Reposted by Mike WassonEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 19hPutting together a squad for the heist of a century. There's the hacker (Claude), the financier (Claude), the demolition expert (Claude), the inside man (Claude), the driver (Claude) 810411
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 21hso my college (division of university)'s mascot is a dragon but just got a massive donation from a (sus hedge fund) guy whose last name is a different mythological creature; they've renamed the school after him but finding myself irrationally annoyed that they're surely going to change the mascot 020
Reposted by Mike WassonStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'Should the British government be willing to take bigger political risks in order to make our debt look less risky in the event of a global flight to safety?' Again this is a question with a more obvious answer if you are starting from the Carney position of 'Trump, on balance, bad'. 212911
Reposted by Mike WassonGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance 131202142
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 28/09/2026In terms of landscape, Inverness feels a lot more like Dunedin, New Zealand than its namesake Edinburgh does. 030
Reposted by Mike WassonWannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026(leftistly) “these essential goods are underpriced, how is anyone to make a profit providing something everyone needs if we have to sell it for this cheap” 21247
Reposted by Mike Wassonrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless. 3198592
Reposted by Mike WassonJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line 8861199
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 27/09/2026I absolutely love that, in basically any settlement in Britain large enough to have restaurants plural, you will find a beloved Indian restaurant and probably a Chinese one. Immigrants! They get the job done! 010
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 27/09/2026Should’ve taken the YouTube videos seriously: Inverness rail station has a pretty facade but is quite boring. Makes it up by being right in the center of town 000
Reposted by Mike Wassonouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS 3832002236
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 27/09/2026I went into a trad bar, and in presumed acknowledgment of the tourists in town they started playing a medley of American folk, including camptown races and o Susanna and old Kentucky home and a bunch of other songs of that sort. How bizarre. 230
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 27/09/2026Welp I ran a 10k today, first ever, and yeah I get why people do this 150
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 26/09/2026static.klipy.comFrank Grimes The SimpsonsAlt: Frank Grimes The Simpsons 000
Reposted by Mike WassonIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The whole video is like 0.01% of a VLCC its crazy 1751880
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 26/09/2026Has anyone tried to do a maximum likelihood analysis of texts assuming LLM generation? That is, given a text, and the assumption that it was produced by a specific model, what is the most likely prompt to produce that text? Does the distribution even make that a sensible question? 120
Reposted by Mike WassonRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This would make sense if the Falklands were 2 miles off the Argentinian coast and not 300 2750852
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 25/09/2026It’s your first day here, so please make sure you follow our most important rule: 040
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 25/09/2026Trespasser on the tracks shut down the Picadilly temporarily, my ride to Heathrow took an hour lo get than it should. I hustled and made it right at boarding—to find that my flight was delayed 45 minutes and hadn’t even been assigned a gate. Yay? 160
Reposted by Mike WassonSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking 14761207
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 24/09/2026Common mistake: “xi” and “shi” are similar but not pronounced the same wayen.wikipedia.orgLion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den - Wikipedia 051
Reposted by Mike Wassonmcc @dryad.technology · 24/09/2026We are like, 15 or 18 years into a movement in software UI design that was originally called "flat design" and is now so normalized it has no name at all. You now have to invent and use a special adjective to describe a design that is *not* flat. I still hate "flat design". 515021
Reposted by Mike WassonFinn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026fairly simple hypotheticals which quickly lead to a dark place, what if: - your man "Tommo" had intercepted that dinghy before the RNLI? - the police hadn't been there to hold back the crowds in Gosport/Portsmouth? - the mob in that hotel had actually found "migrants"? 320753
Reposted by Mike Wassontweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 22/09/2026"yeah but you need the next gen models to do the really futuristic stuff like the math proofs" O RLY arxiv.org/abs/2609.15983arxiv.orgStellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer ScienceLanguage models can produce plausible short proofs, but may still be unreliable on long-horizon research problems, where progress depends on a sequence of uncertain and interdependent decisions. We in... 0192
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 22/09/2026I mean yeah but by the time you get to the World of Ruin she’s not nearly as special 010
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 22/09/2026So when Burnham became PM, my thought was that while I didn’t expect him to be better than Kier in terms of his political perspectives, I expected him to *do* things I had geared myself up to a change from sins of omission to sins of commission Oops 130
Reposted by Mike WassonBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1153334751
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 22/09/2026Men will do anything to avoid going to therapy, but Master Chief will deve anything to get to therapy 130
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 22/09/2026On Zach Polanski. This makes sense to me? Has positioned them well but as a politican has made a lot of gaffes and unforced errors. 100
Reposted by Mike WassonSoren Lorenson is secretly plotting your demise @soren-lorenson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also, as a Pittsburgher: PLEASE COME BE A TRANSPLANT! This city is amazing and we're at half our historical population high water mark. If you're at all handy, you will live like an absolute King/Queen/Nonbinary Monarch here. The fixer-upper situation is top tier. We need your sweat equity! 1371
Reposted by Mike WassonIn Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I found this persuasive and constructive while still affective www.liberalcurrents.com/talarico-d-i...liberalcurrents.comTalarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me NowAfter folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose. 57922
Reposted by Mike WassonKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It boggles my mind how many people don't stop and realize that Marx would have loved Excel and other data processing tools for the ability to easily quantity everything 0182
Reposted by Mike WassonKathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Imagine making this argument while spending your time on social media instead of spinning wool or mending something, like you'd have been doing prior to labor saving devices 1337268
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 21/09/2026If Grey Goo Corp has a 90% of destroying all humanity and a 10% chance of growing 10x faster and larger than Apple, and (very important!!) your investment has no effect on it getting to that state, you should make GREY most of your portfolio 130
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 20/09/2026Renewing a passport for a US citizen child in England/Wales: - Can't do it online, or by mail, must go to the embassy in London - Can't book more than a month out. Slots are AFAICT only available starting at 7:30-9:30 120
Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 20/09/2026The NIMBY instinct is undefeated. - the *underpass* was in Clockwork Orange, the current structure is from 1995 - it’s ugly and garish, the sort of thing people would protest against if it were new. - new one is ugly and garish, just slightly differently sobbc.co.ukWandsworth Clockwork Orange landmark set to be replacedWandsworth Council officers are recommending controversial plans to replace it with another structure. 132
