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Gluon Spring

@gluonspring.bsky.social
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Duck Duck Goose gold medalist; salt hobbyist; genome scientist by trade. Erdős number: 2 CA (Forged in TX) Patriotic, as it turns out 🇺🇸

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h
My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 6h
Easy. The past sucked, and people in the past were frequently evil. If you were alive in 1858 or 1930 or 1939 or even 1955 it might have been hard to imagine the social progress we now take for granted. There probably seemed no path out due to the wickedness of men. Yet, somehow, we improved.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so freaking inspiring this is why we fight
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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans benefit and Dems suffer when projects get delayed until the next person is in office, lmfao
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh it's too late.gif www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/t...
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Abbott declares disaster over high diesel prices in Texas
Monday marks seven months since the U.S.-Iran war began, which has restricted oil and gas exports from the Middle East, raising prices ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That illogical human bias? It might be just an accidental quirk or a mental fossil from an earlier time. Or, it might be the thing preventing social collapse. I’m not saying don’t imagine a better more well thought out future, but don’t be a sucker, and don’t kid yourself about how much you know.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A general problem with logical fallacies is that we do not live in a world where we possess many true statements. Logic fails because we are only 50% sure the input is true.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s a Chesterton’s fence thing about completely ditching the ad hominem. The reason ad hominem arguments work on people is because who is making an argument often really does convey important information and humans are very attuned to this.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We could also just let them freely sell their water rights, which effectively isn't allowed. Same result: growing cheap alfalfa stops making sense when someone will pay several times more for the water. Let them have their windfall if that's what it takes. It's literally cheaper to buy them off.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why aren’t there third spaces now? Because nobody has been bored and isolated in two decades. Not the way we were in the 80s when you had to stand in the kitchen tethered to the wall to call a friend. YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE THE BOREDOM. Desperation made us leave the house seeking other humans.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

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[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 27/09/2026
It's important for Democrats to go on shows like Rogan's. He has a lot of dumb ideas, but ultimately Rogan is a conservative and not a reactionary. Getting conservatives to feel safe with change is what progressives must do. Separate the uninformed normies from the deplorables.
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026
A lot of these dudes need to stop worrying about AGI paper clipping all of humanity and start worrying about California employment law because this industry has the most obviously hostile work environment I have ever seen.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should ask him if he knows Claude’s p(doom) song.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doing this but for radio playlists and music charts.
https://xkcd.com/2501/
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet
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Heranimos Swingle, Padded Gambeson Man @pashaspider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the issue is as ever that the people against random crazy idea [diesel export ban] have to be lucky every time, but president eat the seed corn only has to be lucky once to implement it
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We really going to try to debate the nature of consciousness on the app where you can’t get people to accept the CPI is real?
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Past a certain age the tabloids at the checkout line read like dispatches from an alternate dimension. I’ve heard of none of these people.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Duane Keiser (American Artist, born 1966) "Water and Lemon", 2022. Oil on Board, 9" × 7.5". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can still type it in today if you like.
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Super startrek - Retrocomputing
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lol my nine games are too old for that website. Consider Super Star Trek. This is a thousand line BASIC program I typed in from the pages of an old book.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PBS NOVA will have an episode on Space Wars Oct 7th including me as an expert. Final boss for a science kid short of hosting the third run of Cosmos. I didn't make the trailer but I'm much more boring than @vsamsondc.bsky.social or @planet4589.bsky.social video.nhpbs.org/video/space-...
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NOVA | Space Wars Preview | Season 53 | Episode 12
Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Social media lets us live in a world where everyone's unfiltered thoughts are public. It’s the curse of telepathy. We aren’t meant to know this much about our neighbors.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nobody knew. Highly classified failure of the Soviet warning system kept under wraps for years. Happy Almost Nuclear War Day, for those who celebrate
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/09/2026
Researchers suggest our ancient relatives intentionally crafted these 1.4-million-year-old spheres, perhaps for the sheer joy of creating symmetry. Learn more: scim.ag/4y6xFMt #ScienceMagArchives
Were these stone balls made by ancient human relatives trying to perfect the sphere?
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pretty good summary of the Hugging Face incident. It's equal parts terrifying and fun.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My estimates: p(doom) = completely unknowable other than not zero. p(some really bad things) = 1 p(some really good things) = 1 p(net good) = unknowable
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The most important election of your life is always the next one
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Voters in 2030 will be like, “The Dem President must not be very good, you hardly ever see any of those government ads praising him”.
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Upping my p(Doom)
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/09/2026
The challenge advocates for democracy and progress face today and in every day in the modern era is how to make conservatives feel safe so that they don't enable the reactionary authoritarians. It's terribly hard to get right. But threading that needle is what intra-Democratic politics is about.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
even in states that dems *don't* fully control, dem governors in Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona have vetoed anti-trans legislation sent to them by Republican legislatures
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It may be hard for young people to imagine, but before the internet the only people who would have to hear these kinds of things would be psychiatric professionals and family members of the afflicted.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026
Anthropic threw Claude at a DNA database. 21 hours, 950 agents, and 210mm tokens later, it emerged with a novel reverse transcriptase (similar to CRISPR). They're running a non-pathogenic (BSL-1/2) research lab in the Bay Area.
anthropic.com
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we never should have hurt that gorilla
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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think that AI is going to end up destroying smaller stuff before it gets around to all of humanity.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's worse than that. They won't forget, they'll write in Parker Malloy to send a message to the Dem establishment. They will feel safe doing this because the polls say Dems are going to win.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These days I'm involved in writing the software I produce in the same way that Captain Picard is involved in making a cup of Earl Grey tea.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I tried to engage my molecular biology colleagues on the question of whether reverse transcriptase was a safe research topic for a fully automated AI wet lab to work on but they couldn't get past their Blue Sky-esque view that AI is all hype so I never got a straight answer.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many rich biotech backers are motivated by the desire to personally cheat death and that puts them on a reckless research time horizon. I'm going to cure disease in 30 years = humanitarian I'm going to cure disease in 5 years = guy looking to make a Faustian bargain.
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