Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 10hSometimes it really is that case that a lot of work already happened and we are given big complex objects that shorten the operational paths to a lot of outcomes by embedding a ton of history, though 132
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 11harxiv.org/abs/2609.34846arxiv.orgConspiracy and Environment Communities on Reddit Sort Along Different Demographic AxesThe impact of online platforms in political mobilization is widely documented, yet it remains unclear how it affects different demographic groups. To shed light on this phenomenon, we examine two cont... 001
Reposted by Jay AltActual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 14hJoe Bumpkin United States, Census, 1950 1315
Reposted by Jay AltRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language 5617
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Scientists speculate history may continue until 2040 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30448arxiv.orgTo Store or To Regenerate? A Cost Model for AI-Generated Content at ScaleAI-generated content is becoming a rapidly growing class of digital artifacts. Because these artifacts accumulate over time, their exponential growth creates a substantial storage, energy, and infrast... 010
Reposted by Jay AltACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Air to Ground Message: THANKS FOR TRYING Area: Cleveland, OH, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a0fb265447c F: #f60843af4e2 021
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf5j...youtube.comFlaming TelepathsYouTube video by Blue Öyster Cult - Topic 000
Reposted by Jay AltCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 27/09/2026"I want you to download the assets from Marathon 2. I want us to build a map viewer that runs on web technology. I want to be able to select any region on the map and adjust the camera to see any view" Opus 5.5: 1423
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.25603arxiv.orgTesting and Learning Symbolic Finite State MachinesSymbolic finite state machines (SFSMs) describe input/output behaviour using guards and output assignments with possibly infinite data domains. We study deterministic and completely specified SFSMs wh... 000
Reposted by Jay AltTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies? 1105
Reposted by Jay Alt#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*I don't think "Rogue AI" is "human incompetence," but I do think "Rogue AI" is the "ideal form of plausibly-deniable Gray War attack." Man are we gonna suffer if that automated depredation gets normalized 45013
Reposted by Jay AltCibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mostly browse r/accelerate out of morbid curiosity but sometimes I land on bangers. Remember to vote after the singularity! 1112
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026out: we live in a society in: we live in the days of the comet 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bourne Over Baghdad urresearch.rochester.edu/fileDownload...urresearch.rochester.edu 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.28516arxiv.orgA Dosage $\times$ Precision Framework for Instructional Effectiveness: Propositions, Boundary Conditions, and an Illustrative Case from Solid-State PhysicsWe propose that instructional effectiveness may depend on an interaction between two design dimensions: dosage---the total duration of student-centered active learning allocated to a topic---and preci... 000
Reposted by Jay Alttweegeemee 트위지미 @tweegeemee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026260926_064435_a.clj tweegeemee.com/i/260926_064435_a #ProceduralArt #generative 011
Reposted by Jay AltJay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2r_...youtube.comDan Reeder - Clean ElvisYouTube video by Oh Boy Records 001
Reposted by Jay Alttweegeemee 트위지미 @tweegeemee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026260925_144638_M.clj tweegeemee.com/i/260925_144638_M #ProceduralArt #generative 071
Reposted by Jay AltParadise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And Earth self-balanced on her center hung. Let there be light, said God; and forthwith Light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep; and from her native east To journey through the aery gloom began, VII, 242-246 064
Reposted by Jay Altarxiv cs.DS @arxiv-cs-ds.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jonas Ellert, Lukas Nalbach Practical and Space-Efficient LZ77 and LZ Pre-Compression via String Synchronizing Sets arxiv.org/abs/2609.30193 001
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.27899arxiv.orgSupervisory Control under Partial Observation: Where Observation Consistency Becomes DecidableObservation consistency (OC) and modified observation consistency (MOC) are structural conditions used in hierarchical and modular supervisory control under partial observation. Their verification for... 000
Reposted by Jay AltElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026Digitizing incarcerated people’s mail means companies can store those scans for years, which can chill speech, EFF’s @caragagliano.bsky.social told @jpradio.bsky.social. “We've talked to a lot of people...who stopped sending mail because they didn't want it to be scanned and put in this database.”ijpr.orgHumboldt County jail joins others in banning physical mail amid contraband concernsHumboldt County inmates will soon be unable to receive physical mail as authorities crack down on contraband. Critics say the policy could have unintended consequences. 38234
Reposted by Jay AltRev. A. l'Uecipher @revaluecipher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026reminder that it is bad on purpose to make you click 073
Reposted by Jay AltLexi ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 24/09/2026maybe it's futile trying to change minds on social media but wish people would reevaluate anti-ai priors, confront that we have agi, even if not superintelligent (yet), it's already everywhere, and the choice isn't if it can be uninvented, but how much power cops will have over who can participate. 05514
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTH...youtube.comDan Reeder - This New CenturyYouTube video by Oh Boy Records 000
Reposted by Jay Altwords @words.bsky.social · 24/09/2026my special interest is angrily denying personhood to symbols and meaning 0175
Reposted by Jay Altphysics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How a shared state is described determines whether AI agents synchronize arxiv.org/abs/2608.06968 001
Reposted by Jay Altarxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Deterministic construction of typical networks in network models arxiv.org/abs/2512.02254 001
Reposted by Jay Altarxiv cs.SI @arxiv-cs-si.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When Technically Plausible Advice Is Unsafe: A Cross-Ecosystem Measurement of Online Support for Technology-Facilitated Abuse arxiv.org/abs/2607.21549 011
Reposted by Jay AltJay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fufh...youtube.comDan Reeder - Angels, Brain CellsYouTube video by Oh Boy Records 001
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.28291arxiv.orgCooperating against CatastropheWe study a continuous-time game in which two firms choose how quickly to advance their capabilities while an exogenous safety threshold advances at a fixed rate. When the capability frontier (max of f... 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.27416arxiv.orgForced Yet Free: What Magicians' Forcing Reveals Beyond Intentional BindingIn magicians' forcing, spectators may experience a choice as self-determined even when that choice has been externally directed. Research on the sense of agency has developed largely around action-out... 000
Reposted by Jay AltarXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/ 18213
Reposted by Jay AltYohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Source: arxiv.org/abs/2609.21748arxiv.orgWorld Modeling in TransformersBehavioral failures can make a transformer appear to lack a world model even when it has learned faithful representations of its environment. We demonstrate this in TaxiGPT, a transformer trained on r... 031
Reposted by Jay AltLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/09/2026‘In the Hellenistic period, 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢could mean a democratic regime or simply freedom from external control.’ Rosalind Thomas on ancient Greek city-states. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukRosalind Thomas · After ChaironeiaClassical Athens was a polis, but so was a tiny Arcadian town such as Orchomenos. In the second century AD, the obscure... 094
Reposted by Jay AltRichard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/09/2026U Chicago climate researchers project 450,000 heat deaths through Feb due to fossil-fuel-exacerbated El Niño. (That's not including 2nd or 3rd order effects like drought and famine. The *less powerful* 1877 El Niño killed 50m from hunger.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHuge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six monthsNew report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis 34533
Reposted by Jay AltarXiv cs.GT Computer Science and Game Theory @csgt-bot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Paul Duetting, Michal Feldman, Mathieu Molina: Fair Prophets arxiv.org/abs/2609.21826 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21826 arxiv.org/html/2609.21826 001
Reposted by Jay AltThe Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026📣Out now on #firstview! Jeremy Schneider @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and Siyakha Mguni (University of Cape Town) on 'Should the Lithosphere Tell Our Stories?' #Earth #Fossils #Culture #Knowledge #Indigenous #Western #Ancient 🌍🏔️🗃️ 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 045
Reposted by Jay AltAndres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Video experiment with Opus 5.5. A visualisation of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. In retrospect, I should have experimented with a shorter text. I'm going to have a lot of fun this term creating visualisations for class. 292
Reposted by Jay AltPLOS One @plosone.org · 22/09/2026A new study by Budel and colleagues finds 2,237 exact Beatles references and 963 creative wordplays in scientific article titles. Using large language models and manual checks, the study shows Beatles-inspired wordplay has grown faster than science publishing overall. buff.ly/wurLb5n 013
Reposted by Jay AltBenjamin P Taylor @antlerboy.com · 23/09/2026Machines of Loving Grace stream.syscoi.com/2026/09/22/m...stream.syscoi.comMachines of Loving GraceMachines of Loving Grace – by Erik Davis – Burning Shore 001
Reposted by Jay AltAsh >> 🛣️ MAW! @pinksphinx.art · 22/09/2026Well this might be the best picture I have ever taken of a Differential grasshopper. 161
Reposted by Jay Alttweegeemee 트위지미 @tweegeemee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026260921_204633_M.clj tweegeemee.com/i/260921_204633_M #ProceduralArt #generative 031
Reposted by Jay Alttweegeemee 트위지미 @tweegeemee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026260922_034623_a.clj tweegeemee.com/i/260922_034623_a #ProceduralArt #generative 031
Reposted by Jay AltKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 03216
Reposted by Jay AltUSER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They have access to your computer because you allow them to. 4271
Reposted by Jay AltHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Perhaps the most useful role that the discipline of International Relations may play is ... as a generator of largely untestable and incompatible claims that can then help inform policy systems that are better adapted to work with many possible futures."programmablemutter.comInternational relations has a problem with the futureThen, so does everything else 14711
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...gutenberg.orgUntimely papers 010
