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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel this so hard! Hilarious and relatable.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Similarly, I have no idea what a "seam" is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask...

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Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Claude code is stenographically marking location information in its prompt to help Anthropic profile users by where they (appear to) be located thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...

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Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Awww... Pennywise got married... Good for It. 🎈

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Johannes Schusterbauer @joh-schb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Diffusion models treat every part of an image equally. → Same number of steps. Same compute. But images aren’t uniform. 🤔 Some regions are easy, others are hard. So why force the model to treat them the same? 🧵

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I'm not a data scientist, but I recognize so many of the interesting challenges and quirks of being in a similar space from this fantastic article.

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Lalit Maganti @lalitm.com · 05/04/2026

I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...

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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI

For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a reall...

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This has been on my reading list for a few days. It articulates extraordinarily well a lot of my concerns around the cognitive offloading that AI tools now allow. It also applies broadly in many more fields than just astrophysics.

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Little did they know (or care; the villains!) that Schmidhuber, himself, actually came up with the first agentic system to do EXACTLY this decades ago. Where do these revisionists get off with this vicious libel?

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 26/03/2026

how diffie hellman key exchange works (with as little math as possible)

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It is bizarre how one hour of jetlag is affecting my ability to function. If they ever invent a time machine I call dibs on giving whoever thought up DST a wet willy or three!

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Pydantic @pydantic.dev · 27/02/2026

A few weeks ago our founder announced Monty, a minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust, for running code written by AI agents. People got excited. @sa.muelcolvin.com just wrote up the full story on why he's excited about it and you should be too. pydantic.dev/articles/pyd...

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Pydantic Monty: A Minimal Python Sandbox for AI Agents | Pydantic

Meet Monty — a secure, minimal Python interpreter written in Rust for running AI-generated code. Learn where it sits between tool calling and full computer use, and why CodeMode matters for AI agents.

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

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All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder

A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/01/2026

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I absolutely love this project! Such joy and whimsy. 😍

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.

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Mikhail Jacob (he/him) @oroborositron.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

New generalist game playing agent from the MineDojo folks. Super interesting data pipeline. nitrogen.minedojo.org

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NitroGen | A Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD: It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS. I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 19/11/2025

Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models. Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025... For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

An Israeli strike targeted at least one journalist in Gaza, killing five total

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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