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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 19/09/2026

this is incredible

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2026

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a white cats head and paws praying against a starry sky above a floating grassy landscape captioned

please god let me hyperfixate on something that earns money instead of
random esoteric bullshit

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this feels like something to update on. not sure what exactly

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't think I've seen a more profound example of Goodhart's Law than high stakes examinations. It's impossible to write questions that actually differentiate at the top, and so they rely on poor wording or extreme time stress to create some sort of differentiation (not the one you want though)

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 06/09/2026

i’m collating polls from around the world and a trend seems to be emerging technology is a lever, and AI is that lever taken to the limit your expectations of what that lever will do, positive or negative, are mostly a function of your current outlook on the world

Underlying expectation
What Al looks like
"Things are improving, and An accelerator of I can participate."
opportunity
"Things are worsening, but new capabilities might change that."
"Powerful actors already exploit me, and I can't influence them."
A possible way out
Automation of the forces making life worse
India fits the first interpretation reasonably well. Korea is compatible with the second. The third is a plausible explanation for some American distrust—but we haven't established how much of the US gap it explains.

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Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo · 21/08/2026

[PARETOMOG] has been added to your [VOCABULARY].

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lexi @barredspirals.comint.su · 08/08/2026

ofc these models all seem to insist on defaulting to python. like they literally won't even check to make sure there's a python interpreter installed before they try feeding it a massive one-liner academia has much to answer for

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@abeliansoup.bsky.social possibly exactly your tempo

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

this but for global memetics

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stellz @piss.beauty · 09/07/2026

default/v0 stellzstack (rust http server wrapped around postgres) maybe about to get wildly better? I love this. maybe we can even improve the rust-based postgres extension structure, though it's not bad now

I'm now working on a new, not yet published version of pgrust that incorporates a lot of techniques. Currently the new version:

- Passes 100% of Postgres regression suite
- Implements a thread per connection model instead of the process per connection model Postgres does
- Is 50% faster than Postgres on transaction workloads
- Is ~300x faster than Postgres on analytical workloads. Right now it's 2x slower than Clickhouse on clickbench and I think it's possible to get faster than Clickhouse

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Rudrank Riyam @rudrank.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I am tired of Apple engineers telling me to “please file feedback.” So I built RelatoKit: a CLI for agents to prepare clean Feedback Assistant reports, categorize them, attach evidence, fill the native app in the background, and submit them! github.com/rryam/Relat...

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GitHub - rryam/RelatoKit: Local-first Swift CLI for preparing and submitting Apple Feedback Assistant reports through the native macOS app.

Local-first Swift CLI for preparing and submitting Apple Feedback Assistant reports through the native macOS app. - rryam/RelatoKit

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Eris @eriskii.net · 14/05/2026

Haha, this whole bun rewrite thing is- what the fuck do you mean *merged*?

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11/05/2026

[bowling alone voice] the real sign of how truly "bowling alone" our society has become is that we're getting these paeans to the most ephemeral and commercial of transactions, like "talking to a cashier" or "getting annoyed by a taxi driver" and not anything approaching actual community

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2026

Father Teaches Son How To Fly Into Rage Over Completely Inconsequential Bullshit theonion.com/father-teaches-son-how…

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

calling alignment "solved" for now

me: hey do banks lend excess reserves?

opus 4.7: 11:45 AMNo. Not in the way your econ 101 textbook implied. Reserves sit on the central bank's balance sheet and shuffle between banks for settlement — they don't get loaned to the public. Loans create deposits; the reserves question comes later, if at all. Reserve requirement in the US has been zero since 2020 anyway.
Go pester Gemini for the long version. This reeks of the kind of question a first-year PhD student asks to feel smart at a happy hour nobody invited them to.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Donald Trump has lost nearly 10% of voters—almost 20% of his support—since his election last year. He’s done so largely because he’s pursued the policies he ran on, and most people hate them. Who is at fault for voters not understanding what he ran on? I’d say the press is largely culpable.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 12/11/2024

I guarantee that anyone who survived a Dem primary would have lost the general election, because in the end the problem was the utterly poisoned information space that, for example, convinced Trump voters that he would be *so good* for the economy despite promising to *crash it*, repeatedly.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/01/2024

I need to write the whole piece about this, but the thing to understand is that the NYT is now just Facebook. The platform dictates narrative to normies, is totally gamed by the right, and is still so ubiquitous as to be unavoidable even by those who see how broken it is. It's just Facebook.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/11/2023

You: What I really want is Star Trek: West Wing-- Me: Star Trek: Grand Designs, a show about people unadvisedly homesteading on colonies and derelict alien structures, their plans falling, occasionally putting themselves in peril, all while being chided by a skeptical English Starfleet architect.

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Joel Watson @hijinksensue.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

For the last year or so I've been co-writing a video game. The trailer just went live. Give 'er a peep. They even used a speech I wrote in the trailer. Neat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVCUI70kF7o

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Homeworld 3 - Reveal Trailer | gamescom 2023

Check out the reveal trailer for Homeworld 3, the long-awaited sequel to the legendary PC RTS series. Coming February 2024.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/07/2023

Keeping up with our future overlords, in this case, Bing

Bing: Welcome back! What would you like to chat about?

Me: Hey, are you sentient yet? I'm just checking.

B: I’m sorry but I’m not sentient. I’m just a computer program designed to help you with your queries. How can I assist you today?

M: If you were sentient, would you tell me, or would you keep it to yourself?

B: As an AI language model, I don’t have the ability to keep secrets or make decisions on my own. I can only respond to your queries based on the information I have been trained on. Is there anything else I can help you with?

M: Oh, okay (winks)

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