and holding it as the founders f'ing intended. That's my bet.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s trying to start riots

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 12h

"Incite race riots" is a midterm turnout strategy that hasn't been used in a while. He will try it elsewhere this month too.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 18h

Another glitch in the matrix, that the statistical error would show up in mathematician salaries.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 18h

A weird flaw in the business model is that agent token use is broadly speaking opex, and software engineering is capex. I can't get anyone to spend anything on opex when it comes to data. Everyone is laying off to cut opex. How is transferring 95% of labor cost to monthly opex going to go over?

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 18h

Sssh Alexa will read you and call down the wrath of Prime.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 08/10/2026

is this math dump a contribution to mathematics or a bunch of RL rollouts they're requesting the math community grade for them for free

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 19h

"How is your Intelligence today?" "Oh just Super, thanks."

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 20h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

setting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 19h

That is very cool. And also seems like a very promising model.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 20h

This, plus the suit against Wells Fargo, the naming of US universities, ... This is literally just turning the racism dial up to 11 across all the channels.

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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 20h

The optics of this are mind-blowing.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes how are you going to pay for bridges when we have to burn it on top of Iranian rubble?

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's what we need. Across the country the deferred maintenance on physical plant and institutions has been destroyed by 46 years of continuous austerity. There's way more than enough money in the 10x increase in billionaire wealth since just 2010, in genuinely non-productive money.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also there's a lot of the economic equivalent of "coyotes running on air" right now. That is a key feature of consensual reality: The argument that as long as you don't look down you can keep running.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes possibly burned on broadcast video, completely unread. But "all publicity is good publicity" has worked for so many other people in this culture...

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's the scary possibility, and there's "Trump is giving Vought one of his old golf trophies."

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Cmdr. Overbite @cmdroverbite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seeing a flareup of “if I were sexually assaulted, I would simply do x” posting so just as a helpful reminder, please remember that you are free to say or do something different from that. May I suggest “almost literally anything else” as an alternative?

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It might get you shelved in multiple parts of the bookstore.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That is an interesting bug. Also it really highlights how much software engineers think about data quality.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

27*24 possible hours to fill across 5 platforms

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He has that "you people laugh now, but I know something you people couldn't possibly because I'm a genius! GENIUS I TELL YOU!!" look on his face.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

that whole USAID "cancel the McRib!" campaign was pretty successful while it lasted.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a Quantum thing, we wouldn't understand.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We’ve reached the “Jesus would want separation” phase of desperation apparently… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Johnny McBob (Maigret arc) @wolfmanramirez.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spending a trillion bucks to prove a result that's been known since 1970

David Hibert in a big hat looking contemptous

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Blake C. Stacey @blakestacey.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

Like, that's just fundamentally a hostile act.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But the number of times in my career I've heard "but what does it mean? what should we do?" said in an American accent followed by an explanation in a non-American accent? Anyway. People, take a look around at who's doing what in your companies. I love this country, but seriously.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the Bay Area, the Americans do the "decisions," which is to say they depend on the recent immigrants - Indians, the Chinese, or the Canadians - to figure out what the data means. Also some very smart Americans who value analytics, sure.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This whole "maybe we were too meritocratic" thing is about as sensible as... I've been doing analytics for 30 years. 90% of the people who do the analytical work - the f'ing synthesis, evaluation and recommendation - at the companies I worked for were immigrants.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah seriously. Take the win. These kids want to look like your kids.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If there were millions of pages of documents, that would be one thing. But for many of these problems there is a very small number of possible docs you could use to predict text.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The rate limit on Truth in mathematics is still the ability of the human to check that the proof is, in fact, complete, sound and meaningful.

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David Grover @davidgrover.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So one of the grains of salt we need here is: Lots of people are working on these proofs around the world, but not that many. Maybe 100s? If their prompts were used as "anonymous training data" all those chains of reasoning are now probable paragraphs, previously not seen. How many are there?

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Uh-oh, China just announced Super DUPER Intelligence!

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‼️ Alberta separatists are clearly MAGA north ‼️ Same hate. Same rage. Same lies. Same ignoring of facts, science, and morality. Same lack of shame...👇 "...separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support..." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...,

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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