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Mikell Taylor

@mikell.bsky.social
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Boston-based robotics nerd whose opinions do not reflect those of her employer. Come for the robots, stay for the cringe. It’s pronounced “Michael”.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h
fundamentally, 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)
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 1h
Oh my god no you do not need to have a separate branch of the military for robots what is happening
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 2h
I 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
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h
in 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.com
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Knockr — a directory of women looking for a donor to help them get pregnant, on their own terms.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
the october surprise is october being tomorrow
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h
So basically Trump has only been slightly less disastrous for international tourism than COVID.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 7h
So much for “let the states decide”.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 11h
NEW / 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...
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h
this the exact kind of "tacit loyalty" it takes to get into certain Cornell fraternities
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Stands @stands.bsky.social · 7h
Murray 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
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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 9h
Not 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?
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 7h
This researcher has hit the last name jackpot. Nearly everyone cites her work.
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 8h
girl dinner
Photo of the back of a taco truck backdropped by very California blue sky
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 9h
I 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.
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Vincent 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.
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 9h
Important 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/2609.38107
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Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces
Chain-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 ...
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WIRED @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-...
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Furry 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.
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10h
We'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.
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 10h
A 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.
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 9h
At this point I’m willing to believe the Singularity has been achieved and Sam Altman is a physically embodied rogue AI agent
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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
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 11h
Solar 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.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 12h
People 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.
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 12h
Watching 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
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14h
A 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.
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 14h
The official popcorn bucket for WHALEFALL? 🐋 THE WHALEBUCKET. 🐋 On sale starting October 15. 🐋
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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 30/09/2026
every 17-year-old boy who reads The Fountainhead will follow one of three paths: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ron Paul, or growing the fuck up
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
Read this thread 🧵
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they 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
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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 16h
It's time. It's time everyone. It is officially "sweatshirt + gym shorts" season in the beautiful city of Boston and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 20h
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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Why @why.bsky.world · 29/09/2026
Getting 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”
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 17h
Boston 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.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
like 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!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
on bluesky i operate under the default assumption that everyone on here is neurodivergent with a few fascinatingly rare exceptions
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 17h
I love unserious pilots
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get me this and a taco truck on every corner and you got yourself a deal
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
yeah guys like peter thiel (philosophy, law) and alex karp (studied under habermas)
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
retatrutide is going to change so many lives for the better
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thiis is the first time I've seen the MIT Tetris building in action!
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This 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.
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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If 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.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Netflix really wanted its own Heated Rivalry, it would be making a lesbian romance about two WNBA players.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 30/09/2026
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
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America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For 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.
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