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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 46m

CEO said “It worked so well for Google search, it will work for us too.”

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump's net approval is -22.4%. He's twice as unpopular as he was at this point in his first term, making him the least popular president at this stage in the history of presidential polling. What more would it take for Dems and liberal institutions to stop being accomodationists?

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That is clear, all statistical models with do that. To me, the original point, in that first of posts, was these are systems based on probability based models. Hence probabilistic. The answers being the same each time as the definition of deterministic: changes that.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guess I should have rephrased. All statistical models will give you the same answer for a given input. If that’s what we call deterministic, then we are saying we don’t care for the accuracy of that answer. That’s no better than the magic 8 ball.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it that the error rate has approached zero / is very low or is it really deterministic? How can a system built on likelihood estimations come to a deterministic conclusion?

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So with temp set to 0, I should get the same answer from an LLM every time ask a question?

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What example did you have in mind of an AI that is not probabilistic? Genuinely curious

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will also be interesting to see how much investor money they burnt for this PR stunt and thuggery.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For all of these incidents, it is critical that there be accountability, transparency and full disclosure of how this happened, including the prompts and responses, tokens consumed, the set up etc. These need to be treated like the cyber crimes they are.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

VCs have pushed a long list of tech trends that were supposed to change everything but didn’t: 1. Daily deals (Groupon) 2. Consumer 3D printing 3. Micromobility 4. Coworking (WeWork) 5. Meal kits (Blue Apron) 6. NFTs 7. “Uber for X” AI may be different. But hype isn’t evidence of inevitability.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Web 3.0, whatever that was supposed to mean, probably belongs on that list as well.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Now that I have had a cursed start to the weekend, I must inflict this on here 🤦🏻‍♂️.

Screenshot of Bloomberg news App from Sep 18, 2026. Bloomberg weekend section. Shows an ad for Google Gemini. Underneath, that are three headlines: 1 Google joins OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta in Disclosing AI Hacks, 2. NVDIA CEO says There’s 0% Chance that World Will End in 2030, 3. Anthropic to Embed Accenture Evaluators to Test AI Safety.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

* VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SAYS STATE IS BANNING NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS FOR DATA CENTERS, REQUIRING STRICTER PERMITTING AND CLEAN ENERGY MANDATES FOR THE SERVER WAREHOUSES @reuters.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

L2 at home. Got some subsidies for both the charger and the installation work. NJ suburban home.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s almost like one is arguing against a stochastic 🦜!

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

…against pursuing the investigations, impeachment, and prosecutions. That would be a fatal error for American democracy. He must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026

Ford: "I don't respond to a dictator like Trump, a bully like Trump ... I'm not gonna take any advice off a guy that's the king of bankruptcies ... your own people don't even like you. And they're gonna speak loud and clear in the midterms. If I was allowed to, I'd be down there door-knocking."

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

ALT version.

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Some more random thoughts on Woke 1. First, comparing it to McCarthyism willfully effaces the fact that McCarthyism was a state-led and unconstitutional ideological purge of the institutions of power. That also describes Trump II. Woke I was a subaltern revolt.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This gets to my own perspective on Woke 1. The problem was more this 2nd-order white reaction to jump on the bandwagon to avoid getting run over by it, rather than the actual critical theory and radical politics of Woke 1 (i.e., the problem was Woke 1.2 not Woke 1.1 or however you want to paginate).

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looks like BlueSky does not count as Social Media 😀

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch

In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It really really really bugs me how many people simply do not understand what it means when the government tries to convict you even IF THEY FAIL TO DO IT. Do you know how many thousands of dollars in legal fees it costs? You will most likely lose your job. You might lose your home.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026

See you in court, creep.

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Whoo boy! The ratio on this one…

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Rubio offering his opponents campaign ads gold here. “Rubio is soft on China, did not do anything on election inference by China, when his President said it was important.”

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Lalit Wangikar @lwangikar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Absolutely vile and disrespectful.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this should be disqualifying to just like, be a member of society, let alone a senate confirmed government position

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

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How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Apple v. Liu $AAPL drive.google.com/file/d/1jxHw...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

Corporate personhood has been a catastrophe for human thriving, conjuring into existence a new race of immortal, pluripotent colony organisms we call "limited liability corporations." 25/

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As someone in this picture I find it a little odd that @natureportfolio.nature.com chose this image to illustrate the point. We were very careful when choosing a slogan for our signs that it be scientificly defenceable. "Science says New Oil & Gas = Death" is a plain statement of fact 🧵

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I grew up with Alan Greenspan being treated as a sage voice of economic reason. Then I discovered he spent his early career as a fully paid-up Ayn Rand cultist (part of the 'collective' who read Atlas Shrugged in manuscript) and I realized that he was just another libertarian loon.

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