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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 5m
one of the things that people who use these things regularly will tell you is that as far as the actual current proved out revenue-producing uses (programming, mostly, although not entirely) the models seem to be sorta asymptoted, which is part of why there's now such fierce price competition
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Emily Horner @emilyhorner.bsky.social · 20m
@500songspodcast.bsky.social
Meme of a school bus being hit by a train. The first image is a school bus labeled "Me, not caring about the Bee Gees." The second image is a train hitting that school bus, labeled "Sad little meow meow who writes songs about historical mining disasters."
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1h
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 1h
I would add, apropos of some comments, MOST people absolutely don't need first hand experience, as long as there are people with expertise on their side WHO THEY CAN TRUST. The problem with anti-AI stuff right now is that a lot of the people who have taken on that latter role can't be trusted.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 1h
This is part of a longer thread and I am probably doing it a disservice by promoting it on its own but look at this here! This is good stuff!
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fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 1h
there's a lot of stupid pro-AI stuff over on Elonsworld, but the thing that really irritates me is that the anti-AI side decided the correct response was to get equally stupid in the opposite direction
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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
that twitter still has a lot of normal people on it is the main problem! it would be a lot better if it was exclusively fascists and the blast radius of their propaganda was smaller! truth social isn't warping brains that weren't already warped
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the problem is primarily that you have to be up to your neck in pseudomathematics in order to even understand how they're mistaken. in order: (1) their "Bayesianism" is not Bayesianism; (2) even MIRI now admits that Hutterian AIXI is impossible; (3) information theory forbids their metaphysics
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sure. he has retrofitted a model of artificial intelligence which is mathematically impossible in order to speak about artificial intelligence which actually exists, then used a metaphysics which is so insane that it is virtually impossible to explain to another person to predict doom.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 5h
I reposted this, but tacking itonto this thread as well bc I think it's useful context. Margaret was also a co-author of the Stochastic Parrots paper and recently offered some thoughts on which parts of the analogy hold up (and which have been widely misunderstood): medium.com/@margarmitch...
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No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜
I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h
unpleasant SFBA nerd dudes, for instance, are perfectly capable of reinventing rapey fraternity culture from first principles
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 3h
It is always wild to watch how cynicism makes people dumber
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h
got leaked some preview screenshots and wow, they're not wrong
a completely black 16:9 imagea completely black 16:9 image
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 3h
(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h
I like this Bain five year AI "revenue projection" Josh Marshall dug up because another way to gloss the red bit is "stuff the models are either bad at or not obviously very helpful for" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bain-...
a bain chart of 5 year revenue expectations for 'AI' to make current investments pay off. around $2B is the stuff they currently make money off of and then $4.2B is "physical AI" and "autonomous everything" and "new product development" aka the "what if they really are AGI against all current evidence and can just do whatever???" category
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 4h
This story is great but man I am laughing at how much this guy looks like Michael McDonald - did any other genes even make it in? If you told me that he’d been the result of asexual reproduction by Michael McDonald I’d believe you
A guy who looks basically 1:1 like Michael McDonald who recently found out Michael McDonald is his biological father
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 5h
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 4h
The simplest explanation is that they believe what they say.
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hypoallergenic bobcat alternative @noghiri.bsky.social · 4h
no there's at least 3 cults involved and at least two of them really do believe the machine is fully conscious
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h
great speech. FDR had Stephen Miller and his blustering bullshit dead to rights 90 years ago www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
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Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents' Association | The American Presidency Project
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h
Looking forward to about 5ish years out when news media coverage of this is like "wow, Skydance collapsed so quickly and is desperate to sell of WB how did this happen" as if it wont like like the 4th or 5th time in a row exactly this thing has happened.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 4h
"Say, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, you finish that coke jingle I asked for?" "Sure did, boss, minor key and overwhelmingly bleak, just like you wanted" "what" (learned about this via @andrewhickey.500songs.com's bee gees ep, as you might imagine)
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Bee Gees 1960s Radio Coke Ad “Another Cold and Windy Day”
YouTube video by The Jivetalkin Show
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 5h
why, I wonder, are people arguing about bike lanes in response to a comment I made two days ago about AI discourse. and the answer, of course, is specifically to troll me
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John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · 5h
"Let this be your sign to NEVER get a Waymo. This was not even 30 seconds into our journey before it literally turned and crashed into a crane that was not obstructing the road at all...40 minutes before Waymo actually helped us" OP: tiktok.tia_2410 International Dr & Jamaican Ct, Orlando, FL
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Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 5h
Your regular reminder.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 6h
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 5h
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h
they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h
they're the logical inheritor of the silicon valley woo energy. still dangerous and insane but look at Dario and try to tell me he doesn't believe salt lamps cleanse negative vibes
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 7h
* not the bad Ed tho
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most trusted name in ai, some guy named ed
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 9h
historians will know the era as the "Broopsie"
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 9h
Good morning with good news: France's September Full-EV sales reach 42% of auto sales. Full-EV sales skyrocket 108% in September! Full-EV and Plug-In Hybrid were 48% of auto sales! Petrol-only cars were just 13% and diesel collapsed to 2.4%! www.aaa-data.fr/actualites/i... #energysky
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 9h
I Pushed My Luck, Reheated My Burrito An Extra 30 Seconds, and It Exploded All Over The Microwave. Here's Why That's A Lesson for Democrats
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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 18h
First orders of Prisoner’s Cinema going out tomorrow, which is the official release date. Thanks to all who preordered, get one soon if you want one because I don’t think they’re going to last! sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/prison...
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 18h
How It's Made S04E03
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Gustaue Flavbert @cataribartok.bsky.social · 18h
this diaper is TOO NOISY
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h
Yup
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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 19h
Feel like we need folks to really speak out in unison about this Watson whitewash.
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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Shaved 5 minutes off my morning routine by brushing my teeth and riding the mechanical duck outside the supermarket at the same time
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 19h
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 19h
BTW there’s a whole thing today at X where Grok is basically affirming that Jesus is a God, and people celebrating that Grok is based.
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Aubrey Plaza is Wow Platinum
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h
sometimes i wake up with a funny joke in my head that i'd been dreaming about or something and i laugh at it to myself and then like five minutes later think, wait that's stupid as hell
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 19h
i say it doesn’t have to be human like but also, basically all of intelligence and consciousness definitions are built on human-like, with edge cases coloring the borders
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19h
like do people feel bad or weird instantiating or destroying agents? do they feel bad when a LLM does that? why not tho
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 20h
idunno I think if you believe llms are conscious and continue to use them, you’re just saying you’re down to be a bad person? thats the logical conclusion of winning the debate? like what am I missing
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19h
oh I am super-duper fascinated by the WWII-era bucket hats. I went down a weird rabbit hole of trying to figure out what the, like, original bucket hat was, and didn't have much luck
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 20h
Student reporter who met me for an in-person interview today looked over my bookshelf and said they spent the summer reading Caro's LBJ tetralogy so I can confirm the Kids Are Alright
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