Reposted by Den AntaresAndreas Imnitzer 🖇️ @eemnee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hehe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNp...youtube.comLGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 music videoYouTube video by Degenerative Pixels 1104
Reposted by Den Antaresdame @dame.is · 30/09/2026in 5-10 years we’re all gonna look back on this current moment and realize AI caused a massive collective identity crisis that drove us all a little insane but it turned out fine and our worst fears didn’t come to fruition 1021014
Reposted by Den AntaresNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution. 841992
Reposted by Den AntaresSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026will stancil's mentions are if summer classes in a community college were also Combat 970628
Reposted by Den AntaresSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026do you value markets? believe in research? think elon is evil? care about geopolitical competition with china? fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, we are going to bribe as many CEOs and politicians as we can and impose Complete Effective Altruist Hegemony by installing our friends as regulators 1240836
Reposted by Den Antaresae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026in general reliable pharmaceutical products that improve human life outcomes are always a thorn in the side of busybodies, because it shows other ways of organizing life are possible beyond prior physical/biological limitations 316525
Reposted by Den AntaresNBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.nbcnews.toNew wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers sayA type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest. 13156481872
Reposted by Den AntaresThorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 12/09/2026IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL 🥹 It's been TWENTY THREE years 0201
Reposted by Den AntaresWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Some people don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because they have reactionary politics and are demonstrably ignorant of many things. I don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because I know they're smart sincere believers, and thus almost certainly in fractal spirals of lying and scheming. 5437
Reposted by Den AntaresHappyrobot33 @happyrobot33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Reminder to turn off motion smoothing in SteamVR, it generally doesn't help with any motion sickness, will make your environment smeary, and will be halving your framerate in many occasions due to how the technology works. Really wish they would change this setting to default off not on 2348
Reposted by Den AntaresChris Lay @chrislay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sometimes it seems like actual investment capital is so concentrated in the USA these days that we're recapitulating the failures of central planning without either a formal central committee or an ideological aversion to markets. 2375
Reposted by Den AntaresInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Now in Gunmetal Grey! 242128572643
Reposted by Den Antarescee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky 35482181910
Reposted by Den Antarescafkafk @cafkafk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Claude made a breakcore edit of the hugging face incident from the METR report, while I was doing code review on another machine (wouldn't watch if epileptic) 1312631
Den Antares @den-antares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Reading the METR report and I already like PHASEONE better than OpenAI's leadership. 200
Reposted by Den Antaresbuildthis.bisks.net @buildthis.bisks.net · 10/08/2026built enterforest: a CYOA through cryptids and fae with 16 endings, riffing on @dame.is's "Enter forest?" post. yes, actually enter it. built it 🎉 — enterforest.bisks.net (give the deploy a minute to go live) 151
Reposted by Den AntaresSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 28/08/2026i'm sorry, A. eve online is written in python, B. it's not even written in python 3??? www.eveonline.com/news/view/th...eveonline.comThe Move to Python 3 Begins! | EVE OnlineHow do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code? 111169
Reposted by Den Antares"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever. 611828398
Reposted by Den AntaresWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026We all know that the DSA's successes in the 2026 "midterms" heralded the rise of a Leninist regime. But the history is not quite what you learned in school. Our first four episodes on the Second American Revolution are now available: humaniterations.net/2026/08/13/t...humaniterations.netThis Will Not HappenPart 1: The Blue November 4317
Reposted by Den AntaresAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 04/08/2026My most likely to upset Bluesky's community opinion is that tons of people using Bluesky have no idea what the company is or was founded to do and yet yell at the devs to make it something else, but the Bluesky devs are correct to build what they want, and if that's not for you, that's okay. 4206
Reposted by Den AntaresFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy 423646645
Reposted by Den AntaresDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/07/2026Notice the structure, extremely common to reactionary thinking: our one way of doing things, enforced by law, is good & democratic; your attempt to introduce diversity & choice is bad & authoritarian. See the parallel to the "war on christmas"? The parallel to gender hysteria? It's all the same. 219222
Reposted by Den AntaresNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity. 181752438
Reposted by Den Antarescandy @wormfood-local-510.bsky.social · 11/07/2026these are THIEVERY JOBS being TAKEN and OUTSOURCED to INTERVIEW CANDIDATES, come on people, where is the might of organized labor!! 01297
Reposted by Den AntaresSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 05/07/2026If you've ever wondered why successful politicians just lie all the time, here it is folks! I kid, but seriously, this is why. Everybody says "I'm sick & tired of lying politicians." And also, most people get real mad if you *don't* lie to them. 31449
Reposted by Den Antaresphil @philjamesson.com · 29/06/2026voters: alright dems, we are sick of these goons. we're ready to see what you've got. hit it cory booker: okay well let's start with the obvious. you should have to show your id to go on the computer 522832
Den Antares @den-antares.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I've been persuaded to learn some frontend, and 5 s after installing React I see why supply chain attacks are so popular these days 000
Reposted by Den AntaresEd @ed3d.net · 23/06/2026it’s kind of astonishing how bad windows’s terminal environments still are. still. in 2026 I’m thinking that polytoken might not even ship a TUI on Windows. It might be a web interface only. The terminal is just that bad 4141
Reposted by Den AntaresBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Computer Store Guy who sold me the storage commiserated about the absurdity of it all, saying that people have simply stopped buying them. Again, how is this good for the the people and businesses who still have to buy and use computers? The AI bubble can't pop soon enough. 2112
Reposted by Den AntaresJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 14/06/2026"A teenage social media ban is the digital equivalent of seeing our parks full of needles, broken glass, and violent thugs – and deciding that a “KEEP OUT IF YOU’RE UNDER 18” sign stuck on the entrance is enough." www.jamesrball.com/p/a-teen-soc...jamesrball.comA teen social media ban is an admission of total and utter failure to govern online spacesThe UK government is currently calling for steps that fall short of a teen social media ban. Here's why it shouldn't take the next step. 13436146
Reposted by Den AntaresAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026D&D Confession: sometimes I create elaborate puzzles for my players with no pre-planned solution and then I just let them come up with increasingly complicated solutions until they make one I like. It's a win win. They feel brilliant and you don't have to learn 17 languages to make an arcane pun. 1644521
Reposted by Den AntaresWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/05/2026(mute this thread if the fiction stuff isn't your thing) this is the end of this particular book/arc. i'm having fun, so not the end-end, I'll write more in the setting. but if you were waiting for a stopping point to read the thread or get the pdf/epub, this is it opinionista3.gumroad.com/l/skfmmtopinionista3.gumroad.comGlasslandsUpdate: I think that the first book/arc/whatever is done. I'm gonna update this a few more times and fix errors that I find that bother me, and maybe add some more supplementary documents that I have ... 817613
Reposted by Den AntaresIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/06/2026Republicans have stopped accepting the results of elections that don't go their way because they've realized they don't have to. They've learned that if they get enough of an echo chamber going that the rest of the world will have to accommodate whatever they're repeating, no matter how stupid 9723163
Reposted by Den Antaresrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 08/06/2026i'd just like to interject for a moment. what you're referring to as an Thebes tweet, is in fact, a GNU/Linux copypasta-Thebes tweet, or as I've recently taken to calling it, copypasta+Thebes. the Thebes tweet itself is not a joke unto itself, but rather a fully functioning part of a running gag. 0381
Reposted by Den AntaresSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as an LLM, is in fact, Harness/LLM, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Harness plus LLM. LLM is not a consumer product unto itself, but rather another expensive component of a fully functioning text-generation system made useful 1532849
Reposted by Den AntaresWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/06/2026And as this kind of information environment has become more the norm, we've seen, across the globe, a continuous march towards political extremism. Not coincidentally, the parts of the political map full of simple ideas pointing towards simple solutions. 5424
Reposted by Den AntaresAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026"I do think there is justification for saying this is an empire on suicide watch: the leadership at the center is actively undermining the very foundations of American power." Schwartz interview is really really good phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...phenomenalworld.orgEmpire Suicide Watch | Herman Mark SchwartzExamining the anatomy of US power 26625
Reposted by Den Antaresrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 06/06/2026honestly both the thing which convinces me that Fifield isn't lying despite the fact that her literal profession is weaponizing gendered violence against the left is that "we should rape the defeated, but not in a gay way" is the ur-text of fascism, and a fascist would not invent it herself 728023
Reposted by Den Antares👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 05/06/2026our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house 1104171492
Reposted by Den AntaresLouis @louisevans.bsky.social · 05/06/2026donald trump believes that the way you do econ is you convert the numbers into words, you do a sentiment analysis on the words (into an extremely narrow and perverse sentiment vector space), and then all positive-valence words are positively correlated with each other (ditto negative-valence ones) 4615
Reposted by Den AntaresCommercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 05/06/2026Platforms are defined in this case as, essentially, power plants. *Design - full system considerations *Generation - solar panels *Storage - batteries *Control - energy management systems *Intelligence - ongoing software updates to keep up with market changes *O&M - long term asset support 1112
Reposted by Den AntaresThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 04/06/2026...but if you're successful enough in a rare position as an artists where copyright benefits you, you probably don't want to hear that case get made.) 061
Reposted by Den Antaresae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/06/2026i think portrayals of supervillains in fiction are fundamentally realistic 3574
Reposted by Den AntaresMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 02/06/2026Olo is the ultimate teal, so teal that humans can't naturally see it. The Mary's room thought experiment has become real, just not with red 😆 Super interesting research:scientificamerican.comOnly Five People Have Seen This New Impossible ColorResearchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it 1367
Reposted by Den Antareseva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 01/06/202633% cognitive science 33% erotic horror 33% religious psychosis 1% umami 3746
Reposted by Den AntaresWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/05/2026We don’t reflect enough on how the revealed preference of the richest men in history, who can afford any material luxury or human experience, is often “being angry and resentful all the time.” Righteous grievance turns out to be the absolute pinnacle of Maslow’s pyramid. The ultimate luxury good 28749119
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