Reposted by MariaMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week 614221828
Reposted by MariaMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day. 19652109
Reposted by MariaChris @chrisbybikes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A cyclist was killed last night on Figueroa exactly where there was supposed to be a bike lane put in 11 years ago. Road Kill Gil Cedillo continues to take lives even in retirement. 1319
Reposted by MariaCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237701245
Reposted by MariaGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026Such a cool resource! I'm going to stick with the API for now I think (because I've been poking at FRED for the better part of two decades now and don't need the intermediation) but if you're econ data-curious this makes it WAY easier to access. fredhelp.stlouisfed.org/fred/data/ai... 35410
Reposted by MariaWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology. 1429144
Reposted by MariaErica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic. 023449
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 29/09/2026I’m sure us $200 plan power users are unprofitable customers for OpenAI, but I’m not sure why I would renew if there’s no volume discount at that level. It seems like a no brainer to downgrade to the $100 OpenAI plan and add the $100 Claude plan to get access to both model families 010
Reposted by MariaMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...) 1139466
Reposted by MariaKevin Burke @burke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026California Prop 38: - authorizes $4B spending in a way that only one research center in the whole state qualifies - privately funded research center - founder of the research center has donated $22 million to support the ballot prop This is, like, pure corruption calmatters.org/politics/ele...calmatters.orgIs this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies. 57431
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 25/09/2026My attorney-client privilege hat has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my hat 022
Reposted by MariaColin @colin-fraser.net · 23/09/2026you don't need to appeal to metaphysics to see what whatever LLMs do is different from human thought. You can just look at the concrete differences in behavior. For example, LLMs are able to solve the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem whereas humans are not. 41329
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 22/09/2026Are you able to actually use it? I am getting an error about the model being unavailable on subscription 110
Reposted by Mariaaria @aurelium.me · 22/09/2026Huawei Ascend kernels are the most insidious avenue for xrisk... thank you for saving us, dario. 13510
Reposted by MariaRussell Irving @rginteger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm not much of a Pokémon person, but my son is & trying to buy him cards at retail prices has been nigh on impossible the last couple of years, and I refuse to pay scalpers for anything. So it warms the cockles of my heart to see so many of them having a full meltdown about the recent set. Enjoy!! 26050661384
Reposted by MariaMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 21/09/2026Cities are living things and neighborhoods change as newcomers leave their mark. This is okay, even if it is often uncomfortable. The best thing we can do is build a lot of new homes so that new people can move in without displacing long time residents. 1245548
Reposted by MariaStreets For All @streetsforall.org · 19/09/2026We’re disappointed that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has signed SB-194, a bill bought and paid for by Forest Lawn and Mt Sinai lobbyists to stop a road safety project. We will get the extra bureaucratic hurdles done and get the project in the ground anyway under Mayor @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social. 511216
Reposted by MariaWill @thealpacalypse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026frankly i feel like the bigger story is not even about EA/rationalism, it's about who gets to have democratic authority in this country. Is it us, or is it a very small group of people from a particular thought group in the bay I would feel the same if this was someone's dnd group from nyu 38113
Reposted by MariaQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Why did Seattle's former City Traffic Engineer sigh with exasperation in this tweet from 2019? 🧵 1233056
Reposted by MariaJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them. 401997531
Reposted by MariaYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Found this account that posts webcam footage from around Taiwan. This is the first light over Taiwan on the day it has been a democracy longer than a dictatorship. 3554104
Reposted by Mariakate conger @kateconger.com · 17/09/2026OpenAI disclosed several new alignment failures today and uhhhh... is this good? 2372392
Reposted by Mariaantirez @antirez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Witch hunting level: some guy uses AI to reverse engineer an M4 GPU driver for Linux and part of the community that should be for the open source, for the hacking, for the liberation and freedom is against him. 415716
Reposted by MariaDavid Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe Great American Property Tax Freak OutThere has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening 416342
Reposted by MariaJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 14/09/2026Oh my god I missed this last week but lmaooooooo 35414
Reposted by MariaTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/09/2026"we screwed up, so other people shouldn't get to use the technology" is really quite annoying 818717
Reposted by MariaP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026In 2027, mysterious hacks attributed to open source weights and definitely not connected to the companies that accidentally hacked a bunch of companies in 2026, which was okay 833930
Reposted by MariaWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Daily bunny no.3440 having a picnic of the third kind 203259726
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 13/09/2026Hmm, I just got this screen on here, so I guess something about my device is giving Texas? 110
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 12/09/2026Yes, but even when upholding the law, the Second Circuit in Corley still agreed code was speech. The Third Circuit disagreed in Defense Distributed, so we may get a final answer from SCOTUS soon if they grant cert. They would be wrong to uphold the decision in my opinion 170
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 12/09/2026Code is a form of free expression protected by the First Amendment 28512
Reposted by Marialauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/09/2026the whole world now holds our breath to see how steven universe responds 980763
Reposted by Mariarattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is downstream of the fundamental issue that white Americans, the elites in particular, identify more with Europe than their fellow New World states despite having more in common with the latter in terms of demographic diversity and birthright citizenship. 169194
Maria @lagomorph.dev · 10/09/2026K3 doesn’t have an xhigh effort level so they just carried that over 000
Reposted by MariaJesse Hattabaugh @jessehattabaugh.com · 08/09/2026South Korea intends to hand every one of its citizens free access to generative AI, in what amounts to the first attempt by a national government to treat model access as something close to a public service www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...yahoo.comSouth Korea Will Give Every Citizen Free AI Access With Unlimited TokensThree consortia will run the service, sharing up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips supplied by the state, with beta testing due in September. 28724
Reposted by MariaColin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026these CAPTCHAS were seriously pissing it off 1024012
