Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 2hIs what they're throwing over the wall... Spandrels? Or is it Fordite? Trinitite? Starstones? 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyBenoit Daloze @eregon.me · 8hAs usual @github.com is down (can't post comments anywhere) but www.githubstatus.com denies it, and so does downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github. The real-time status is updog.ai/status/github by Datadog :)updog.aiIs GitHub Down? | Outage Tracker | Updog By DatadogUpdog By Datadog lets you spot issues with GitHub early, backed by real impact across Datadog customer base. No status page updates. 221
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyDoll @dollspace.gay · 9hWho could have predicted the anti data center movement would turn into an antisemetic conspiracy theory? Oh wait we did predict exactly that. 37910
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyP(Doomien) Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 13hI just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement 1648174
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026At some point in the ‘00s I realized more Americans were World of Warcraft players than farmers 0100
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I suspect Pat Buchanan got it from David Irving, which might be Carlson's source too 010
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve 405098695
Reposted by Jamie McCarthycodewright @codewright.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I feel guilty when my coding agent incorrectly assumes I've read everything it wrote in chat. 81046
Reposted by Jamie McCarthySeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day. 532198388
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026p = 1.004e-10, lol (I'm actually not skeptical, though I confess I was for the first 60 seconds after I learned that phantasia existed. I was in my thirties) 010
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Wait, people are skeptical of aphantasia? I’m skeptical of *phantasia* 290
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026No, that’s completely fair. I tried reading it as a child and couldn’t get through the slog. Enjoyed it later though 000
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I understood Zach's post to be silently acknowledging that it would today be genre fiction in the genre that in fact it created 1110
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's not "the Trump regime" that hates the National Science Foundation. It's Republicans. He's following in the footsteps of Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin, Liberty University. Here's the GOP in 2010 promising to cut the NSF budget: physicstoday.aip.org/opinion/youc... The problem is just Republicans.physicstoday.aip.orgYouCut Citizen Review of the National Science FoundationEric Cantor (R-VA), who'll become House majority leader when the next US Congress convenes in January, is launching an experiment. Called YouCut Citizen Review, Cantor's web-based initiative seeks the... 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For what it’s worth, arguing LLMs can’t do addition now is flat earth-level science denialism. Here’s Gemma 4b, a non-reasoning model that could only theoretically memorize binary operations up to 65535 x 65535, oneshotting a eight digit addition and hex conversion *on my phone* with no tool calls 1843239
Reposted by Jamie McCarthypixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123752640
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026From what I've read, that's not the case. The system is set up for the President to launch a nuclear strike for any reason or no reason. Once the Secretary of Defense approves it, everyone is obligated to follow that order, and they will do so within minutes. web.archive.org/web/20210109...web.archive.orgTrump has the authority to launch nuclear weapons — whether Pelosi likes it or notPlaying politics with control of the US nuclear arsenal is inappropriate — and dangerous. 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet. 1129259
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He's not repeating the word "noticing" accidentally 1220
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyNBC News @nbcnews.com · 02/10/2026Two brothers have been charged in connection with a long-running scheme to raise money for Hamas by disseminating propaganda and soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show.nbcnews.toBrothers arrested in long-running scheme to raise money for HamasThe two are accused of falsely soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show. 1821585
Reposted by Jamie McCarthymr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/10/2026Astra broke a Napoleon cipher from a single image, given 6 hours and a goal. Humans couldn’t do that in over 200 years carter.church/writeups/the...carter.churchBreaking the Marmont Cipher, 1809A letter to General Marmont, listed as unsolved and known only from a mis-dated 1969 reproduction, read in full: redated to March 1809, placed two weeks before Austria invaded Bavaria, and checked aga... 616015
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyAxe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social · 01/10/2026context: demonstrating that LLMs correctly answering arithmetic on large digits is not due to using a calculator 121
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyAdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm sorry no, voters aren't getting a pass on this one. 1218754
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Have you seen some of this year’s Figure Helix videos? www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJpM...youtube.comHelix 2.5 30-Home GeneralizationYouTube video by Figure 010
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh 291569119
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyCatherine Prendergast @badtoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I understand them. They're antisemites. 33610
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”america.govAmerica.govFind answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov. 71665146
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyKane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Lmao oh my god I think it’s trying to ape the writing in the post-Ender Dragon cutscene because that’s the only written material in Minecraft. Like look at this!! 47110
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s tricky. I tried implementing one with simplistic metrics and against my actual list of 2000+ blocks it surfaces almost nothing actionable. I like the idea but I’d want to see how it performs in the real world 000
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Which - all together - suggests that in September the oil coming out of the region was around 85% of pre-war flows, up from less than 50% in March...6/8 1131
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Wakeups are often unnecessary” — Politico, Sept. 2016, explaining it’s not as important as Hillary Clinton says that we have an experienced President 001
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Did not know that data was in the jsonl. Also did not know subagents were on 5m! Good to know! 020
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You apologized then *unapologized* then said "apologies IF I misgendered" (by calling a woman "he") then said she was acting like a dude Just stop digging. Stop. 180
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Calling a woman "he" and "they" when her pronouns are in her bio, then literally saying "apologies if I misgendered," puts your bigotry on full display. We see you 151
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyLady Alecto @ladyalecto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026serious question, at what point do we start reporting her for dogpiling? 1354
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyEd @ed3d.net · 28/09/2026my developers don't even talk to the model in English, let alone "middle America English" 4711
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This thread is mindblowing. I just adopted a dog two weeks ago from my local humane society. The vetting process was an online background check. Ninety minutes after I walked in, I walked out with a dog on a leash and a bag of kibble 3260
Reposted by Jamie McCarthymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds 947278
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyH.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 16/11/2024Lucky to be one of the only people who ever had the catharsis of speaking to SBF the way he should’ve always been spoken to. (wait until the end for the smuggest head nod in history) 12876106
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026all of the real problems with AI are who is making it and what it is used for but instead everybody is obsessed with how it is made, the least relevant public concern 5633
Jamie McCarthy @jamiemccarthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It is perfectly credible, in fact it is expected, that Jake Tapper would lie in order to both-sides Obama and Trump 010
Reposted by Jamie McCarthyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This site is exhibiting an extraordinary degree of outright denial - often almost conspiracy-theorist in its rejection of observable facts - and a lot of people who think they’re too smart to get stuck promoting politically satisfying falsehoods are taking part. It’s a giant, giant red flag 9773
Reposted by Jamie McCarthymr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/09/2026one of the dangers in RSI is you don’t have to make models that people like when you sell models, they have to be aligned enough for people to actually buy them with RSI, the goal is entirely different 2233
