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4Ethen Soutar-Rau

@ethansr.bsky.social
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There’s a logical explanation for everything, and don’t you forget it.

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 2h
for all the discourse about moderation the biggest assholes on bluesky are the dozen or so banal twerps constantly pulling the birthday boy act
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 3h
Baku and Yuna hit the pumpkin jackpot! 🎃 Our tapirs received a MASSIVE pumpkin today for some Zoo Boo fall fun! And they won’t be the only ones getting in on the action; animals throughout the zoo and aquariums will enjoy their own slice of pumpkin season during Zoo Boo this weekend. 📹 curator Erin
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exomoon! @shyanimeguy.neocities.org · 11/01/2026
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 5h
it is time
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 5h
There’s basically two things: 1. Anyone involved in stressing out the mother at that particular moment would be on my shit list for life, all the way up to Lieberman and Obama. 2. Paying 21k is still an outrage.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 13h
I think there’s a fair number of people that just want slaves in any format.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14h
Come on you mad bastards, put the National Security Advisor’s wife in prison for a tweet. I double-dare you.
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Police assess Palestine Action post by national security adviser's wife
Downing Street says Sarah Helm, the wife of Jonathan Powell, "does not represent the government in any capacity".
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 13h
I should clarify I believe symbolic cognition mostly doesn’t correspond meaningfully to minds. But, if applied to *interaction* then it is almost a skeleton key for analysis of behavior. (Basically following Hutchin’s assertion cognitivism is unreflective, crude anthropology with better math +\-)
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14h
as Mr. Moxon says, choices will lose votes and you do not gain them back by yelling at people on social media. This is is just a factual observation and is not an endorsement of anyone's personal voting decisions, which they will make whether or not you yell at them online
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 15h
just to be clear the quotes on cognition are indicating that I‘m referring to Santiago style cognition which has this relation (that I think is super cool) whereas a more basic functional account of cognition jumps immediately to multiple realizability in a boring way.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16h
I’m a cognitive anti-realist so it’s just boring old Distributed Cognition for me ha
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16h
Autonomy is in relation to something, body to the world, nerves to the body, “cognition” to nervous system, etc. But that doesn’t meant that you couldn’t create relations where something is embodied of other stuff (even of people) and autonomous *because* it is. This argument gives up too much.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h
Howzabout you guys give me $30,000 and I'll get back to you on if it changed my life or not.
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Abandoned America @abandonedamerica.bsky.social · 20h
One of the coolest surprises I've found in an abandoned building: the narrow gauge railroad for transporting coal at the top of the former Westport Generating Station in Baltimore. More at www.abandonedamerica.us/baltimore-ga...
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
This is a convenience problem at most. Establishing the techniques was facilitated by better models, but applying them is not expensive.
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Krzysztof Cieslak @kcieslak.io · 16/10/2026
Introducing my new side project - Fai. github.com/Krzysztof-Ci... It’s a functional programming language with which I try to explore how we can design better “classical” software engineering tools specifically for AI agents. A couple of design choices I've made are described ⬇️
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GitHub - Krzysztof-Cieslak/fai: Programming language for AI age
Programming language for AI age . Contribute to Krzysztof-Cieslak/fai development by creating an account on GitHub.
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𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖞 𝕸𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖊 @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
he's thinking about what it'll be like to be a big celebrity.
the diminutive character Biddy Blas, sat on a box. he's a sort of gnome alligator hybrid wearing a padded harness and a helmet.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Michael Bay’s directing the new Pink Panther reboot
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
What are the strangest things that a Taco Bell co-worker has been told?
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velvie 🌹 COMMS REOPENING 19th OCT @mydearvelvie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
today I drew… tomorrow I draw… aaah ze life of ze artist
Photo of a cat wearing a beret and holding a paint pallet
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The presentation of these things is so bleak.
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Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 16/10/2026
New at the Video Game Soda Machine Project: this 8-bit soda machine from Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden, a 1989 RPG that assembles a cast of manga heroes from the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden
As far as I can tell, this lone soda machine in the middle of nowhere is the only one in Famicom Jump: Hero Retsuden, a 1989 RPG that brings together several manga heroes from the pages of Weekly Shōnen Jump. Here's a closer look at the machine. The only drink available is a single bottle
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wilf @friendlykitties.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
oh lawd he lounging
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
My mental model of LLMs is that they are the collective excluded middles.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
This is such a fascinating thing to do
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/10/2026
Just to be very explicit, my claim is that the one simplest and best explanation for this, which resolves any apparent strangeness entirely, is that whoever is “speaking” in LLM output is a fictional character, and the real life thing called an LLM is a machine for writing lil stories about that guy
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Shodan Safari @shodansafari.lol · 15/10/2026
ASN: AS7616 Location: Bangkok, TH Added: 2026-09-26T11:02 #shodansafari #infosec
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
normalize reading series in incomplete or wierd orders. For example I read The Black Cauldron by itself and it was great.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Prince Caspian is the second book but it feels like the ninth and I love that for it.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s way more than that. it’s like Claude Code in terms of increasing the horizon of things that work.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
When I lived in San Diego, I always wished I could move somewhere like Buffalo, New York where i could have the same quality of life at a more affordable price.
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/10/2026
Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
it feels like it was the sort of wierd shit that is the IC‘s job to suggest and a president’s job to not do.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think it’s a rooted in a expressivity problem where a lot of “bad and regressive“ statements were more easy to express with the tools at hand than it was to defend interesting ideas. The pendulum has been swinging back the other way as computation has closed the gap.
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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 12/10/2026
LEIA: Actually there's another option... HOLDO: This is desperate, Leia, tell me! LEIA: We're not far from Crait, former home of the Galactic Racing League HOLDO: Where Biddy Blas won his first championship? THAT Crait? LEIA: With the salt and the red dirt? HOLDO: Our final stand will look so badass
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
These sorts of stories feel like they’re grown in a lab to give the impression these folks are the dumbest possible incarnation of the adeptus mechanicus. Not saying that they’re inaccurate, just that Poe’s law remains undefeated.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Judges moving fast is one of the more interesting parts of all of this. It’s seems pretty clear that there will be some collection of precedents set that courts can work at speed when there is an adversary using the court‘s procedural and deliberative intervals to undermine it.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com · 12/10/2026
Daily gouache : loose and tiny
Rough gouache painting of a green plateau under a dark blue cloudy sky.
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I would really like to have a explainer of what vision he has for a positive outcome. Like… even before all this vibe shift stuff they were so weird about things… I don’t even know what to accuse them of. It’s opaque.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 12/10/2026
elite Dem power brokers have hated Omar from the moment she was elected, this general lack of response to Trump's persecution is perfectly aligned with their non-reaction to every other right wing attack during her tenure in Washington
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
this is actually true. my favorite author is james tiptree. i find his sci fi short stories fascinating
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/10/2026
It’s very funny to be like “X is once again important because it’s where executives post marketing material.”
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They have a looooooot of subjunctive perspectives
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4Ethen Soutar-Rau @ethansr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I was in a bike accident, got up, started walking in a circle, and repeated the same words and actions 3 or 4 times. I only remember the last one. Were those all the same me? Am I the same me as before? I dunno. But it’s hard to argue any of the 3 or 4 weren’t conscious experiences.
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