Reposted by potatoffelNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2hThe main difference I’ve noticed between West Coast NIMBYs and East Coast NIMBYs is that the former will tell you that they’re worried about gentrification, overpopulation and out of control capitalism, and the latter will just say the thing. 827243
Reposted by potatoffelae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7hlikewise sending the San Francisco Child Protective Services to do impromptu 'welfare checks' on Claude, ChatGPT, and other models will also marvelously generate some clear answers about deeply contentious problems in the philosophy of consciousness and moral patienthood 0435
Reposted by potatoffele.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7hMusk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this 411546500
potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 8hIt's both. Investment created the infra but liberalisation allowed private operators to procure more trains and put them in action, increasing usage of the network 000
Reposted by potatoffelThe Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Some key stats here: "Spain’s high-speed rail sees passenger numbers double as fares fall by 40%... Liberalisation has not simply redistributed passengers between competing railway companies. Rail has attracted travellers who might previously have chosen to fly." www.railwaypro.com/wp/?p=141129 1238590
Reposted by potatoffelOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13hThere’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth 362501731
Reposted by potatoffelColin @colin-fraser.net · 13/10/2026Why is letting it do anything unsupervised not on par with doing gain of function research at the mall? 220419
Reposted by potatoffelKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation. 15244461161
potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I can entertain LLM consciousness proponents if they embrace panpsychism*. If you "well how do you know thinking stone is not conscious" me, then I'm going to "well how do you know wooden abacus is not conscious" you. * And arguably veganism before that 010
Reposted by potatoffelelizabeth says ‘Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor’ @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Oh fuck offthenational.scotBBC announces JK Rowling documentary exploring her views on trans rightsThe BBC has announced a new two-part documentary about JK Rowling which will explore her rise to global fame and the controversies surrounding her views on Scottish independence, feminism, free speech... 264932604
Reposted by potatoffelBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026*jesuit voice* the real question is whether AI has original sin. 3559655
Reposted by potatoffelFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/10/2026How governments spend money ft.trib.al/XLZdlinft.trib.alHow governments spend moneyCharting the outline of civilisation 1134
potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's always fun to be forced to go to somewhere random in the outskirts to save a bit of funding and then overspending multiple times that by having to take cabs instead of cheap transit tickets. As a former academic I remember less fortunate colleagues get stuck in that lose-lose policy often. 010
Reposted by potatoffelAnil Dash @anildash.com · 13/10/2026You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean. 13163332065
Reposted by potatoffelae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the headline is a rare case of anti-clickbait because the full quote in the story is actually much worse 520234
potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026To be fair, that's where the printing press was invented 150
Reposted by potatoffelThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/10/2026Breaking news: A 39-year-old woman from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, who had been diagnosed with measles has died, according to the local coroner’s office, marking the sixth such death reported since the state’s outbreak began this year.washingtonpost.comSixth person who had measles has died in Pennsylvania, local coroner saysThe state is experiencing the nation’s worst ongoing measles outbreak, the first in the U.S. to top more than 1,000 cases since 1991. 189754
Reposted by potatoffelBen Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026OpenAI’s faster Fourier transform is less a mathematical breakthrough and more a malicious exploit of mathematical traditions.argmin.netFaster Fourier TransformsThe OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit. 1519370
Reposted by potatoffelOliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm sure the Kremlin was delighted we voted to leave the EU, but I also think it's passing the buck to blame it on Russian interference. Russia's role in Brexit was tiny compared to that of unscrupulous hedgies, ambitious politicians and decades of lies from right wing newspapers. 67588114
Reposted by potatoffelKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 12/10/2026Blows my mind how everything is about the cost of diesel and not about... **sweeping gesture**... Anything else 912521
Reposted by potatoffelFT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 12/10/2026Russia is intensifying efforts to assassinate European defence executives, spy chiefs have warned. Once considered off-limits, civilian targets are increasingly in Moscow’s sights as the Kremlin expands its campaign of “hybrid” warfare across Europe. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/unDMscw 53624
Reposted by potatoffelThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Good example of why GDP targets aren't necessarily the most sensible way to measure defence readiness! 2415
Reposted by potatoffelColin @colin-fraser.net · 11/10/2026“There’s no way we could afford to do that at the scale required for RL” too bad. That’s the price. If you want to handle hazardous materials you have to pay for the safety equipment. 29312
Reposted by potatoffelColin @colin-fraser.net · 11/10/2026Like if the models are sOoOoO dangerous and prone to going rogue all the time and superhuman hackers and potentially misaligned, why are you letting it do anything at all without direct supervision? Why can it access a single website or execute a single line of code without human review? 51199
Reposted by potatoffelDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/10/2026I would describe the central thesis of the anti-anti-Trumpers is that while the Orange Man is Bad, the most pressing issue in society is that sometimes people aren't entirely fair in their critiques or descriptions of him. 0162
Reposted by potatoffelJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11/10/2026The anti-anti-Trump movement has been as damaging to he country as the pro-Trump movement. The basic idea of the anti-anti-Trump faction is that they themselves criticize Trump sometimes, but any political or legal figure who tries to stop Trump is always going too far or not doing it the right way. 934861
Reposted by potatoffel!H 🇪🇺👊🏻 @eurhostia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Resulta que para “dar la batalla en tuiter” solo había que mandar munición a Ucrania. 110647
Reposted by potatoffelGabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots. 7856221983
Reposted by potatoffelHoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic? 451696288
Reposted by potatoffelGarza panadera @arbobo.bsky.social · 11/10/202620 years from now we will have Sarkeesianistas and Gamegaters as the realigned left and right in the West. 073
Reposted by potatoffelmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/10/2026grok about to generate its first good content 239132
Reposted by potatoffelReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026the future is bleak and also funny 2805
Reposted by potatoffelRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...theatlantic.comTrump Is an Easy Mark for PutinThe president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans. 19730631347
Reposted by potatoffelBeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Please don’t threaten me with a good time 1838370
Reposted by potatoffelAnil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026Sometimes people push back when I say that staying on Twitter/X breaks your brain & makes you lose touch with reality. Here's a post from the guy who led product at X when they shipped their "create CSAM" feature, with a reply from a psychotic dude who's been posting about me for 14 years straight. 3483574
Reposted by potatoffelNilo @nilo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It's funny how NIMBYism is such a religious conviction for some people that developers will just say this worldwide without fear of repercussion. 726458
Reposted by potatoffelJenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/202613. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning (or reversible heatpumps), it already mostly comes from the sun, especially if you pre-cool. This is good news for hot countries as well. Heat is deadly. 314625
Reposted by potatoffelJenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/20267. Batteries are going to grow like crazy for the next five years or so and BNEF’s forecasting team are being cowards about it. Batteries are still expensive compared with no batteries, but they are easy and quick to build, and can sometimes replace hard-to-organise investments like transmission. 315524
Reposted by potatoffelStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 11/10/2026Jfc, Germany would be almost totally decarbonized today if not for shutting down all of its unclear plants 1022419
Reposted by potatoffelae @aelkus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026i think this matters a lot in light of the tendency to say “if you don’t accept expansive metaphysical claims of computationalists, then you’re coping” 3556
