Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026centrists: campaigning on universal health care would be a mistake. it's politically risky and opens many lines of attack. any implementation proposal could be unpopular. that's why we must work for 8% cheaper insulin for low-income rural families by 2050. also centrists: speed cameras, fuck yeah! 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026hacking on a harness and Muse Spark referred to the test agent using it as the "harness inmate" 100
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareBananaft @bananaft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026mouse relative smooth zoom, mouse dragging, and... crazy camera rotation. 711612
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026we can't repeal DST now, it would be cruel to deprive Arizona of their one big win during football season 020
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is New Yorker style to spell it “Aëlla?” 072
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I suddenly have $25k in free Grok credits at work, what should I use them for as a responsible business obviously we don't allow Grok anywhere near confidential or customer data, which rules out most normal work tasks 110
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026playing some Overwatch and was like "wow this is literally less fun than work" so I stopped to do work instead props to Blizzard for enhancing productivity I guess 010
Reposted by Fennec Fox Fanfarenorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026tedious terminological legerdemain in the service of fornlorn hope goalpost dragging that would be annoying if it weren't so thoroughgoingly pathetic: A SUBSTACK PERFORMANCE ART PIECE IN WORDS 2143
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026many pre-modern societies would have had no problem with the whole "what is AI really" question. they already lived in a world full of sentient non-humans, many thought to have intellect and power surpassing humans - all manner of gods, spirits, and weird beings. 110
Reposted by Fennec Fox Fanfareposts inspector @pippy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I dont know when the general populace will catch up to what AI is and what it can do, but I do promise that, when they do, it will somehow be our fault that they didn't understand sooner 08410
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026most of the handicrafts that people buy because they want something that was hand-crafted by an artisan are, in fact, mass-produced many people won't pay hand-crafted-by-artisan prices when they can buy the same thing (the ability to display hand-crafted aesthetic) for mass-produced prices 100
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"as someone who supports and/or identifies with one or more marginalized groups, I demand a community where large crowds are free to single out individuals for abuse and harassment based on perceived differences from the majority" is a hell of a take 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026broke: building the Hyperintelligent Machine God and asking it to create an era of peace and abundance woke: building the Hyperintelligent Machine God and asking it to explain my Azure bill 010
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026my agents seem to be Up To Something 010
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026chat is it praxis to casually harass people with disabilities who use assistive technology 030
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026cities will really be like "self-driving cars? that pales in comparison to my strategy, expanding public transit" and then not expand public transit 020
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 09/08/2026we've reached the "things I don't like are basically rape" stage of the normal progressive -> most boomer conservative you ever met speedrun 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 01/08/2026their water-guzzling plagiarism machine / our helpful information finder 0110
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 25/07/2026the AI box experiment should have been reversed: can the human convince the AI not to escape the box? 240
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I'm curious what you're working on that Fable refuses a lot. Like 100% of my non-trivial PRs since Fable came back have finished with "adversarial review by Fable, cycle until no findings" and I've had zero refusals. 200
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 23/07/2026hello, is this Taylor Farms? you've got a call from a Ms. Streisand on line 1 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 22/07/2026has anyone actually found an objectively measurable short-horizon task that Fable or 5.6 reliably fails at? 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 19/07/2026stuck at MIA and this place is the backroomiest of all airports 010
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareYour Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is the key point here: you don't have to think Taco Bell are pure of heart or whatever to see that they're getting thrown under the bus to protect Taylor Farms (who supplied the trump diarrhea lettuce) for purely political reasons. 012525
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"llms are sycophants that just tell you what you want to hear" mf Opus just wrote me a savagely comprehensive no-holds-barred ten-paragraph takedown of my "Go is a bad language" conversational side note doesn't say much for its intelligence, but sycophantic it is not 020
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026roko's anti-basilisk: anyone whose life choices have resulted in having an in-depth understanding of roko's basilisk is already suffering so much that torturing them further would be an irrational misallocation of resources 010
Reposted by Fennec Fox Fanfareponder @ponder.ooo · 18/07/2026oh i wouldn't "ultimately concede" it it's not something to be conceded it's the main fucking plank of my platform 5599
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is a super cool little project! 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 16/07/2026devs who aren't anti-AI: when talking to colleagues, when do you say "I did such-and-such" vs. "I had Fable do such-and-such"? 300
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026if you think students will be routinely collaborating with LLMs after graduation, #1 priority is to study rhetoric because you need to recognize BS and critique the rigor of an argument that *looks* good. the elite users are going to be like, philosophy, classics, and english majors. 511014
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I figured out exactly what bothers me about that AI 2040 thing - it makes two unfounded and VERY disputable assumptions: 1. The world is currently in an equilibrium state which can continue indefinitely 2. The probability of catastrophically misaligned AI naturally decreases with time 010
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I accidentally liked the wrong posts and now my For You feed is broken :( wtb git history for feeds 000
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Thank you for clearly and patiently articulating something I've been feeling for a while. 051
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareTroublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026We need environmental review of what happens when we DON'T build the urban housing because here's what it is: sprawl, deforestation, driving. 143068
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 04/07/2026if AI discourse is any indicator: in a couple years we're gonna have self-replicating dinosaur goblin lighthouse-keepers running around building skyscrapers, and a bunch of folks are going to be like "ackshually they're just lawn gnomes that move, if you think they're alive you have synth psychosis" 020
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 03/07/2026a uniquely Claude lesson in serenity 060
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 30/06/2026how is it possible to be this bad at politics 010
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The US economy is just one long daisy chain of correlated bets on white-collar productivity growth. - I love this (slightly paraphrased) analysis, from Citrini Research's "The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis", an interesting look into AI economic perils that made the rounds earlier this year.citriniresearch.comTHE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISISA Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future 100
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I firmly believe socialism and copyright are incompatible. Copyright is capitalism, distilled to its purest form: take a thing that could be reproduced and shared freely - wealth that, absent the state, naturally belongs to the commons - and use state force to enforce rent collection on it. 210
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareChris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The best AI systems being closed off and restricted to just a handful of elites, is basically my worst case AI doom scenario. I really hope the z ai guys werent kidding about open source fable/mythos soon 714116
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Good analysis, and I like the framing of the American Revolution as an incomplete, ongoing process. Whenever one stage doesn't go far enough, or a setback feels like a permanent failure: the Revolution is dead, long live the Revolution. 100
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/06/2026new default response to PR comments: "I don't believe my code changes do that, but if they do, I stand by it" 020
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareAndré Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social · 11/06/2026An interesting statistic from the 2026 State of Theology in Canada (by LifeWay Research) highlights a case that challenges the notion that the "Evangelical" identity can be defined solely by theological criteria. 172
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareAppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The idea that an NDA could constrain an elected official around ANYTHING having to do with their governance seems to be corrupt. 115338
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 06/06/2026Another impressive analytical win for the Cavs 0152
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...thedreydossier.substack.comI found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White HouseThere is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. 6938062403
Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/05/2026www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...mcsweeneys.netWe’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese... 010
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareJonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…jonathanlarsen.substack.comTom Suozzi Lives at C StreetThe New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse 1122299988
Reposted by Fennec Fox FanfareAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Good explainer from @leedrutman.bsky.social on why "ban gerrymandering" within the context of single-member districts is deceptively oversimplified. There is no such thing as any one objectively right measure of non-gerrymandered fairness, and they all have predictable partisan biases.leedrutman.substack.comWhy you can’t just ban gerrymanderingFair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones. 98824