Reposted by pvgMichael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 21hDid I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include... 8681160
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026that is pretty funny as completely innocent, enthusiastic beehive kicking 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026back in the day, they'd let each shader unit do a bit of shading for the cover of the manual 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it’s the glass enclosure in which lab-coated scientists are imprisoned and forced to sift through microscopic dire-mouse bones. right up there with the Monterey Bay Aquarium cylinder of swirling anchovies 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026it’s funny because it’s the traditional outfit of the itinerant dolma-maker 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026this really limited the practice of goalies consuming the flesh of their opponents during games 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026you’re going to be way less mad when the java serial console remote management app fails cause, hey, it’s in space 000
Reposted by pvg𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕣 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕨 @phosphorglow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i'm always saying this out loud 24816
Reposted by pvgairplane ian - abolish ICE @airplaneian.com · 21/09/2026the FAA "AI ATC" story is so dumb... an a great example how the term "AI" poisons everything it touches at it's core, the procured software is some very boring optimization software to help create Traffic Management Initiatives... these are the plans that help manage congested airspace in the NAS 3133
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026take the time to thank the people in your life for their attention to this matter 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026a corollary is that blasting one person's momentary, unvetted output at 100s of thousands of people is probably also not the socially most sensible thing - a problem musk twitter deliberately gave up on and bsky is reinventing ways to deal with on the fly 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I like the Chrome tabs sidebar but this, as UI, is madness 10 separate buttons in the top right (the Fitts-targetiest!) of the interface. it's like Ye Olde IE Ribbon, re-frankensteined 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026this is way weaker sauce (positive) than the openai thing but saying it was 'like a bug bounty' seems to suggest the targets did not really have a bug bounty for this stuff? otherwise why self-report to the feds. 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHON...youtube.comLionel Richie - Hello (Official Music Video)YouTube video by LionelRichieVEVO 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it's fun to think about the risks of an exponentially improving technology, after 60 years of exponentially improving a technology 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The obvious solution here is to simply call the US version a mamdate from now on 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There needs to be a sankey diagram of the types of people who have not (and the ways they have not) heard of the sankey diagram 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026they've been talking about their vengeful machine god for years and will still not shut up about it, including the ones who have huge platforms and positions of power at the fastest growing tech companies. what kind of reverse engineering is required to find that pretty fucking weird. 030
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026There was a funny job-posting-like thing by Yud, I want to say late 2000s/very early 2010s, where he talks hiring an assistant and it's all about how impossibly demanding it's going to be to keep up with his megabrain 030
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026gotta orchestrate them agents youtu.be/OmrUJ3ssLPM?...youtu.beGene Kelly & Donald O'Connor sing "Moses Supposes" in SINGIN' IN THE RAIN | Mad About Musicals | TCMYouTube video by Turner Classic Movies 010
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026'famous nerd beardo has funky apocalyptic ideas' used to be a fun part of the cultural background like talking to people at the office about the Blair Witch Project 020
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The TV show apparently not as good as the audiobook, never mind the book @yelenafurman.bsky.social @olgaz.bsky.social #ForsyteSaga26 241
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026fun Slavic loanword there in 'razboi'. Might think that 'boj' is a cognate of 'beat' but apparently it is not. It is a cognate of 'bone', though. 000
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026neat way of putting it. and what gets dragged along are a lot of LessWrongian premises that slip past people's checks, mixed in among the obviously true things (the models are getting better! maths problems solved! etc) 120
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tRO...youtube.comMatthews Comes AliveYouTube video by Don Lennon - Topic 100
pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026it's funny because the 17 completely realistic scenarios under which this would happen have a combined probability of 100% 120