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Never stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 20h

Containers have not been a meaningful security boundary for a long time. So why am I hearing people talk about it no longer being one in tool 2026. micro-VMs have been a thing for a while now.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 29/09/2026

“GAN of Green Fable” is this anything

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

writing a rationalist fanfic about 'who framed roger rabbit?' but it's a series of spreadsheets and charts explaining the economic benefits of a freeway system and justifying the wholesale destruction of toontown

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 29/09/2026

after several days in the mines i think i have a few ideas for what a Haskell SIMD library should look like.

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Recurse Center @recurse.com · 28/09/2026

We still need to understand the things we build, so how do we build tools for that understanding? Geoffrey Litt on Margin Notes:

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 27/09/2026

i wish the sequel trilogy had called back to the old republic. “death star 3: this time it‘s a planet” was extremely lame, and i just think it would have been cooler to frame the First Order as having shown up all of a sudden from the unknown regions with a brand new but suspiciously ancient fleet.

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Léo Chérel @cherelleo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Don't mind me, I just found a good excuse to repost my Majora's Mask saga with the new 10 photos feature.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 26/09/2026

If you’re at bookmarks comes say hi :)

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 25/09/2026

you gotta understand i spent my life up until this point being staunchly against capital punishment under any circumstances and that’s just gone now.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 25/09/2026

happy chuseok everyone go get your ass one of these bad boys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon

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Songpyeon - Wikipedia

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 24/09/2026

okay this is true though

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ernesto @ernesto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

to all rails devs: elixir and the phoenix framework are elite non-fascist alternatives that will also lower your operating costs dramatically

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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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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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 23/09/2026

basically i think my position on this stuff is that if you are a software engineer who think LLMs are going to fully automate the software engineering process it’s probably a function of depression/low self-confidence and a nihilistic worldview. tragically, this covers a LOT of software engineers.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 23/09/2026

oh man so thinking a bit about people discussing “agentic self-improvement loops” or w/e where they gather structured output from code review, failing CI runs, etc. and try to fold that back into prompts used to steer the harness and that’s just going to overfit miserably isn’t it

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merritt @merrittk.com · 22/09/2026

obviously this is fucked but it's not surprising to me, the way the fake bisexual myth plays out is bi women are actually straight and bi men are actually gay. straight women perceive bi men as gay while straight men see bi women as down for a threesome

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The strange intolerance of the academy from Thiel-adjacent folks in Silicon Valley has had folk game theory, folk evolution, folk behavioral sciences, folk philosophy etc come to define conversations around tech policy with AI and it truly sucks.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For whatever reason the fact that LLMs manifest their task completion with language has had folks wanting to jump the gun on a big thorny question of whether/when they “think” in the sense that we all have come to understand it. They may simply not need “think” to to complete complex tasks.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i've been waiting for someone to come up with a good explanation of LLMs for laypeople and this is more or less correct. right now we're mostly getting our answers from virtuous pagans but we're working (via RL) on ways to drill to the bottom of Hell and get answers from Satan himself.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 22/09/2026

the most impressive aspect of LLMs as they are being applied to software development is how bad the process of software development is in the first place. models are impressive and not just for software engineering but the impact they have on our industry specifically is kinda because we suck.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 21/09/2026

dusklight is extremely cool, Twilight Princess isn’t even my favorite Zelda game but it’s very fun to revisit after 20(?!) years natively on Linux to boot.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Consensus Weekly is just such a cool place to find both jobs, articles, and funding info on all kinds of hardcore software engineering. And we just passed 1,000 email subscribers. theconsensus.dev/n/2026/09/20...

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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

So, a bit of a deep dive/thread on the X-37B processing after landing at Vandenberg. This is probably very boring and nerdy, so you have been warned :) Note: this is evidence based, using public sources, I'll indicate when I make educated guesses.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 20/09/2026

me, sobbing: "no, stop, everything is not reducible to the spread strategy in high school and collegiate policy debate" LLM, pointing at a new issue it had never encountered before: [unintelligibly fast speech]

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merritt @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

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Loni CB @loni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NOW!!!

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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Some of you might enjoy this late night photo of the Space Shuttle Orbiter's birthplace in Palmdale~

The Rockwell plant in Palmdale where the Space Shuttles were built up. Space Shuttle Columbia is on right, waiting for her full series of modifications post STS-9, while on the left, Space Shuttle Atlantis is slowly taking shape, with much of her frame still present.

In enter of it all lies a poster that reads:

"A Spaceship Has Landed on Earth

[image of Space Shuttle]

It Came From Rockwell"

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 19/09/2026

if you‘ve been even remotely familiar with Yud, LW, CFAR, MIRI, EA, and the general rat sphere over the course of the last ten years none of @segyges.bsky.social‘s threads should be a surprise, and very little should be news. anyone involved who is taken aback needs to do some serious reflection.

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 18/09/2026

more people gotta lay it out like this: these people are immoral, incompetent, and corrupt self-dealers. tech will be better if we keep their violent and dehumanizing brand of politics out of it

stopomarchy.org

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (Accessible Version)

Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. Accessible, high-legibility version.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

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Loni CB @loni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Party 3'' - Live this saturday! there's rly cool stuff in store!

Happy Party 3'' , A online experimental film jam, live on twitch.tv/loni_cb at september 19, 2026, 6pm central time

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

i forget, were you the one who suggested that every post should have like a 0.05-0.1% chance of spawning a 3-day regardless of its actual content? (just to keep folks from taking this too seriously?)

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 17/09/2026

Welcome to my wizard book. It’s about playing one million games with Death and also lying. Shoutout to @ardyce.bsky.social for giving [REDACTED] a home :’) Everyone else: read my wizard book next march or else (you won’t have read my wizard book)

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 17/09/2026

Bostrom’s gotta move copies somehow man

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every usps @everylot-usps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

MANAYUNK: 4431 MAIN ST, PHILADELPHIA PA 19127-9998

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aella is the Olivia Nuzzi of TPOT rationalists in that if you understand this you should go climb a very tall mountain and bury your phone at its peak

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Loni CB @loni.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it's time for a new HAPPY PARTY THREE this is the tenth one!! if u wanna participate, sign up and join the discord! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... discord.com/invite/4qYYu...