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i'm here to create a gust of wind in the atproto breeze

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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Statement by DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails:
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
pretty fun to watch ;)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the first things I worked on out of school is setting up a time-shifted env to do some Y2K testing for unix, PC, mainframe for a big company. It strikes me how the fearsome 'y2k problem' would have been absolutely trivial to fix if it happened in the LLM era.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Consider we may be in an age of untruths and terrible historical crimes and technological and economic uncertainty while simultaneously being in an age of wonder
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are watching wile e coyote do this on a screen While we know he can’t get in Does he know he can’t get in, but tries anyway? Does he know we know? Will the next instantiation, next version of him be able to make a real house and go inside and that’s why he tries, in case it’s him?
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
found a "which trolly track to take" issue with djikstra? ;)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This thread, so far: Modern life includes micro-bureaucratic drudgery = bad LLM offers a streamlining, a slight reduction in this drudgery No, go back and do drudgery, builds character Or Instead of anyone doing anything , The Man must remove drudgery from modern life
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Eryn Wyld @erynwyld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 29/09/2026
I'm doing a "Crazed predictions of the future" talk at the PDX atproto meetup. I've got my list, but does anybody have their own crazed atproto predictions they think I should include? I'll credit any contributions
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#photography "La Jolla Karate Class"
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
every FBI employee gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Raspberry Pi + robotics
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
February 2025 had a lot of Very Dumb stuff.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
Finally, I've put together an animated video explainer of expected impacts this year (a new medium for me, so let me know if its helpful!):
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The Impacts of the 2026/2027 El Niño event
An explainer video showing the different expected effects of the 2026/2027 El Niño event on different regions of the world. The video draws on three different sources: the literature on teleconnections in past strong El Nino events, the actual patterns seen in the past 8 strong events, and what 13 d
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My take re Gov - they are distracted enough by the politics of it that they miss opportunities while chasing ghosts “There’s this assumption that there are adults in the room on this issue, but there are no adults in this room,” said Sean Ó Heigeartaigh (Cambridge)" Gift article
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind (Gift Article)
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#photography #blackandwhite "Minneapolis, January Afternoon" (pentax DA 15mm f/4 Ltd)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
saw this coming! When collecting and analyzing discovery data took 500 billable hours for human legal team But can be done now in 8 hours by one lawyer and an AI tool What should that law firm charge for that result? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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As A.I. Makes Law Firms More Efficient, Clients Ask: ‘Where’s My Discount?’ (Gift Article)
There’s growing pressure to move beyond the billable hour. But big firms aren’t ready to blow up their trusted business model.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
random thought on theranos over the past few years I've watched two documentaries and a movie now and I still don't understand something: Nobody with any money seems to have bothered to ask how they were going to do it. It would have been trivial for a THeranos to give a rundown of the >
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#photography #blackandwhite "When We Were Kings" (nikon d700 + 180 f/2.8D)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Radical idea Nobody should care if one Hollywood actor hates another Hollywood actor. If it’s based on personality diffs or “rudeness”, who cares? This isn’t middle school, we’re not all expected to pick the cool side and pile on someone. —> If you put out good work, I like you for that.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#photography "Blue Christmas" (Nikon D700 + 20mm f/2.8D, only light in room was this blue wavelength)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social are you a mechanical Turk with grace secretly answering questions
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I asked Opus 5.5 to make a companion video for the other opus test app (three theorists) describing my favorite theory, and it occurred to me there’s a specific subset of humans I’d trust to tell me how accurate this is. But the video is crazy imo jsherman999.github.io/three-theori...
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tell me one thing the HomePod will do that my iphone won’t do.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My layman's understanding of the different theories of consciousness feels limiting, especially in light of stuff & stuff maybe on the way I asked Opus 5.5 to build me three theorists, steeped in their arcana ;) (byok) jsherman999.github.io/three-theori...
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#photography #minnesota #minneapolis "Murray's, Golden Hour" (pentax DA 15mm ltd)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just, holy crap
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I used Opus 5.5 to save the nation and possibly the world Now I just need to figure out how to add Jev as an advisor to the president potato cabinet: jsherman999.github.io/potato_cabin...
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ancient human behavior baked in over millennia lives on, is statistically detectable in the genetic record and is fully detectable now in modern behavior. flip.it/VwS2oy www.swipestats.io/blog/tinder-...
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins owed Trump and sold out her country to pay him back. She probably deserves prison, along with the handler/whistleblower of this event. flip.it/d1hbW-
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Corruption alert: Trump saved Susan Collins from sweeping FBI investigation
Internal documents reveal an illegal campaign finance operation that reached the highest levels of Congress—and why it will never see a courtroom.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#photography #minnesota “At the Cabin” (D800 50 d1.8d)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gemini pro refused to believe it was real
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People are fairly antitech currently, which isn't entirely unreasonable, but one of the strange things with A City on Mars is we had supporters and detractors who both understood us to be saying "Mars settlement is impossible." But, like, we even provide a roadmap at the end?
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even if you don’t like zombie movies or stopped watching them when walking dead started sucking and gave up, revisit it just for Black Summer. IMO the genre quietly reached its peak right there
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#photography #blackandwhite "Sea Dragon" (pentax DA 77 f/1.8 ltd)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Laya is a new system 1 model like Jev, but it might be slightly smarter and faster than Jev. Created just moments ago ;) by author of two papers describing the architecture that were published last year.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Props
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#photography #blackandwhite "When We Were Kings" (nikon d700 + 180 f/2.8D)
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
First piece I’ve done for another publication! In The Atlantic today on data centers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced From the Facts
All those scary numbers aren’t what they seem.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The secret bulletin boards were just a ruse to make us think we found something The agents actually set up an entire fake company called Irregular that allows them continual access to the internet
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So the reason Trump is suddenly so pro-AI is someone pointed out to him that without the circular AI economy propping up his economy we’d be falling into bad recession. Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Trump Calls A.I. Fears a Hoax. Inside the White House, the Debate Is More Complex. (Gift Article)
The president seems driven chiefly by the sense that A.I. is the way to economic growth, and nothing can be allowed to stand in its way.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Even if you don’t like zombie movies or stopped watching them when walking dead started sucking and gave up, revisit it just for Black Summer. IMO the genre quietly reached its peak right there
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I made a Jev! service on my mac that provides an API for other apps that need to do cheap LLM-guided browsing or web research I made a demo program to test against regular LLM using my own local Jev! service So far deepseek v4.1 flash comes closest in cost, only 1.7x Jev, GPT 5.4-mini = 5.5x Jev
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It might because “I promise to fight Glonzo on your behalf!” only snares low information folks and that’s not going to be enough politically
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1. Build an adequate sandbox every time, 2. establish task scope guidelines clearly , 3. allow outside audits What they’ve been doing is the equivalent of bumbling around a lab in 1943 picking up uranium with their hands Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/t...
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Some in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown (Gift Article)
The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.
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Bitey @jsherman999.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OK, let’s ;) Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | Humanity Has Avoided Apocalypse Before. Let’s Do It Again. (Gift Article)
It is up to all of us, through our government, to shape what A.I. becomes.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026
Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.
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