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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 7h

Reading this I don’t even think these Terms and Conditions are even legal. That’s never stopped anyone from putting them in a ToS before but it’s definitely a problem that companies keep just making illegal ToSs.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’m very confused by this because everything Emily Bender says here appears to be accurate and how the systems work?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whenever I say that language isn't the same as thinking, people accuse me of thinking that humans are special. But they are arguing from the anthropocentric assumption that human minds are the only biological minds.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/09/2026

My dog ate one of my AirPods if anyone wants a new dog.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve seen this sentiment but i don’t really understand why we’re assuming that things will just be cheap a year later. It likely took millions of dollars for the problem here (and it didn’t solve the problem by itself with no direction). How much cheaper are we expecting here?

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Isilanka @isilanka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's really funny how OpenAI talks like they're running project Manhattan while apparently having no concept of things like "maybe don't connect your testing environment to the Internet" or "what do you mean we are supposed to keep an eye on our chatbots"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mean animals have been demonstrating that 2 is true for longer than we've had language

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OK so I straight up don’t understand where “changes the nature of humanity” comes from. Even if you think this is the most consequential technology in the last decade, how does it “change the nature of humanity”? What does that even mean?

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol

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Chess is hard for humans, but not for computers.
One day, it will be fully solved like checkers.
Between now and then, or even after, have fun.
People enjoy many games/sports where machines are vastly better

There are more possible chess games, by about 40 orders of magnitude, than atoms in the observable universe. To solve chess, you'd have to map them all. Good luck.
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Wrong, all legal chess positions are ~40 oom less than the estimated atoms in the Universe. And ASI will figure out ways to solve and compress that are far beyond what we could possibly comprehend.

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I still don’t know who Hasan Piker is and at this point I refuse to learn but James Carville has been completely irrelevant to the Democratic Party through most of my adult life.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/07/2026

the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0 @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Fields of Mistria launches into 1.0 on August 5, 2026! ✨ The full release includes: 💍 Marriage 🍼 Children 🌻 New Saturday Market NPCs ✨ And more! More reveals are on the way, so stay tuned! 🌱

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s hard to imagine any technology that has ever fucked it this badly, and purely through arrogance, it’s like if the people who invented the car decided to showcase its utility by driving over your family dog and then backing up and doing it again, and also the car sucked and was bad

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If everyone knows it is a hyperbolic negotiating tactic then it's not very effective is it?

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026

LLMs are not good for coding.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/03/2026

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says.

In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong.

The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as people increasingly rely on AI summaries for news and information.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2026

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One of the things I’ve let go of in enjoying entertainment products is caring about box office returns or how many videogames got sold. I don’t own a media company! Not my problem! I’m a customer! If I get chicken nuggets I don’t ask the McDonalds manager how many units they’re moving! I eat them!

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

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IGN @ign.com · 12/02/2026

Experience The Witcher universe in an entirely new way with Gwent: The Legendary Card Game! Inspired by the iconic mini-game from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this official physical edition brings the strategic, faction-based card game to your tabletop. Order now: bit.ly/45LWyRd

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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We will never survive if we keep electing these people who listen only to strategists and ignore the realities of the world happening around them. This woman is like some consultant fed “only the economy” into an AI and the computer shit out a robot politician.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing.

@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This kind of thing really backs my theory that GenAI’s killer use case is mostly just making fraud and grifting easier.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/12/2025

bad actors like wurman are why i think it is important to place the birthright clause in the full context of section 1 and section 1 in the context of both dred scott and the two decades of antislavery and abolitionist agitation and political thinking that proceeded it

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 03/12/2025

Now that the "AI" companies have gone directly to all three major RAM manufacturers with piles of cash, they decided they don't care about price control anymore. They've let the entire RAM market flounder so they can instead make specialized HBM RAM for "AI" servers. Irresponsible as you can get.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

JD Vance deserves this

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

POND RULES:

No swimming, jumping or gallivanting.
Do not disturb the pond witch.
No fishing with dynamite.
Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS!
Taunt the crows at your own risk.
If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away.
Do not feed the weretrout.
Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger!
They’re not ducks. Run.
Have fun!

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 14/11/2025

the economy is gonna crash because nobody thought to ask a PC gamer's opinion

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I know this isn’t really the point but are they really sending these messages over gmail?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/11/2025

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Like if there were in fact some orderly system, I too would say we should follow that! That would be great. There isn't! Total figment of the collective imagination.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

And I've complained enough about it, but I am confident the vast vast majority of people think there's some kind of immigration system migrants are "skipping" and they ought to be doing their application and waiting so that the rules can be followed.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

"men who clearly have hang-ups about their ability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity" is a society-wide issue. There's a reason pickup truck sales have continued going up (to the degree the F-150 is now America's best selling vehicle) even as blue collar employment has gone down

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. "
"You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 17/10/2025

I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/10/2025

I think two things are true: 1. young republicans were always terrible and racist 2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I was trying to put my finger on what bothered me about this portrayal and I think it’s that it just takes the guy’s words at face value, like he was a nice guy and reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death just pushed him over the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

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She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/

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jsternberg.bsky.social @jsternberg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Either this governor is doing a good job making me like him or he's got a hell of a good PR campaign. Honestly not sure the difference matters from a practical standpoint.

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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Yall will NEVER guess how this storytime ends. We are doomed.

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