Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 01/10/2026I have some thoughts™ on the newly released Cloudflare Basin and K2. I'm not vain enough to start a newsletter, so I'll try to write them in this thread. Obv, my own personal opinions, not representing my employer, etc. Nothing novel, just maybe nit visible to folks not working on such systems. 100
Reposted by Shay 🥙Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026waking up every day in 2026 like: 1147691096
Reposted by Shay 🥙Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14237751248
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 30/09/2026Was mentioning Greg Egan's Distress, and realized that book is more topical than ever, with its plot of doomer cultist trying to stop an AI-assisted physics breakthrough. 110
Reposted by Shay 🥙Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BAY AREA: this nice, modern, fully working gas stove is yours FREE if you can pick it up from Fruitvale (Oakland) in the next four hours There is also a window air conditioner, a queen-size bookshelf headboard, and an adorable sewing table. All free, but ask in the next HOUR 012
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 29/09/2026East bay frens, fyi (sadly, can’t go myself)theuctheatre.orgDescendents / The ChatsSep 29, 2026 at The UC Theatre 000
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 28/09/2026Just spotted in south Berkeley. Disinterested human in the front seat. 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 27/09/2026Y’all talking about the creeps weekend, but I literally have them in my neighborhood. I pass by the hotel they bought when walking my dog. It’s across the street from a middle school. Why aren’t Berkeley NIMBYs up in arms about that instead of replacing a crumbling 7-11 with apartments? 010
Reposted by Shay 🥙Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.ironholds.org 17742271
Reposted by Shay 🥙Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby. 372480295
Reposted by Shay 🥙Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 532628265
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 27/09/2026The dudes with robes and pointy hats in the audience for the sleep show are giving me unseen university vibes. 020
Reposted by Shay 🥙Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188113853
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 24/09/2026אם חשבתם ש״שפה כמכלול״ זה רעיון גרוע, מסתבר שיבאו את הקונספט ללימודי המתמטיקה בתיכון. נקרא ״Discovery math״static.klipy.comCaptain Picard's Frustration (Patrick Stewart)ALT: Captain Picard's Frustration (Patrick Stewart) 120
Reposted by Shay 🥙Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up. 26582911366
Reposted by Shay 🥙Michael Gattozzi @mgattozzi.dev · 22/09/2026Genuinely baffled. Like wtf are we doing here? Where was all this money for other distros? What you gotta have a racist run it and then slap on AI for a bunch of dotfiles to get the cash? 4686
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 21/09/2026Let's also make it @kafkastreams.bsky.social awareness week: in short, Kafka Streams is awesome, which you already know if you're using it. 010
Reposted by Shay 🥙Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week! 1265408893
Reposted by Shay 🥙austin @aparker.io · 21/09/2026claim: the actual dangerous subsidy in AI is frontier lab researchers/devs not having to pay for they own tokens 5988
Reposted by Shay 🥙Laurence Tratt @ltratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It was amusing to read that the current "AI makes lectures irrelevant" debate has echos from 1781 as related by Boswell. 083
Reposted by Shay 🥙Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“The report is expected to say that there is a widespread instance of the British public telling the truth and the British propaganda machine lying frequently and loudly to it to change their minds“ 03517
Reposted by Shay 🥙Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20/09/2026WD-40 transdermal patches. (personal use only) 291035292
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 17/09/2026damn ivory tower academics. they should've named it "cutie" instead.newscientist.comBeautiful new cat species is first to be named in a century | New ScientistThe enigmatic tiger cats of South America now encompass a new species – the tilcayo – bringing the number of known tiger cat species to five 010
Reposted by Shay 🥙Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048451481
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 17/09/2026Party game – without searching, how many of you know which famous report contains the following sentence: > The computer system is very elaborate, having over 250,000 lines of code. 010
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 17/09/2026TIL that NY, NC, SC, VA and WI drivers licenses are designed and manufactured by a Canadian company 🍿🍿🍿 041
Reposted by Shay 🥙jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US 3053821099
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 16/09/2026Another stupid hill to blow myself up on: Ed Sheeran is just a less pretentious Radiohead. 110
Shay 🥙 @shay.elkin.io · 15/09/2026terrytao.wordpress.comA Severe Misalignment of AI in MathematicsI am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have… 000
Reposted by Shay 🥙sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My FAQ, which includes questions like “am I transphobic?”, “am I in the Epstein files?”, and “do I have mold in my house?”, is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the FAQ. 101943606
Reposted by Shay 🥙Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word. 1921749250
Reposted by Shay 🥙Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is never true; it’s ultimately just a homophobic joke. (And it’s tired and worn out even if it is a joke.) Stop making it. 211265232
Reposted by Shay 🥙Hila Peleg @hilacodes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The first annual Future of Property-Based Testing Workshop (FPBT'27) will be happening in Mexico City on January 12th (co-located with POPL'27)! Submissions are open now (deadline October 23rd); see popl27.sigplan.org/home/fpbt-2027 for details.popl27.sigplan.orgFPBT 2027 - Future of Property-Based Testing - POPL 2027Property-based testing has grown from a niche technique into a recognized discipline with a thriving research community and a considerable base of industrial practitioners. In fact, PBT is only increa... 178
Reposted by Shay 🥙Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026blizzard workers had to fight tooth and nail for years, but they finally did it: they secured a union contract not just for one team, but for all unionized units--warcraft, overwatch, diablo, and more 2765962180
Reposted by Shay 🥙Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow! 32253646
Reposted by Shay 🥙Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You can now vote for the replacement for Suica’s penguin mascot, who is retiring next year. www.jreast.co.jp/suica-new-ch... 1419659
![“We really started mobilizing as one Blizzard unit in [the] last couple of months, and I think that really helped put the pressure on,” Paul Cox, senior game designer on World of Warcraft, told Aftermath.
"I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment."
Prior to spring of this year, the WoW team, which unionized in 2024, had gotten the lion's share of bargaining time. Other units found themselves stuck in the mud. Higher-ups were effectively stalling the whole process—unfortunately nothing new for unionized workers under Microsoft’s umbrella.
"For this whole year of bargaining on the Diablo side—and I imagine on the rest of the units as well—we received so few [bargaining] dates, but we kind of had the understanding that whatever WoW was able to win would at least influence and set the floor for the rest of our units,” Diablo senior environment artist Mahreen Fatima told Aftermath. “We adopted this messaging about how WoW's wins are our wins, so we should be out there mobilizing with them. But truly, I feel like the company dragged its feet and did a lot of posturing and wasting time until the very, very last moment this last month to finally be able to say, 'OK, yes, we are willing to extend this contract to everyone.' We really did not have any indication that we could get this done until last month."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreih6u6gzajbd63dovnmlnc43z5g6i35d3n735rrdkopipyjopkl72e)
![script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read
ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]
CURTAIN](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:64mdicpo7sq4k5bx2z3m2jo6/bafkreia7vy7yqqyb7ytslx43odsuqsi4etojsjjntlqcrsguwncynwrfpm)
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[Strikethrough text:] Cease and desist [end of strikethrough] – UPDATE Sep 7th
On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly. An announcement will be made within a week, once we're able to reveal more information.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uaojhod5mqlgib2jq4sumsp4/bafkreidfui256gaicb6qbbeiuxko34zy6ayqvwphyrjrrlti26s62hgfiq)
