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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Peter Elias, who invented the Elias gamma, delta, and omega codes, died at home of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Phil Katz, creator of ZIP, died from alcoholism and was found dead amidst liquor bottles and suitcases of sexual paraphernalia. Now it is our turn to study compression.

Goldstein textbook quote about statistical mechanics people committing suicide.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every generation doesn't get the cyberpunk opening line it wants, but it does get the one it deserves.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This this THIS RIGHT HERE

The worst case scenario isn’t “AI goes rogue and makes disastrous mistakes,” but a bunch of people at at AI startup over-promising what their systems can do, get handed access to critical systems, write sloppy prompts, code, and configurations, trigger a disaster, then trying to dodge responsibility by screaming about the Singularity and AGI, and flooding technically illiterate regulators with a massive tsunami of technobabble.

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Fantasy art by Frank Frazetta. Some sort of winged beast flies in the air while a human warrior with sword, shields and helmet stands in the foreground, a naked lady lying in the ground beside him. In the background a boat is ashore

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Get a job

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Introducing the world of Muay Thai to Irongarm in-jokes: Thanks to @wildgorillaman.bsky.social for the shirt design.

Me and coach doing mandatory post-PT selfie, me in Internet Federation of Lifting Coaches t-shirt.

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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dang they really got a category for everything

THR
The Hollywood Reporter *
@THR
Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, and I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

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Andrew Gallant @burntsushi.net · 03/06/2026

I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months. I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis. :-) burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

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Encephalitis - Andrew Gallant's Blog

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 03/06/2026

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Maggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Screenshot from the paywall on a Wired article that reads: “You’ve read your last free article.”

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My eldest son was running a D&D campaign with his friends, but when they came back from a lunch break, he found that he had been replaced in role of Dungeon Master:

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Private Joker: Sir! It's a dichotomy, sir! Colonel: Private Joker are you fucking with me? Private Joker: Sir! No sir, it's a Jungian thing, sir!

Picture of Jordan Peterson superimposed with two lobsters

Text:

INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO LOBSTERS
one is a
benzo addict
the other is a charlatan
its called jungian psychology bro, its crazy i swear

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Underfox @underfox3.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In this paper is presented the first comprehensive characterization of SPEC CPU2026 across nine platforms spanning recent Intel, AMD, Ampere, and Nvidia processors. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.03713

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Does anyone have the "Big Assembly" or "SuperCoder" benchmark sets? These seem cool (big inputs for superoptimizers) but I don't see any way to download either.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"I'm not f**king around, do it now or so help me God I will f**king end you."

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Albanese should be saying the same. As a partner of AUKUS we have a responsibility.

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Lucius Shepard (extremely good SF author, albeit with a few oddities - a bit too horny for my tastes and rather prone to writing short stories whether he's writing a novel or short stories) set Life During Wartime in a US invasion of South America, and opened with this banger:

One of the new Sikorsky gunships, an element of the First Air Cavalry with the words Whispering Death painted on its side, gave Mingolla and Gilbey and Baylor a lift from the Ant Farm to San Francisco de Juticlan, a small town located inside the green zone, which on the latest maps was designated Free Occupied Guatemala. To the east of this green zone lay an undesignated band of yellow that crossed the country from the Mexican border to the Caribbean. The Ant Farm was a firebase on the eastern edge of the yellow band, and it was from there that Mingolla - an artillery specialist not yet twenty-one years old - lobbed shells into an area that the maps depicted in black-and-white terrain markings. And thus it was that he often thought of himself as engaged in a struggle to keep the world safe for primary colors.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

8:30: leave for work 8:32:

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Kangaroo Echidna Wombat Cassowary (aka murder chicken) Sydney funnel-web spider (world's most venomous spider)

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

SMTLIB2 folks: is there a good way of mechanically estimating the cost of a doing an assert ahead of time based on some sort of mechanical trick? In the theory of bit-vectors, we have everything from bvand (easy) to bvmul (!) and bvdiv (!!?). Quantifier-free answer OK.

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.” ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Sam Altman:
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful
with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to
many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness
of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues
and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions
in most cases.
In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows
people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked
about 40 (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond
in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT
should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).
In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat
adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for
verified adults.

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Mike Suszek @mikesuszek.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Once again, this perfect @zeboydgames.bsky.social post comes to mind:

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

badgers > beavers > claude code, as I predicted in 2008 at Sensory Networks (sadly management disappeared my little art installation almost immediately, the bastards):

art installation from sensory networks, describing the lack of certainty about apps and platforms

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David Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 10/09/2025

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

A comic strip in four panels:

1. A bird's-eye view of a giant amphora the size of a building with closed eyes and a closed mouth engraved on it. Using scaffolding, a community of wizards climbed up and are throwing all their books into it, to fill its content.
> Wizards: All our grimoires for the Amphora of Great Intelligence!

2. A ground level view at the bottom of the giant amphora. This time, the wizards bring tree trunks, cut down nearby trees, and throw them into a large fire to boil the giant amphora.
> Wizards: All our forests for the Amphora of Great Intelligence!

3. A gathering of all the wizards below the imposing amphora which has now opened its glowing eyes and mouth slightly. The crowd of wizards at its feet applauds:
> Wizards: Amphora of Great Intelligence, our world is dying, share your knowledge with us!

4. Same shot, as the amphora responds with joyful and amused eyes. The wizards are confused by the answer...
> Artificial Intelligence: According to geologists, you should eat at least one small rock per day.
> Wizards: ... ... ...

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Wonderful admission from the cops that non violent action is effective and really really makes them sad.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2025

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

bluesky is like being stranded on an island with a bunch of cool people and pretty views and we built a little tiki bar and have campfires every night but you better fuckin like coconuts because that’s all we got

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아리다 남편 @parkbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

I love this post by Todd Austin equating running a kitchen to a modern out of order microprocessor, especially with the inclusion of precise interrupts, prefetch, and power gating.

Todd Austin • • 1st
S. Jack Hu Collegiate Professor of CSE at UofM...

I am a COMPUTER ARCHITECT, which means I design computers. I was trained at a great school (UW-Madison), and I worked in industry (Intel) before I became a professor (University of Michigan). Despite these rarefied experiences, I first came to know computer architecture in the KITCHEN, working for 4 years first as a COOK. Let me explain.
As a cook, you are the control logic of a complex multi-issue machine, which operates with many of the optimizations found in today's CPUs:
IN-ORDER FETCH: The meal orders come in-order from the wait staff, and this order must be preserved.
OUT-OF-ORDER ISSUE: With a big menu, the latency to cook items will vary greatly, from fast salads to medium-latency burgers to long-latency steaks. Cooks will scan the upcoming orders and "issue" long latency items first, medium later, and short last, to make sure all items finish at roughly the same time.

IN-ORDER RETIREMENT: Importantly, the meal orders have to finish IN-ORDER. Wait staff will get very annoyed if any out-of-order completion occurs—no one wants to see the table that sat down after them get their food first! BTW, Tapas restaurants break this rule, which greatly improves the efficiency of their kitchens. What is the computer architecture dual to the tapas restaurant?
PREFETCH: Occasionally, someone from the wait staff will run into the kitchen and yell "BUS!" (typically with the same vigor as someone running into a beach bar and yelling "TSUNAMI!"), which means 50+ additional orders are coming to your line.
When this happens, you turn on all the stoves and steak burners and start frying staples, etc.

CACHING and SPECULATION: Many of the "specials" for the night are pre-cooked and kept in an oven (cache). This is optimizing the common case, since these popular meals take seconds to make. Often, if there are specials left over at the end of the night (mispeculation), they are donated to local food shelters.
NON-DETERMINISTIC LATENCY: Efficient architectures try to avoid all non-deterministic latencies, since they stymie schedulers and gum up the works. Kitchens operate the same way: everything is prepped to give deterministic cook times.
Once, I put a steak on a grill shared with the short-order cook window. Later, when I checked on my steak, it was gone... I confronted the short-order cook, and he said, "Do you want to fight me for it?" A non-deterministic latency made my line a mess that night!

PRECISE INTERRUPTS: When the shift changes, the incoming cook will negotiate which order to transition on. The working cook will finish all their orders, after which the new cook takes over. This is called a precise interrupt, and it is similar to how out-of-order processors effectuate a process switch.
POWER GATING: Kitchens are HOT. If stoves are not needed, they are powered down!
Besides architecture training, working as a cook is a great way to start a career. All later jobs you will have will be MUCH EASIER and LESS DANGEROUS!
#computerarchitecture

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fritz Leiber predicted Gen AI companies. The are "The Devourers": en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_...

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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I’m either too high for this or not high enough

Picture of actor Sydney Sweeney sitting next to a giant block of cheese

Text:

Cynic & Stoic Memes
Mr
号路1000号号
DARMIGIA,
"Sydney Sweeney Has Great Cheese" ad is controversial but Epicureans are not backing down. The Stoics don't care, commenting, "cheese is a preferred indifferent." Skeptics don't know whether it is cheese or a wax replica. Aristotelians think it is good but not the highest good.

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is the *5th* generation of this system. How many gigabytes of training data and how much relentless GPU use was needed to produce this absolute gibberish?

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

Al Overview
Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988).

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 01/08/2025

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @kevinhartnett.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I want to talk to you about Palantir and its expanding footprint in Australia. TLDR: You should be worried. This US surveillance tech company has secured multiple Defence contracts worth over $11 million. We need transparency about what data they're accessing & why. 🧵

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

So if you want to start training Muay Thai, I recommend going to a place with an excellent dog (Tupac!) and excellent merch and even better excellent merch *of* the dog: (model is me, unfortunately)

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

My youngest, when he was little, proposed a movie called "3 Days Without God", which would open in a church where everyone is fighting with broken bottles, and cut to the image of a priest, victorious, standing over a pile of subdued bodies. Still sounds like an art movie banger.

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you have invertible functions p and q with inv(p) and inv(q) (we could have more or less functions), and '.' is function application, and 'X' is some clever trick (say, some cute SIMD operations) p.q.X.inv(q).inv(p) ... often does cool stuff.

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geofflangdale.bsky.social @geofflangdale.bsky.social · 27/06/2025