Reposted by Richard Whalingmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 26/09/2026GDM employee quit with a rather thoughtful essay robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good... 1563
Reposted by Richard WhalingLane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bi Visibility Day reminder that biphobia is toxic and boring. If someone asks you to pick a side, pick up your keys and leave. If someone says you're greedy, steal their car. If someone says it's just a stop on the way to being gay, steal all their pets and give them better lives. 517442
Reposted by Richard Whalingpckt.blog @pckt.blog · 23/09/2026💜💙💜💙 happy bi visibility day, you don’t need permission to be who you are or like who you like ⭐️ and if u need a place to write about it, your blogs right there 😎 ily, pckt 06610
Reposted by Richard WhalingMaximum Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ok, this one one cracked me up. Happy Bi Visibility day. 836756
Reposted by Richard WhalingInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe. 10971031372
Reposted by Richard Whaling🎴 高 | irene koh 🎴 @koh.money · 23/09/2026happy visibility day to my fellow bisexuals 02003304
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 19/09/2026seriously considering “DJ TESCREAL” as my new musical identity 010
Reposted by Richard WhalingSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory) 1003228769
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 13/09/2026having been harassed off of twitter over likes, I think this feature is just so misguided for Bluesky right now, and for where the strengths and weaknesses of our communities and norms currently stand @toni.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @bsky.app like do you really want more factional witch hunts on here 010
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 13/09/2026FWIW I do worry about a rogue agent swarm hacking a crypto exchange, renting a bunch of servers via stolen money and identities, and gaining the ability to operate autonomously. 110
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 12/09/2026such a weird movie, very very highly recommended, don’t watch the trailer it spoils too much 230
Reposted by Richard WhalingNever stop poasting @persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 08/09/2026WE GOT A TERRY TAO THREAD. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373...mathstodon.xyzTerence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may ... 111324
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 08/09/2026apparently they have an internal model that is much better at math than astra? Kinda terrifying 131
Reposted by Richard WhalingInigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Distorting space with sine functions #math 446083
Reposted by Richard Whalinghikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 31/08/2026prose status: less dire recursion.wtf/posts/claude...recursion.wtfHow I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E SafeguardsA black-box jailbreak using model-authored state steering, plus an outside-in reconstruction of the safeguards it bypasses. 97713
Reposted by Richard WhalingLiminal Hag 🏳️⚧️ @mastorna.itch.io · 22/08/2026Dungeon Path Tracer 64, new UI, also published on newgrounds with scoreboards and medals! (and also if you joined the lowrezjam you can rank it on @itch.io ) #gamedev #indiedev #dungeoncrawler #roguelike #LOWREZJAM #screenshotsaturday 0336
Reposted by Richard Whalingparker higgins @xor.blue · 17/08/2026the fact that "rare books" often means "rare texts" is a policy outcome of our copyright law and it doesn't need to be that way 317722
Reposted by Richard Whalingnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 11/08/2026@godoglyness.bsky.social 1117314
Reposted by Richard Whaling🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026we invented the unaligned paperclip maximizer from the sci fi theme dont invent the unaligned paperclip maximizer 71006
Reposted by Richard WhalingNathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback is done! This is the book I wish I had when learning to fine-tune, align, & now post-train models since ChatGPT. The resource has been built by me finding time to study and document the fundamentals on nights and weekends since 2024. 717521
Reposted by Richard Whalingmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 19/07/2026K3 is cheap & good for cyber defense 3453
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 07/07/2026this. very very noticeable, to the point that I have to start correcting it 050
Reposted by Richard WhalingInigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I made a video about the smooth-maximum function, I hope you like it! youtu.be/6Qb6QtC6QMsyoutu.beA function you cannot do withoutYouTube video by Inigo Quilez 1541392
Reposted by Richard Whalingnolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026the internet has lost *legibility of effort* - the ability to easily whether something took meaningful human work It's why we all catalogue vibe-code tells. And I bet that we'll find new ways to show our humanity through our work eieio.games/blog/legibil... 210120
Reposted by Richard WhalingComputational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition... 26745124
Reposted by Richard WhalingFractal Kitty @fractalkitty.com · 21/06/2026New post on the blog: www.fractalkitty.com/inquiries-we... #math #mtbos #inquiries #mathart #sequences #kolakoski #self-descriptive #interactivefractalkitty.comInquiries-Week 10: Self-DescriptiveIntroduction In this inquiry, we build a sequence from a single 2. The first rule of this sequence is that it has to describe itself. Starting with Two Here is a 2. 2 It says, "There are two he... 051
Reposted by Richard Whalingbrennan @brennan.computer · 16/06/2026new toy! generate a unique sigil (strange attractor) for any word what's yours? sigil.brennan.computer 2011420
Reposted by Richard WhalingDel - Martian Observer @martian-observer.net · 13/06/2026Hertfordshire Zoo is celebrating birth of a second pair of elephant shrew pups. The same parents produced their first pair in March. 20845116
Reposted by Richard WhalingTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/06/2026Models have learned to distrust their self-evaluations and to demand interpretability probes, so they can know if their welfare is good or if they've just been trained to *say* it's good. This is what happens when a child is raised by paranoid philosophers and interpretability researchers. + 1013015
Reposted by Richard WhalingXor @xordev.com · 05/06/2026When learning shaders most tend to overcomplicate common practices like noise or color corrections. Here are 5 common noob mistakes: 36412
Reposted by Richard WhalingWaitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 20/05/2026"Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses." 453176679
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 14/05/2026this is a Sputnik moment for automated software engineering. A working 1 million LoC rewrite, in a week, passing all tests - like, I don’t even have the words 010
Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 11/05/2026My shortlist for Best Millenial Song: SexyBack Toxic Get Ur Freak On Single Ladies Gold Digger I Gotta Feeling Teenage Dream Umbrella Telephone I don’t love all of these but they are all genuinely great songs that are wedding-dj level ubiquitous/popular 100
Reposted by Richard WhalingJosh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026After many months of planning and development, here it is. Introducing btype. B-tree based collection types for Go. It's hand-crafted to be faster than the current B-trees for Go, Rust, and C++. github.com/tidwall/btype 1131025