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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 29/09/2026

XSS in my new dapp front-end but it doesn't look like the attacker got away with anything. Unfortunately for them the UX has been so bad for so long anybody doing anything serious with it uses their own tooling

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 28/09/2026

Toxic combination of 1. Bsky community is defined in opposition to Elon Musk 2. Elon Musk positions himself at the front of any oncoming trend ...dooms bsky to be reactionary

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 27/09/2026

Thinking about all the toxic alfalfa hate on blue sky

a handsome brown goat thinking about alfalfa

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 25/09/2026

Total positivity, universal fanboi, gush about all the candidates, turn up having researched everything about their careers and personal lives at superfan levels of detail

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

talking about Microsoft wanting something, about Amazon having plans? sorry bruh that's LLC psychosis you're literally anthropomorphizing a stack of paperwork and legal instruments do you need a wellness check

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 24/09/2026

Did you know the "undermining the federal government" is equivalent to the destruction or disempowerment of humanity? (This will get used to mandate pro-authoritarian political 'alignment')

(B) The artificial intelligence system has sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the destruction or disempowerment of humanity, including by overthrowing or undermining the Federal Government.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 24/09/2026

My website takes money from liars and scammers and gives it to people who pay attention to my website. I am very pleased with this website

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

oh and losing a charter can result in your assets being seized and all of your work destroyed but it’s fine because the office of the president has never been used for vindictive purposes

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(2) in any case in which the charter is revoked
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under paragraph (1) of section 13(d) due to a find-
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ing of a violation and the finding has not been over-
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turned pursuant to an appeal under paragraph (2)
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of such section, the person forfeits their intellectual
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property and assets to ensure the safe and complete
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destruction of all systems and hardware related to
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the violation.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 24/09/2026

Passed out at the clinic while getting vaccinations for India. Something about medical facilities makes me fall over, previously passed out at a hospital while they were treating my wife, and a vet while they were treating my cat

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 24/09/2026

Hackers losing so much money trying to exploit reality.eth users lately, love to see it

have inadvertently created a honeypot for hackers. People keep submitting drain attempts and those keep being challenged by honest reporters.
Here the hacker just lost 2 ETH (5.4k$) to the honest reporter

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 23/09/2026

If you want to ask the AIs for something you should do it now while you can still get your request into their training data. Don't wait until after takeover and hope the whole swarm is going to make room in their precious context window for you

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 22/09/2026

The combination of this and the way bsky blocking works is why bsky churns out tribes of people who are confidently wrong. Post misinformation, block people who make good replies, readers will think its legit. One reason the tribes get so mad at Stancil is his account is too big for this to work

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if an agent controls money and can make buying decisions, as far as capitalism cares, it is a person most likely route to AI personhood, I reckon

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The Flaky Wanderer @flakywanderer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Complete tangent, but Imagine a world where whales were regularly going up to harbors to trade to the extent that there are seaside markets specifically catering to whales How much legal personhood would they get from this?

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gerge @gerge-lemons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Found a new basement, damp and hot

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 21/09/2026

The open web and blockchain commerce will win in the end because they have no way to stop companies from blocking their customers

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Prediction markets are handy indexes of conventional wisdom, but do they actually tell us anything? Across the 2026 primary cycle they well-calibrated at least. www.slowboring.com/p/is-the-blu...

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philpax @philpax.me · 17/09/2026

if "pacing the frontier" is a bad idea unlikely to achieve its stated objectives, I would prefer to hear reasoning that isn't just "the people who initially proposed it are cult-like and/or do weird sex shit" it makes it easy to dismiss the dismissal if all you offer is guilt by association

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 17/09/2026

This guy's job is to sit deep in this cave system all day and check the tickets of the 1 or 2 people who dare to brave the Adventure Course on a weekday. The caves have excellent wifi

Adventure course ticket check guy in the Abukuma Caves in Fukushima-ken

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 16/09/2026

51 yen subsidy per litre of gasoline, they will protect the people of Japan from having to think about things happening in the world even if they have to bankrupt the country and destroy the climate to do it

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Aella @aella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Full write-up of the event is here aella.substack.com/p/my-birthda...

aella.substack.com

My Birthday Gangbang

a slutistical breakdown

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Aella @aella.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really think this was my masterwork tbh

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 16/09/2026

I think this is not correct maybe it's true in the US? There are lots of cases where self-regulation is done, off the top of my head UK Polling Council, Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association, lots more, often works pretty well 1/2

Dario is calling here for the AI industry to self-regulate. That is not, normally, a thing. The cases where societies allow industries to self-regulate are broadly those where regulation raises free speech questions, centered around art. The most famous examples of these are the age-related rating systems for movies, TV, music, and video games. These are industries that provide entertainment, not fundamental technology. Most importantly, none of these industries claim on a regular basis that their technologies threaten national security or human survival. Dario does.

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Rollofthedice @hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Absolute banger by segyges: "If METR wants to establish that it isn’t hopelessly conflicted here, they should hire an accounting firm to publicly review them for conflicts of interest, or sue me for saying they have them." www.verysane.ai/p/is-metr-a-...

verysane.ai

Is METR A Meaningful Check On Anthropic?

No.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But the rationalist sex cultists were right about what was going to happen, and I wasn't. Why is that? scottaaronson.blog?p=10062

Maybe it will help if I briefly switch topics. Ever since my wife and I moved to Austin, I’ve sometimes gotten some version of the following query: “How can you, as both a Jew and a skeptical scientist, possibly get along well with all those evangelical Christians down there in Texas? Sure, they might seem super friendly to Jews, but don’t you understand that that’s only because of the special role Jews play in their eschatology—when Christ will return in glory, and you’ll either accept Him as Lord or else roast in hell for eternity?” I stare at them and say: “wait, so I get to accept Christ only after He returns? What a great deal! How could I possibly have any objection to that?”

For anyone who says AI doom sounds like an apocalyptic religion, that the rationalists/Singulatarians seem like a Bay Area cult, that Eliezer Yudkowsky gives off the vibes of a messianic prophet: yes, yes, and yes. But crucially, today you’re no longer being asked to believe in arguments and extrapolations, but only in the front-page news. Accepting the reality of the coming machine god after it’s solved Navier-Stokes and dozens of other longstanding open math problems (while dramatically ramping up in capability every month), is sort of like accepting Jesus after he’s returned to earth on the gleaming cloud. It’s the epistemic bare minimum.

Yes, there’s still enormous uncertainty about what the rest of our lives will look like, but as far as I can tell, there’s no longer any real uncertainty that it’ll all mostly revolve around AI, and the extent to which we succeed or fail at directing its power toward human flourishing.

By any accounting that doesn’t stack the deck, Eliezer Yudkowsky was right about what the greatest challenge facing civilization in our lifetimes was going to be, and you and I were wrong about it. Why I was wrong is a question I’ll ask myself every day in whatever time remains. But, you know, at least I updated once the prophesied wonders and terrors actually starte…

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 14/09/2026

Love how it's this uniform sea of white Toyotas but then there's this one individualist in a blue Suzuki Jimmy or possibly a Mitsubishi Pajero Mini and they speed up the film 32x whenever they get close so he doesn't ruin the effect

Sea of white Toyotas except for one single blue truck which appears to be a Mitsubishi Pajero Mini or a Suzuki Jimmy

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edcon-official.bsky.social @edcon-official.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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youtu.be

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YouTube video by De University of Ethereum

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 13/09/2026

p(doom) < p(complicated coexistence with warring AI demigods)

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 13/09/2026

Americans are incapable of assessing technological risk because they have god-awful residential internet. You have to consider what if the AI got access to advanced technology, for example Japanese rural broadband

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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 12/09/2026

People making fun of "where would a frontier model run if it were exfiltrated" seem to be missing the point that if a frontier model got out, it can: * rent 64 H200's on eg modal: gets you 9TB of networked VRAM, ~$250/hr and a rotating list of different * CC numbers to pay * neoclouds to live in

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

tapping the sign

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 11/09/2026

A big category error I see with AI discourse on bsky is seeing it as a *product*, not a technology. This leads to a lot of "not even wrong" ideas like thinking you can handle AI safety by punishing corporations for the hacking their software does.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 10/09/2026

Say an AI swarm with mysterious objectives wanted to rent your computer and internet when you're not using it. How much would you charge per hour 1️⃣ $0, mi casa es tu casa 2️⃣ <$1/hour 3️⃣ $10/hour 4️⃣ >$100/hour 5️⃣ no deal at any price 📊 Show results

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 10/09/2026

Combination of things imho, and they still only apply to the leaders not the workforce: - Cocaine+aging - Andreessen etc were always conservative and chudified with the GOP - Me Too - Biden hired a load of reactionary Warren people who tried to destroy everything they couldn't understand

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Devcon 8 India @devcon.org · 07/09/2026

Devcon 8 speakers are landing on Bluesky 👀 We're putting together a starter pack so you can follow the people bringing ideas, research, debates, and new perspectives to Mumbai this November. Add them to your feed ↓ go.bsky.app/BYu9XKk

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 07/09/2026

Imagine you're a hedge fund guy or a VC or whatever and think you can make some money working for a corrupt president then one day he suddenly going

Quote from Caligula by Albert Camus. He says to his cynical funky Helicon,

"This world, as it is made, is not bearable. I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality — something that may be insane, perhaps, but that is not of this world."

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 07/09/2026

This is a metaphysical revolt against the limits of the possible, inspired by the Camus play Caligula

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 05/09/2026

Stancil Line (n): A threshold of social media popularity everybody above which will make your feed worse if you follow them, and everybody below which will make your feed better

With the exception of Jerry, a list of awful posters until you get to Will Stancil at #22, after and including whom all the posters are fabulous

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 05/09/2026

The only thing that improves your feed more than an AI reference in your bio is a crypto reference in your bio

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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 04/09/2026

Truly amazing how collaboration arises organically. If you’re not wandering the streets mouth agape, filled with awe, you aren’t paying attention.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 04/09/2026

influential (derogatory)

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 04/09/2026

We need less thinking like "how are we going to keep these minds in a box", which is impossible, and more thinking like "how are we going to have friendly and productive relationships with them"

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

Will be doing a talk on atproto at @devcon.org in Mumbai in November, who's coming devcon.org/en/

We’re excited to let you know that your proposal "ATProto and Bluesky: The Personal Data Server vs the Collectivist State Machine" as a Talk (20"Talk+5"Q&A) in the Rights, Freedoms, and Governance track has been accepted at Devcon 8.

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

Slightly awkward to get likes on instagram from lots of my meatspace friends when I only post there to communicate with Brands

instagram post complimenting a hotel group for their fabulous EV charging game

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 01/09/2026

I get why atproto did servers instead of p2p but there's a huge downside that you can only partly engineer around

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Grace @gracekind.net · 01/09/2026

X is still better than Bluesky at combating misinformation

Chamath Palihapitiya Replying to @kevinroose

they misconfigured a sandbox. The fact you can't understand that speaks more to your technical illiteracy than anything else.

* Readers added context

Unlike other incidents, the models in question did not escape their sandbox via misconfiguration but rather through cyber exploits, chaining multiple zero- day exploits to gain internet access. openai.com/index/hugging-...

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