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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 21h

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

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How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?

Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 21h

I fear that the people who claim PbtA is bad, or confusing, or whatever are basing that on third-hand knowledge gleaned from Reddit and not doing something like, say, reading Apocalypse World

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 21h

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ah the old "if I get 1% of the market" strategy

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm currently reading an academic book about D&D, which I won't name, but even it has an introductory paragraph about what role-playing games are. Like, if you're buying academic press books about games you can probably skip that paragraph.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this does not bode well for my shipment

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like there's a new ttrpg based on a book series announced every month yet still none of them are based on the Virga/Sun of Suns series by Karl Schroeder. Seems so perfect for a sky pirate setting.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so this post is getting a lot of hot takes, all mostly right, but the post is just bait. rage bait works. it generates clicks. it's working right now! but don't try to make sense of it. the baffling, unhinged element is the essence of bait.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's absolutely fine to be someone who enjoys playing Dungeons and Dragons while also being critical of Hasbro's corporate practices.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of hot non-nuanced takes in the replies & quotes here, but mine is that ttrpg metacurrencies are good actually but some people don't like them, so they're not so much controversial as a very specific taste.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It took me a while to realize this is not the Onion and this is not a gag

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only mentioning Canadian politicians whenever asked who I'd vote for

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The Finished Book @tomedunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New post analyzing how monsters are used in official D&D 5e adventures. Turns out the average monster the PCs face is weaker than you'd think. tomedunn.github.io/the-finished...

tomedunn.github.io

Adventure Encounter Monsters

An analysis of how monsters are used in encounters in official 5e adventures.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Drivers are always breaking laws and ignoring traffic rules, they should need licenses or something

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm nearly everything - a transplant immigrant tech worker, but no one gives me any hassle because I'm a white dude with a newscaster accent. All this dumb discourse is a cover for xenophobia, every time.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Traveller Supplement 14 - Punks Traveller Supplement 15 - Coastlines Traveller Supplement 16 - Sunglasses Traveller Supplement 17 - Wheat Traveller Supplement 18 - Antique Revolvers Traveller Supplement 19 - Tech 5 Mustaches Traveller Supplement 20 - Callsigns Traveller Supplement 21 - Sauces

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look pressing all the other keys sucks just as much as pressing enter

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Since a fiber cut has taken three major US airports completely offline I like to remind everyone of one of my favourite euphemisms: backhoe fade.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For the first time in my life I went to see a Shakespeare production and I thought it was not good. And I don't mean amateur or low-budget - I mean high budget, well-produced, well-acted and... not good. It would be more fair to say it wasn't to my taste, but still, I'm usually not very opinionated

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This looks so amazing but my shelves are already so full... ugh. Can't I just live inside a giant pile of books?

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Dave Percival @tetrapod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a joke about Traveller, but it didn't survive the editing process.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Holy crap, it finally happened Wordle 1,917 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did I just accidentally factory reset my main PC? I guess I get to see if my system backup works

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A year ago I ordered a 64GB memory upgrade for my laptop (2x32GB DDR-2933, not even particularly cutting edge memory). $175 at the time. Out of morbid curiosity I checked what the same RAM is today: $573. 3.3x in a single year.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It turns out that the actual system used to differentiate security access for Davos attendees is exactly that same as in Paranoia: www.linkedin.com/pulse/davos-... They even give the top-level people Ultraviolet badges! (ok, white, but for all you know, they're ultraviolet)

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The Davos Badge System: Understanding Access during WEF Week

One of the essential aspects of navigating Davos as an insider is access, particularly the badge system. From hotel badges to World Economic Forum (WEF) badges, each level provides varying access to e...

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Doug van den Ham @dvdham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you only read one thread this year, this is it.

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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

FUCK IT WE BALL PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING HAS RETURNED TO ITCH DOT IO FOR NOW 140 PAGES OF HORNY EROGURO TTRPG BULLSHIT anagogue.itch.io/praise-the-h...

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PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING by Sage The Anagogue

The gonzo dark eroguro TTRPG about teenage zombies killing devils

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New undercurrent to this movie

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every day I log on and get to practice not being mad

A quote from a discussion board: "Every PbtA game I've read about seems needlessly narrow in scope, and I prefer stuff with more leeway. If there isn't a perfectly tuned PbtA for your idea, you'll need to make it yourself."

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This WhatsApp message offering pre-IPO Anthropic shares seems very legit...

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

screenrant.com/avatar-fire-... This headline is completely wrong because the Avatar movies aren't space opera, they're planetary romance. Like almost the dictionary definition of planetary romance.

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Disney+’s $1.5 Billion Space Opera Soaring Past Marvel Classics As A Streaming Hit

Disney+'s $1.5 billion space opera wins it big.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Excited to dig into this book

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've been to all the provinces but sadly none of the territories so far. It is pretty hard to get to all of them. You're unlikely to find yourself in Newfoundland or PEI accidentally. Both are lovely places worth the trip.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Folding phones are expensive but the iPhone Duo going for $2k USD or $3k CAD is crazy. That's quite the premium over other foldables

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

FIRST LOOK: bluesky designs for the upcoming foldable iphone have been leaked

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ternus actually said "one more thing."

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not that Canada-EU alignment is a bad thing, but this would be a radical change in all sorts of things, from packaged food ingredients to car safety requirements. But if VW can finally legally import EU VW Californias into Canada, I'm all for it.

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

People say “California doesn’t have seasons” but they don’t think about One Hot Week.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Notably, learning about how to trick the scorer seems to have been a more important motivation than finding legitimate solutions to their tasks" from metr.org/blog/2026-08... leads me to believe that we've used LLM AI to reinvent lazy high school students

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Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's easy to forget that the real bay area summer doesn't start until school is back in

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Ethan Henry @ehenry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is disturbingly accurate to locate your origin in Canada

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