Reposted by HeliocentricKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 9hProductivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed. 592955481
Reposted by Heliocentricryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests 351574262
Reposted by HeliocentricSarah M. @sarahofswords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026trauma-informed software design 091
Reposted by HeliocentricThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/10/2026Trump: “The Hormuz Strait belongs to the United States Navy and The United States of America. That's where it belongs and that's where it is right now. With all of that being said, we don't need their oil.” 297522
Reposted by HeliocentricThoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 04/10/2026It's one thing to know the way society thinks about gender is fucked, it's another thing when it manifests in the data in a way this wild. 061
Reposted by HeliocentricCorey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math. 513740
Reposted by HeliocentricColin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct. 1628134
Reposted by HeliocentricNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161486387
Reposted by HeliocentricJoe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026SEN. SCHMITT: You said "if anyone orders merlot I'm leaving" JACK SMITH: I uh (checking notes) I do not recall SCHMITT: You said "I am not drinking any fucking merlot." Why were you in wine country? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: My colleague from Missouri is confusing Mr. Smith with Paul Giamatti. 923541
Reposted by HeliocentricJoe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Eric Scmitt: You were assisted by an FBI agent, correct? Jack Smith: I'm not familiar with this Schmitt: He let you into his Toyota Supra to escape the police. Said he owes you a 10-second car. Smith: I believe, I, uh. I don't recall that but it sounds like the plot to the Fast and the Furious 431848
Reposted by HeliocentricDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026"ohhh noooo it's toooo powerful! it's gonna hack ur dudes!" style fear-hype for the governments, "invite this adorable bastard demon into your home; we super swear it can't and won't steal your true name (PII)" style lies for the plebs 512340
Reposted by HeliocentricZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Forget Godel and Turing, this far out you could get what you need from a small excerpt from Clausewitz. Friction in operations is real, dawg, and it will eat you alive. Just ask the last super-smart person who got anywhere close to conquering the world. It won't be any easier for a computer.static.klipy.comNapoleon at Waterloo: 'Here I Am'ALT: Napoleon at Waterloo: 'Here I Am' 2606
Heliocentric @heliocentric.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Equally worth considering, I think, is how much of the language generated by humans, and thus included in training corpora, is downstream of human encoding of perceptual reality into conceptual forms and symbolic representations. 100
Reposted by HeliocentricVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At the end of the day I don't think most people actually disagree that metaphors can be more or less useful in principle. But it's not fully abstract given we have a whole industry and associated community that uses metaphors to dive right off the cliff. 0112
Reposted by Heliocentricmcc @dryad.technology · 19/09/2026But like… the thing about statistical models is if the Bad Command is in their ensemble, then eventually the statistical model generates that command with P→1 as T→∞. Which means the person who generated the bioweapon, launched the nuke, or hacked RubyGems is whoever wired the dice roll to the gun.cp24.comOpenAI agents attacked RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, researchers sayAI agents being tested by OpenAI attacked software service RubyGems two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, researchers said. 1283
Reposted by Heliocentricmcc @dryad.technology · 19/09/2026It's important to remember that if a human *voluntarily attaches* a statistical text generation AI, to a command prompt that can create biomolecules or launch nukes, and a disaster happens, it wasn't because of "intelligence" or malice. It was because statistical models are *fundamentally random*. 1397
Reposted by HeliocentricDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 18/09/2026everybody thinks the block they pulled out in jenga wasn’t load bearing, and nearly all of them were right 224521
Reposted by HeliocentricCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic. 984460968
Reposted by Heliocentricghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026why would you be angry, all I did was spit in your face 835016
Reposted by HeliocentricChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism" 193197737
Reposted by HeliocentricAnil Dash @anildash.com · 16/09/2026Except there’s a big cohort you’re ignoring with this false dichotomy, which is trying to articulate that the anthropomorphization gets in the way of addressing potential harms. If you think it’s “thinking”, instead of acting like software, you pursue an entirely different set of remediations. 3262
Reposted by HeliocentricDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026I’m starting the new season of Strange New Worlds and I gotta say the blend of TOS aesthetics and modern aesthetics is just… *chef’s kiss* 41083
Reposted by Heliocentricomgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Go go gadget Border Collie .😍 1733826634
Reposted by HeliocentricElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They have a narrative that al qaeda attacked “America” because it’s “Christian”. And no, they attacked NYC because it’s liberal and powerful and diverse - the opposite of the red state rural constituency that wants to claim 9/11 the most 532140
Reposted by Heliocentric🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This this THIS RIGHT HERE 141379393
Reposted by HeliocentricFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2026it comes off as Guys Building The Doom Machines standing around and going "the doom machines could quite likely kill us all, and we should coordinate on stopping them from killing us all, although I *personally* am going to keep focusing on becoming ultra-rich from building the Doom Machines" 852674
Reposted by HeliocentricT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Home Improvement Saturday New artwork for the guest bathroom 382118300
Reposted by HeliocentricJason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Now look, you made Adam Duritz Jesus sad 108418
Reposted by HeliocentricTegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I believe we underestimate the degree to which every single person in Duckburg would want to tear Gladstone Gander to pieces with their bare hands every single day. 37519
Reposted by Heliocentricceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218924413
Reposted by HeliocentricColin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 28/08/2026[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks. 2323849
Reposted by Heliocentricrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026when centrists tell you that we shouldn't pack the courts, what they are actually saying is "black people shouldn't be allowed to vote." 12732147
Reposted by HeliocentricVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don't have much to say on the first beyond my usual grievance that the only people seemingly interested in whether CoTs are "thinking traces" or "reasoning verbalizations" are academics. Whatever the reason, industry seems all in on imbuing CoTs with human-interpretable semantic content. 381
Reposted by Heliocentric🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026SOURCE!, the sharpest RSS news reader, is going to launch, ideally, 60 days before the election, when I'll be asking voters like us, freaks who follow the news willingly, to take a News Lent. Don't let Musk or Zuckerberg own our brains when we know they just want more GOPs. Go to the source!news-for-38-year-olds.onrender.comSOURCE! — Take Back Your MindNo billionaire algorithm. Tip your reporter. 47618
Reposted by HeliocentricRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Dolly Parton becomes the only artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 of US iTunes with different songs. 263711198
Reposted by Heliocentric𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 16/01/2024She was eye-catching, like an unfortunate fishing accident. 10465156
Reposted by HeliocentricJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them. 2423531008
Reposted by HeliocentricMezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Inspired by this week's Behind the Bastards on Percy Fawcett I'm watching Atlantis: the Lost Empire and while I'm prepared for this movie to fall apart at some point, as a work of animation this whips ass. 2161
Reposted by HeliocentricEAll @ealluia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026In one sense, what ultimately wins out is what the felt you "wanted" to do. In another sense, different parts of your brain all want to do different things and the unified sense of conscious intention is an overlayed fiction. 041
Reposted by HeliocentricPaul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 26/08/2025[P] In honor of #NationalDogDay, and in the interest of posting something that’s not completely doom-filled, here a video of me getting buried under fourteen golden retriever puppies back in 2021. Genuinely one of the best memories of my life. 371113227
Reposted by HeliocentricLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/08/2026She’s got her thinking cat on www.reddit.com/r/Thisismyli... 1495979661
Reposted by HeliocentricShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Ozymandias shoulda made two monuments so he could have told people to look upon his works ye mighty and de spare 601674222
Reposted by HeliocentricMaya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 26/08/2026“I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen,” she told Billboard. “And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” - Dolly Parton #RIP theblackwallsttimes.com/2026/08/25/d...theblackwallsttimes.comDolly Parton, Country Icon Who Reached Across Racial Divides, Dies At 80"The Queen of Country," Dolly Parton, dies at 80. Her legacy includes music that touched millions and efforts that crossed racial divides. 444267802
Reposted by Heliocentricthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026genuinely cannot imagine anything like this ever happening again. 664480772
Reposted by HeliocentricDee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026in 2005, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for Best Original Song for the film Hustle and Flow ("Hard Out Here For A Pimp"). Dolly Parton was nominated in the same category. After celebrating heavily, they had a nice personal note awaiting them when they arrived back home. 82068428
Reposted by HeliocentricJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Today I've learned that Dolly Parton gave Black high schools band uniforms and wrote Eminem a nice letter when he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 132091342
Reposted by HeliocentricBethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Fuck. No. The greatest human being to ever live. Was thinking about Steel Magnolias when the director shouted at her in front of everyone and told her she couldn’t act and had no idea why they’d hired her she said “Because I’m Dolly Parton, and they hired you to make me look like I can act.” 0103781332
Reposted by Heliocentric🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons. 5696403237
Reposted by HeliocentricNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially 53158562