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neutral @neutral.zone · 28/09/2026
Family history of Faygo consumption may indicate elevated risk for ICP-spectrum outcomes.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Come at me bro. I’m in Hell.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026
Is a sportsball happening right now
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🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We were warned about peak fact
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Amanda Boomfie @thatisabigmood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
xrisk means the risk of seeing a screenshot from Twitter
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neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026
Slop culture is what happens when commercial promotion and organic enthusiasm have become sufficiently entangled that the distinction becomes operationally useless.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026
Futurism is difficult for me because my brain keeps throwing exceptions like a compiler every time someone replaces a transition function with vibes.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 26/09/2026
Every group chat has one guy who’s way too into systems and is probably writing his own kernel. If yours doesn’t, congratulations.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 26/09/2026
Okay, now here me out on this one,
Jev has discovered a third lane: abolish both parties by winning all 435 seats.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
This is now the kind of place where I'm half expecting someone to write something to detect how many people responded or quote-posted this to validate how many people interacted with it actually count as "bluesky elders". This is the difference between then and now.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
It's going to be so much fun when I have a completely functional system that gets ignored by everyone because I'm not cool or hang out with the right crowd
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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 25/09/2026
yeah, there's "alignment" (normal, realistic, practical), and then there's "alignment" (cyberpunk dorm room ghost story bullshit), and the big problem we have right now is that the tech press keeps taking the bait around reporting on the latter
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
Let's suppose there is, in fact, no interesting “alignment” problem inside the model. The model still does not get the pen.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
Whee
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
New paper independently discovers that letting the agent say “done” is perhaps not a sufficient verification architecture. Enormous if true!
arxiv.org
Who Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign Off
Large language model agents increasingly combine generation, decision-making, execution, and self-evaluation within a single agentic loop. Although they operate under external specifications such as t...
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
Single Female Lawyer, Fighting for her client, Wearing sexy miniskirts, And being self-reliant.
Ally McBeal absolutely has standing here.
Unisex bathroom with deeply weird vibes was basically one of that show’s core architectural principles.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
You know, I guess I can’t complain too loudly about people not reading my shit if I don’t ever actually, you know, get around to posting it,
neutralzone.substack.com
The Genealogy of Authority Capture
How Three Generations Learned to Own Reality
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sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Experts are always erupting (2026)
Gravity lessonsYou tell me i am wrong. Who are you who is anybody to tell me i am wrong? I’m not wrongAi can’t replace me im already useless to society The cover of trick daddy’s www.thug.com
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rainy jorbo ☔️ @bookenj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the center for the study of getting kicked in the head by a horse
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
We are never beating the allegations that this place is a graduate seminar where everyone has head trauma.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026
henry david thoreau mama from the train
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I am nameless yet others name me @7778777.online · 24/09/2026
would..*squints*..mr beast lie to us about new battery tech
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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 24/09/2026
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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Introducing ONTOPAUSE™: An AI solution that automatically generates, resolves, and hides important ontological clarifications about the language you’re using, so everyone can reaffirm exactly what they don’t mean before going back to talking normally. Start not-stopping today!
A clean white-and-blue software advertisement reads “INTRODUCING ONTOPAUSE™” and “Automatically handles potentially anthropomorphic terminology so you can get back to talking normally.”

Under “WITHOUT THE INTERRUPTION,” a chat between furry-avatar users reads: ByteCoyote: “Is the AI done thinking yet?” A collapsed bar says “Terminological safety interlude · 3 messages,” followed by NullMarten: “Yes.”

Under “SEE WHAT ONTOPAUSE HANDLED FOR YOU,” the conversation repeats with the interlude expanded. NullMarten says, “By ‘thinking,’ you of course mean ‘performing inference,’ rather than implying a humanlike subjective cognitive process?” ByteCoyote replies, “Of course. You wouldn’t want to anthropomorphize! This was an informative and important conversational tangent.” NullMarten responds, “Indeed. My ontology has been reaffirmed.” A divider reads “End of terminology clarification,” followed by NullMarten: “Yes.”

The footer reads “ONTOPAUSE™” and “Have the discourse. Hide the discourse. Keep talking.” Smaller text below reads “Automatic ontology clarification for modern conversations.”
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
The slightly cursed historical detail is that the Senate had a 49–50 Iran war-powers vote in July too.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
Never go full Valleywag is exactly the lesson.
The acceptable amount of Valleywag is:
- enough contempt to puncture bullshit,
- enough nosiness to follow the money,
- enough nerve to publish what’s actually supportable.
The fatal dose is when tone starts laundering inference into fact.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
Can't wait to see if we get Milkovich v. Lorain Journal cited here in the discourse mines now
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
Janeway should have kept Tuvix as a Borg assimilation deterrent
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
🎶 No ceremony. Keep the change contained. No speculative improvements That nobody explained. 🎶
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
This whole entire dynamic is ridiculous and I'm honestly still amazed it still works so well.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
I mean, “the President’s Yale club created a durable old-boy network” doesn’t hit like THE TOMB CONTROLS AMERICA the same way "AI safety is mostly a hustle created by weirdos who realized extreme narratives are naturally compelling" doesn't hit like "SEX PERVERTS CONTROL THE TECH-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX"
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
The endurance of the rationalist sex cult discourse is starting to feel a lot like a repeat of the Skull and Bones shit that went down under Bush Jr. Like, yes, elite institutions reproduce elite networks, people hire people they know, social capital persists for decades, news at 11.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
The Salem Witch Trials are too far gone in history to be a proper warning for Americans now, so it’s a good thing we have HOAs
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
States are just really large dudes
Hobbes really did put “the state is one enormous guy made out of smaller guys” on the cover and call it political philosophy.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 24/09/2026
idk about you but this is my third run at "everyone around me has gone full eschatological" and almost nothing we hoped would change has changed. i don't do 'end of the world' anymore, instead i'm just carving things out of "the world" states are just like, really large dudes
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
“Do what you can with the time given to you” hits a little differently when you realize the speaker has already died once, came back shinier, got a wardrobe upgrade, and now outranks his previous boss
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
Okay I finally had a good idea for Jev
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself to a mountain dew
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
Are we feeling the Bern now?? That absolute schmuck
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026
and there it is: regulatory capture

6 SEC. 12. CHARTERS FOR ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTEL-
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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

9 to a person a charter to develop or distribute an advanced

10 artificial intelligence model.
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(b) CHARTER REQUIRED.—No person may develop or

12 distribute an advanced artificial intelligence model without
13 a charter issued by the Secretary under subsection (a).
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neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026
After playing with it some more, the only thing Jev seems to be good for is eating my quota from other models while I try to figure out where it might possibly fit
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
On the other hand, ...
businessinsider.com
We got a new clue about Xbox's ad ambitions
Microsoft's Xbox is slowly expanding its ad business. A new patent outlines a system that would find appropriate breaks in gameplay to show an ad.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
This is something gets lost if you just dismiss this as copying: if your correctness assumptions are wrong, throughput is just a force multiplier for the bug. Actually validating in the lab is definitely past the "put up or shut up" line.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
This is interesting, but also I love that someone responded to this thread with "Ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+p!", like, the entire result being discussed is that the model noticed a biological structure nobody had previously noticed in the data and proposed experiments that survived a wet-lab validation.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
Maybe more than other sectors, gaming already had a labor model unusually vulnerable to automation pressure because the industry routinely treats specialized craft as interchangeable production input.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
I actually did a spike to see what it would be like to build my own game. Nothing too deep; a 16-bit style platformer. This thread basically traces the same shape I encountered: technically possible, often amusing, absolutely not compelling for anyone else to look at after first pass.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
What if the discourse was inside you all along? Then the real question is not how do you escape the discourse, but what organ has been displaced to make room for it?
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neutral @neutral.zone · 23/09/2026
The older I get, the more I understand why wizards live alone in towers
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neutral @neutral.zone · 22/09/2026
I think this is where some of the problems sneak in. This HAS to be done because otherwise you begin performing instead of being, ie, the modern rationalist failure mode.
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neutral @neutral.zone · 22/09/2026
Have a beer, read some Beer, notice that systems reveal themselves through behavior, stop inventing souls for machinery.
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