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Matt Arcidy

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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 1h
www.commondreams.org/news/shawn-f...
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'The Membership Has Spoken': Shawn Fain Overwhelmingly Wins Reelection as UAW President | Common Dreams
"These results are about taking on corporate America and reversing the worst out-of-control wealth inequality in America’s history."
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 23h
"Overwhelming" ought to mean "already have veto-proof majority on record supporting it". thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Bipartisan bill barring U.S. purchase of Russian oil on the horizon: Fitzpatrick
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) announced on Saturday he would be introducing a bipartisan bill aimed at stopping President Trump from lifting sanctions on Russian oil amid global fuel shortages. “W…
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Russia is arming Iran" For free? Or is it a business transaction. Not the same thing.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ukrainian refinery strikes continue, Putin fails to export diesel which doesn't actually exist, Trump inevitably blames Zelenskyy. Rinse and repeat. The Kremlin has never played a US President easier.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"you'll shit your brains out"
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Always interesting to see who trips over themselves running to defend the Nazi state, the KKK, and Israel.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
you see, cmake creates the Makefile. The Makefile then calls cmake again. I'm very smart.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
cmake is the fucking worst, just absolutely obtuse messages. Errors don't mean actual errors, warnings are errors that need to be fixed, errors occur even though the task was complete. Fucking nightmare.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
holy fuck build systems are annoying when they don't work.
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Will Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What rent control features matter most? Curious about exploring the rent control literature yourself? You can try for yourself here: wbthorne.com/evidence.html
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Will Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Modern rent controls aren't as damaging, and blending evidence of old strict rent controls with the modern versions just confuses the issue and leads to presenting a misleading "consensus" that doesn't really exist.
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Will Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This graph is a good reason to introduce my new paper: By Generation and by Design: A Review of the Empirical Rent Control Literature. This paints a (somewhat) misleading picture of rent control evidence because it groups all rent control together regardless of design feature.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People need to come to grips with weather forecast data being incorrect again. Just how it's going to be for a while. Not like 90s incorrect but like mid 00s. Ok, just not as correct as the past decade.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The "suspects" were siphoning gas. www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford...
wiltshire999s.co.uk
RAF Fairford suspects were 'just thieves syphoning fuel', sources
The RAF Fairford suspects were 'just thieves syphoning fuel', according to sources. A Ministry of Defence source told Wiltshire 999s...
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
can't believe youre ignoring her red eyes in the previous scene
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And none of it is resulting in significantly improved consumer sales or distribution. It's all a big nothing burger with seemingly the only goal to gloss up the CEO. That's my point.
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My point is the PR tour is absurd, that the messaging is sloppy and unfocused, and the points that are being made are incongruous with the actions made so far.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation
An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What if Nothing is an Xbox?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
404media.co
How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Islamic State jihadists are currently storming Tahoua city en masse, likely a second assault on the airport is the plan. So it begins. #Niger
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finishing yesterday's work by 8:25AM counts, right
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Democrats, with Sexual Assault
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Mark — A townsperson you believe to be a conspicuously easy victim."
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Air to Ground Message: HELLO PAX IN FLIGHT FOUND 3 FRENCH PASSPORT HIDDEN INSIDE THE LUMBAR SEAT 27 A-B-C. ALL BIO PAGESHAVE BEEN REMOVED. REQUEST POLICE AT AGP. TKS Area: Kleine Brogel, Belgium Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #aeac45e3594 F: #f7f3a581cc8
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the fact that nuremberg failed doesn't mean there's nothing worth studying. or even appreciating there. It's basically the first time we tried to hold a nation's leadership accountable for war crimes in such a way. but let's not pretend it was a success.
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natasha iilov @natasha-iilov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is a real and actual debate to be had about NATO’s intervention against Gaddafi and what happened in its aftermath, but all this talk completely frees gaddafi from any blame for killing literally anybody who could create an alternative state
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
interesting, we'll see what happens monday
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ah i see someone else posted it!
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Found this, which notes that Jackets are also prizes 64.media.tumblr.com/ee89ae4f3753...
Ad for Bill Elliot's Nascar.  Screen shots of the game, overlayed on a picture of a nascar race, with some text about the game.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ignoring labels, this is how you talk about a program or a device, which is all these things are. There is no intelligence, just marks getting scammed.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Understanding and controlling model personas is important to ensuring they behave constructively and reliably, and our results suggest that analyzing model internals can assist us in doing so"
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"It can be driven away from the Assistant end in response to intentional prompting strategies, or drift organically in certain kinds of natural conversational contexts.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Really wish all the "I just don't know if AI is intelligent" marks could read papers like this: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10387 It's still just y = Ax + b, these things have nothing resembling life, let alone intelligence. They are mechanisms, automatons, etc. Embarrassing people fall for this marketing
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The Assistant Axis: Situating and Stabilizing the Default Persona of Language Models
Large language models can represent a variety of personas but typically default to a helpful Assistant identity cultivated during post-training. We investigate the structure of the space of model pers...
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wow, firefox is finally getting serial support, years after other browsers. firefox decision making is complete ass.
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Dungeon Chill @dungeonchill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some Tatsuro Yamashita to start my Friday morning 🔊山下達郎- Love Talkin’
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like the "AI is going to kill us all" is confirmed as a marketing campaign. Are American's, pound for pound, the biggest marks on the planet?
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, just a few weeks ago a significant part of the frontline troops of the Nigerien army rebelled and were very close to succeeding in their Niamey storm. The cause? Islamic State rampage and catastrophic casualties. Massive arrests and purges followed and are still ongoing.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
can't rollback a livestream on YouTube to the beginning while stream is in progress. What a fucking pile of shit.
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 20/09/2026
Russia's FSB just imposed a curfew along the border with Estonia, banning movement within 5km from Sept 16–26. Officially cited as "environmental protection," analysts fear it's to prevent a mass exodus or prepare for potential escalation against NATO. usa.news-pravda.com/world/2026/0...
usa.news-pravda.com
Russia’s FSB has imposed temporary restrictions along part of the border with NATO member Estonia, including a nighttime movement ban in the border zone
From September 16 to 26, people and vehicles are prohibited from moving outside settlements after dark within 5 km of the border in the Slantsy and Kingisepp districts. Access to the Narva riverbank a...
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
RUMINT that the US will hit Yemen soon. If true, would be the perfect USian move: comes a week too late to impact the situation on the ground, needlessly escalates the whole situation, and kills a bunch of people for no reason.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread. Middle East signs. 1/
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE launches massive private system to transport detainees across Texas under armed guard
expressnews.com
New private system to transport ICE detainees across Texas under armed guard
A firm tied to the Florida detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz has a $382 million contract for "armed ground transportation" of ICE detainees in Texas.
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 19/09/2026
Appeasement has a cost. By prioritizing Russia over its allies, the White House is inviting exactly this outcome, and if a major war erupts in Europe, America won't be able to stay on the sidelines any more than it could in WWII.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sounds like you need to merge it by doing half and half
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
two days in a row arguing with people who cannot solve this. (if you can't solve the linear variant, you can't solve the quadratic either)
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Use the straight edge, and watch where the lines cross the straight edge. That's looking at lag. I'm giving everyone the tool to see it, no math required, no stats, just use the tool
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's fascinating to read so much postcolonial theory you begin to ignore asians, asian-americans, and historians of china telling you that you are wrong and still continue to issue silly claims about the nature of the Qing
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's not analysis, and compare it to his. Feel free to model it to convince yourself. If you don't understand how the things I am talking about flow into what an actual regression would do, then do the regression.
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Matt Arcidy @marcidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like everything stochastic, it's not a constant lag at all points. There is a very clear lag where the lines are following. Use a straight-edge and look at constant y-values if you don't see it. Look specifically where you are not paying attention otherwise. Brains are quite tricky.
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