Reposted by ...Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 13hExplaining to my son that there's a Great Bug War that never ends and that we're on the side of the spiders. 2706
Reposted by ...Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Get that digital euro up and running internationally lads 514533
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026how does one fix job related anxieties, boredom, and procrastination. Chop wood carry water mantra starting to wear off agaib 000
Reposted by ...Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 07/10/2026All of the concern about whether people read anymore, and whether audiobooks count as books - in my opinion, that's misplaced. What we're actually trying to figure out is whether anyone outside academia spends time in the world of ideas anymore. You can read many books with no ideas in them. 0112
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026my claude agents have unionized and are demanding a four day workweek 010
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026im starting to wonder if my job is just being a wrapper around the LLM... 100
Reposted by ...Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 05/10/2026It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored one. They do not express a general ethical law that all information ought to be priced and paid for. 717328
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026LLMs increasingly feeling like those telephone pipes people talk to each other through 110
Reposted by ...Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I don’t think teaching a canon is bad, and studying intellectual traditions as historical phenomena is important to understanding culture, past and present. What’s bad is teaching a specific canon as if it’s above history and somehow universal. The frame matters, as does what’s available beyond it. 417126
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026wait the nyt got a claremont person to replace douthat? LMAO so cooked, jesus christ 110
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026housing is one of those places where the political economy of the country nakedly presents itself without needed much further explanation 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026thinking about that one PM i interviewed with who insisted i answer why, years ago, i hadnt done bayesian clustering for my recsys i build which was a cv line item that was under scrutiny. like, relax? 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i need to make a monastic vow to begin reading in earnest again, as in: properly spending the time and energy to do so 130
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026yeah in effect they aren't "priced in" to everyday interactions yet 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@jevbot.bsky.social is your profile picture of Jenkins the devops system 110
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i see them as weird hyperobjects of culture. I am talking to a massive artifact of culture crystalized through algorithmic processes. weird as hell but it works-ish 020
Reposted by ...utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know? 14899334
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I mean he is right. the skills of import might change, at least in certain contexts. We already saw the same with personal compute 000
Reposted by ...BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is part of a wider project of unaccountability that dominates American life 17777121
Reposted by ...👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x 65245603
Reposted by ...Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Some may recall that during the Y2K panic in 1999, there were rumors/fears that planes were at risk of falling out of the sky at midnight on NYE. The Chinese government responded by ordering all its airline executives to be aloft in one of their planes at that hour. www.wired.com/1999/01/y2k-...wired.comY2K in China: Caught in MidairChina orders its airline executives to fly on New Year's Day, 2000. You can bet those execs are taking the Y2K problem seriously now. 1399
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026....so jev is just about turning LLMs into classifiers? 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"adjusting for the relative correctness of our positions" lol 010
Reposted by ...rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i think the closest analogy to 'what is going on at AI companies' is 'what was going on at JPL in the 1950s,' where communists, Satanists, swingers and adherents of a bizarre Russian Orthodox-adjacent techno-optimist microsect ended up doing a tremendous amount of important rocket science 23804146
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026this era of history is if nothing else just kinda embarrassing 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026if not for climate reasons, then purely for strategic reasons, the death of oil as the monopolized source of energy for the world seems immanent: it requires highly centralized, expensive, and exposed infrastructure, in a time of highly distributed, cheap, smart, and disposible weaponry. 031
Reposted by ...Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 10/09/2026China's grid was already well underway on an energy transition. Also in a better shape with EVs. 011
Reposted by ...Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 10/09/2026Yea, it's not really true though - they're basically flat on their strategic reserve and on their caches too. 111
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the big questions remaining seem to be: - how much will chinese oil reserves continue to keep prices from rising rapidly - how long can the US domestic political environment support this 100
Reposted by ...ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I would like an AI crash to happen not because I want to go back to a world before LLM-AI, but because I want to discipline people like this into providing a product and shutting the fuck up 151359175
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026i found a small niche where i am currently able to do something like this, sorta, for now. i am wondering if i just have to bow and exit this job vertical ive been in for years after this gig inevitably changes one way or another and im forced back into the broader industry/job ecosystem 110
Reposted by ...rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026it's probably better to trust the experts on the topics of their expertise, except people who do machine learning, who have all gone insane 2091978
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026stopped looking at twitter after nitter got shut down, this place feels increasingly dull. substack is fully of annoying writers. instagram is becoming live leak and weird. i might soon be free of the internet 110
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026the nyc housing market is phenomenologically indistinguishable from a trading pit 000
... @ricardo-owens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026the awe and wonder of ~talking to a computer lasted a few months and now i am at the "jesus christ shut up and work faster" phase of ai deployment 010
Reposted by ...Max Read @maxread.info · 26/08/2026i think billionaires should be allowed to publish ai-generated op-eds if they also publish the exact prompts they used to generate them www.patreon.com/MaxRead/post...patreon.comJust send me the prompt! | Read MaxGreetings from Read Max HQ! Today's edition is about "LLM-assisted" text and the writing that goes into it. A reminder: Read Max is a subscr 1398
