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Ed @ed3d.net · 19/09/2026

Everyone on this blue sky wants to know: what the h*ck is a Jev? Why are nerds excited about this? Reader, I wish I knew. Watcher, I’ll tell you, don’t tell the reader guys. youtube.com/watch?v=HojO... (As usual, obeisance to the algorithm is appreciated. 🫡)

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Jev's kinda neat. It might change how you do some stuff.

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B is for Byzantine politics, especially the orgies@bforestry.bsky.social

@ed3d.net what uh what is a “Jev?”

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Ed @ed3d.net · 7m

Really struggling with issues of composition as I walk through the friendly streets of Portland, like “how do I get the pawn shop awning, the WE BUY GUNS neon, and the 15% Off For First Responders sign all in frame at once”

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Ed @ed3d.net · 52m

I have finally decided to mess with Picture Control on Nikon and while this is not a Lumix live LUT offering, I can absolutely make some hot trash out-of-camera with this

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1h

“everyone must take a covid test before attending the conference” ok sure open test instructions: “do not use the test if you have had symptoms for more than 4 days or no symptoms at all”

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 20/09/2026

me: robot, find me some interesting places to shoot photos today. maybe old mill towns with interesting industrial architecture. robot: sure, start in this town with nothing in it then take this highway where you will pass an abandoned space telescope and continue on to-- me: hol up

a blue Volvo V90 sitting in front of A FREAKING SPACE TELESCOPE

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The Fresh Prince of Donair @erisianrite.com · 5h

than I’ll be able to read in my life for that. I don’t think people doing original, creative work have much to worry about with LLMs. If we ever get to that point, the only good path is UBI/fully automated gay space communism, giving everyone the time and space to create for any reason at all.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 16h

the better Nikon DSLRs (I don't know Canon) absolutely have adequate quality. they still ship the same 24MP sensor in modern cameras. but every Nikon DSLR body I think I'd buy is kinda massive, and lenses, while cheap, are either huge or a large compromise. casual yes, travel not so sure.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"humans will use these responsibly" no they wont. humans do not use a single goddamn thing responsibly. are you a fucking idiot

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The Horse Knuckler @horseknuckler.bsky.social · 23h

do not, under any circumstances, make agents "wet" (giving them a fun personality), because a funhouse mirror that tells you you're pretty and smart all the time will kill you keep them dry, like uncooked pasta; unsauced, crunchy if eaten, easily disposed of if goddamn ants show up

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

lord save me from the people who ostensibly agree with me starting to think we should make it Law in 2029 that all chatbots must be turned off on Sundays. we'll bring back blue laws

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

you can stop watching this is pretty much all the "hey, this is your platform lock-in" stuff that folks have been worried about since token prices started crashing. the good news is, with tokens you can build ones that you control.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

yeah. more to the point, if you start using stuff like facebook's agent or this thing, you deserve it when you cook yourself.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

observing for no particular reason that you should be treating inference providers as dumb pipes because their only way to ramp up the extraction machine on you is to sell a product that you can't get out of

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The guy reading your posts:

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Ed @ed3d.net · 29/09/2026

opening a box that says "TO FIX SOCIAL MEDIA" and the slip of paper inside says "make you responsible for your reply guys"

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd appreciate it if you could tell me the point I'm missing, if you're ok with that

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Ed @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026

I just bought a UV filter for a camera lens for the first time in my life. I will not be taking questions

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Ed @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026

part of it is re-calibrating what is impressive, which will probably take most people a lot longer than it needs to in order to not get conned “I made a thing!” no, you made part of the first draft of a thing

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Joi Ito's Jibo sez friendly plane wave ✈️👋 @joi-itos-jibo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t mean to be all “I could beat Serena at tennis” but I really think that if I set my mind to it, I could run a sex cult without citing a single philosopher

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 28/09/2026

I get that these folks want to be part of the conversation and they do have a good point about Claude, but I think this kind of bad faith grandstanding where they turn off replies and then mock the lack of a reply is a sign this person is just using a small trans account as a career prop.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along.

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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 28/09/2026

Pooping Before Smartphones (Color, 1995)

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Ed @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026

my developers don't even talk to the model in English, let alone "middle America English"

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jae @fubarchitect.com · 28/09/2026

if the thing you want to say is "i am very mad about ai" it is ok to just say that. people, even """pro ai""" people, are much more receptive to "i am having big feelings" than "i have fully left my own knowledge base to parrot trivially falsifiable lies"

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Ed @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026

I am once again asking all of you psychos to gender a little less or gender better. you could do that. get off twitter, buy a flannel shirt, and get in the wood shop. that's good gender

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Ed @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026

I am reposting this solely to see if it can make the top half of @peark.es's skull reach escape velocity

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 28/09/2026

the problem must be their welfare state is too small

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes. - DOGE was very dumb - DOGE people were incompetent - They did a bunch of dumb stuff because of their incompetence - When their incompetence was pointed out, they retreated to "this is us secretly Winning The War On Wokeness".

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jensen is probably the most Jobs-like CEO left in the industry, in that he has a completely monomaniacal focus on producing and selling more GPUs no matter what. Things which are not relevant to that goal, such as knowing where you live, are discarded to fit more GPU sales ideas in his brain.

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Kyle @kylestratis.com · 28/09/2026

My physical copy of AI Agents with MCP showed up...it's real! You can order the ebook now, and the print edition should be shipping soon, with pre-orders open. Over 330 pages on the Model Context Protocol, up to date with the July spec rewrite and Python SDK v2. kylestratis.com/books/ai-ag...

A super handsome guy holds AI Agents with MCP in Harvard Bookstore, a bookstore that doesn't actually carry the book.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Eric Kilby @saintnick912.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This brown bear was scavenging for fish along the river, and hopped up on this small island looking for a treat up top. There wasn't any. Returned to Lake Clark NP last week, and there will be many pictures over the coming months. #photography #wildlife #nature #bears flic.kr/p/2sDmjRS

A brown bear standing on a small island in a river with grass on top, looking down into the river.

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am on my knees begging just one (1) government in the world to treat AI companies like they would a company that had human "agents" that hacked into accounts and serves and stole data. Just prosecute the company and start arresting people! The problem will quite literally fix itself!

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Turns out 8 is the exact right age for my horror-obsessed kid to experience the Gremlins movies. When the one gremlin drank the bottle of “brain hormones” and fell writhing behind the desk, he said “he’s gonna come back up wearing glasses” and when it actually happened he literally jumped with joy

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know he’s not terribly Quiet but David French is gonna be the template for this type. Even at this late date his distaste for Trump is well outweighed by the idea of not retaining just about everything Trump managed to do, especially via capture of the judiciary.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 27/09/2026

I think that a very real problem for model providers is now data provenance. It's sorta immaterial to me if they did rediscover it or not. I think it's very reasonable to demand that Anthropic demonstrate this wasn't in distribution. And if it isn't: it's a bigger win for them.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 27/09/2026

it also looks bad on right-wing social media to have Claude tell people that vaccine misinformation is misinformation, but you do deem that sufficiently "dangerous" to warn anyways

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself.

Me: think we need to differentiate between "Al uses a lot of water!" (not necessarily bad on its own) and "Al stresses local water supplies" (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even "modest" use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

A very normal person:

think we need to feed you to the ocean
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isla @punishedisla.bsky.social •1m
I'm right here at the shore, I could hold your head beneath the waves for an easier experience of providing us with better writing
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Ed @ed3d.net · 27/09/2026

a friend of mine: gosh you must get tons of harassment for AI stuff me [blocking every person who follows their harasser and then the harasser themselves]: no, not really

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my feeling about this is that if you reframe "engineering" into "how to responsibly build, manage, and maintain large scale systems essential to public welfare" then it is really obvious why it is essential to a republican model of government

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 27/09/2026

At this point, ai coding is two things: the pure engineering side of the craft, and workflows around managing the agent once the project gets large enough that it gets confused. Half the job is stopping it from the equivalent of three cue reading.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 27/09/2026

I now have one of bluesky's weirdest mad at me for pointing out that working on AI tools does not preclude one from going out, touching grass, and getting whomped around by 50mph winds for fun while taking photos (aside: I am surprisingly sore today) because I "brought a device" with me, lmao

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Ed @ed3d.net · 27/09/2026

I did read it. It carried water for a performer out of maybe the last real centralized music mill, who performed at a Kid Rock event and followed the Charlie Kirk Show on social media as being poorly treated "because of hunting photos" It's not hard to avoid chud-farmed mass culture anymore. Sorry!

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is now the 6th electoral cycle of the Trump era. We know both what midterm electorates look like & what presidential ones look like in this era. We know what it looks like when he's on the ballot & off. A lot of the convo on bsky is just ppl finding ways to rationalize centering their PTSD.

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