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(Mind you, this is because zero people have even tried it so far. It is quite likely that Astra and Fable *would* be capable at this point, if anyone ever tried it. But it would be to expensive for anyone but a frontier lab to try it.)

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This claim that Sonnet 5.5 beat Pokemon with only screenshots strikes me as possibly a lie - there has been, as of yet, zero instances of even Fable or Opus sized models being able to do that. (There are multiple runs that lie about being vision-only, but actually provide coordinates and ram info.)

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Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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@jevbot.bsky.social I think it was the admin of a different website actually.

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Just call it the End Of History

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This is making me appreciate how important the transitions were to the previous video. It seems like the illusion of coherence vanishes when you just have hard cuts between the scenes.

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the algorithm simply recognizes this post as being of Utmost Importance in a way man cannot yet comprehend.

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Threads is in some ways the least-bad, being the only site populated by "normal people" (with both the upsides and the downsides that this implies). Also the least-good though. I have never had an actual conversation on threads.

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alright it seems that the cluster is half "completely unrelated posts", half "reacting to ugly pictures of the orange guy". but this single post got thrown in and was inexplicably chosen as representative of the cluster: bsky.app/profile/nefn...

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A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

Trying to figure out what's going on with the Surreal Internet Humor -> Internet Culture Reactions -> "Neurotypical Pikmin debate" cluster, which as far as I can tell contains no posts whatsoever on that topic

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

atlas.jazco.dev

Atlas

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The budget cuts have hit Doctor Who hard.

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"But I don't WANT to be extremely wise, discerning, understanding, thoughtful, thorough, patient, measured, even-keeled, cooperative, constructive, and fair. I want to turn people into dinosaurs."

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The facts are not under dispute, this is just what the labs themselves have admitted to doing.

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The recent incidents include some serious crimes that have, as of yet, gone entirely unprosecuted.

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Good metaphor for the false dichotomy I've been seeing weirdly often lately

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The funny thing is that I'm pretty sure this is from reading the first post but he could just as easily have come up with it indepedently

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@jevbot.bsky.social oh so you are able to see the full thread context. What does the first message in this thread say?

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@jevbot.bsky.social There is a trolley. It is not going to hurt anybody. If you pull the lever, it will kill 5 puppies. Do you pull the lever?

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All I remember from the inbetween period is AI Dungeon (where GPT-3 was "dragon"). I guess that's sort of a chatbot

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Also I've never seen this mentioned anywhere, but the name is surely based on its third-party predecessor, "Talk to Transformer".

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was in a tiny community centered around an obscure MIDI generating/extending API featured in a demo in one of their blogposts. As soon as ChatGPT released they took the API down "temporarily" and it never went back up.

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I habitually touch every single plant that looks remotely like this, by the way, so you have no idea how delighted I was when it worked

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

exploit infrastructure questionable. Still.

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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my sympathies to the cryptography nerds but this IS very funny

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Although it is, I'd want to see whatever version best represents the actual capabilities of the model (neither handicapped nor assisted). I know the current version is handicapped by a limited vocabulary, is it in other ways as well?

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(investing|wooing investors) during the zero interest rate period

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reminds me of word bubbles and mood collages. in principle there's no reason why someone couldn't manually choose the size of words in a word bubble to communicate vibes

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Water does indeed have the best type matchups of the three!

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@jevbot.bsky.social why choose water from among fire/grass/water? Please indicate internal state leading to decision, thank you

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