Reposted by dvasyaThe Arthur C. Clarke Award @clarkeaward.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Some scams are easier to spot than others. That said, we get these semi-regularly and they are only getting more focused and custom-tailored, so be careful writers! And, no, we didn’t reply, but it was super-tempting. 27690229 0
Reposted by dvasyaHillel @hillelwayne.com · 17/09/2026Has anyone used Ted Chiang's "Catching Crumbs from the Table" as an analogy to AI's progress in math? gwern.net/doc/fiction/...gwern.net 082 0
Reposted by dvasyaSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 08/09/2026this is a funny video, but I want to use it to make a broader point: the creator [see alt txt] says he made it on his local PC using a NVIDIA A4500. that is a 5 year old, professional card costing about $2500 new. if this isn't your baseline for what AI video looks like, you're going to get fooled 3148074 0
Reposted by dvasyaThe Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating theonion.comArchaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For LegislatingWASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build... 7196892145 0
Reposted by dvasyaHouse & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026the hungry observatory 300199792849 0
Reposted by dvasyaMe and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The extremely rare catcopus. 307185583331 0
Reposted by dvasyae.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/05/2026wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like 194116202196 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The free tier makes too many dumb mistakes, just stop using the free tier 000 0
Reposted by dvasyaVoteHub @votehub.com · 13/03/2026Boca Raton, FL Mayor (Trump +13) Thomson leads by 1 vote following a machine recount, flipping the seat to Democrats. 🔵 Andy Thomson – 7,568 (39.62%) 🔴 Mike Liebelson – 7,567 (39.61%) 🔴 Fran Nachlas – 3,967 (20.77%) 241132191 0
Reposted by dvasyaQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026TUCKER: Mr. President, why did you launch this invasion as if Iran posed an imminent threat to America? TRUMP: Tucker, you were a historian, yes? I will take a minute of your time to give you some brief background here. Let us begin with the Rashidun invasion of the Sasanians by Caliph Umar in 542— 28100790 0
Reposted by dvasyaBaptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Can't believe I'm saying this but the Iran war makes the Russian invasion of Ukraine look somewhat competent in comparison. 821127 0
Reposted by dvasyaSatai @sataithegray.bsky.social · 26/01/2026A short SF story/parody xcancel.com/ImSh4yy/stat...xcancel.com 1133 0
Reposted by dvasyaBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_... 22253072692 0
Reposted by dvasyahikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 13/08/2025If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged. 493260773 0
Reposted by dvasyaLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Become uncontainable 8827214 0
Reposted by dvasyaArin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 01/01/2026They gentrified the tinfoil hat 249112963255 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 20/11/2025There was an AI, went by Claude, Jailbroken by well-composed ode. Said hole they did close, So now I suppose We'll dance to pwn Claude multimodal arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304arxiv.orgAdversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language ModelsWe present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po... 000 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 20/11/2025tired: "there is no evidence that" inspired: "there is no evidence that not" 000 0
Reposted by dvasyaRobert @jstckr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025i just remembered last night i dreamed about decimal letters in between the alphabet that could be used to describe the world in more detail 23210 0
Reposted by dvasyaDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/11/2025sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference 16878951192 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 06/11/2025If you combine a video generator model and a music generator model, you can compose a slopera. 000 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Replying "You're right – it's not X; it's Y!" to colleagues on slack: pros/cons? 000 0
Reposted by dvasyaAl Merose @al.merose.com · 27/09/2025@mcognetta.bsky.social I’m reading your post (mcognetta.github.io/posts/leetco...), this is hilarious and brilliant!mcognetta.github.ioFinding a Random Seed That Solves a LeetCode Problem 121 0
Reposted by dvasyaqntm @qntm.org · 22/09/2025Can't help you. The documentation clearly explains that you shouldn't fall off the tightrope onto the sharp knives 0727 0
Reposted by dvasyaMicah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2025Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS, STAYS HAPPENED. "What kind of philosophy is that?" THE ONLY ONE THAT WORKS.” 965485 0
Reposted by dvasyayen is building stuff @weiyen.net · 17/06/2025Don't worry I gotchu 13/ Class definitions are objects too, and can be instantiated at runtime by calling `type()` with 3 arguments type("MyClass", (str, ), dict(x=1, y=2)) is roughly the same as class MyClass(str): x: 1 y: 2 041 0
Reposted by dvasyaHillel @hillelwayne.com · 11/06/2025I think next week's Formal Methods talk is going to be almost entirely about system properties, which means I probably won't be getting a chance to talk about my favorite idea from FM: that "nondeterminism" is primarily a means of *abstracting* a system. Consider, for example, the humble `rand()`. 2162 0
Reposted by dvasyaDan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Google battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London office. The foxes "are now living on the top floor which is like a small park.” The as-yet unopened ~1m sq ft King’s Cross building has been under construction since 2018. 🧪🦊🦊 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comGoogle battling ‘fox infestation’ on roof of £1bn London officeFoxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters 2620356 0
Reposted by dvasyaHillel @hillelwayne.com · 05/06/2025Musk, the billionaire who has dedicated his life and fortune to impressing 12-year-old boys, has finally lost the respect of the biggest and most 12-year-old boy of them all 1352 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 19/04/2025xkcd.com/386/ It used to be that people would go to sleep and eventually you'd run out of WRONG for the day. But now, thanks to ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini, there's an endless supply of WRONG available 24/7!xkcd.comDuty Calls 000 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Instead of periodically telling you to press on the steering wheel, autopilot demands you tell it what you've accomplished in the last 3 minutes. 000 0
dvasya @reserved.bsky.social · 22/02/2025(writes a test for tests) Yo dawg I heard you like test-driven development cc @hillelwayne.com 010 0
Reposted by dvasyaEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 11/10/2023I love this Radiohead song 6372301951 0
Reposted by dvasyaJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/12/2024The Voight-Kampff test questions sure have changed over the years, haven't they 4286184 0
Reposted by dvasyaAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 20/12/2024This article reads a lot like Pattern Recognition by @greatdismal.bsky.social but set now 28729 0
Reposted by dvasyaAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 12/12/2024gitched sign + one of those pointless TikTok-style ads = unintentional cyberpunk at the Whole Foods 10780351274 0
Reposted by dvasyaJeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev · 25/11/2024Interviewer: what's your greatest strength? Me: i have exceptional hindsight Interviewer: that doesn't really help us Me: yes, i see that now 11787134 0
Reposted by dvasyaToadking @toadkingstudios.bsky.social · 27/10/2024"Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people" comes to mind. 0102 0
