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Being Michael Tracy is itself akin to a form of divine karmic punishment. Every day of his life is hell, cast far from the light and warmth of love, and running farther away from it in a sad attempt to own his rejection as a choice. His primary drive in life is to take revenge for having been born.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 1h

Embeds are also often completely different depending on whether you're on desktop vs mobile. Really stellar work for an app that is completely dedicated to communication. Here in the post-coding-is-solved world.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 1h

Embedded links on Discord are wildly inconsistent. There’s a bot called Media Helper which fixes it for a lot of sites but also makes some worse, especially Bluesky links. I fear I am eventually going to be annoyed into writing a better bot in Rust.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 3h

Learning today that a lot of people use one or another tool that alerts you when someone has blocked you. _Not_ doing this is not merely a matter of maintaining Poster's Zen: it is baseline vital to being online long-term without going insane.

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 6h

David Attenborough's Souls on BBC

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 6h

I too know of a homeless man whose wife's ashes were taken when his tent encampment was torn down. They have also lost library cards and ID that is vital ... as well as the new sleeping bags and tents that strangers (like us) had purchased for them.

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Immigrant Punk @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

If we want to talk about guardrails and safety of "AI," we should start with some basic standards and guardrails for software in the first place. Here's an idea - every instance of any defect, issue, hallucination, etc. by software is automatic $1K fine autopayable to user who experienced it.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14h

Courts also permit anonymity if exposure poses a risk of retaliatory physical or mental harm (like the kind naming a plaintiff to the internet is likely to result in). In Sealed Plaintiff v. Sealed Defendant, the Second Circuit overturned a decision requiring a rape victim to identify herself.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 19h

the brand safety panopticon has come to twitch

Streamers, wary of both AI and YouTube’s infuriatingly un-transparent hall of mirrors, are not enthused about this new development.

“Ohhh so that’s why ad revenue dropped,” longtime streamer JP "itmeJP" McDaniel said on Twitter.

“I’m genuinely worried that the sheer fact that I’m a lesbian will cause the AI to remove ads,” said Vtuber LuminusRed. “In the past I’ve tested it and confirmed that I get less ad money if I had queer-related tags on my stream like ‘lesbian,’ so I am worried this dumb AI monitoring will mean I no longer get money from ads on Twitch.”

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 18h

Is it a healthy sign of an industry when regular investors who haven't chosen to be baptized in datacenter wastewater manage to get a glimpse of AI frontier model financials and subsequently ask "Wait, what the fucking fuck is this?!"

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Anthropic IPO leak is insane
Company Discussion
Anthropic's leaked IPO filing shows $4.6B of 2025 revenue, a $42B net loss, Q2 2026 revenue of $11.5B, $518B of planned computing spend, and a target valuation near $2T.

Anthropic is literally projecting a -3.9:1 evaluation to profit ratio and a 174:1 evaluation to revenue ratio and then asking for two trillion dollars. I feel like I’m going insane.

I’m pulling out of the NASDQ. These numbers just don’t make sense anymore. CEOs called their own investors insane during the dot com crash for investing in companies with a 10:1 revenue to profit ratio.
We live in some bizzaro world where a company will burn hundreds of billions per quarter and we have legions of investors foaming at the mouth to throw another two trillion into the fire.

I feel like at one point there was genuinely an argument for speculating on growth, but these numbers are out of control.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 20h

I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 18h

SEO slop written first and foremost to generate ad views, largely for ads served by Google themselves. That company has long been building self-defeating incentives at the cost of the quality of the web it built its empire on. LLMs are really pushing it into overdrive though.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23h

This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way.

an increase in energy use to perfom better on tests

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aly @aly.codes · 27/09/2026

NixOS maintainers are performing public executions of DHH fanboys on X.com

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 29/09/2026

now this is the good stuff

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 29/09/2026

The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent" But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

Anyways if you hate this shit too, and especially if you're in my field, and especially if you're forced to do your work this way and it makes you wanna die: push on. But keep your heels springy. There's a big correction coming. Maybe we can take advantage of it. Let's get the State involved imo.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

And if they were just that, I think one could ethically justify, with rigor, their training inputs from the corpus of the internet (with big caveats re: CSAM inputs, the onerous exploitation of data workers, and more, but these two issues come sharply to mind).

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

This is to say that I think LLMs are fully acceptable as a research project. Of course they are. Prior to their generating math proofs (of sketchy provenance, with commercial motivations), they were already themselves mathematical objects worthy of study.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

Lastly I will add that LLMs are a genuinely interesting technology. Vector embeddings are wild. The Large Hadron Collider is also cool, and need/ed enormous energetic+labor input. It's not "profitable", and nobody is shoving a particle accelerator box between me and every computer-based thing I do.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

I will say this for myself: I am banking on a future where it still matters to know how stuff works and how to make stuff work. I am motivated in my reasoning: I do not foresee The Culture springing from LLMs like Athena from Zeus's head. The alternative does not look like a world worth living in.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

So you still need to hire people! Well shit, the entire economic premise of this stuff is that you would not need to! And there is very little error tolerance here; these companies (and the models downstream from them) MUST (RFC 2119) see their absolute most optimistic forecasts play out.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

The continuous opex can only possibly make sense if you literally sever entire eng orgs. That is not happening, at least not actually due to "AI". And as for end users: software "upgrades" have been mostly hated for decades, yet I reckon they're somehow hated even more today.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

CEOs are still not directly manifesting their bad product ideas via prompt. They're simply not cut out for even that in the long run, let alone actually learning to code lol. Even if someone starts something that way, if they don't flop immediately, they ultimately hire people to do that job.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

Couple that with the fact that, aside from a minority of wide-eyed proponents, most SWEs forced into this mechanism of production are increasingly vocally miserable about it. Even some who were initially optimistic about it have sharply changed their minds after sincere, enthusiastic adoption.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

In the field of software, we will have to confront (again, again) the fact that, despite recent exuberant reports about rate of LOC production (long and widely regarded as a laughably counterproductive metric only a few years ago), we _still_ do not know how to usefully measure dev "productivity".

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

(Also, I would have to figure that the environmental economics of every firm running its own GPU cluster has far worse environmental economics than everyone drawing from a few central megacubes. Tbh I estimate it's _much_ worse that way.)

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

When it becomes undeniable that LLMs are ultimately a cost center, justifying the economics suddenly becomes a much more difficult argument. (Before factoring in externalized and moral costs which frankly, depressingly, the modern industrial world, to a person, simply does not give a shit about.)

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

Fundamentally, you cannot get around the fact that training is not a one-and-done investment. It's not fixed capital. Even if "profitable on inference" were true, that's like saying my combustion engine is a perpetual motion machine so long as you don't factor in its constant need for gasoline.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

Also, my understanding is these alternative models rely a lot on "distillation" from so-called "frontier" models. Far be it from me to complain about stealing from thieves: this is an existential, structural problem for these models, not "merely" a moral one, for their continuous relevance.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

(This amount of hardware, btw, would allow one (1) concurrent user.)

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

It's increasingly certain that US subscription-based LLMs are financially doomed. People hype up open weight models though. I did some very simple math and, to run e.g. benchmark darling open-weight Kimi K3, the cost of entry is a quarter-million $ on the GPUs alone. Then you have opex.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

The sentence immediately following the highlighted one is also just so delightful. "To be perfectly clear, I am categorically unqualified to write about this at all." Let's go.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026

If a "climate tech" company is pivoting to servicing the needs of a generative AI industry that specifically hungers for fossil fuels, how on Earth is that still "climate tech"? That is petrotech - and we should call it that, when it is that. techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/t...

The pivot has helped many climate tech startups land fresh funding from investors. Total venture deal value has risen for four consecutive quarters, cresting the $14 billion-mark in the first quarter of this year, according to the most recent available data from PitchBook. It’s the best fundraising environment for climate tech in the last few years, with most of the deal value driven by sectors boosted by data center construction, including the built environment, grid infrastructure, and dispatchable energy that can be turned on or off when it’s needed.

Ultimately, the undercurrent at New York Climate Week was that the data center party won’t last forever, but it might last long enough to help startups build durable businesses. Once that happens, they can refocus on the carbon-cutting mission they were founded to pursue.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

The aliasing that appears in the thumbnails is kind of an interesting effect. Like 16-bit isometric games with the 2-to-1 pixel slopes

Screenshot of the images in the OP as they appear 4x4 on the timeline, with aliasing artifacts due to the scaling.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

[smartest boy to ever know he was smart] I've invented apocalyptic millenarianism from first principles, using only the searing power of my rational mind.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 29/09/2026

The higher one thinks of their own intelligence today, the higher the likelihood they've tricked themselves into obsequious worship of a made up machine god. And everything else aside, that is pretty funny.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28/09/2026

i don't think it's glib to say this: it's possible that nobody on earth cares less about consent than mark zuckerberg

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Few remember the ancient bygone days of spring 2026, when we were reliably told by leading technology brothers that Anthropic was actually profitable (because Anthropic had said so and only stupid fools would doubt them).

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 28/09/2026

> The pursuit of excellence > Prompting Claude

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 28/09/2026

I started with DS3 with absolutely no idea what I was getting into and this guy was so, so brutal. I bounced off the game after the second Pus of Man on the High Wall. Glad some more knowledgeable buddies bullied me into giving it another go.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026

Normally the "digital divide" refers to *access* to tech, but as access becomes less and less of an issue, the real divide is between people who know how to defend themselves from the cruel indifference of technology designers and people who are helpless before their enshittificatory gambits. 7/

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 27/09/2026

After years of my life researching this niche topic, I can feel I'm close to a breakthrough. I think I'll paste the details into this text box owned by a company build on flagrant disregard for attribution that is currently desperate to demonstrate that its product can do novel science.

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 27/09/2026

I wonder if any of the old websites are still up...hopefully at least archived

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