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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 9h

oh yeah all this kind of thing is presumptively Claude now.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

important to focus on the practical aspects of early education

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

I suppose that’s one way of putting it, Wikipedia

Beyond these supernatural elements, Bellairs's novels evoked "a child's concern with comfort
and security in his real world," addressing childhood fears of abandonment, loneliness, and bullying, as well as coming of age.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

John Bellairs wrote horror for children, and if you’re unfamiliar you’re thinking like Goosebumps and what he did is not very much like Goosebumps at all. Goosebumps took horror tropes and made them child-friendly; Bellairs took horror, as in the sensation, and made it child accessible

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

I didn’t scan the whole thread but did you know that they just put John Bellairs books in elementary school libraries?

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

I don’t think you can have both at once in terms of the effect on community

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

one thing this strongly suggests to me- and this reminds me of the StarCraft 2 work a few years ago, where the AI consistently kept producing probes long after the human players had stopped- is that the prior human-reached maximum was local/the conventional wisdom was wrong

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

I cannot help but notice that leftist groups do not, for the most part, demand that all lefty Catholics only attend churches that dissent from the teachings of the Church hierarchy on abortion and queer rights. They broadly understand that sometimes one has a cultural link to people with bad views.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h

apropos of the thread from here I kind of wonder which way this breaks: by providing more accessible hyperniche rubber ducks does AI 1) make accessible and expand the hyperniche or does it 2) collapse existing hyperniche spaces

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

the Seahawks D is quite good but the Seahawks prevent D is quite mid and we often switch to prevent too early in blowouts

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

is this a Christmas hint that you want cat-ear headphones

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

I look forward to discovering how they pull it off!

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

no shade to people who 1) edc 2) a knife 3) in their blazer but this does not feel personalized, to me

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

usually the Google algorithm is pretty good at serving up things that are at least theoretically of interest but

10 EDC Knives That Look Right at Home in a Blazer Pocket

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 13h

back to the Seahawks winning and everyone being mad about how: this is ideal, to me

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

I think Achilles is a good longshot where a little money might have a big impact. Bengs in SD is similar. For not-longshot senate races I would give in IA or KS right now

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

Just going to observe that the o/u on this game was 43.5 and the current team total is 43

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

p(doom) was a banger, this is significantly worse

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

these are getting, like, extremely sophisticated

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

one thing that might be attractive if you wanted to avoid triaging Texas is to figure out how to make some of the Texas money work nationally, like by spending it on national football broadcasts ads? trying that thought on for size

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

ok yeah this is it then, that makes more sense

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

so my theory here is that this is malicious compliance

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 17h

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18h

your schedule gets charmin soft after w5

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 01/10/2026

i need you all to promise me that you’ll be normal about what i am about to say: i saved a lot of tokens in my gemini seed rule by telling it to believe that we are both girls

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20h

i'd be interested in seeing a current census of EA to be honest to answer that question but my prior is that most are not longtermists

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

this i think is unfair, that's the view of a pretty narrow slice of already-minority longtermists within EA not the main view

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

i think it's ridiculous that they couldn't find an actual lion-who-is-Jesus actor to play the role

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

no. the USAID killers are variously claiming that they didn't kill anyone, none of the programs they eliminated were doing anything useful, really it's the programs' fault, and so on. but EA hasn't really afaict pivoted to account for the void left by USAID's passing.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

we're good, i wrote that in a pretty convoluted way

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

is she also beating this drum? good for her if so

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

i agree with that and what I mean is that EA donors should have, in light of the death of USAID, shifted to doing best-possible versions of what USAID was doing because they were suddenly the most cost effective interventions available for EA money to do

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

your most effective EA dollar should look pretty different in a post-AID world and it isn't clear to me it does. but like i said maybe i'm not deep enough to see it and it has been a robust response.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

i basically agree with this, but i think a specific criticism of EA that maybe I'm not deep enough in to see good responses to is that the murder of USAID eliminated a bunch of first-dollar funding to a bunch of things and you haven't really seen priorities shift to back-covering that.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

"yes socialize with your coworkers, try not to date your coworkers" is the better form of that advice imo

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

and it's sufficiently cheaper than Opus 5.5 that you can run *more* of it and plausibly get better outcomes

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

the straight answer is that nothing is as good as Opus 5.5 but GLM is close enough that if you want to go open you can live with it. but unless your local environment is absurd you can't run it locally

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

do you need local or do you need open or both?

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h

it’s tariffs and protectionism all the way down

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h

they spent like $10m an episode and it all shows up on screen

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h

I won’t necessarily recommend it because they left it unfinished but I think about it more than I think about most TV, and it’s gorgeous

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22h

though tbf he was basically playing his caricature but as Zeus

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