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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/09/2026
WAITER!
ANOTHER DOZEN PRINCIPAL
COMPONENTS, PLEASE
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/09/2026
crockett more or less confirming that this post-primary tweet will be her sole gesture of support and she will not utter a single positive word about talarico (this has been obvious for so long that frankly continued silence would've been preferable to whatever the fuck this is)
Y’all are corny! I keep receipts. I’ll be happy when people either give a damn about FACTS or news media goes back to the news instead of deciding to ride the tabloid lane. NOW FOR THE 1000th time maybe write an article about KEN F*in PAXTON. Y’all all sound like corny groupie ass OPS! 

Now do you know 5 of the other 103 races on the Harris County ballot?! DID Y’all even know they have the longest ballot in the COUNTRY?! Mind the business that pays you. 

For the lazy journalists that you see, point them here 👇🏾
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/09/2026
PhD from george mason and an employment history of three right-wing think tanks? yeah, very happy assuming this is low-perplexity output that is far more AI-replaceable than a licensed cosmetologist. mouth sounds mouth sounds low taxes mouth sounds
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/09/2026
yeah, sure man, the most anti-corruption president ever, who rolled back obama's rules on scam colleges in 2017, and who ran a scam school himself for several years, is definitely going for those guys and not "the liberal arts as a concept."
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 28/09/2026
6' vs 5'11
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/09/2026
honorable mentions to utopia and full tilt poker as they are edge cases i am not sure qualify in the same sense as the others here
The title screens from Starflight (1986), Wasteland (1988), Lemmings (1991), SkiFree (1991), Scorched Earth (1992), Dungeon Hack (1993), Age of Empires II (1999), EVE Online (2003), and Team Fortress 2 (2006)
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/09/2026
i don't really think highly of bernie's Yud Act bill (which would have the immediate effect of conferring vastly more power to trump), but this paragraph doesn't hang together much at all. if anything x-riskers are overshooting the "take AI seriously" target, certainly compared to the word police
Policymakers and political figures more generally have a perfect opportunity at this moment to pursue real, effective regulation of these companies. That regulation is not going to happen this year, but if Democrats win Congress, there’s a decent chance at some level of restriction.

Unfortunately, the public push against AI is being led, on the left, by Bernie Sanders. Despite being directionally correct in many ways, Bernie just doesn’t understand this technology or the importance of taking it seriously. He’s in the thrall of hucksters and conspiracy theorists who are feeding him preposterous warnings of AI power and autonomy that belong in the realm of science fiction, not tech policy.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/09/2026
curious as to the best ransom note you can get of this length. i don't use GPT but was handing gemini two grafs of instruction and one graf warning against common foibles, and was still getting this garbage, which has superficial collage trappings but doesn't hold up to scrutiny
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 21/09/2026
story of the paramount settlement seems to be lazy state AGs deciding that the republican judiciary can be counted on to vindicate CNN's rights. throw out anyone who signed onto this in '28 (the failure will likely be obvious by then)
But terms of Monday’s agreement include what Bonta called “court enforceable” requirements for Skydance-owned Paramount to increase domestic production and establish monitoring of editorial independence of the company’s news operations.

The settlement still needs final court approval. Bonta maintained that Monday’s agreement “is not a vote of support for this merger” — but that he was always willing to come to the table and “find a strong solution that protects competition and consumers.”
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 20/09/2026
carbonara has eggs and cured pork and is therefore a breakfast pasta
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/09/2026
most of that is too vague to have much of an opinion on, but i take a very dim view of these, at least as i assume they'd be enforced by either trump or the ccp. and the IP stuff is manifestly a joke; chinese models will happily generate midjourney v5-tier infringing content all day
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 14/09/2026
If Anyone Assigns Agency To The Political Right, Everyone Dies
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 10/09/2026
time to get serial
16 dougs, whaddya get
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 09/09/2026
i cry every tiem
U: What do you think of it? Aesthetically, I mean. (Surprise OOD follow-up!)

A: As an AI, I don't experience subjective feelings or have a personal sense of beauty, but I can
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 04/09/2026
32 Prompts About 16 Megans
slop; don't look
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 03/09/2026
bernie sanders is writing a bill that will, in effect, turn over AI governance to the judicial branch, as it currently exists. this strikes me as... not a good idea. certainly not unless a democratic admin can forcefully resurrect humphrey's executor
• Banning Artificial Superintelligence so no person or entity may develop or deploy Superintelligent AI systems. “Artificial Superintelligence” means:
o An artificial intelligence system that exhibits or can easily be modified to exhibitcapabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance and capabilities across a broad range of domains or tasks.
o Or AI systems that have sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the disempowerment of humanity, including by overthrowing or undermining the U.S. government.
• Pausing advanced AI development until a new, federal AI regulatory body is up and running and has established clear rules and model review processes to ensure safe and secure development and deployment of AI.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/08/2026
i didn't even filter these, pangram just doesn't see many images with negative goop vectors these days
the four AI images being pronounced "No AI" by pangram image 0.2
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/08/2026
i'm gonna be sad once every other lab follows dalle/mj/flux in sunsetting negative prompts, its one of the quickest ways to orient yourself in a new latent space and you can push around goopy booby anime models a lot more with them without violating no-name bushido
four goopy AI anime imagesfour less goopy AI anime images in a sketchy marker-like style
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/08/2026
say his name
Bernie Porn, Epic MRA
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/08/2026
sam altman's tweets really lose something in the transcription to unicode these days
this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act. we are happy if you want to work with us or any of our competitors or partners, but please take this moment seriously.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 20/08/2026
reposting @keytryer.net here because i feel like for visual AI the "do it, pussy" hurdle still seems near-insurmountable (i have various personal experiments that i've held back due to my own standards, unlike the average "MARVEL IS OVER" slop poster)
@KeyTryer
I think people who are into AI video just need to prove that AI video is better by making good AI video, if they really are in this asymmetrical power position, rather than whining every time one of these dudes says something like this. That's all they have to do.
[quoting]
@taherdhanera
Guillermo del Toro DECLARES WAR on AI - Says Users Are Erasing Generations of Real Artists..

I literally dislike this chap.

Guillermo del Toro is acting like the biggest gatekeeper in Hollywood. He just fears the competition. He knows that newcomers will outperform him and tell better stories. The people who didn't get a chance before are now finally going to shine like stars.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 19/08/2026
you know, it would be incredibly funny (but also depressing) if anti-flock populism turned out to be an LLM hyperstition. it might genuinely be a denser concentration of slop than substack.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 16/08/2026
the biomedical section of dario's manifesto is both incoherent (lol @ thinking "telling grad students" is any kind of bottleneck) and doesn't match anthropic's actions; as far as i know they haven't invested much in the physical robotics side of things. reads as cope for the in silico attrition rate
But I think that pessimistic perspective is thinking about AI in the wrong way. If our core hypothesis about AI progress is correct, then the right way to think of AI is not as a method of data analysis, but as a virtual biologist who performs all the tasks biologists do, including designing and running experiments in the real world (by controlling lab robots or simply telling humans which experiments to run – as a Principal Investigator would to their graduate students), inventing new biological methods or measurement techniques, and so on. It is by speeding up the whole research process that AI can truly accelerate biology. I want to repeat this because it’s the most common misconception that comes up when I talk about AI’s ability to transform biology: I am not talking about AI as merely a tool to analyze data. In line with the definition of powerful AI at the beginning of this essay, I’m talking about using AI to perform, direct, and improve upon nearly everything biologists do.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 12/08/2026
kinda funny that the things that happen to "bother" me about these images, and thus correct in post, also seem to be what bother the pangram detector. i'm doing my part for the RLHF tho
three AI slimegirls with submachine guns being passed as "No AI", with a pop-over "Submit your comments" box describing them as "3 superimposed gens + stamp outline + surface blur + some color levelizing + bicubic smooth reduction"
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 05/08/2026
it's very funny how people's obsession with avoiding one particular flavor of AI doom (broadly: existential, authoritarian, economic, and cultural) tends to correlate with frenzied efforts to accelerate one of the others
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 04/08/2026
plus ça change
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(d) This works because of Scher v. United States, 305 U.S. 251 (1938) which holds that the source of the LEA agent's information is not important. The legality of the agent's actions depends not on what the agent was told but on what the agent saw or overheard when he investigated.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 02/08/2026
real heads know
Bernie Porn, Epic MRA
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/07/2026
looks like @pangram.com is no match for fae magic (superimposing multiple AI gens after a denoising and levelizing)
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/07/2026
the people who design AI cannot even conceive of wanting to *reduce* determinism and this will crystallize us into the same lattice
1. Sampling parameter deprecation (temperature, top_p, top_k)
temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored. In future model generations, supplying these parameters returns an HTTP 400 error. Remove these parameters from all requests.


# ⚠️ Remove these parameters (deprecated)
generation_config = {
     "temperature": 0.7,
     "top_p": 0.9,
     "top_k": 40,
}
To improve determinism, define a system instruction with explicit rules for your specific use case.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 23/07/2026
very much tiring of this brand of nakedly racialized zero-sum thinking
"It’s almost like we’re running against Nevada," Christale Spain, the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, said in an interview. "That’s what it feels like."

"If Nevada gets elevated over South Carolina, it would be because of their Latino vote," added Ms. Spain, who is Black. "So you would then be telling Black voters that you matter less than brown voters. And I refuse to believe that our party wants to send any type of message like that."
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 19/07/2026
tfw shes a 10 but she has boundary issues
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/07/2026
this smacks of dumb exec-level interference. a model mostly is what it is once you've baked it, you aren't going to finetune in all the dogfooding openAI/anthropic are doing. just lean into the fucking multimodality you dumb bitches!
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, because the company has been taking time to try to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding, according to people familiar with the matter.

The delay has been a source of frustration for Google engineers, AI researchers and managers, many of whom are concerned the company risks losing an edge in the market as rivals Anthropic and OpenAI produce models that exceed Gemini’s capabilities, according to 10 current and former employees. Google has multiple layers of stakeholders involved in preparing models for release, working to weave AI across a vast product portfolio, including search, maps and YouTube, which can cause delays, said the people, who declined to be named discussing internal concerns.

Both OpenAI and Meta Platforms Inc. recently released new models that further outpace Google’s current offerings in AI for writing code. Late last month, Google updated the data being used to train Gemini in an attempt to improve these skills, but the results were disappointing, one of the people said. Shares slipped as much as 3.2% on Thursday.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 15/07/2026
is excessive worry about instrumental convergence explained by having zero sense of self-preservation?
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 14/07/2026
ice agents don't even pretend to have objectively reasonable fears of imminent bodily harm anymore they just look at you like this
brendan fraser from "the whale" pointing a badly photoshopped gun
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 12/07/2026
boy dinner
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 09/07/2026
well no shit it's going to be a "closed insider process." you can't just re-run a primary, their dates are set by state law, and election infrastructure is not a two-week pop-up job. bitch about the situation if you want, but your pet oaf is responsible for it!
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 04/07/2026
untitled goose girl
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/06/2026
...where is the "all of the above" option
AI-generated art, writing, and music -- what's happening here?
* Laundering other people's work through a statistics engine
* A cheap imitation that's flooding the internet with slop.
* A useful drafting tool that still needs a human hand to matter.
* A genuine new creative medium -- like photography was.
* The democratization of creativity itself.
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/06/2026
you can tell *exactly* where youtube set the bar for slop by seeing which channels get cloned. spoiler alert: its way too fuckin low
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 27/06/2026
testing the 4k/120 in the traditional millenial fashion: milkdrop
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 22/06/2026
you'll poke your eye out!
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/06/2026
i guess this is the Minimum Viable Payout meta now, and it must be getting some traction based on how often the dashboard tries to push one on me. i don't care for it myself
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 17/06/2026
mans needs to upgrade his exhaust ports to USB-C
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 15/06/2026
first proper meal in the new apartment never mind the laundry basket: linguine fra diavolo with shrimp and salmon chunks
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 11/06/2026
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 04/06/2026
people are posting their sexy screenshots but this is an amazing engine for Remembering Guys, i had completely forgotten about Donte Hitner until i was confronted with needing to fill my safety slot
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 30/05/2026
you can really tell all these "Sparta! Sparta!" guys are working off Frank Miller & Zack Snyder rather than Thucydides & Xenophon
But ramping up military action carries serious risks for Israel, not least from an exhausted population and an undermanned IDF. Netanyahu has increasingly been pitching a concept he calls “super-Sparta” — a permanently mobilised Israel in a constant state of multi-front, low-intensity warfare. The Israeli public does not appear as enthusiastic about this plan as their leader.

GRU presentation meme:
(1) SPEND DOWN OUR ENTIRE TREASURY AND POPULATION
(2) BURN EVERY DIPLOMATIC BRIDGE ON DUMB SHIT
(3) BECOME THE ENFORCER OF PERSIAN HEGEMONY
(4) [double-take at (3)]
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 29/05/2026
it's really crazy how *little* paraphrasing you have to do to LLM output to completely evade pangram. damning indictment of anyone who gets pantsed by it
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shambibble @shambibble.com · 24/05/2026
turning a dial that says "commitment to the bit" and stroking my chin
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