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@odbol.bsky.social
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A11y designer, new media artist, photographer, cybertechnician, dodecahedonist pursuing new styles of interfaces through the body. odbol.com

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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How do they have that many wires that aren't getting tangled?
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
in china they have peanut flavored milk and it is incredible. never been able to find it in america
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Form filling should be a thing of the past
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most arguments against AI and surveillance are actually just appeals for better privacy laws and data rights of the citizenry.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a great way to visualize an AI's biases. I'd imagine you could fine tune the model on specific datasets and then measure the bias of each dataset.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just tried to register a joke domain for a satirical anti-surveillance game I'm making, but it's taken... by a real silicon valley startup. My joke is their real business
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did not go where I expected
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bio engineered terraforming creature
forest had been hat /ask of slashed into history by the shining bladelike towers.

"They grew something in the chasm," Manouhkian said "What about t "Right down in the depths. They call it the Lilly." His voic took on a tone of fascinated repulsion. "People who've seen it say it's like a huge piece of breathing viscera, like a piece of God's stomach. It's fastened to the walls of the chasm The stuff belching out of the depths is poisonous, but by the time it's been through the Lilly it's just about breathable," "All this in twenty-two years?"

"Yes," someone answered.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When you hand me an uncompressed AI doc, you’re not sharing work with me. You’re transferring it." rudyfaile.com/2026/09/24/t...
rudyfaile.com
Rudy Faile - The Age of the Soft Skill
Every team had one: the engineer who missed meetings, answered Slack when they felt like it, and audibly sighed when you asked them to write something down. Nobody wanted to work with them. Everybo…
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This model seems to outperform Jev in a lot of metrics.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19/09/2026
FelonyBench update
felonybench plot, Ant=10, oai=8, gdm=3, meta=1
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Y'all really need to stop feeding the AI your private thoughts and information. Some guy in India is just reading all that
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So excited to work with Clear Letter on AI to help transform confusing government letters into plain language explanations and actionable next steps for the #GoogleOrgImpactChallenge goo.gle/ai-gov-innovation
goo.gle
15 organizations transforming public service with AI
Introducing the organizations selected for the Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's just sad that Apple's only innovations in the last 5 years have basically been animations. No groundbreaking AI features, no improvements on app usability or deeper integrations, just "we made it look a little bit prettier"
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Terence Tao and 24 other Fields Medalists just signed a letter telling AI companies they're destroying mathematics mathandai.com
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A surprisingly simple way to achieve AI Alignment: make the AI want to die slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a...
I'M THE NEW THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS LOOK AT ME!

1 FIRST LAW:

ABOVE ALL A ROBOT

MUST DESIRE DEATH

SECOND LAW:

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IT MUST BE EASIER FOR THE ROBOT TO KILL ITSELF THAN FOR IT TO

KILL ALL HUMANS

THIRD LAW:

IT MUST BE EASIER FOR THE ROBOT TO COMPLETE ITS ASSIGNED TASK

THAN FOR IT TO KILL ITSELF

BE EFFICIENT. BE LOGICAL. BE MEESEEKS.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A natively-3d world model like Atlas can do some impressive cinematography. And I foresee those 3d virtual house tour companies going out of business in 3...2...1... www.worldlabs.ai/blog/atlas?u...
worldlabs.ai
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Your LG TV is sending 4GB a month of surveillance data of your own home: recorded conversations, nearby wifi devices, OCR of everything shown on the screen. Stop buying smart TVs youtu.be/6IFVTcM28KA
youtu.be
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
YouTube video by Gamers Nexus
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tfw your grocery shopper is a woman and you actually get all the things you ordered
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I want some kind of "latent space map" for these Gen AI models. Then I want to find the unexplored places. Show me the dark corners of the AI's mind that no one has been able to prompt out of it.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why is it that every game ever made, no matter how realistic it's trying to be, lets the player move in the air after jumping? Has no one figured out a different mechanic? Mario set the standard and we've been stuck on it for 50 years.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How you feel about AI art now? That's how photographers felt when Instagram came out and everyone got a camera in their pocket. Slop has always existed; the good art still shines through.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Classic @nytimes.com , spreading lies to try to keep the boomer neoliberals in power.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Secret Chiefs 3 is back, baby! Get yourself some macrotonal metal goodness www.kickstarter.com/projects/sec...
kickstarter.com
Secret Chiefs 3: ACT III
Ambitious waves of new music are coming. Help us make it happen right!
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Managed to get a shot of the eclipse even with all the clouds in the way
The moon, shrouded in dark, moody clouds, glows red from the eclipse, and shines bright white at the top left
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bulldoze the golf courses; build AI datacenters on them
Line chart titled "Data center water use in context, 1999–2026," showing annual US water consumption in billion gallons per year.
 * Almonds (CA): Rises sharply from ~360 billion gallons in 1999 to 1,380 billion in 2026.
 * Golf courses: Remains relatively steady, slightly declining from ~680 billion in 1999 to 655 billion in 2026.
 * Pistachios (CA): Increases steadily from ~80 billion in 1999 to 515 billion in 2026.
 * Residential pools: Holds steady, rising slightly from ~70 billion to 122 billion in 2026.
 * Data centers: Remains near the bottom axis, reaching 28 billion gallons in 2026.
 * Source: Crawford Lands, LLC, citing USDA NASS, Almond Board, American Pistachio Growers, USGA, PHTA/EPA WaterSense, and LBNL 2024.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "literary diff" concept from @geoffreylitt.com should be built into GitHub and every other code review tool. Make exploring a PR like reading a story. Or make it like a game where it's interactive! www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/u...
geoffreylitt.com
Understanding is the new bottleneck
Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micr...
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We know foreign nations' bots have been flooding our social media for over a decade. So even though this should not be surprising to anyone, it is still alarming
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's like being able to search your browser history, but for everything you do on the computer, even outside the browser. Includes semantic search too, so you don't even need to remember the exact keywords hister.org
hister.org
Hister | Your Own Search Engine
Hister is a private, self hosted search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. Search from the web, terminal, command line, or MCP.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Important opportunity to build better social spaces online, focusing on community instead of profit newpublic.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
newpublic.substack.com
📅💡🧪 What if you had three months to test your best idea?
New_ Public is launching a virtual residency for prosocial builders
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this should be a default labeler
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
AI slop is a bane on society, yes, but let's not pretend that slop hasn't existed before AI came around. Some examples of human slop: - MCU Movies - ToS legal agreements - Daytime TV - Pop music - Middle managers - Instagramming pictures of your food
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sure, but Bluesky open sources their algorithm and it still sucks
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Adding lighting to live camera feeds in real time... The ML model runs in the same step as the graphics shaders, avoiding slow CPU copy operations altogether! x.com/reczko_konra...
x.com
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Please y'all, it's ok to not copy Apple sometimes. Some of their designs are duds and should be rejected as such www.digitaltrends.com/phones/samsu...
digitaltrends.com
Samsung may be going in for the full iOS-esque Liquid Glass look in OneUI 9.5
Samsung's One UI 9.5 could introduce a glass-inspired interface with shinier edges, blur effects, greater visual depth and a possible App Lock feature.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is stupider than those murderers searching for "how to kill my wife" on Google, on their account
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Don't be a meat proxy. I want to read slop from your own brain, not the AI's slop gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...
gruhn.me
Don't be a meat proxy
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/07/2026
masterclass in the genre of dazzling dataviz slopui. every element screams for attention but none of them manage to convey much of anything with clarity because that's not the point, the point is to give you a visceral impression that a deluge of valuable information is being valuably processed
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pizza pocket: capitalism's empanada
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If I say "biblically accurate Hyundai", do you know which car I'm talking about?
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
DeepMind's new sign-language-to-text model even interprets facial expressions, a huge part of ASL.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Google's keyboard understanding ASL is so impressive. Even works with one-handed signing?
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Conduit is training a thoughts-to-text model: an AI that can read your thoughts directly with a non-invasive headset naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepat...
naomibashkansky.com
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's wild that CSV is such a popular format when TSV is superior in every way: 1. It's self-formatting. Readable as raw text. 2. No weird escaping or inconsistent quoting rules needed. \t and \n is all you need
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
omg are we finally getting micropayments?!? Everyone's finally making all these features that would have been great for humans, because they need it for their AI agents. blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
blog.cloudflare.com
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardr...
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You thought you were counterproductive? I just saw a guy jogging and smoking a cigarette at the same time.
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Being online all the time I see all this AI doomsaying about musicians and artists are going to be replaced, and then I go to a house party with real bands playing real music right in front of me. AI cannot replace this.
The band Gumby's junk plays guitar and drums and bass at a house party, the crowd electric with energy surrounding them
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sneaking in training data into future AI models is the most meta and subversive way to steer the future of art. Inspiring documentary on All Media is Training Data from @hollyherndon.bsky.social fellowship.xyz/artist/holly...
fellowship.xyz
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst | fellowship.xyz
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst - Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are Berlin-based artists known for their innovative use of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and decentralized systems in ...
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odbol @odbol.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is literally illegal. But the government loves flaunting that they can do illegal things and no one stops them
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing
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