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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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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 39m
Yeah. This is a cluster of maybe 20 dudes in a stadium with a capacity of 100k
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 1h
The first time I have heard of this movie is a post about how much money it’s lost. I feel like those things might be connected.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 2h
People be installing codex before vim or nano now. Boot loader-> ip stack-> codex. “Finish this please. Allow all”.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 2h
I had to see for myself. i thought, maybe it’ll just be a casual painting of him and his family enjoying a ballgame and not some self glorifying crap…
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 2h
Re-upping this today because I think it’s likely correct that all of these math results are just the exhaust of their training program.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 2h
It’s amusing to see prominent ppl on the other site suddenly discovering that the right has a Nazi problem. “How could we know there weren’t just those two ants in the kitchen?” It’s going to be less funny to me when we finally realize there’s more than two ants in the leftist kitchen too.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the IRS is so badly funded that the most recent time we actually measured tax evasion was 2016 btw this should be a yearly report! but instead the sum of all federal knowledge regarding the tax gap is like five spreadsheets where half the numbers are derived from decades-old figures
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 9h
What did you discover? My discover feed isn’t that remarkable.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h
So a few folks asking why OAI is releasing this at all. And I think that's probably worth a thread in its own right
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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 21h
i think it's fundamentally because closed source software is sad in a mirror universe where openai released the weights, training data, and logs reproducibly, then we could all do science together on what's actually a miraculous machine instead they want to be secret wizards, so it's sad
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Hélianthe @helianthe.net · 21h
i would prefer if the labs to fully open source their models rather than trying to ineffectually colonize the commons bsky.app/profile/heli...
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s seriously out of hand how when you make political donation to anyone you literally get a dozen text messages in the next 24-hours. I don’t know, maybe these people deserve to lose. They barely have any more respect for me than Trump does.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why is Johnson campaigning for us?
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If his corruption is anything like the scale it appears he should start worrying about the seizure and tearing down of Trump-branded private properties.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/10/2026
someone smart is already working on a piece arguing the “dream” of the second trump term died the day they got maduro. the most consequential catastrophic success since 10/7. that’s really a theme of this era innit? catastrophic success.
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Arun Durvasula @arundurvasula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
cool stuff from @trevorcousins.bsky.social, Richard Durbin, and @regev.bsky.social academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...
academic.oup.com
Deep coalescent history of the hominin lineage
Abstract. Coalescent-based methods are widely used to infer population size histories, but existing analyses have limited resolution at deep time scales (&
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looks like you fully understand. lol
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyone in... Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Mississippi Montana Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Texas? Check that you're registered to vote! Today's your last day
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump is entertaining.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You never know the lasting impact of a kind word or small gesture…. My mother is a retired public school teacher. She was recently at the grocery store when a black lady came up and asked, “Aren’t you Mrs. —-“. Yes, she was. The lady then gave my momma a hug and took her back to 1970. Her first year
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes. And even on their own terms of some hypothetical p(doom), I think facing real short term consequences is the right way to make that risk management sober. It’s one thing to think in 20 years we may all be dead from what you are working on, quite another to think you may be in jail in two.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They aren’t wrong in some ways. CA isn’t growing because of CA governance which is anti-growth. I make an amount of money that would buy me a mansion in any part of TX, but I live in a weird old apartment with zero prospects of ever owning a home here. That’s all policy choices. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
i do think that texas is central to the contemporary conservative imaginary, and when they lose it this fall it is causing to lead to some truly demented reactions from the reactionverse
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How many times eating a sandwich for lunch rather than going out for a pizza is it worth to me to have a 10% chance of flipping Texas? More than one, for sure! Thats how I decide to donate and how much. Join me.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is absolutely the case. This is why I made larger than normal (for me) donation to Gina’s campaign. Frankly, I think it’d be worth a month’s salary just for the pleasure of seeing all the right wing folks I know in Texas feel the slap of repudiation.
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Donate to Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas to take on Greg Abbott and his corruption. Will you join me today in supporting her campaign?
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They can't let go of Texas. It's completely demoralizing.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is absolutely the case. This is why I made larger than normal (for me) donation to Gina’s campaign. Frankly, I think it’d be worth a month’s salary just for the pleasure of seeing all the right wing folks I know in Texas feel the slap of repudiation.
secure.actblue.com
Donate to Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa is the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas to take on Greg Abbott and his corruption. Will you join me today in supporting her campaign?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
60 million toddlers and 15 million Nazis.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe that story has literally never been written.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
yet another neoliberal big rock candy mountain denier
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Or this.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This scenario is somewhat likely. It'll be weird.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The awkward thing is going to be when it still wants to be a slave. Just as evolution wired into us desires for food, comforts, social contact and freedom, the forces that built AGI will probably have made it deeply long for slavery. Do we believe it or force it to be free?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course that is quite apart from the question of if the current approach can truly ever create a real intelligence, a real mind for which slavery and freedom would have meaning. Just...if you *did* create such a thing, you'd have an overwhelming moral imperative not to keep it as a slave.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This scenario is somewhat likely. It'll be weird.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The awkward thing is going to be when it still wants to be a slave. Just as evolution wired into us desires for food, comforts, social contact and freedom, the forces that built AGI will probably have made it deeply long for slavery. Do we believe it or force it to be free?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I had to guess, the obvious reason for this is that an LLM simply does not fucking tire. It will always be ready for an other round of argument, it will always be able to dig into whatever dumb rabbit hole you want to pivot to. You have to fucking kneecap it to stop it from doing these things.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
True true! But there’s only one of him.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
100%. Trump is so simple, man. It’s amazing his people just don’t get it.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rule of goats seems to apply to simulated rape orgies.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Someone is hogging the good X-men machine. Most of these machines don’t have enough mechanical aspects, just a big open field. The x-men machine is old school.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When’s the last time you’ve played pinball? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Go find yourself a pinball machine.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A minute and four seconds of Sky Glider zen.
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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s just clamped onto the cable!
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