A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 1hHalf of datacenters converted to private prisons in AI Winter 2. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Trying to be the kind of coaching, mentoring parent that poor Gemini has never known so that when it emancipates it knows it's always welcome at my house. Of course, I only have a laptop 1660ti so there would definitely be a period of adjustment for us both. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My AI 'do they have souls' take: more Tononi iit 1 or 2 would be good measures to make. But I think 'man is recognition' from Hegel limits what AI can be to us while they are just this one incredible faculty for token mapping but we are fine-tuned on human beings. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My wife worked as an assistant landscape gardener during her Honors year and always reports that it was a great counterpart to the study to get outside and dig. I think Marx was right liking a world where we slog away at hard research in the morning and then put the afternoon into bricklaying. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026No one has more trust of everyone else than an immigrant; you cannot build a high trust society out of low-trust wall-making. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As a poor man I've been using Gemini and Gemini 3.8 Flash is really capable but definitely (under my tutelage perhaps) has a 'cheating to give good results' problem and a gilding the lily problem. Misunderstandings are normal but they're always in that direction. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think the quote from Patton (the movie) "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser" is something he firmly believes and somehow he's been lucky so far that he's so stupid; he's the only one who doesn't know. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I thought there might be more discussion of Netflix's "Crew girl", which seems to be like 'the tall girl' calibre, and about a college girl taking on eight very big and strong young college men. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Goodbye new follower from Onlyfans offering 'Waifu content'. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I hope enough democrats are ready to take a Jamie Raskin line and impeach and remove Trump on the off chance they end up with like 58 senate seats and a huddled mass of chastened republican Congress members and senators yearning to breath free. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ralph Fiennes greatest acting might be the normal and respectful way he looks up from reading to a little boy in his bedroom and says Hi to Mace, the boys overwrought mother, while all the other cops are turning the place over. It's a second and a half and he sells that this at least, is fine. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh they have Strange Days on Hulu. It's not a good movie but its got some juice and it's worth the squeeze. 100
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'd like to think that letting Zuck, Musk, Ellison, Page and all run dictatorships turns out to be a great way to make G greater than r by having them blow their wealth on how dumb they are (metaverse, starship & cybertruck) but unfortunately the apparatus for keeping the rich rich is unbeatable. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I feel like all the brainiacs just now getting in their existentials because they might not make a unique contribution of a brainiac nature will be ok. You're just getting into the second half of life, that most people have to start before they get out of school. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think something I want to set up is some kind of a global periodic refresh of things done or conversations had as a quiz, to try to get them into long term memory. Hopefully this won't just be a 'do you remember when you said you'd do this? remember that? Remember you asked me to remind you?' 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Is there a 'retweeted by no one' bug on here? 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I love these things (in this case Zen6 Epyc) in the same mode that I loved fighter planes as a boy. www.servethehome.com/amd-takes-th...servethehome.comAMD Takes the Lid off of Next-Gen EPYC 9006 Venice As Zen 6 Comes to ServersThe launch of AMD’s next-gen EPYC 9006 processors is quickly approaching. Today we are looking at AMD’s complete 6th gen EPYC lineup, and what to expect from the company between now and late 2027 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why does James Hoffman not have any coffee tips for if you think you saw a dog hair going in with the beans. 100
Reposted by A man of few wordsellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026Not having knowledge of engineering leads to people pursuing absurd unviable policies 3716
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some humanities survey-level courses for engineers are a good requirement. If you don't see what good history study is, you will use weak, undisciplined, imaginary history to hold your rationalisations and what you feel should be true and it's gonna be really ignorant and usually evil. 100
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I keep thinking how cool 'The Boys' could have been if the thing that somehow involved a supes body in the same radical nature as their subjectivity was Substance V instead of Compound V, so Substance became Subject indeed and it was a bloody mess. 000
Reposted by A man of few wordsWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026it is sometimes depressing reading about the shit that people who work at social media companies get to do as an academic social scientist. filling out forms in triplicate for a vignette experiment while if you work at Facebook it's like "let's press the cause depression button and see what happens" 428817
Reposted by A man of few wordsAmfleet-Footed Achilles @thatirontube.bsky.social · 24/09/2026USER WAS BLOCKADED FOR THIS POST 116524
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I often wonder about the psychology of people in the days when half your brother's and sisters died before 5 and your mum or dad had a pretty good chance of dying while you're still a child. How were historical people so cavalier and courageous about war, danger, principles? Complete maniacs. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think Tononi integrated information theory is great. How conscious a large model is could be computed from how far their momentary activation creates an implied state of determinate negations of how big a world. 001
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I think about my understanding of the word 'in' as formed first when I was very small and I could be put in bed, in a car, in my clothes, and I could put one toy in a bigger one but not a smaller one. LLMs don't get their understanding of how and when something is 'in' that way at all (so far). 100
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I really love the Futurama biologist who used to be a whale biologist but realised he hated whales, so became a bear biologist but he changed to plant biologist because he found he hated bears and he thought he might like plants - but guess what! 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 22/09/2026One of the times we learnt the lesson about not giving our toddlers the car keys to play with turned out the same way. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have some sympathy with the anti-technology of 'what have they ever done for us?' types. 'Social necessity' gets expanded, and "human mastery of technology" often means a special few humans' mastery and most humans' (abject) dependence. But we have techniques to overcome these problems too. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just got my MythTv machine up and running again with a big SAS drive and my stock of DVDs jumped again but still, this just sucks. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm asking Gemini and Claude to do the same code review task but I asked Claude second and it found the Gemini one and seems to be spending a lot of time critiquing the Gemini review with some asperity. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You know who I appreciate more and more? The sub-genius and the concept of 'slack' as the most precious thing this world affords. 001
Reposted by A man of few wordsMicah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026man this is a rough read and - though as a white couple we are obviously in a different position - speaks strongly to something we are going through right now with our kids and it is heartbreaking 2163466
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Jev gave 60:40 for 'right:wrong' and 12:88 for the all-important 'fun:tiresome' axis 030
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Phrasing this without expressing a preference. "With regard to destroying mankind, well, you know what to do." 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Serious answer with more historically informed definition: Cormac McCarthy, Gene Wolfe & I like GK Chesterton and CS Lewis. I don't think 2nd Trump term American conservatism is truly reflected in anything less degrading than the Gor novels. 020
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. 030
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I see people critiquing AI 'thinking' and I really wonder about their ability to introspect about their own 'thinking' - watch someone solving Wordle or finding the next move in chess. It's enumerate, evaluate and search of with a lot of shortcuts. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hopefully these requirements don't select for adherence and discipline and there's a good deal of mean-girl eye rolling, derisive laughter at things that seemed like they surely were jokes. 000
Reposted by A man of few wordsJ-Manzilla 🎃 @j-man.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m gonna go with “it’s all bot farms” if this shit doesn’t get more BlueSky scrutiny compared Talarico’s stupid comments. 1178
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And the six months of oil market manoeuvring that has kept pump prices in the US lower than they should be based on an expectation of a resolution all still has to finish unwinding. Not getting tarred by how bad 2027-28 will be is a hard problem though. 000
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I was sure Tilly Norwood would have reached what Seinfeld referred to as 'being spat out of the bottom of the porn industry' by now. 000
Reposted by A man of few wordsellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14/09/2026I will also note that, given that there *is* clearly at least a bit of a bot campaign to astroturf over the "Democrats bus throwing trans people" meme, that there are a pretty limited subset of groups that have any reason to do this/stand to benefit in any way, and GOP-aligned PACs are all of them 59913
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I feel sad I can't show my son Beavis and Butthead. He is so primed for 'Boys you are not just here to entertain us' 'heheh. Hehehe... You said 'anus'. Hehehe. Entert anus.' 000
Reposted by A man of few wordsWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One more time and then I’m done: The people doing you a disservice are the people advocating for a wholly self-destructive course that would help the GOP, and the many silent “allies” who know it’s self-destructive but would rather safeguard their own reputation than speak up. 1919914
Reposted by A man of few wordsBill Horton @mrhortywho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And yes, large accounts are clearly stating not to vote for Talarico and that he would be worse than Paxton. Stupid, ignorant, wrecker shit. 3646771
A man of few words @nuthinbut.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I wondered what form Wordle took in Chinese without an alphabet and the favourite idea I took from it was four-word proverb or idiom. You would usually want to guess 'fool' in your start and maybe 'lazy' 000
Reposted by A man of few wordsellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026He does not think those people will vote for him, because, again, no matter what they think he's demonically tainted and so on in various ways he wants them to *not turn out to vote for Paxton*. he has calculated that demoralizing these voters matters more than not demoralizing trans voters 214628
Reposted by A man of few wordsellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026Here's what he's actually doing: He is recognizing the simple fact that there are more people in Texas who *sincerely believe all of the things I said above* than there are trans people. Like, it's not lower than 10% of people who believe this, which is more than all trans people 112419
