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Kieran Hervold

@hervold.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics, distributed computing, and shaky opinions

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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@whstancil.bsky.social what do you think of this example? I agree that ppl are in denial about LLM capabilities in the enormous realm of “computer stuff,” but it’s less clear how they perform in real-world scenarios
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
siouxsie and the banshees
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great thread on the difference between a new epidemic and an existing, endemic disease
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social is a hot dog a sandwich?
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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A Noncontiguous Code for RNA-Guided DNA Recognition Preceded CRISPR
CRISPR-Cas systems use RNA-guided proteins for adaptive immunity through a mechanism whose origin is unknown. Here we report the discovery of Viral Interference Programmable Repeat (VIPR) systems cons...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026
what the hell am i looking at
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Interesting argument for LLMs being capable of creativity
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve been saying!
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This Gemini jailbreak from the ancient days of February is pretty sobering
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𝕁, Atheoretic Text Monster™ @checkwithscience.com · 15/08/2026
and this is a known thing! www.reddit.com/r/languagele...
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From the languagelearning community on Reddit: Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)
Explore this post and more from the languagelearning community
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“An El Niño is not a storm. It does not arrive with wind and fury and then recede. It is a reorganization of where rain falls on Earth... The warm water is only the mechanism; the failed harvests are what people will actually live through.“
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Scorched Harvest: The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast, the Crops in Its Path, and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind
How 3.6 degrees of warm water in the tropical Pacific is about to redraw the map of global hunger and why, this time, no one in power can claim they were not warned.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 12/08/2026
the year is 2027. you wake up, sun looks weird again. in an encrypted messenger you discuss which liquids are best at shorting out the secret police's electric gloves. two rogue AIs are doing battle in your wi-fi enabled AC unit. treasury is doing something with the yen for the fourth time
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Banking is the carcinization of business
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Very Sane AI Newsletter @verysane.ai · 08/08/2026
Who deserves the most style points for how their LLM commits felonies? (it's openai) verysane.substack.com/p/felonybenc...
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FelonyBench Style Points
There are many benchmarks we use to rank LLMs, but “how many felonies has it committed” has recently become popular.
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It would be nice to see actual evidence of lab origin; instead it’s just cherry-picked private communications speculating about it
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New Episode! We break down the epigenetic methylation testing Bryan Johnson uses to claim he's slowed the aging process, whether his approach constitutes real health optimization, a quasi-religious philosophy, or an elaborate grift. And yeah, we look at his tweets. links: tinyurl.com/3bd4by9t
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Grift That Never Dies Discussing tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson and anti-aging science. With @mopathguy.bsky.social & @hervold.bsky.social
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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 10/07/2026
I’m still with @jamellebouie.net on this one. Go further and strip SCOTUS of its jurisdiction over appeals and create a new national appeals court that pulls judges from the (expanded) circuit courts m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRzS...
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The Supreme Court is Corrupt. This is What We Can Do About It.
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/07/2026
but there's also the need to do more than kick the can down the road--to arrive at a new settlement that redefines the court's power relative to the other branches here i think briley's "jury of circuit court judges" proposal is pretty good www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
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Break Up the Supreme Court
The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Discussing the time the UN gave cholera to Haiti, one of the greatest public health failures in modern times. With @jkass99.bsky.social & @hervold.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/7tku77n5
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
My god they actually built Project Pluto, the missile that irradiates everything in its flightpath
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...
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Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States wasn’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has ...
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ebola: What You Need to Know Separating fact from fiction, discussing who we choose to care about and how an infection anywhere is an infection risk everywhere. With @hervold.bsky.social & @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/3tj5ny7p
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In truth, I don’t even bother asking whether US policy is a good idea in the abstract anymore because it’s like having a debate over whether cars are good or bad on paper when your driver is fantastically drunk. I didn’t think about it one way or the other.
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Maybe I haven’t paid close enough attention, but I don’t think Sacramento is out to destroy LA (or SF, or SD) the way Albany targets NYC
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 09/04/2026
I still want to do more tweaking and polishing to this, but I'm ready to share a minigame I've been working on. Straitsweeper. Minesweeper, but a longer, scrolling map where you also have to worry about clearing a safe path before a tanker goes through the strait. straitsweeper.smol.farm
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Straitsweeper
A tanker is transiting a mined strait. Sweep the route and mark the mines before it arrives.
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ddiiggss @ddiiggss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
lmao
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Another Carrington Event would really add to current predicament!
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Josephus Brown @josephusbrown.myatproto.social · 28/02/2026
I bought a bunch of Christmas gifts from them once and they gave me a free Soap Lady Soap Eventually my partner asked that I not keep it in the shower because it freaked her out It was really good soap
A series of photos of a bar of soap on a rope shaped like the Mutter museum’s “Soap Lady”, a saponified corpse fished out of an alkali bog. The soap looks like a person lying down, their hands resting lightly on their thighs. Their mouth is wide open in possibly a scream, and sunken pits are her eyes.

It’s pretty upsetting.
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kelly @kickinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
When you get your woman card, they make you flip a coin. Heads they don’t like you because you don’t know enough, tails they don’t like you because you know too much. The results of the coin flip are orthogonal to how much or little you know.
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just shocked to learn the platform that’s half tulip mania, half money laundering, has ties to Epstein!
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Jonathan Hoefler @jonathanhoefler.com · 15/01/2026
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026
The two easy access comprehensive lists that I want handy are a list of all the Nazi dog whistles republicans used (like the CPAC rune!) in the last 16 or so years and also a list of which billionaires are creating, profiting or advancing the police state with stuff like Palantir.
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Why aren’t we protesting in front of billionaires’ homes? We know who’s paying for the ballroom, buying legacy media - Ellison, Thiel, Andreesen, none of these ghouls should get a good nights sleep
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/11/2025
Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
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Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14/11/2025
My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests. And now we have this.
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Kieran Hervold @hervold.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Most Unix developers live in their command-line terminal, but few know that the TTY is directly descended from telegraph networks predating the Civil War: computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...
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a history of the tty
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law. 916-445-2841
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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