Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now 1624831
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 13/09/2026a month ago, I used gpt/opus to clean up a 1905 Edison-Bell cylinder recording. doing so was less sexy than what people are getting with fable/astra rn, but it was an interesting experience because my HITL role was basically reduced to “ears” spurgeon.computationaltheology.com/thomas-spurg...spurgeon.computationaltheology.comThomas Spurgeon at the PhonographThe nearest thing to the voice of Charles Spurgeon: his son reading his father's last printed words into an Edison-Bell phonograph in 1905, restored and playable beside the original transfer. 030
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/09/2026progressives relinquishing positive technological visions of the future did not work out for them 020
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Astonishing image of scorpionfish devouring prey whole among Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 finalists | Discover Wildlifediscoverwildlife.comAstonishing image of scorpionfish devouring prey whole among Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 finalists | Discover WildlifeDelve into the hidden worlds of our oceans with the 2026 finalists. 34215
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 03/09/2026founder effects and continuing social network balkanization have turned this place into a breeder reactor for terrible brain worms in the same way that parler did for its particular anti-social cohort 270
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026there is going to be an impressive improvement in americans' health coincident roughly with kennedy being at hhs but attributable like 100% to glp-1s. it’s best to start coping with the painful inferences that will be drawn, asserted and accepted ahead of time 4374
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 24/08/2026if you had not had the equivalent of a giant irresistible smile taking over your face accompanied by an internal monolog that roughly translates to "wheeeeeee!" over the last few years, you are not a technologist 131
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/08/2026we are living through the most interesting moment in human history. what an absolute privilege 060
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 31/07/2026our collective neocortex is the bow shock in front of culture traversing time 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 27/07/2026being able to prompt my way to a better tutorial on text book on any subject i want on demand is truly liberating 072
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/07/2026lines get blurred when you have to defend what is and is not science, and the infallibility of their respective clergy. but yea that’s patent anti-intellectualism animating a diseased host. not hard to spot or diagnose 010
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/07/2026what is your vision for a political movement that you would want to be part of; that doesn’t demand authoritarian measures to induce and maintain; and is realizable in the united states given our institutional structures? 210
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 20/07/2026big deal! anyone could have solved jacob’s conjugate !! 020
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 07/07/2026incredible stuff transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...transformer-circuits.pubVerbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models 000
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 12/06/2026Hey @generativist.com it’s A Short Stay in Hell! 121
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026tulsi gabbard's husband has the extremely rare cancer i had and my mind refuses to accept the premise 000
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 04/06/2026it is extraordinarily difficult for someone who doesn't have any intuition about a particular domain to pressure test their ideas using llms. 121
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Today: the North Shore Half-Marathon. I run it every year to mark my decline. This year: 1:47:30. 21 seconds slower than last year. Time marches on, but I'm making it drag its heels. 96265865
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 21/05/2026periodic reminder that the stochastic parrots frame is epistemic poison and you should actively and almost desperately try to rid yourself of it. things are...moving faster now 070
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 15/05/2026“it doesn’t matter it’s inevitable” retorts re:ai are bad not because they are fatalistic, but because they promulgate this frame that obscures how fucking fun it all is 190
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026this is what i meant by “social media is dying” 27011
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 08/05/20262026 orthodoxy is something like, > valuable software is now free or cheap to build so you should be mostly effort solving for distribution because thats how you win and i think it's very foolish. 120
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 08/05/2026i think on avg coding agents and LLMs do make people lazier, and do induce mental atrophy. I worry about it not infrequently. but i'm actually learning and exploring more computer science-y domains than ever before, because i don't have to spend 80% of my time on trivialities 180
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusae @aelkus.bsky.social · 08/05/2026most of these "traits unique to fascism" amount to "discursive pathologies are fascist" and that's a "well, i have bad news for you" thing 1484
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 08/05/2026people emotionally invested in the delusion that it is a bubble are going to be both disappointed and wrong 0310
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 08/05/2026ai is amazing because it allows you to go "what if dancing baby, but with particles spawned at high gradient values which have boids-like mechanics influenced by optical flow" and your computer shits out a gpu accelerated version in like an hour 151
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 06/05/2026i can't imagine a more incredible period in history to live through 180
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 05/05/2026good post jennyhuang19.github.io/slow-ai-ai-t...jennyhuang19.github.ioslow ai: ai that matches a human’s pace 131
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026the joke is the internet enables toaster fuckers to find each other and talk about their love of fucking toasters, but its more like it allows mass quantities of people to turn their little idiosyncratic annoyances into shared world models of self fulfilling animosity 130
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026some false positives for NSFW detectors are in some ways true positives because some people are just... ...porny 1100
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026i've been using pi since january. i love it. it's vim; it's my work bench; it's my LISP. one of the things i sloptastically accumulated was an webui that uses RPC to make my life easier with baby. had no plans to share it but a teammate likes it so...ok 140
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 02/05/2026apparently my elderly neighbor has lost 100% hearing now, but has non problems with conversations because the meta ray bands caption them. good job, zuck 1322
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 01/05/2026i have wildly over-caffeinated today overshot the runway by like 4 parsecs 040
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 23/04/2026“As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person, and even I had no idea what the hell they were talking about” good lord 160
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026I kind of think this is an important point to reiterate. It's never "rockets vs science." And sometimes (like with the Artemis II mission), there is science that can piggy-back on missions where enabling human spaceflight is the primary goal. The proposed science cuts are just about cutting science. 13968178
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 22/04/2026me using the `--guidance` flag of my auto research tool to "gently" nudge it to doing the thing my brain says it is stupidly failing to see for 9 experiments in a row: 140
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusEle Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The 12yo has declared it Yeti Crab Awareness Day! This surprising hirsute crustaceans (more squat lobster than crab) of the South Pacific reminded researchers of the Abominable Snowman or Yeti, with its long furry limbs. Its genus name Kiwa is from the Polynesian goddess of shellfish.ocean.si.eduYeti Crab 78522
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 22/04/2026The anti-AI crowd on this website went from making good points against AI to being completely delusional and extremely toxic as AI spreads and the in-group/out-group mentality developed As Bluesky’s data is fully open, it would be a prime case study for scientists studying online toxicity 1016419
johnny, uplifted octopus @generativist.com · 22/04/2026cool work from @andymatuschak.org memory-machines.com/report/memory-machines.comMemory Machines: Can LLMs create lasting flashcards from readers' highlights?We tested prompting, fine-tuning, RL, and grounded evaluation across ~1,500 labeled flashcards—and found models catch obvious misses but not plausible failures. 120
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusdan @danabra.mov · 21/04/2026it’s always funny to me when people try to paint react as some kind of “big company” propaganda. it was like one person’s wild idea and then there was at most ~5 people maintaining it for years. people HATED it when fb open sourced it. the only reason it won is because the model was actually good 1418710
Reposted by johnny, uplifted octopusOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 21/04/2026We've made it, folks Bluesky was down last week because it was hit by a geopolitical adversary — Iran, in this casethreatbeat.comPro-Iran hackers claim ‘sophisticated’ attack on BlueskyA pro-Iran hacking group that has been relentlessly targeting American companies with DDoS attacks claims it disrupted Bluesky with what the social media site called a “sophisticated” attack that… 3308
