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Fennec Fox Fanfare

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i'm supposed to have emoji here to show my loyalties but i'm a desktop diehard and real emoji are hard to type :( #1 P. Barnes fan

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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
centrists: 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!
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
hacking on a harness and Muse Spark referred to the test agent using it as the "harness inmate"
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Bananaft @bananaft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
mouse relative smooth zoom, mouse dragging, and... crazy camera rotation.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
we can't repeal DST now, it would be cruel to deprive Arizona of their one big win during football season
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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is New Yorker style to spell it “Aëlla?”
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
somehow, Tumblr returned
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
playing 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
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
tedious 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
many 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.
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posts inspector @pippy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
most 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
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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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
broke: 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my agents seem to be Up To Something
(Claude Code UI)
* main
* general-purpose   Adding StopBelieving note to GiveUp
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
chat is it praxis to casually harass people with disabilities who use assistive technology
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
cities will really be like "self-driving cars? that pales in comparison to my strategy, expanding public transit" and then not expand public transit
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
we've reached the "things I don't like are basically rape" stage of the normal progressive -> most boomer conservative you ever met speedrun
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AI *is* rape culture. It penetrates without consent. It is championed by rich, entitled thieves who hate being told no. We are forced to mount a resistance against an algorithmically endless onslaught just to not have it in our homes. We have to choose between working with harassment or not working.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
their water-guzzling plagiarism machine / our helpful information finder
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
the AI box experiment should have been reversed: can the human convince the AI not to escape the box?
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'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.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
hello, is this Taylor Farms? you've got a call from a Ms. Streisand on line 1
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
has anyone actually found an objectively measurable short-horizon task that Fable or 5.6 reliably fails at?
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
stuck at MIA and this place is the backroomiest of all airports
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Your Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This 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.
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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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
roko'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
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 18/07/2026
oh i wouldn't "ultimately concede" it it's not something to be conceded it's the main fucking plank of my platform
full AI communism, AI is a "public good", "digital public infrastructure"

the author of the paraphrased passage considers this a "dystopian hellscape" and says he's "never met an open-weight models advocate who doesn't ultimately concede this is where things end"
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a super cool little project!
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
devs 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"?
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
if 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.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I accidentally liked the wrong posts and now my For You feed is broken :( wtb git history for feeds
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thank you for clearly and patiently articulating something I've been feeling for a while.
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Troublemakers @troublemakers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We need environmental review of what happens when we DON'T build the urban housing because here's what it is: sprawl, deforestation, driving.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
if 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"
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
a uniquely Claude lesson in serenity
(in Claude font) Some people have those opinions. They are not load-bearing opinions.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
how is it possible to be this bad at politics
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The 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.com
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I 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.
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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The 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
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Good 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.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
new default response to PR comments: "I don't believe my code changes do that, but if they do, I stand by it"
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André Gagné @profgagne.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
An 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.
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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The idea that an NDA could constrain an elected official around ANYTHING having to do with their governance seems to be corrupt.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 06/06/2026
Another impressive analytical win for the Cavs
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
thedreydossier.substack.com
I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Fennec Fox Fanfare @fennecfoxfanfare.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...
mcsweeneys.net
We’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...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 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.com
Tom Suozzi Lives at C Street
The New York Democrat kept secret his low-rent lodging at a right-wing Christian townhouse
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Good 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.com
Why you can’t just ban gerrymandering
Fair maps require a definition of fair. There isn't one. There are infinite ones.
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