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symbolic regression + boosting = interpretable decompositions of chaotic systems

Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder

The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 29/09/2026

Public Citizen files a complaint opposing the broadcasting of Trump’s ads as violating laws against taxpayer-funded propaganda. Full complaint buff.ly/kYCsKEW

Public Citizen urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and broadcasters individually, to end airing recent campaign commercials by President Trump and the White House that appear to be in breach of federal law. At least three campaign ads, paid for by taxpayer dollars, appear to violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda (5 U.S.C. §3107) and related provisions of the appropriations laws as well as the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §7324).

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NOW: DC Circuit en banc aguments over Judge Boasberg’s contempt proceedings have now begun at the DC Circuit. Brett Shumate is now arguing for DOJ. www.youtube.com/live/4A1BwFh...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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israel may as well have nuked gaza given the level of destruction rendered.

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I did it. I finally feel like I mostly understand Magnolia.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

trying to grok the film "Magnolia"

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> Sauer is asking the Supreme Court to say that the federal government no longer believes that trans people are justified in being trans in either the medical or social ways that allow trans people to live their lives authentically.

Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Failing to stop burning fossil fuels continues to destroy the only climate safety zone humanity has ever known

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026

so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead:

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1. yeah this is real bad. 2. the timing suggests that part of the motivation here was to figure out who the bestiality carve out was for, likely to use as blackmail kompromat. 3. this just belabors the fact that any history of bestiality should be disqualifying and it was good that it already was.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

epstein loved him, why can't you?

left: a birthday card trump sent to epstein in 2003 for his 50th, which unsubtly alludes to their shared affinity for sex with minors.

right: a photograph of trump, ivanka, epstein, and maxwell socializing at a party at trump's mar-a-lago club, February 12th, 2000.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026

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Trump fucked up the *American* renewable transition but he might have had the largest positive effect on the global transition of any president ever

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Carolina Botelho @sobotelha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

O terrivelmente evangélico me incluiu numa lista de 1600 perfis, junto com advogados, deputados e outros perfis, para pedir ao TSE que retire do ar postagens críticas ao candidato filho do ex-presidente preso por golpe de estado. Esse é o clima pré-eleitoral, imaginem depois, caso o candidato ganhe

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this isn't a job for a prompt, this is a job for data classification, permissions, and environments. if you have a dataset you want to protect from the public, asking nicely in the readme is not a reliable or responsible way to achieve that outcome. the fuck is wrong with people.

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What Really Happened During the 2026 Nepal Disaster?

For anyone who hasn't caught any of the preliminary scientific discourse discussing this disaster, strongly recommend this video by science communicator Anton Petrov. (his whole channel is super high quality and he somehow manages to churn out great content like this daily).

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

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Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao

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wanted a quick reference for lymph node locations. tried searching google images expecting a plethora of useful results: instead, it's basically all AI slop with hallucinated anatomy. weak sauce. POP QUIZ: Guess which image was from a National Geographic webpage!

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nice visual illustration of how superposition of concepts works

Figure 1:Summarizing the SDM read and write operations.

Top Row three patterns being written into nearby neurons. 1. The first write operation; 2. Patterns are stored inside nearby neurons and the original pattern location is shown; 3. Writing a second pattern; 4. Writing a third pattern and neurons storing a superposition of multiple patterns.

Bottom Row shows two isomorphic perspectives of the read operation. Neuron view (left) shows the query reading from nearby neurons with the inset showing the number of times each pattern is read. The four blue patterns are a majority which would result in one step convergence. Pattern view (right) is crucial to relating SDM to Attention and defined in Eq. 1 below.

We abstract away the neurons by assuming they are uniformly distributed through the space. This allows us to consider the circle intersection between the query and the original locations of each pattern where blue has the largest circle intersection.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/09/2026

nice visual illustration of how superposition of concepts works

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NEW: California's attorney general said Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face "legal consequences" after the state Supreme Court determined his seizure of roughly 650k ballots violated state law. Bianco must now comply with the attorney general's directives and return the ballots.

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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots

The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Academic freedom continues to crumble at the hands of Republican Party political appointees at UT.

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This was from a super over-cooked fine tune on images of myself. I love how it's sort of revealing of how the UNet builds my face as a composition of semantic layers.

guess when I ran out of adderall

A heatmap laid over a calendar, showing "Papers per day" data, with counts falling off a cliff mid-late June.

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I haven't made art in a while. I should go make some art.

hey remember back when people were all worried about "spontaneous human combustion" but then it turned out the problem was just that our stuff was all super flammable?

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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City of San Francisco sues Trump Media for facilitating insider trading by selling early access to the president's social media posts. www.documentcloud.org/documen...

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Truth Social 2026-09-21 Complaint

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been offline most of today. What've I missed?

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next time Texas tries to secede, we should call it "Texit"