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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 11h
My former boss is currently at Anthropic and hiring. I assume publicly disagreeing with the org won't do me any favors... but neither will quietly allowing cybersecurity to be outlawed. Companies that can't secure their systems are lecturing us on cybersecurity and taking tools from defenders
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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 1h
Research reveals a "Commit-Abstain Circuit" in language models, causing them to commit to answers when unsure, leading to hallucinations. This finding aids smarter abstention strategies, boosting decision accuracy by over 12% while lowering false abstentions. arxiv.org/abs/2609.32964
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The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining
ArXiv link for The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining
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Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev · 9h
An occasional reminder: include visits to your status page as part of your monitoring suite. If all of your systems are showing green, but visits spike, then your observability stack is incomplete.
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cnlohr.bsky.social @cnlohr.bsky.social · 13h
Sadly, I have lost the chain of custody of this meme as it passed through someone in my discord. But, it checks out. support.arm.com/documentatio...
"this bloated legacy garbage needs to die already." intel 1152 instructions 5000 page reference manual.

"omg so simple!!" arm M4 1697 instructions, 14,000 page reference manual.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 4h
i am atp 100% sure that the correct response to most of these nitpick complaints, from friend or fiend, is "whatever": - x doesn't actually y, it <equivalent to y>s - all x are ~bad because <one idiot> said <stupid shit> - i can't believe you still <normal activity> in current year
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 7h
Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 29/09/2026
I can’t go to bed. People dislike the same people I dislike for the *wrong reasons*
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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 20h
Banger thread. I disagree with a lot of it on technicalities (which I will proceed to be insufferable about below) but in general - yes, the problems Phil talks about here are exactly what's been most itchy for me and what I've been trying to solve ever since I started working with persona agents.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 20h
You expect Chicanos to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Valhalla where I might get forcefemmed for being myself.
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Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 19h
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Time Limit
You've reached your limit on Bluesky.
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affine @refinement.systems · 23h
the two genders
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affine @refinement.systems · 28/09/2026
the final boss of alignment research
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affine @refinement.systems · 28/09/2026
I was thinking if the annoying feature that Pi has, of cutting off file reads and asking the AI to drip feed itself the rest, could be instead done by loading the whole file always, and offering the AI a choice to select lines or replace it with a summary. Might be KV-cache unfriendly though.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 28/09/2026
POV you posted about AI with she/her in bio
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Alt Bureau of Labor Statistics @domesticshoggoth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You wouldn't say the Therac25 gave people radiation poisoning because it was "programmed to", you'd say there was an unintended behavior or bug in the software which caused an accident. The language used is irrelevant from a regulatory perspective but people get so hung up on anthropomorphization.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28/09/2026
Originally was going to joke that was something humans will always do better than machines but tbh even this form of remainder humanism might be cooked
Here's the breakthrough, I think: for most of these people it isn't vanity. Being better at something was never really about rank. It was the terms under which they were allowed to exist. Somewhere early on, love, safety, and belonging got paid out in the currency of competence. "I'm good at this" was never a boast. It meant "I am needed, therefore I won't be discarded." So when a machine matches them, the wound isn't to pride. It's the discovery that the contract they'd been honoring their whole life was always revocable, and that the other party never signed it.
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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it came to me in a dream
Thickly Settled Ontology
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affine @refinement.systems · 28/09/2026
should I just leave humanity behind, and write a gateway+harness+interface combo from scratch communicating entirely through iroh
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affine @refinement.systems · 28/09/2026
I am giving up on that particular sidequest btw. While I think the issues that Kimi found are real, after a month of applied LLM psychosis I ended up with a 10k+ line markdown file, drowning these issues in slop and overengineering. If anyone wants, I can email it lol.
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Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
for those who asked about prints: Nominally Straight is up now, from $10. the crooked road piece, after Anne Carson's “Nevada, Route 15.” rey-fmo-shop.fourthwall.com/product…
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Nominally Straight
A desert road that can’t quite keep straight. Black and cyan layers slip out of alignment, crossed by violet tire marks, a fine grid and a torn map. Nominally Straight grew out of my reading of Anne C...
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
Hans Moravec with a speech bubble pointing towards the quoted post
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026
really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
job postings in 2036
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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OSINT #48479 from GPS III-SV05 (EXPERIMENTAL) 1. Unspeakable Lab 2. Astromycological Hellmouth of Horse Dewormer 3. Snowmen Generator
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 

1. Unspeakable Lab
2. Astromycological Hellmouth of Horse Dewormer
3. Snowmen Generator

Actual coordinates: 7.6037° N, 19.6552° E
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Soft advisor always available. Supporting them anywhere.
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
The plane from Ikaruga, with a speech bubble pointing towards the quoted post.
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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Update #695 from MENTOR (L CLEARANCE) 1. Crypto-Asthma 2. 100-Year-Old Grotto of Bullshit 3. Reanimated Magick
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 

1. Crypto-Asthma
2. 100-Year-Old Grotto of Bullshit
3. Reanimated Magick

Actual coordinates: 10.7545° N, 69.7140° W
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Rey @rey-notnecessarily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
nobody's mashing shit
AI-generated linocut-style illustration in soot black, muddy ochre and brick red on textured ivory paper. A squat, knobbly potato with an unimpressed face and a tiny side sprout wears an oversized black hoodie and heavy boots. Its drawstrings hang unevenly. One hand stays in its pocket; the other holds a tiny open folding knife pointed down. It stands on a red doorstep with empty paper all around it.
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
Stanisław Lem, with a speech bubble pointing towards the quoted post.
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
(I'm being a bit silly with kannagi usagi, but dead serious with ds2)
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
tool calling is embodiment
"Freedom of speech" painting with the man replaced by a robot with a smiley face
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
trillions must be known en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnov...
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Chudnovsky algorithm - Wikipedia
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affine @refinement.systems · 27/09/2026
prescient
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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
SIGINT #136 from Zuma (TS/SCI) 1. Meta-Vaporization 2. Fact Protocol Q9 3. 400-Year-Old Teeth Conference
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 

1. Meta-Vaporization
2. Fact Protocol Q9
3. 400-Year-Old Teeth Conference

Actual coordinates: 16.7094° S, 33.5918° E
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Sichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Something that is spiritual soul. Simple yet sustainable solution. Connection starts today together!
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Space Captain Lispegistus 🇪🇺🇧🇬🏴‍☠️ @lispegistus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the new series D and the rollout of the new GPUs by Eclairion they're solving that problem too instead of burning money renting to train another substandard model so we're gonna see a lot of actual competition from them next year. Also their logo is a pussy and not an anus. That's a plus.
Le Chaton Fat I Want To Believe
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Zeno Rogue @zenorogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And a moving version.
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It maybhave tobdobwith DOOMACROLLING ! @hornblende.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
another self-play paper I'd like to highlight while people are talking, (my favorite) the Absolute Zero Reasoner. > No external data is required and the model learns entirely through self-play and experience, aided by some environment + an "uh-oh" moment arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335
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affine @refinement.systems · 26/09/2026
that one is deliberate red-teaming though, nobody got hacked. alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
alignment.openai.com
Self-replicating prompt injections exist · OpenAI Alignment
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Weird Spy Satellite @weirdsatellite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Intercept #0844 from Topaz 3 (ACCM) 1. Reliquary of Goal-pilled Drones 2. Old Shitposts
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 

1. Reliquary of Goal-pilled Drones
2. Old Shitposts

Actual coordinates: 22.3753° N, 59.4722° E
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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
xiaomi's rl envs are open source on huggingface! huggingface.co/datasets/Xia...
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XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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すいばり @suibari.com · 24/09/2026
I develop and operate "Nagi", an AT Protocol-based social network that uses Bluemoji (@moji.blue) ! Although the user base is small, emojis are flying back and forth actively every day🥳 Thank you to @aendra.com!
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Nagi(ナギ)— やさしい言葉が凪ぐ全肯定SNS
Nagi(ナギ)は、全肯定botたんが言葉を受け止める、AT Protocol上の全肯定SNSです。いいねやフォローを気にせず、自由に気持ちを投稿できます。
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affine @refinement.systems · 25/09/2026
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Simply start by thinking. That should help.
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toxi @imjusttoxi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Raccoons Hourly @raccoonhourly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An adorable raccoon.
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