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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Given that Secretary of Grooming Regs Pete Hegseth trotted out his "no beardos, no fatties" shit again today, I'm going to throw this back onto the timeline.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 10h

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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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13h

It's astonishing just how committed this SCOTUS is to burning its own institutional legitimacy to the ground.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 10h

“Everything is gender” and “men would literally rather [x] than go to therapy” are a little played out as jokes, but… well! 🤷‍♂️

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

Well, I'm 20 years late to the party on this one but this is why it pays to hangout with the Earth Sciences people when you're near their building. TL;DR - Geology is complicated. It's good to ask geologists before you dig deep holes or you will learn SURPRISE GEOLOGY.

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Staufen im Breisgau - Wikipedia

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 8h

A really good demonstration that "reasoning" models are producing output that sounds like reasoning but reasoning is not what they seem to be doing.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h

The "all anti-Zionism is always and forever antisemitism" people and the "all antisemitism becomes fine if we just say it's anti-Zionism, even if we're ranting about the Talmud" people reinforce one another, even if both sides utterly fail to see it.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 8h

One of these days, ONE of the sycophants is going to snap and pull down Trump's pants to reveal his giant diaper/walking-machine.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 9h

"No beardos, just warriors" says chucklefuck trying to expel bearded dudes called by God to be warriors.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 9h

what do you think these are, my guy? they aren't butter knives!

the khanda, the traditional symbol for sikhism

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 9h

This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm still looking for infosec researchers who've published research outside of traditional academic journals (e.g., at a hacker conference or as a corporate report) for a research project. If that's you, send me a note. Ostrich for engagement.

Woman hitting ostrich skeleton with picnic basket says "take that, you ostrich skeleton!"

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 9h

I'll be there. Look for the geek in the "Peace through superior firepower" HIMARS shirt.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 9h

ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard

“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

It makes me crazy sometimes. It feels as though we had a system where random dudes could sign up to play against NFL teams, and there were a million sports channels and podcasts and shouting YouTube guys debating the best team to challenge and fine points of strategy.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 9h

I like to say I'm a savvy investor. I put my money in broad index funds and long term bonds and CDs and otherwise ignore it.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

In the short run stock trading is a zero sum game, played against vicious sharks with infinite resources who make the rules themselves. And they've created a whole industry devoted to convincing people that this is a normal, sane thing to do!

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 10h

I think we can assume that Hegseth doesn't like bearded generals is because of who they win against and how

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 12h

The State Department has announced it will begin mailing passports in packages with giant letters that say "PASSPORT INSIDE. PLEASE STEAL."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13h

My hypothesis is that jurisdictions that let police screen rape cases arrest, prosecute, and convict at a lower rate than those that have prosecutors involved from day 1. We have never had data to test it, but we might now. This is one of my current projects.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 16h

Hey @mapquest.com time to do an update? Apparently we are now in the Unites States

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 19h

If the U.K. does rejoin the EU, there will be literally unlimited consultant work available to undo FinReg divergence. As some one with a retirement to fund, i wholeheartedly support this.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd watch a hitman movie about a hitman hired to covertly make sure the boss's incompetent son, also a hitman, finishes each hit successfully and thinking he's good at his job.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Per the EO, yes it really is the case the President seems to be directing federal employees to say "I can't hear you unless you say SI" to public customers, research partners, vendors, journalists, etc.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 30/09/2026

How is anyone happy with this mad king shit?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i am pretty convinced that the next GLM release is going to cause some pretty apocalyptic cybersecurity consequences not long from now

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Cynthia Taylor @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Doing a password safety webinar and so far it is giving advice so bad I feel like it might be some sort of long con?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

men: steal this one weird trick to stamp out sexism sssssssssss

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm not one to point to harshly at a "diesel theft being mistaken for a terrorism attack" as I've seen similar things in my weird career. The guy putting down purple carpenter's chalk on the sidewalk to mark a hashhouse harriers run near the White House had a heck of a day....

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so they're suspected of *something*--there is a bail amount--but it's clearly not terrorism

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

UK police said they had released the five men arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack on an airbase used by the US on bail. “To be very clear, this does not mean the investigation is over,” Counter Terrorism Policing chief Laurence Taylor told reporters on Monday afternoon.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 28/09/2026

Probably because the initial SpaceX secret sauce is "design your rocket like a server, ASSUME pieces will fail" So Falcon 9 was only 8 motors need to work for success. I suspect upper stage of Starship is that way too, with 5 of 6 sufficient.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump reminds me of my dad, which says as much about Trump as it does about my dad.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 28/09/2026

I'm beginning to think "move fast and break things" is not a good way to get into orbit. I think the only part of the Falcon 9 program in that category was "landing", which was not on the critical path for actually making money but an attempt to get a lot more money in the process.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I legitimately don’t understand is the economics that mean that it is in any way worth it to build DCs in urban areas. They are the least agglomerationy business you can imagine.

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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 28/09/2026

Hey @funranium.bsky.social What are the safety concerns with the Madonna Laser Crotch?

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mmmmmmmmkay I am kind of feeling like what should happen at Slutcon is that Olivia Benson and all her friends should bust down the joint and arrest all the organizers

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