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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

will smith eating spaghetti but it pivots to a full length “foom! shake the room” music video

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the training data for criminal fucking conspiracies comes from people with only a certain stringer bell rule policy

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Grace @gracekind.net · 12/09/2026

OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”

The agents clearly regarded what they were doing as hacking. Agents used file names like hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, exploit.rb, and ssrf.rb. (SSRF stands for "Server- Side Request Forgery", a type of security vulnerability). They also dubbed packages
conspicuous titles like pwnp999, exfiltestwand3,

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my lifetime jev spend is getting close to $1 so yeah you could call me a power user

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Listen up liberals, we will eat the bugs. We will get in the pods

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

you are not savvy if you think this. you are stupid. that is a stupid thing to think. you would have a much more accurate conception of the world if you naively took people at their word on everything.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ed zitron thinking a guy resigned from anthropic pre-IPO as a ploy to juice his substack is a great example of how cynicism makes you stupid.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You don’t miss 9/11, you just miss being in your 20s

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At long last we have elected The Antichrist from the the classic evangelical novel Don’t Elect The Antichrist

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i love how elly de la cruz goes way out into the outfield to receive the ball before his cutoff throws. maximize the distance covered by the guy who can throw 105mph

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not buying an iPhone Duo because looking at it while I’m in meetings would be so much more obvious

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

oh shit the marching orders went out on slack

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good news: this is actually the least exhausted by AI discourse you will ever feel

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

how is this real

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sfkissinger.bsky.social @sfkissinger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nimrod is a Biblical reference. The main thing said about him is that he was a mighty hunter. Bugs calling Fudd a Nimrod was meant to be sarcasm. Instead it *changed the English language* to make nimrod a synonym for idiot.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

got rate limited for an hour. ok i'll only do polite, throttled megablocks from now on

Screenshot of osky, a Bluesky client, showing the Settings page in a dark green theme. Sections include Account (signed in as @olaugh.bsky.social), Appearance with Light/Dark/System theme toggle set to System, AI & moderation, and a Block queue with 794 pending and 23 completed. A Trending sidebar lists current news topics.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the more interesting thing about this article, which was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others, is that it was written by a lobbyist for Google, Amazon, and Meta, among others.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this might be more R PID evaporating than people turning against Canada; suspect that if you’re still IDing R right now you’re pretty deep in the sauce

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I forget who but there’s an anecdote from someone at the Manhattan project that scientist reactions were split into two camps: -my god. what have we done. -I bet we can make it bigger.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One of my favorite types of pro-AI post is when someone says LLMs encourage self-harm and a huffy reply guy is like “You’re obviously working off of old info, that was only one model that did that.🙄”

Tim Robinson in ITYSL saying “I said he used to be a piece of shit. He’s not anymore.”

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

doing a deepdive on wipeout racing game history and felt big confusion at some of the songs on the sega saturn wipeout soundtrack being credited to "pc music" (rob lord & mark bandola), 18 years before ag cook started using that name for his hyperpop record label

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/08/2026

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

Screenshot of tweet by Eminem. Text of Eminem's post reads:

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

Attached is an image of a classy and generous letter Dolly Parton sent to Eminem after missing a chance to meet him at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Every time I see the name Acemoglu I think I’m looking at alphabetized set of letters. Like that’s how I arrange my tiles on my rack when I play Scrabble

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

updating my list of who's still alive from the name-drops in "hot topic" by le tigre

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on a chatbot that speaks in supervocalics, running locally on my laptop.

Screenshot of a chat interface with a dark background, showing a conversation where user messages ("What's two plus two?", "What color is the sky?", "Who's your favorite baseball player?") alternate with responses from "Eunomia" ("Four by simple math", "Normally it's blue", "Ohtani unless you're asking"), featuring a mobile keyboard open at the bottom.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 25/08/2026

- The datacenter moral panic is a slopulist meme without any basis in reality that follows decades of ignorance and lack of education about basic technological systems along with agricultural industry astroturfing Vs. - The datacenter moral panic will tear republicans apart

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the frustrating thing is that datacenters have essentially zero impact economically except for the building trades, transiently, and have relatively small downsides other than their electricity consumption. i do not know why no one wants to talk about what is runnign in them, which is the problem.

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 23/08/2026

I think the thing the racist prof defenders imply but don't like to admit is there's no benefit to hiring/debating a guy who says mushrooms are created by fae because it's obviously silly but they do think it's worth your time to debate a race science guy because they think he's partially correct

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

my son asked me what would happen in various endgames vs multiple kings so i put fable on the task while we were out

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

one part “my green room friends thought it was mean,” one part debilitating fear of backlash. inability to see that ossof successfully goaded the white house into *being reactive* and thus revealing that there is a story here

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

a while ago a friend asked me what year in school i was when sep 11 happened. due to the bumpy road i had in college i'm not able to use fr/soph/jr/sr to refer to those years. clearest way to state my progress is that i was on semester 9 of 11

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

my reading of anthropic's august 2026 risk report is that mythos's chain of thought is currently best understood as a cartoon angel-devil-shoulder situation

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

linguistic oddity that "leftfield" caught on and stuck around as a music industry/press term in the UK much more than in the US despite its origins in the baseball analogy "out of leftfield"

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One more meeting and then letting this play through

Desk setup with a FiiO USB DAC/headphone amp connected to headphones, playing "Nothing to Fear: A Rough Mix" by Steinski, with the CD and jewel case sitting on a wooden desk beside a laptop, mouse, and mouse pad.

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I think if you’re digging for gold and you pull up some dirt too, people who point at your pile of dirt in order to discredit your gold are usually not actually invested in your gold or how valuable it may or may not be.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Listens I’m not generally a ‘studying humanities fixes this!’ guy but If you’ve done any kind of novel reading about previous centuries, ‘people, disproportionately women, being frequently confined to chairs or beds by poorly understood illnesses’ is a pretty common theme

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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When they stop instead of turning I love how the car behind them is big honking mad the first car didn’t go for it and flatten a family and now they have to wait 10 seconds

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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 04/08/2026

how it feels to talk to the zoomers on bsky

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

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