JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 5hWhere will they find tech companies to handle an execution livestream? I can't imagine Youtube participate. Rumble? X? 000
Reposted by JDPinkJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...theintercept.comICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness SaysA member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it. 15789386
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 9hUse willpower to help plan those habits, routines, etc, and to nudge you into compliance with them when you're learning them. Don't try to change too much at once, either. You're an animal, not a computer, your life cannot be reconfigured in an instant. 031
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 9hthe time block should be scheduled late in the day, after everything that really, really has to happen that day. chores, work shift, etc., because it's hard to break away even once you get good at it. the pull is strong. hence the original thread. 121
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 9hbtw if you want practical "break my social media addiction" advice, this is what did it (more or less) for me: first, long break. 9 months in my case. cold turkey. idk if it needs to be that long, i didn't plan it. then, restrict use to one device and restrict use of that device to a time block. 161
Reposted by JDPink⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 9hi think it's important the next generation of these models be able to solve Fields Medals in 3 hours or less 161
Reposted by JDPinkWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6hthe super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart. 749335
Reposted by JDPinkWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6ha trivial but public and humiliating thing that you make a lot of powerful people do to show strength. everyone knows what it is, but also no one is going to pick a huge battle over the integrity of the term "artificial intelligence", so they acquiesce and become a little bit more pot committed 326617
Reposted by JDPinkWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 6has his brain melts he's lost most of his touch, but Trump does have a natural bullies intuitive understanding of how to use this type of dynamic. the winning move is to tell him to fuck off but that's not a battle a lot of people will want to pick with the president. 629426
Reposted by JDPink⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 7hi mean fundamentally, why would we cut OpenAI any slack at all? 2906
Reposted by JDPinkCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h“.. Suppose you’re in pharmaceutical research .. using AI to speed up the drug development process. .. it’s very possible that the internal models will simply be faster than you and the AI companies will reap those gains for themselves.” @weisenthal.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 1516151
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 12hIf there is no more cryptography how are they going to keep it out of the public, Mr. Timothy?? 120
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 13hHe was ahead of his time nypost.com/2026/08/26/b...nypost.com‘Nostradamus of AI’ promised to buy wife a galaxy — then his $45B hedge fund blew upLeopold Aschenbrenner is the 24-year-old German-born wunderkind who has been dubbed the “Nostradamus of AI.” 000
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 13hI think the technology that has taken ~2 years to go from not being able to draw hands to solving the most difficult problems in pure math will continue to get better. 010
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 15hThey also kill their own members via hazing! 4-5 year is a rough number. 080
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 15hThe Harvard plot to undercut American wages in investment banking analyst and MBB consultant jobs. 000
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 16hand other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchi...en.wikipedia.orgFranchise (short story) - Wikipedia 010
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 16hYou need at least one guy! "In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers 130
Reposted by JDPinkSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/10/2026OH x.com/matthew_d_gr...x.comMatthew Green (@matthew_d_green) on X@kmad @matthew_pines I think we might lose public key cryptography. 9352
Reposted by JDPinkBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Okay Kathy I see you 51194153
Reposted by JDPinkSCP @10-5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Beyond anything else what stresses me out about this moment is that it’s occurring on the Trump admins watch, and I am confident they are not capable of handling it 041
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 16hModernist Cuisine by Nathan Myrvhold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderni...en.wikipedia.orgModernist Cuisine - Wikipedia 170
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 17h"As readers will know, I think Doom v1 (loss of control/extinction) is the most likely of these outcomes, and indeed is over 50%, and I expect the second most likely outcome is Utopia." thezvi.substack.com/p/the-curve-...thezvi.substack.comThe Curve Bends YouThe plan is no plan. 000
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 17h"Trust experts" isn't 100% correct but it's more correct than pretty much any other heuristic. 000
Reposted by JDPinkEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Is AI useful“ is already an answered question and when folks pick fights with the usual suspects about it, it’s mostly for the fun of picking fights at this point 1805
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026the reason twitterlikes have this two-attractors structure is that they're low-throughput, high-latency, stochastic, unpredictable communication channels. i get on here because i want to have conversations. intellectual stimulation, learning, clever debating. i don't get that IRL, and i crave it. 19911
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026see, i know that twitterlike social media is bad for my mental health. it manifestly is, it manifestly has been for the entire time i've used it. until recently, that has never really made a difference in how much i used social media, though. 1635
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026the transition from the first equilibrium to the second usually happens over the course of a few weeks as i slowly pick Bluesky (or Mastodon or Twitter) back up again; in that phase, it looks like maybe i can keep my usage under control and inside of sensible boundaries. 1794
Reposted by JDPinkGrass Toucher Georg @avengingfem.me · 07/10/2026my relationship with Bluesky (et al) has only two stable equilibrium states: i do not use it at all and it has no direct impact on me, or i use it constantly throughout the day from waking up until going to bed and it interferes with my executive function, attention span, sleep patterns, etc. 21187
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Elon when his daughter asks him to use her preferred name and pronouns: My child is dead to me and this is the end of western civilization. Elon when Trump tells him to change the name of his company: Sir yes sir!! 🫡 010
Reposted by JDPinkWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026On here this is a preaching to the choir thing to say, but the turn against Indian immigrants is the sharpest possible example of ‘real debate, fake debate’ wrt heritability of IQ. 90% of the guys Just Following The Science are now waxing rhapsodically about white indigenous ways of knowing. 855872
Reposted by JDPinkAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026Sen. Thom Tillis says he expects there will be pressure on Mike Johnson to not seat the new Congress if Democrats win 2981068377
Reposted by JDPinkAxe Ghost. On Steam! @axeghostgame.bsky.social · 02/04/2026[friend hands me a classic novel] "if you didn't give enough of a shit to write it why would I give enough of a shit to read it?" the reasons this wouldn't be appropriate are the same reasons it doesn't work as a general statement about llm writing. 2181
Reposted by JDPinkEpoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 07/10/2026AI developers aim to create an automated AI researcher. How close are they? To find out, we built InnovationEval, which tests whether AI can produce post-training innovations comparable in magnitude to a recently published advance. So far, agents’ results are underwhelming. 2184
Reposted by JDPinkSam Harsimony @harsimony.bsky.social · 07/10/2026P-zero Research introduces TasteVal, a benchmark to measure research taste. Opus 5.5 can squeeze 2.3x more performance out of the same compute budget. Trend suggests doubling every 3 months (though authors note caveats). arxiv.org/abs/2610.06824 pzeroresearch.com/work/tasteval/ 131
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Affirmative action for men www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/m... writing.yaschamounk.com/p/end-affirm...nytimes.com‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ (Published 2023)Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men. 010
Reposted by JDPinkwords @words.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hearing that it is solved somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash. 811214
Reposted by JDPinkAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If care about free markets, you not only get more from center-left Dems than the party of Trump, you get more *from professed democratic socialists* like Mamdani than you do from the party of Trump. Those who deny this only think of it as an anti-left cultural totem and not a real policy agenda. 535767
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...nytimes.comA.I. Anxiety Is Spilling Into the Therapist’s OfficePatients and providers are processing their uncertainty in real time. 001
Reposted by JDPinkQueerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Every minute a business owner or town mayor has to spend begging their Republican Senator to shield them from the Republican president is a minute they could have spent actually running their business or town. 315012
Reposted by JDPinkMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!! 16811158
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What do we do about the people putting rags over their license plates when they double park? 230
JDPink @jdpink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think the alternate phrasing is even stronger - if you're under 47, you've never seen a 10 year this high since you've graduated college. 110
Reposted by JDPinkren faire @lathrys.at · 07/10/2026final theories of everything being so absolutely disgusting aesthetically that they would never have been found but for AIs with no taste would be such a vibe 419629
