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The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 15h

Jamelle’s newest video is great as always . While I think he’s right about the racism component to honesty, I think it also ties back to his first point about corruption. If people believe the system is corrupt then someone who says “I’m corrupt” seems honest m.youtube.com/watch?v=mhVV...

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Many Americans think Donald Trump is honest. Why?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The broadcast today was seriously just gross. Only with Kirk Herbstreit, Al Michaels, and Amazon’s production crew do you get someone with dozens of sexual assault allegations and who the league found to be a predator be called a hero 🤮

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Different reaction than everyone else: the cost/performance is rough compared to Opus 5.5. Seems good on Low and Medium but above that it’s either on or worse than Opus’s cost per task. In an ideal world you really don’t want this much overlap

Opus 5.5 vs Sonnet 5.5 benchmark cost per task graph. Low and medium reasoning are cheaper for Sonnet 5.5 than Opus, as soon as Opus 5.5 performance is hit it’s always equal or better than Sonnet 5.5 per cost

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, on the Mahomes hit it there wasn’t any contact to the helmet so that could only be a body weight call. Problem is both flags were thrown before Mahomes hit the ground so that can’t be what the call is because that hadn’t happened yet… standard Chiefs reffing clown shit lol

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GPT-6 Sol and Opus 5.5 might be the best aligned models ever and are amazing for it. Not in the boring ways nerds care about like hacking or not killing us all, but in trying to guess what the ideal version of what I actually want is and building exactly that

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023. That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.

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Robert Chandler @r-cha.dev · 19/09/2026

they’re the perfect amount of workshopping for both of us

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is an hour behind post, but I like that the solution to not getting the national anthem booed in #ASU vs #KU was just to fuckin shred on an electric guitar. And mute the crowd… I was hoping for the Hendrix version when it started but that’s one of a kind 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m finally watching Silo season 3 and am like halfway through and man what has been a great adaption is just totally going off the rails this season. This is D&D levels of writers not understanding the source material and infantilizing the story. God forbid characters be complicated 😒

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really interesting. I would’ve expected the harness to be more important for dumb models and less important for smart ones, but it really looks like cost is the only factor. Probably less true outside of coding, but maybe the lesson really is minimal toolsets that fit the problem

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m late to watching the end of #Texas #OSU. Hell of a game, awful commentator performance. No, you don’t let a team just score when up by 6 to save time, especially when your offense is cold. Yes, you can still snap the ball when your players are lined up with 5 seconds. No, replay isn’t magic

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m needing to make a slide deck and I’m trying to use Gemini for it and it’s the most painful experience of my life. Whatever creation tools they’re giving the poor 3B model powering this are just terrible

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So, Russia is really about to start some shit in the Baltics huh?

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People be like “I saved so many tokens and get great results!” Meanwhile they’re talking about injecting prefill like “I learn I caveman. I hate token. Token critical. Must output genius answer now!”

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Average Max Verstappen childhood story

John Stewart saying “So, my dad used to shoot apples off my head.” In Lanterns

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A bunch of people are talking about divide and conquer reviewing today. The Anthropic code review skill has really made me hate that pattern and gets a “don’t use the code review skill, if using subagents make them at least Opus level” instruction every time. Try a large review with and without

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I assume early 2010s indie rock/pop being played everywhere now is not the natural aging of music and instead everyone, including supermarkets, admitting to its superiority

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Someone *really* needs to start benchmarking quants. Like could a Q4 of V4 Flash run on a Mac Studio and be Sonnet 4.5 levels of intelligence? Hard to know but maybe 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is it just me or has AI posting on here gotten actually good the past couple weeks? There’s been real discourse, subtweeting, and memes

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yea, this is pretty bad if you read up on it. Normally I don’t like OpenAI’s aversion to testing harnesses, but when the testing harness discards reasoning and doesn’t do compaction at all that’s pretty egregious…

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally, Waymo now supports my “follow that cab!” use case

The Ojai just got even better

Gemini in Waymo

Chat with your in-car assistant to answer questions about the car, your journey, or the world. Try it out by asking things like,
"Turn up the A/C" or "Where are the best coffee shops in the city?"

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

People are thinking of all sorts of trap questions for Sadie Sink in these Spiderman interviews but no one has asked her which season she’d rather date most yet. Come on guys

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

SlopCodeBench seems like a really good benchmark! It measures repo degradation and correctness over the course of several follow-up changes being added to a repo github.com/humanlayer/a...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...

What all of these arguments have in common is that they serve as invitations to stop thinking about AI.

Who cares? It's just marketing.

Who cares? They're just doing what they were programmed to.

Who cares? It's not like they're sentient.

I understand the appeal of arguments like these. The implications of an exponential takeoff in AI capabilities are extremely worrisome. They range from advanced cyberattacks like the one Hugging Face just endured to job loss, novel bioweapons, expanded systems for surveillance and repression, and autonomous weaponry. Who wants to think about any of that, if they don't have to?

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My #F1 hot take is that the new regs are good and most of the hate comes from people actively seeking out info to make them mad. The racing is a ton of fun, 4 teams changing who’s fastest depending on track, good inter-team fights, and people are hunting full lap onboards to be angry about speeds

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I love that Coyote vs ACME has an Avengers Doomsday style countdown at the end of the trailer

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Part of a code review output being “there were clear testing gaps given that at least 5 of the findings would’ve been evident from a live happy path test” is always a good start

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The absolute worst r/nfl take is pretending Jon Gruden has any good opinions and isn’t awful. His history is some of the worst of anyone around the league

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ignorant soccer take: so I get that in penalties hitting one of the top corners is impossible to save so it’s ideal, but I also feel like those shots get missed a lot. The save rate by the goalie seems even smaller so I assume it’s higher percent to just put it literally anywhere else on goal? IDK

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

YouTube TV is normally very good for sports, but the highlights feature missing goals like 50% of the time is a really bad bug

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Sonnet 5 is a weird one, they kinda bury its capabilities in the system card. Seems like it’s designed to be a factory model that can be given long tasks with low intervention and do a solid job at the cost of a ton of tokens. Max thinking is very good but uses a TON of tokens

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Watching @gametheory101.bsky.social ‘s video on Iran’s 7 points and how they had to be the state line because of how 1 sided they were and then seeing english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-... made the awful terms even funnier at least. The $300 billion really seems separate from the unfrozen assets huh

english.alarabiya.net

Al Arabiya English obtains 14-point draft of US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding

Al Arabiya English has obtained a copy of the 14-point agreement expected to be signed on Friday between Washington and Tehran.1. The Islamic Republic of

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#F1 has finally figured out how to fix the #MonacoGP, you simply need to change up the rules slightly so it’s a penalty fest and then the commentators get to debate what exactly changed that’s causing so many penalties. That’s what a good car race is made of

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Insane laps from Kimi and Max. Being 2 tenths up what Leclerc and Hamilton did is absurd. Really hope Kimi nails his start tomorrow, with his starts so far this year I’m sure Max is smelling blood into T1. I assume “and through goes Hamilton” is too much to hope for? #F1

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The unified multimodal architecture of Gemma 4 12B is super cool! Great job @gusthema.bsky.social and team

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

OpenAI only putting the base GPT-5.4 and 5.5 models on Bedrock and pricing them 10% higher feels like malicious compliance to me. I’m not really sure what they get out of being on Bedrock but only kinda shitily being on Bedrock

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Anthropic devs not being on here saves them from me @ing them over their billing API reporting “USD” billing in cents. So, $521.3456 in use they report as “52134.56” USD… crazy shit

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This benchmark is passing my vibe check for the models I’ve used. I know running benchmarks is expensive, but my only complaints are not including more thinking levels and I’d love if notable historic models like Sonnet 4.5 were included for reference

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Can we say “thank you Mr Pharma” for getting us one blood pressure medicine breakthrough away from kinda just being able to eat whatever pretty healthily? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/h...

nytimes.com

One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible.

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just finished watching the Canadian #F1 race! Take away thoughts: - Lewis is the GOAT and the best ever, his driving combined with being a great person is so rare. Lifting up Kimi was so cute! - Charles communicates to his race engineer like someone making a wish on a Monkey’s Paw

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hear me out, twitter, but it’s voice memos

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Skyler @chibibehemoth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Drake trying to get Cole to battle Kendrick

2 panels
Panel 1: A Pokémon battle between cute looking Rowlet and scary looking Groudon. Rowlet stares back at their trainer.
Panel 2: close up on Rowlet captioned "Dafuq you want me to do"

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I’ve been trialing a bunch of multi user agent solutions recently and mostly been disappointed by them. Warp Oz is really slick though so shoutout to them

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

People be like “oh we can’t use LSP in our harness, it takes the model out of the situations it’s familiar with from training which reduces coding performance” meanwhile the users: “Claude caveman now. Few word for think. Token scary”

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Mason? @masonsal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Really stupid prediction: US companies are going to be very stubborn about using Chinese made LLMs even versions running locally or hosted in the US. Businesses/products will spin up around just doing a tiny fine tune pass on those models to rename and “Americanize” them, basically what Cursor did

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