Reposted by Mikell TaylorSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 1hfundamentally, the question comes down "is war about spirit or is it about logistics?" (if you think it's entirely about the former, you're going to get your shit rocked) 1321238
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 1hOh my god no you do not need to have a separate branch of the military for robots what is happening 261
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 2hI feel like you can understand most things there are to understand about me when you know I’m running on 4 hours of sleep in a new time zone eating Papa John’s pizza and contemplating whether my own human brain’s chain-of-thought reasoning is a reliable narrator or not 050
Reposted by Mikell TaylorBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2hin order to help advance you all toward escape from the wheel of samsara, I would like to tell you that Aella has a new pro-natalist 'dating' service www.knockrup.comknockrup.comKnockr — Coming Soon · KnockrKnockr — a directory of women looking for a donor to help them get pregnant, on their own terms. 5543053
Reposted by Mikell TaylorAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024the october surprise is october being tomorrow 371751307
Reposted by Mikell TaylorJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5hSo basically Trump has only been slightly less disastrous for international tourism than COVID. 141690431
Reposted by Mikell TaylorMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7hdo men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now 42075581120
Reposted by Mikell TaylorSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11hNEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1300155
Reposted by Mikell Taylore.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7hthis the exact kind of "tacit loyalty" it takes to get into certain Cornell fraternities 11685
Reposted by Mikell TaylorStands @stands.bsky.social · 7hMurray has called a band meeting. Attendance is strongly encouraged. Join Rhys Darby LIVE for a Flight of the Conchords rewatch party, complete with behind-the-scenes stories, Q&A and all the Murray you can handle. October 18 • 8am PT / 11am ET Present. shopstands.com /Link in bio 02110
Reposted by Mikell Taylorseven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 9hNot in the loop as much anymore but the most recent person I can recall who legitimately went from busking in the Boston area to fame is Tracy Chapman, while she was at Tufts circa 1985-87. Mostly Harvard Square, Davis Square, T stations etc. Anyone since? 8203
Reposted by Mikell TaylorJoshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 7hThis researcher has hit the last name jackpot. Nearly everyone cites her work. 4526
Reposted by Mikell TaylorLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12hLot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p... 761468264
Reposted by Mikell TaylorVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 9hI have a million threads about this, but I've often asked: how do we know the reasoning traces that seem very human-like actually have anything to do with human-like verbalizations of thought? Better performance doesn't seem to answer this. This isn't the first result in this vein in any event. 4212
Reposted by Mikell TaylorVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 9h"The broader methodological lesson is that generated traces are observations of model behavior, not direct measurements of the reasoning process inside the model." There's also an important point about in/out-of-distribution trace validity and answer. 1264
Reposted by Mikell TaylorVincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 9hImportant IMHO. "Our results separate two properties that are easy to conflate: whether a thinking trace is useful computation for producing an answer, and whether the emitted trace is itself a correct derivation of that answer." arxiv.org/abs/2609.38107arxiv.orgCorrect Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought TracesChain-of-thought traces are widely read as records of how models reach their answers, informing debugging, agent auditing, and claims about reasoning. Testing this interpretation is difficult because ... 3689
Reposted by Mikell TaylorWIRED @wired.com · 9h“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant. www.wired.com/story/furry-...wired.comFurry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant. 67014
Reposted by Mikell TaylorBrian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10hWe're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post. 71703550
Reposted by Mikell TaylorJeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 10hA big downside of the top AI guys being deeply influenced by sci-fi is that they don't realize that giving non-organic characters personalities is a narrative requirement and not much more. If Marvin was just an android and not the paranoid android, he would be boring. 56712
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 9hAt this point I’m willing to believe the Singularity has been achieved and Sam Altman is a physically embodied rogue AI agent 050
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 9h“Star Trek didn’t used to be so woke” they literally made two entire hours of Save the Whales 090
Reposted by Mikell TaylorNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick. 161439366
Reposted by Mikell TaylorDemigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 11hSolar power will enable free air conditioning for everyone, and we will almost certainly figure out how to remove the climate impacts of refrigerants. Children won't have to die of heatstroke anymore. 1759
Reposted by Mikell TaylorColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 12hPeople have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy. 831284
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 12hWatching Star Trek IV on the plane to San Francisco remembering one of my last days living in SF when I finally did a tourist cruise in the Bay and we saw humpbacks and I lost my shit 170
Reposted by Mikell TaylorRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 141153385133
Reposted by Mikell TaylorCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14hA more general point: The owners of these models fiddle with them constantly to give the answers they want. This is why we need to distinguish among "AI" models and know who is manipulating them. 17018
Reposted by Mikell TaylorBloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 14hThe official popcorn bucket for WHALEFALL? 🐋 THE WHALEBUCKET. 🐋 On sale starting October 15. 🐋 55211
Reposted by Mikell TaylorMatthew Kay @mjskay.com · 30/09/2026every 17-year-old boy who reads The Fountainhead will follow one of three paths: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ron Paul, or growing the fuck up 818432
Reposted by Mikell TaylorJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026they should invent a google maps integration that detects if you're trying to run errands when a nearby school is letting out and slaps you in the face 3688079
Reposted by Mikell TaylorGooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 16hIt's time. It's time everyone. It is officially "sweatshirt + gym shorts" season in the beautiful city of Boston and the surrounding metropolitan area. 15814
Reposted by Mikell TaylorWhy @why.bsky.world · 29/09/2026Getting added to a new group chat in most apps: “more spam, ugh” Getting added to a new group chat in signal: “ah fuck whats happening now” 21185
Reposted by Mikell TaylorOnly In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 17hBoston will give residents up to $500 to throw a block party this fall. The grants can cover food, entertainment, face painting + more. Parties must be FREE, open to the public and held on a public street. Applications are open through October 23 at 5 PM. 14014
Reposted by Mikell TaylorFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026like this is not the website for non-neurodivergent people! that's tiktok and threads! this is the website for weirdos who still enjoy text-based media in 2026! 2359539
Reposted by Mikell TaylorFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026on bluesky i operate under the default assumption that everyone on here is neurodivergent with a few fascinatingly rare exceptions 2162841
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get me this and a taco truck on every corner and you got yourself a deal 0101
Reposted by Mikell Taylorrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah guys like peter thiel (philosophy, law) and alex karp (studied under habermas) 1747631
Reposted by Mikell Taylormtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I feel like if AI wants to be in the business of offering medical opinions, then AI companies need to be in the "getting sued for medical malpractice" business too 18981197
Reposted by Mikell Taylorpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026retatrutide is going to change so many lives for the better 1836451
Reposted by Mikell TaylorErin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Thiis is the first time I've seen the MIT Tetris building in action! 25515
Reposted by Mikell TaylorJ. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label. 11641424
Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you don’t know, the FAA has been rethinking the required onboard medical kits. Some rules are being loosened because aircraft end up unusable when meds are out of date. That needs a solution. Some changes, like the below, are going to be deadly for the sake of convenience. Not okay. 1157
Reposted by Mikell TaylorCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players. 31289211
Reposted by Mikell TaylorTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 30/09/2026America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitchtechcrunch.comAmerica.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitchFor the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry. 4143