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@mechanical-dodo.bsky.social
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The eynayim of a kesil are on the ends of ha’aretz; besoin de rêver avant de crever. DMs open.

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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
plausible to me
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_Oarfish.jpg
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I suggested he make a video with one of these Yemenite stelai
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
x.com/i/lists/1855...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Normally I wouldn't post here to suggest Coefficient Giving fund something, but we're in an unusual, fast-moving media moment. Trump & Yudkowsky want the US to have an AI off-switch. Trump likes gifts. Donating stage 1 of such a system to the government puts the whole idea within government purview.
https://x.com/allTheYud/status/2097811685923078336
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't have any. the only reason I have 60+ followers is that you put me in your starter pack but although I once had a tweet with 33k or so likes, I'm still salty that this didn't get even 33 likes. it's exactly the tier of original, silly image humor with which a big account would get 33k likes
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
very cool! this one www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbild... inspired me to ask GPT Image for a San Francisco AI map
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
has anyone made a (beige) (mini-)site with interactive history of philosophy charts, a la Kevin Scharp's? www.kevinscharp.com/diagrams assorted fans of mini-sites, charts and/or intellectual history @bisks.net @norvid-studies.bsky.social @sichulu.bsky.social @lucresnooker.bsky.social @vgel.me
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made some predictions for things I thought were more likely than not to grow in frequency from April 2026 to April 2036. these are the relevant ones to op issue: x.com/Mechanical_D...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
a year after en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_R...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
this is probably a joke since the false Rubicons and true Rubicon flow from the glacier-free northern Apennines, south of the Po watershed. however, with sufficient meltwater at one time, whatever minor elevation of terrain separates the lower Po from the true and false Rubicons could be overcome
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in which thread are we storing these screenshots lately?
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mussolini's election campaign poster, 1934 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Han Solo
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gustav Vigeland's Monolith, Oslo
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NOR-2016-Frogner_Park-Vigeland_Installation-The_Monolith.jpg
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this review thinks Pythagoras was a cult leader and politician, but hardly a mathematician www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
good idea. based on the below, Sol thinks it's likely an intermediate link/citation-processing component or a final output-rendering/post-processing component for someone who uses LLMs so much, and hangs out with LLM-knowers on microblogs, I have a surprisingly weak grasp of all the steps involved
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
what is your experience, if any, with Sol 5.6 ignoring instructions in its memory? does it depend on the nature of the instruction, the length of the memory, the separate custom instructions, the thinking level used?
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
pondering the puffing
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm not in the habit of using microblogs as a travelog so I won't go into detail about my visits to Japan, but I can confirm that both of those reactions make a lot of sense
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
godanobunaglyness
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I've read that the military version is each descending rank ordering/expecting their subordinate rank to show up 15 minutes before them, and so on - we can fit hours of recursion in here - until the grunts are told to arrive at zero dark thirty - or "zero dark stupid" as they grumble
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Opus 5
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't know what ph 8.4 means for my health or what prehistoric plagues hibernate in Iceland's glaciers, but the wrapper and the bottle shape here have convinced me to guzzle Icelandic Glacial Natural Spring Water, The Purest Tasting Water on Earth®, imported only for the discerning (Miami and LA)
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
prompting LLMs to search for a webpage: -GPT 5.6 Sol (High): easy, done -Gemini 3.1 Pro: hallucinates a search, says it couldn't find the webpage, later admits it didn't search
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I wonder who the culprit could be
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"On the drive, Roberto tells Bruno that he has had the best two days of his life. As Roberto finally loosens up, he adopts Bruno's mannerisms, such as shouting at other drivers, and goads Bruno into passing another driver in front of them."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Sorpasso
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
the Dutch successfully invaded England in 1688, so they had the chance to influence English toward "Brussel sprout" that @0xcd16.bsky.social referred to what's interesting to me about the Glorious Revolution is not the nobility overthrowing a king with foreign help, but what came after:
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
William and Mary blew their chance
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
this could inspire a new trinitarian heresy in which God is x2 while father, son, and holy spirit are x3, x3', and x3''
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
it should be this: x.com/peterrhague/...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
for anyone curious
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
asking GPT5.5 about mathematicians who have aphantasia or are blind
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
farming and other human settlement seem to be overwhelmingly near the US border, with the only notable exception the portion of the Great Plains that extends north into central Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I was asking about the distribution of cropland (pink), grassland/pasture (light green), and forest (dark green). I've done this before (there was a good National Geographic book about this) and will do it again. there's no top-line takeaway, it just has to do with variations in terrain and rainfall
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
On bug zapper lanterns: are vaporized flecks of diseased insect a meaningful risk to the health of people nearby?
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/do-bug-zappers-work/
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
it turns out that it is close to two real surnames
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
until now I had assumed that Rabbit was the actual name of the recurring character in the novels. I've only read one of his short stories. what are the novels like?
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
x.com/Olympics/sta...
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
reminded me of the nightingale floors that warlords like Oda Nobunaga may have relied on for detecting would-be assassins
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Modified prompt, with GPT Image instead of Nano Banana this time
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Here is my first try. Now I'll try to make it more vivid and remove the floor.
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
how to permanently turn a freshwater lake into a brackish lake while temporarily creating geysers and Louisiana's highest waterfall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I doubt Anthropic's awareness-raising has much impact on number of future perpetrators because so many more people have probably seen such viruses (etc.) in movies and in video games than have heard of the risk from Anthropic's/Amodei's warnings.
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
asking GPT5.5 about where in prehistory the presence of raptor dinosaurs on the savannas would have precluded further evolution toward us
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
😔 Yesterday I posted a version of this list. the day before, I responded to Nikita's DM by sending him an earlier list of suspendees. But I think I overestimated his interest in further ad hoc unsuspensions (he never responded), and I'm a small locked account on X, so my tweets get little attention.
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Dodo @mechanical-dodo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I deceived you @norvid-studies.bsky.social, I've slipped back into reflexivity/meta-simclustering
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