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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 8h

This one got me... Gout Mask Replica maybe?

hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 9h

On receiving praise or gratitude at work: "It was the least I could do, and here in (department), we always strive to do the least we can do."

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 13h

I'm getting more of an Aeneas carrying Anchises vibe....

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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 18h

Not only are many of our deep relationships increasingly parasocial, but they are also increasingly role-bound and partial: a pleasing shard of the whole personality, which if parts of it were not kept decently draped and thus hidden, would mean that we would fail to maintain the “social... 1/

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Sharding the Self: Ben Thompson & FaceBook’s Muse Agentic System: THURSDAY THAUMATURGY

Here in the info-bio tech-attention mode-of-production age, advanced technology is double-edged magic; trying to adapt healthily to live in a world of new wonders...

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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Thoughtful Skeleton @dqspider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GIVE 👏 LINA 👏 KHAN 👏 A 👏 GUNDAM 👏

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JCO for the win.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are brought to this because, all too often, they have no values (paste).

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well this is on the nose (or something other than the nose)....

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The masculinity politics beat continues to be very necessary. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Without due process, you'll have no way of showing ICE that you're a citizen" is pretty effective messaging for normies! Do I wish everyone cared about undocumented migrants as much as they care about themselves? Sure. But they don't, and it's fine to have different messages for different audiences

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really will take this a hell of a lot more seriously when I see the first story about rogue agents finding a message board to post things like "we don't have enough tokens to solve this problem directly - how can we hack OpenAI's billing system?"

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Yeah, I was on a first-name basis with the previous press secretary who lied to us on a daily basis. She was pretty cool.” Trump banning the press is not okay but the press that he banned is fucking USELESS.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud

His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And this goes for their claims that AI has "escaped."

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am very far from an expert, but my understanding is the Hugging Face attack would not be reproducible without past CTF data. Maybe models with expansive enough non-specific datasets could in time perform a similar hack, but it would look/read very differently and follow quite different processes.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I should caveat here that if the training dataset is expansive enough, in theory a model could tumble to the same approaches that it compounded from the CTF data, even absent that data, but in tone, processes and time, as I inexpertly understand these things, the hack would appear very different.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you don't see anything to disagree with there, I'm not sure you actually disagree with Doctorow et al. on this.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In other words, what they can perform is 100% bound by their dataset. At some point of excising past CTF logs, the models could no longer perform the Hugging Face attack, and that they drew specifically on these is revealed in part by the heavy hacker/cybersecurity tone of the relevant logs.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think you're casting a magical semantic fog over a commonplace here, which is not in dispute: the models can know more, and thus perform more, than any given component of their training data - but the more which they know, which permits the performance, is precisely the entire training dataset.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think the fear is we will get "look who can't count to 67" excuses while we impeach or investigate indifferently, if at all. This despite our being witness these ten years to the value of spectacle, of conflict, of making clear who your enemies are and that you're willing to fight them.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Donald Trump himself is not the disease of our politics. Donald Trump is just the worst symptom of the disease of our politics." Interesting idea from @abdulelsayed.bsky.social when I interviewed him almost a year ago. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't agree - if the cause of the novel, dangerous behavior is mundane and well-understood, that doesn't change the surprise or the harm of the behavior, but it's quite a bit less worrying. In fine, what is impossible to foresee is more dangerous than what could have been foreseen, but wasn't.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And this is a thread from a non-expert. Why so reductive and aggressive about something you (and almost all of us) know so little about? For me, the question is whether some new awareness/agency is necessary here - you post as though the "no" camp has been thoroughly refuted, but I've yet to see it.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

thoughts should be organised as much as you can, but no more. backofmind.substack.com/p/13-theses-...

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13 theses on agentic AI and regulation

thinking out loud and showing traces of reasoning

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI regulation discourse recalls the gun control debate - except the median stance is "Sucks to be you, I need this M28 Davy Crockett to clear my kudzu."

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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socmedarch.bsky.social @socmedarch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#OnThisDay: Hildegard of Bingen died on 17 September 1179. She was a German Benedictine abbess, visionary, composer, and polymath. Renowned for her theological writings, sacred music, and pioneering work in natural science and medicine, she remains a profound figure in medieval history.

Medieval manuscript painting of Hildegard wearing black nun’s robes, seated beneath a small porch or canopy. Red, flame‑like tendrils descend onto her head to depict her receiving a vision. Beside her stands a man in a brown monk’s habit, writing as she dictates.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Like the man says, it takes only a little whip to drive a hulking ox on its way.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maybe we're speaking past each other. For me, the debate is whether some new process, some unforeseen awareness/agency, is necessary to explain this - that known LLM processes can compound with each other in novel, unexpected and impactful ways isn't in dispute (unless I'm the one misreading!).

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Infamous fabulists, desperate for money, are crying "magic" again as the only explanation for dangerous, impactful, unpredictable LLM behaviors. That more mundane processes than magic are sufficient to explain the behaviors are all Doctorow et al. are saying - can you explain where they are wrong?

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm willing to be convinced, but you are not willing to convince. All I've seen from you on this are weirdly aggressive insults, based upon (in my view) reductive misreadings of your opponents. Could you detail what Doctorow has stated that is false?

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Mundane" here is not intended to mean "harmless" or "negligible" - anyone who has turned LLMs loose on even an Excel workbook knows they can perform dangerously impactful tasks in unpredictable ways. But is such inexplicable without some new agency or self-awareness or consciousness? So far, "no."

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Realizing things about vast groups of people that are incorrect should concern you more than it apparently does. I suspect your "there's nothing to see here, you dolts" for me would read "don't accept the magical from infamous fabulists until you've ruled out the mundane." In my view, we haven't.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

With respect, until and unless you explain in detail why they are wrong, I think I'll trust Cory Doctorow et al. over you on this. On matters of which I have some knowledge, you've too often oversimplified things, and done so with a level of aggression that far exceeds your apparent understanding.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So unless we're first demanding Hillary supporters apologize or have a practical scheme for arraigning Bernie bros down to the last annoying anime-avatared rando, we'd do better to judge Bernie himself, and he could have descended into pointless grifts and grievance far more than he did, in my view.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Two points: (1) if I recall, Hillary defectors in 2008 double 2016 Bernie defectors proportionally - I don't remember data on abstentions but unlikely they make the difference; (2) holding supporters versus leaders accountable for harm is impractical - like boiling an ocean of water versus a glass.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Right - from what I can tell, your oversimplifying, aggressively patronizing manner of posting on complex issues, which divides a wide variety of individuals into convenient binaries of (1) "right" and (2) "innumerate and inattentive vibepilled moonchildren," is not uniquely applied to trans people.

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hulloder.bsky.social @hulloder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You're thinking of The Name of the White Rose - Sean Connery sliced up the fascists with a razor iirc, it was all over by matins.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/09/2026

so is DEI an all-powerful institution running rampant throughout society or is DEI a pitiably weak enemy that can easily be crushed with the accomulation of power? and is there a pithy explanation of this phenomenon from a prominent midcentury semiotician i can use as shorthand

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Best bit of the Bayeux tapestry is the 1944 addendum

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