neutral @neutral.zone · 28/09/2026Family history of Faygo consumption may indicate elevated risk for ICP-spectrum outcomes. 030
Reposted by neutraldisc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Come at me bro. I’m in Hell. 117253
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026The second thing, seeing which labels are on your account, there are a few different options. I, uh, happen to run one of them; you can find your info here labelwatch.neutral.zone/v1/frontdoor...labelwatch.neutral.zoneObserved labels touching cabernet.bsky.social — labelwatchObserved labeler testimony attached to this Bluesky account and its posts. Labelwatch publishes observations, not verdicts. 110
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026So for the first thing, you just need to use the labeler -- bsky.app/profile/stec... -- it's got more information linked in bio (which I've also linked below). It's great for immediately qsorting what kind of poster you're encountering here without an implied moral judgment.s.tech.cornell.eduCornell Tech STech Lab Bluesky Account Activity LabelerWe are part of Jacobs Institute’s Connective Media hub at Cornell Tech. We utilize a variety of methods from mining data on social media to conducting controlled experiments to interviewing users. Our... 120
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026I don’t know if I’d want to claim being part of a community or scene but I suspect if you had to categorize me, I’d be group 1 with a group 2 implementation problem: - reads papers / cares about semantics / keeps receipts - immediately goes, “what if we make the kernel do something deranged” 1260
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026What?? You don't even have the "posts too much" badges from stechlab-labels. Like, this is a former mutual who used use to be less of a content-production interface back when this place was invite-only and not just Twitter's commentary track 120
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026I could hear a cigarettey “come on, run it, run it, awwwww” coming from somewhere outside, so I’m assuming the answer is yes 040
Reposted by neutral🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We were warned about peak fact 021
Reposted by neutralAmanda Boomfie @thatisabigmood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026xrisk means the risk of seeing a screenshot from Twitter 112419
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026This whole thing kind of reminds me of when Pittsburgh had three country stations back in like the 90s and I kept thinking: who the hell is this even *for*, it certainly isn’t for me or anyone I know. That was probably an early lesson in “mass culture” never being as mass as it looked. 040
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026So maybe slop isn't a decline in virtue, but what signals look like when distribution has no chokepoints left to read. The culture of signals whose provenance is no longer legible. 241
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026I certainly didn’t choose Texas. I’d never even heard of it. I almost certainly wouldn’t if given the option. Somehow: MOST POPULAR SONG IN AMERICA FOR 23 WEEKS Yet my lived experience returns: ENOENT Normally I’d chalk this up to me being me, but this sounds like a common baseline. 151
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026Slop culture is what happens when commercial promotion and organic enthusiasm have become sufficiently entangled that the distinction becomes operationally useless. 2122
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026Futurism is difficult for me because my brain keeps throwing exceptions like a compiler every time someone replaces a transition function with vibes. 110
neutral @neutral.zone · 27/09/2026I’m going to pretend typing in “here” instead of “hear” was deliberate for the bit 120
neutral @neutral.zone · 26/09/2026Every group chat has one guy who’s way too into systems and is probably writing his own kernel. If yours doesn’t, congratulations. 090
neutral @neutral.zone · 26/09/2026In all fairness, I may also just be turning into a bitter old man 020
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026The ambient mode changed from “look at this bizarre little guy” to something more like .. here's today's compulsory moral emergency. Bring metadata. 030
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026This 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. 170
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026It'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 160
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026Forget the metaphysics for a second: who is allowed to assert that the work succeeded? 050
Reposted by neutralfuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 25/09/2026yeah, 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 151
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026Let's suppose there is, in fact, no interesting “alignment” problem inside the model. The model still does not get the pen. 170
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026Me: spend months building an increasingly deranged distributed system around “the agent does not get to certify that the agent succeeded” arxiv yesterday: Who Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign Off 110
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026New paper independently discovers that letting the agent say “done” is perhaps not a sufficient verification architecture. Enormous if true!arxiv.orgWho Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign OffLarge 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... 120
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026Also what exactly about that dude is "neutral". I'm guessing that's more of a "I have no strong feelings one way or the other" but come on, we do enough ontology crimes 091
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026Single Female Lawyer, Fighting for her client, Wearing sexy miniskirts, And being self-reliant. 2252
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026I think together these pieces say why this milieu is genuinely interesting and influential, but of course I’m probably also not the most impartial judge about that.neutralzone.substack.comMoloch Is a Timing Problem With Great PRA Holiday Meditation on Why Smart People Keep Summoning Demons 171
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026You 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.comThe Genealogy of Authority CaptureHow Three Generations Learned to Own Reality 1112
Reposted by neutralsina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Experts are always erupting (2026) 063
Reposted by neutralrainy jorbo ☔️ @bookenj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the center for the study of getting kicked in the head by a horse 073
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026We are never beating the allegations that this place is a graduate seminar where everyone has head trauma. 1100
Reposted by neutralI am nameless yet others name me @7778777.online · 24/09/2026would..*squints*..mr beast lie to us about new battery tech 021
neutral @neutral.zone · 25/09/2026A system should refuse to perform an effect when it cannot establish the preconditions that authorize that effect. 010
Reposted by neutralTeefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Introducing 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! 19817
neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026Back then Collins, Murkowski, and Paul were the Republican yes votes and Fetterman was again the Democratic no; Tillis moved into the yes column this time, while the attendance pattern changed. Love to load balance my dissent 080
neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026The slightly cursed historical detail is that the Senate had a 49–50 Iran war-powers vote in July too. 26710
neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026Can't wait to see if we get Milkovich v. Lorain Journal cited here in the discourse mines now 010
neutral @neutral.zone · 24/09/2026Janeway should have kept Tuvix as a Borg assimilation deterrent 1133