Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/10/2026You can use agents to produce code at a pace that a team can make sense of it; and there are some benefits to that (e.g. producing something you couldn’t have otherwise made with the talent at hand). But this artisinal use of LLMs undermines the value prop of the fully operational software factory. 1452
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/09/2026you should come to this, you know. will I attend? yes. will I participate? ALSO YES. what will I read? look I don't have to answer that yet 1114
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The nightmare of how LLMs will be used to attack researchers. I can see this also being used to attack academics in general for not agreeing with the tech overlords. 2164
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396422563
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6246801036
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 563212436
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDGrady Booch @booch.com · 16/09/2026Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being. 26017
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 15/09/2026So cool. I've been working on mapping narrative trajectories through the latent spaces of LLMs for years. It's wonderful to see this approach 020
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have an urge to make a BlueSky bot that generates AI doomer op-eds in the form of “I used to work at {company}; we should {heed, ignore} warnings that AI will {kill, enslave, marry} us all.” 3272
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 15/09/2026Portugal decriminalized all drugs 25 years ago, and succeeded in reducing addiction, overdoses and HIV transmission. But the success wasn’t just from decriminalization: Portugal also built an integrated national system of healthcare, treatment and social services built around that policy.theconversation.comPortugal decriminalized drugs 25 years ago, but the real lesson is what it built around this policyPortugal’s remarkable public health strides after changing its approach to drugs may not be replicable in other countries absent broader systemic reforms. 27534
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 13/09/2026Whenever I hear about agentic systems going rogue, I keep on thinking of this: It's in their nature 000
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 11/09/2026Among the things we absolutely need to do to get the US back on track is change how we do business so that CEOs have significantly less personal power. The Unitary Executive theory of the President and the cult of the Mad King CEO are expressions of the same social disorder. 36916
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/09/2026As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated model but, like, the fluid dynamics of a language slurry. 1630831
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDJesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I’m selling my 1996 Subaru Sambar Dias Classic. Manual, 4WD. Right-hand drive. Top speed of… about 55. Everyone you meet will love you. In Los Angeles. $10K or best offer. 25916131
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs. 37862212
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026good morning, you want to adopt this kitten and her sister 617724
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDPhilipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026This is such a good piece by Renee and Kate; and it kind of extrapolates the (always rightfully contested) gatekeeping question of media into the AI age. AI gatekeeping is already here. And more subtle and less transparent than ever. Why would we give that power to AI labs uncontested? 074
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Evidence for Zone 1: MRI study found that in endurance athletes, heart size tracked longer hours in Zone 1–2, not briefer, high-intensity work. And cardiac volume is tightly linked to VO₂max. hiitscience.com/does-zone-1-...hiitscience.comDoes Zone 1 Build a Stronger Heart Than HIIT? New MRI Data with Dr Guido Claessen & Prof Paul Laursen - HiitScience 151
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 28/08/2026It's pretty simple. Your electricity bills will go up as the Trump administration takes away electricity supply in order to give a payday to one of Trump's cronies. Once again, the American people lose, Trump's buddies win. Sums up this administration's policy.washingtonpost.com$900 million from a canceled wind deal will benefit a Trump donorThe Trump administration’s latest deal to abandon offshore wind projects and boost investment in fossil fuels is set to deliver a windfall to a private equity firm run by one of President Donald Trump... 25654305
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 28/08/2026Schrodinger’s language models LLMs randomly choose between possible words, and certain choices can lead to wildly different results Goodfire’s latest work shows that those decisions largely end in roughly the same result. arxiv.org/abs/2608.19611 3634
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDGrace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/08/2026MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ 421968
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDTom the Dog @tomthedog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You guys. YOU. GUYS. Somehow I didn't know that Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris had covered Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush," I feel like I have been wasting my life until this momentm.youtube.comLinda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris - After the Gold Rush (Official Music Video) | TRIOYouTube video by Linda Ronstadt 19380110
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026As I said four months ago, a great irony of this new machine age is that it seems set to rehabilitate the value of the traditional Liberal Arts education, e.g. a broad exposure to the natural sciences AND the arts, the social sciences AND the humanities. www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...noemamag.comHow To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMAThe most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust. 3166
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19/08/2026Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus. 22657189
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 23/08/2026If you're ever in Sydney, don't miss The Tank, an exhibit space in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Similar idea: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/art/watch-li...artgallery.nsw.gov.auThe Tank: an introduction | Art Gallery of NSW 170
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDSamuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 23/08/2026New from me. I'm fascinated by the intersections of religion, politics, & "knowledge gaps." Here I look at Holocaust knowledge. Beyond education, vulnerability & political sorting play a role. Seculars & Jews are the most knowledgeable, but also those who are sorted. academic.oup.com/socrel/advan... 54521
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 22/08/2026Absolutely worth the read. I agree that we need to reimagine what we as a people need to thrive. I'm pretty sure that frictionless, global instantionious communication, infinite, unacountable money and intelligent-enough machines are not helping 010
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 21/08/2026Best use of image generators I've seen. This could actually be art 000
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 20/08/2026"The only appropriate time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely you are both everywhere and nowhere, eternal and nonexistent." 010
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDFRONTLINE @frontlinepbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026When Chris Colocousis first met a woman named Eliza on Facebook, he wasn't sure she was real. What started as an online romance turned out to be an investment scam. Learn more in "Inside the Scam," a collaboration with @apnews.com: to.pbs.org/4xaZBhJ 093
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 17/08/2026more places should have artists-in-residence. like there should be a residency where you live on a particular train for a month. there should be an oil rig residency, an arctic research station residency. maybe a residency at a zoo 201514238
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I cover scams, and had never heard of this until I started getting emails from "major publishers" who wanted to work with me. I'm lucky to not need the help at the moment, but lots of writers do. Please share this with them. And subscribe if you can, it's a big help. www.patreon.com/posts/166944...patreon.comBeware the Editor Impersonation Scam | Mike RothschildIt's every writer's dream come true. You're toiling along at your day job or on your latest pitch, hoping that this is the one that finally 1184
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDC. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Heh. #vaccines #autism #autisticmeme 7360471027
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 13/08/2026Nice second sentence. arxiv.org/abs/2608.113... 310519
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Check it out! Lea is live and open to the public 🥳 Lea is an experiment to build better social media by researchers and for researchers, where we own our own data and can build our own feeds, events, and communities. This is still very much a proof-of-concept; we welcome ideas + collaborators! 2024285
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 11/08/2026Just finished reviewing a paper that was full of AI slop. People, and I can't stress this enough, I'd rather read the author's struggle with articulating their point in English than paragraphs of wandering, repetitive text that says nothing. Ugh. 000
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 10/08/2026I am here for obscure deep cuts that explain policy 010
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Best use of Strava? Mollie the hamster runs almost 10 km every night.runnersworld.comA Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every NightMeet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage. 425952
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026FWIW, as a very heavy PDF user (OK I just checked and I have 16 PDFs open as I write this, which is normal) on a Mac, I have found PDF Expert to be a totally adequate replacement for Adobe Acrobat Pro, for at least what I use it for and care about. Their ed discount is significant, too. 3133
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDdan mentos @danmentos.com · 08/08/2026how it started / how it's goingstatic.klipy.comI Should Buy A Boat Cat MemeAlt: I Should Buy A Boat Cat Meme 291627313
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 07/08/2026This is very cool! Reading the paper now. 1) Did you do your own tokenizing? What did that look like? 2) Have you looked at the embeddings in the model? 3) How big is your context window? 4) What are temperature depth, width, etc. settings for inference? Thanks for doing this! 121
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Kids recreated the Roman testudo formation and it worked exactly like ancient historians described it 14478106
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 06/08/2026Looks like it shares some DNA with the Sebring. I remember seeing a few of these when I was growing up www.autoevolution.com/news/before-...autoevolution.comBefore the Tesla Model S, This Was America’s Best Selling EVCitiCar was built in Florida from 1974 until 1977, and with some 4,500 units made, it was the best selling American-made EV before the Model S arrived 082
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Really important to understand that Truman and Ike set up & institutionalized a whole process so that presidents would be briefed on (among other things) what was true and what wasn't and it served all the presidents since then well and Trump deliberately garbaged it and has no idea what's going on. 214440
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 31/07/2026I think this is really close to the central point - why let wanna-be kings build the jobs-taking machine if you can stop them? 000
Phil Feldman, PhD @philfeldman.com · 31/07/2026You can feed the image into a model and have it make a news story. In this case, the prompt was "Write a brief news story describing the protest captured in this image. It occurred earlier today" 56912
Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhDTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Tattoo it, if you must. But move with this understanding. 01014188