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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i once saw a meme with pictures of the Wonka factory and the words ”come with me, and you’ll be in a world of OSHA violations.”

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is something to be said about using your brain for what it was evolved to do

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s literally one of humanity’s oldest skills. Dementia aside, I seem to have the sort of anxiety and depression that seems to come from an overactive brain. When I have to navigate, it can keep this anxiety at bay

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was just thinking about that: what if using these sorts of spatial reasoning skills helps prevent dementia? After all, figuring out how to navigate this world is probably one of the reasons we developed our brain power in the first place

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That having been said, people somehow manage to live without a car in some pretty surprising places, like Albuquerque. A coworker, for instance, has some issues that prevent him from driving. Hats off to people like that, but it must be rough

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I‘m actually in Telluride right now (ran the Imogene Pass run, one of those things that I’m glad I did but not rushing to do it again). I was thinking that the houses in town would be insanely priced. You just confirmed that

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I didn’t know that about the steam engine, probably something we all should know

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i think that my employer‘s email account (through Outlook, so it’s probably pretty standard) has a limit in the low tens of MB. Copying an 800 MB DVD ROM (which the local court system still uses) sometimes takes awhile. Yet somehow Claude is going to copy itself?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not to mention that there are a bunch of blue and purple states in “Dumbfuckistan.” NM, for instance has not voted red for POTUS since 2004 (which is when I believe this map is from), and currently has a solidly Democratic Congressional delegation (both Senators and all three Representative)

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Or, maybe we would have already killed ourselves with even deadlier weapons than we have

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

But El-Sayed denounced Piker. What more does Gottheimer want?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think of people like Chris Rock, who have said plenty of things that would be seen as racist if they came out of my mouth.

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Piker didn’t say anything that I haven’t said before. I’ve known too many of my fellow Jews who believe that they have a religious or ethnic duty to support Israel. But i feel like, as a Jew, I’m “allowed“ to say those things

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The thing that makes him look older is the hair loss, I don’t think that’s caused by UV

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sounds predatory. Does Elsevier publish predatory journals?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bathroom walls, where most of this crap belongs anyway

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I’ve often thought that private jets were the sort of low hanging fruit that you could ban (with some exceptions for medical need, etc) without much political blowback. A ban would be populist and good for the environmen. win win

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Even James van der Beek, who was a successful actor for many years, had to have an auction to pay for cancer treatments.

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In all fairness, he handled 9/11 very well. If he had retired from politics after his term ended right after that, he would have been remembered well. A classic illustration of why you should quit when you’re ahead

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Is this supposed to be a joke?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Or at least let individual states ban them, instead of misusing Dodd Frank argue that these bans are federally preempted

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Try the 50s (i believe that some were saying in ‘58 that a machine that could do whatever a human could do was three years away)

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

As a consequence, they built robots (using preexisting technology) that were specifically designed for road running (lightweight, able to keep up a rhythm, etc.). Trail running requires the sort of stabilization ability that I would think would be more in the realm of general robotics

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This year, the race was better publicized, so a few companies saw a great marketing ability (especially the Chinese cell phone company with the winning entrants; having a robot run a half marathon is obviously a good advertisement for battery life)

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Along the same lines, I suspect that this does not represent the leap in general robotics that people claim it is. I suspect that the first robot half marathon was more of a lark, and few of the contestants were actually designed for running

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Same way you go from iced tea to blockchain, like the Long Island Iced Tea Company (which made actual iced tea, not ”Long Island iced tea”) did. Didn’t work out for them, probably won’t work out for Allbirds either

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Matter configuration space? Local genetic neighborhood? Who talks like that?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

(speaks into mouse): hello computer

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Or worse, they know but they don’t care

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Old school mechanical door latches have served us well since forever. Some things don’t need to be “improved.”

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

What Rundle are you in? What’s your handle?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I could have sworn I read that bit about calcium being formed in dying stars, etc., years ago, before they had these LLMs. That passage, at least, was written by a human, and was only slightly changed by the LLM. Don’t know about the other passages

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Also, “cheap” to him is just a little different from “cheap” to regular folk.

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Not to mention the fact that it’s a bit weird to hear a Kennedy lecture people on what’s affordable

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I can’t imagine I’m the only one who thinks about that, about how Gen Alpha and Beta will support themselves as adults. i suspect a lot of people will have fewer kids as a result

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

My wife and I argue about whether to have another child, and (yes it’s unusual) I’m the one against it. This is because of personal reasons, but also because I worry about the future, and that includes AI. So at least in my case, AI is lowering our birth rate

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Or maybe we watch sports from Europe year round

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Sam Altman is essentially saying the quiet part out loud: the goal of these AI companies is to eliminate those pesky humans, not just from jobs but from existence altogether (except for the billionaires presumably) bsky.app/profile/x2y....

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

And how much energy does it take to maintain that house that he may hardly ever stay in? That is the question people should be asking

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Except for himself and a few other tech billionaire, of course

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We have to eat a lot for 20 years (and then, hopefully, the next 60-80 years after that) anyway, just by being here. We might as well make ourselves useful. Is he saying the quiet part out loud that he wants to eliminate the human race?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

He was a summer starter, like my 1L roommate. Apparently, and I only heard this second hand from said roommate, he sent something to some summer starter listserv about “praying to Scalia” before a final exam

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We do that a bit, chicken with salad and baugette one day, actua chicken salad or chicken quesadillas the next. We can get them from Smith‘s/Kroger, but Costco’s are a better value

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Jesus, what’s the obsession with coal? Is it just because coal is considered a non-woke fuel, and therefore good in the eyes of these idiots?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win that race.” I don‘t know, if I can take a dump in 5 minutes and you need an hour to make chocolate brownies, who‘s gonna win that race?

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Not to mention the intent of Dodd Frank, which is what the Kalshi asses claim preempts all the state internet gambling laws

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Because they have this fantasy they they’re going to terraform Mars or something

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

We went to school with Gottheimer’s sister. I wonder if we could get her to talk some sense into him

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It’s been hours and this person can’t stop thinking about it? Dude, this applicant that you will not interview has been living rent free in your head for hours? I would reassess how “normal” and “well adjusted“ you are

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Larry Marcus @lmarky98.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I thought FIFA got rid of its Blatter control problem

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