Reposted by ScoiattoloTynan is afk til 10/19 ⁂ @tynanpurdy.com · 14hSay hello to Mrs. Purdy @alanascorner.online Everything was magical and perfect. We’re off to 🇮🇪 for honeymoon. If you wanna buy us a pint or have any recs, give us a shout. Love, the Purdys wedding.thepurdys.online 491772
Reposted by ScoiattoloScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/10/2026It seems pretty pathetic to try to intimidate a spam labeling service that has maybe 10K users max to drum up quotes for a substack. 48915
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/10/2026It seems pretty pathetic to try to intimidate a spam labeling service that has maybe 10K users max to drum up quotes for a substack. 48915
Reposted by ScoiattoloRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 04/10/2026🚨Breaking: Michael Shellenberger is sending waves of stupid emails to researchers again 😂 Reminder: if you got one, you don’t need to respond to Mike. Screenshot the email, post, mock, go directly to the public. He’s not a journalist, he’s a crank w/a substack whose growth has flatlined. Have fun. 115136
Reposted by ScoiattoloJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My official stance on DST. 3805
Reposted by ScoiattoloMatt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re... 36834215
Reposted by ScoiattoloFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/10/2026Really glad to see this, and thanks for taking action @moskov.goodventures.org 213013
Reposted by ScoiattoloAi2 @ai2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We’re releasing Olmo-core 3—open training infrastructure for large mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. It’s a core system behind the next generation of Olmo, designed to scale into the trillion-parameter range. 🧵 💻 GitHub repo: buff.ly/CGnP8ax 2589
Reposted by ScoiattoloGerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.) 1971381170
Reposted by ScoiattoloCathleen Berger @cathleen.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Time flies! #disinfo2026 is already happening next week! If you’ll be in Vilnius too, ping me. On Thursday, @robin.berjon.com @scarnecchia.net and I will dive into all things trust and safety on the #OpenSocialWeb — can’t wait! More info: www.disinfo.eu/conference/ 1143
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 02/10/2026@faineg.com : Bonjour, je cherche à échapper au siècle américain de l’humiliation. Sauriez-vous où je pourrais trouver du Monster blanc ? Me: 0463
Reposted by ScoiattoloReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you do not hate newspaper editors/publishers enough 639768
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 02/10/2026Replacing my account with a Jevbot that decides which posts to like and repost, and then deleting the app 2550
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 02/10/2026It occurs to me that it is probably instructive to look at what the anxieties of prior eras of global systems change were. I suspect we’d find they were not all that different from those of our own era, at least in type. 1222
Reposted by ScoiattoloWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I prefer the incremental solution that can be implemented through bare-majority legislation (240 Supreme Court justices) to Third Way's radical plan, which requires fully amending the Constitution (term limits) 3551461
Reposted by ScoiattoloEd @ed3d.net · 01/10/2026yknow, I daresay I would hate the userbase I was exposed to rather more than anyone who works for Bluesky seems to or has ever expressed to me 3773
Reposted by Scoiattoloaly @aly.codes · 02/10/2026One of the reasons AI began to be used in moderation everywhere is because in the 2010s there were atrocious articles describing the absolute hell human reviewers were going through and how they all had PTSD 730938
Reposted by ScoiattoloAmanda Boooomfie 👻 @thatisabigmood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026lots of people on this site seem to believe they have the right to be abusive to staff without consequences. I'm glad they don't 71039
Reposted by ScoiattoloDarrin Loeliger @darrin.bsky.team · 01/10/2026We want to make it easier for creators to link out and attract financial support, so we're exploring a new feature that lets you add links on your profile. They show up as buttons under your bio. 46646150
Reposted by ScoiattoloFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026Flying to Paris tonight for a long weekend with friends, then we're headed to Vilnius for #Disinfo2026 (where @scarnecchia.net is speaking). After that, will be spending a couple days in Rome and a week in Abruzzo. it will be nice to be away from Computer 6752
Reposted by ScoiattoloJoel Berger @teknomantik.old-home.net · 01/10/2026What a glorious time to be free. 172
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/10/2026You know, the morality and legality aside, this really illustrates why Iran would want breakout capacity or a nuclear deterrent. 0203
Reposted by ScoiattoloEvelyn @kandake.africa · 01/10/2026W Social published a "constitution" W supports freedom of expression then in the same breath says no pornography wsocial.news/constitutionwsocial.newsW - The European social network for verified humansW is a European social network governed by EU law, data hosted in Europe, and built for real, verified people. Trust your feed. 9798
Reposted by ScoiattoloAstra ⎔ @astrra.space · 01/10/2026fellow bluesky users being normal challenge (impossible) god every single post in that list is just… content warning i guess 4849
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/10/2026Me: Hey, I want to distill the decision making of this small open weights model on this topic into a small classifier I can run on a CPU. Codex / GLM: LFG! Claude: Je telephone le police 3713
Reposted by ScoiattoloReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects. 1351687
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/10/2026Folks wonder why they end up with “harassment”, “threats”, “troll” labels and I hope the attached spreadsheet is self-evident. 518018
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/10/202644 years ago today Donald Fagen released The Nightfly and invented the concept of sexyoutu.beNew FrontierYouTube video by Donald Fagen - Topic 7469
Reposted by Scoiattolodietrich @burrito.space · 01/10/2026the user hostile design will not stop until engagement improves (Strava is garbage) 1183
Reposted by ScoiattoloSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 125321170
Reposted by ScoiattoloKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026now this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable. 1434445
Reposted by ScoiattoloSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i think about this sometimes www.vice.com/en/article/p...vice.comPalmer Luckey Made a VR Headset That Kills the User If They Die in the GameThe man who created the Oculus Rift has invented a virtual reality headset that will explode the forebrain of a user who dies in a video game. 3435465
Reposted by ScoiattoloBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time." 2349831157
Reposted by Scoiattologeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no 413185772
Reposted by ScoiattoloVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex 24551103
Reposted by ScoiattoloBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026in order to help advance you all toward escape from the wheel of samsara, I would like to tell you that Aella has a new pro-natalist 'dating' service www.knockrup.comknockrup.comKnockr — Coming Soon · KnockrKnockr — a directory of women looking for a donor to help them get pregnant, on their own terms. 6970177
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 01/10/2026*nods* they see all the seams, not just the load bearing ones 3551
Reposted by ScoiattoloKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic. It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.episodes.ghost.ioWhat's the matter with trans panic media?Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people." 6592168
Reposted by ScoiattoloStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Unironically, the best thought-out retort to this BS. You can’t debate them. They think it’s funny when you bring out facts and figures and laws and then they just blow you a raspberry and say “nuh-uh.” They exhaust you until you give up and then claim victory. Fuck these goons. 735741
Reposted by ScoiattoloThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 30/09/2026AI doomerism is, in large part, a scam peddled by Big AI to try to lock out competitors through regulatory capture 2729
Reposted by Scoiattolohailey @hailey.at · 30/09/2026you dont have to like the website, but you all are just as bad about spreading misinformation as you claim the opponent to be and its gross. screenshot taken just now. 4353
Reposted by Scoiattolohailey @hailey.at · 30/09/2026“if you look at this chart, things started falling apart when ai was released” the chart: things started falling apart pre-2022 ai is glonzo 51124
Reposted by Scoiattoloex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass. 151068135
Reposted by ScoiattoloAriel M. (she/her) @byarielm.fyi · 30/09/2026If you’ve seen me trying not to reveal what I’ve been working on the last few months, well, here it is 🎉 Our first big offering - aside from Atmosphere account hosting - is personal websites for researchers! Drop your must-haves, preferences, ideas, or questions about personal/prof sites below 🧪🧬💻 810824
Reposted by ScoiattoloJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 30/09/2026I'm just going to assume malice on Anthropic's part if they're not giving the OpenSSH maintainers access to Mythos. 413220
Reposted by ScoiattoloDoll @dollspace.gay · 30/09/2026If openssh which basically the entire internet relies on doesnt warrant mythos access then what does? Whats the criteria? Why isnt that criteria transparent? 716020
Reposted by ScoiattoloGraphei @graphei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Classics & Religious Studies degree here. I partnered with an early OCR effort because the programmers couldn't tell if things had scanned correctly. In the end, it was a lot faster to teach me some Python than to try and teach them some Attic Greek. 1152
Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 30/09/2026History and International Relations degrees here. I learned to program because an Econ prof didn’t want us to have to pay for Stata in grad school. 3490
Reposted by ScoiattoloMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 553119570
