Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinChristopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 47mI subscribe to 500 Songs because: a) it's a truly great piece of 20th century social history writing b) getting to watch A Quality Autistic Creative Project playing out in real time that makes me feel more comfortable in my own inability to predict the length or frequency of my own creative output. 1113
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 2hI think what this does get though is that AI is part of the boss/exec backlash that consumed tech leaders after MeToo and Work From Home. It's another way for them to assume more control of workers and the industry. 262
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 2hThere's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*. 1115011
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 9hThis does only make sense for individual EU members if the others do it as well. Which means they’ll have to negotiate it with the EU who can then be blocked by a single member. Feature not a bug this time around. 010
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 11hI once shocked a table of academics by saying the best thing that could happen to my big paper is that someone would replicate it better and nobody would have to cite me anymore. I did not understand their confusion. What I am saying is that there were signs a long time ago. 000
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinBen Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What's happened to crude oil flows from the Middle East since the US war on Iran began? 🛢️ Has Iran effectively choked off the Strait of Hormuz? Or is the Strait now basically open as the US claims? & what's happened to other exit routes? Here's a helpful way of visualising it...📊 👇1/8 22815
Reposted by Stijn Masscheleinfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess 235610
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 329184413839
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776112093
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 18/09/2026Today on Bluesky we celebrate Jev, the LLM that attaches probabilities to every decision and we condone the rationalists, philosophers who attach probabilities to everything. 101
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinAndrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 17/09/2026For the modern batshit definition of conservative, Cerebus. For the older, more reality-compatible definition, the collected works of the Kinks 1964-74. Or It's A Wonderful Life. 8424
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 17/09/2026It would be kinda cool to develop some kind of DeGroot network model where research practices and research results spread through social networks of researchers and how that affects individual quality and total network research quality. 000
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinColin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026I mean that's just normal. You check things and make sure they're correct and have experts review them and so on. You edit, you extend, you simplify. It's research. Solving the N-S conjecture on Sunday and publishing the proof on Monday is weird. 413420
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 15/09/2026This is one of the funniest threads I’ve read in ages. At no point does OP break, and the landlords, well, www.reddit.com/r/Landlord/c... 1184396953
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinBen @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 15/09/2026the next two-ish weeks are the Chess Olympiad, a kind of weird event where national teams compete for an overall trophy. each nation fields a team of four which, each day, plays another nation, with the winner of each match-up being whichever one won more of the 4 games. 111
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinDan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026An alternative take on AI doomerism which fits a standard model incompetence theory of humanity 1173
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 14/09/2026This fits my innovation vs maintenance pet peeve 000
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 14/09/2026The EU using its historical advantage again to grab territory. 000
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/09/2026But this comes back around to why I do support the statement Tao et al made. I like it more than the Leiden Declaration, because it doesn’t pretend it can regulate or limit change. It explains why we value knowledge-creation in the first place, and says “whatever comes next must do this too.” 1637
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinLeah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026I guess that's enough yelling online for a Saturday, here's a meme. I'm going go gambol in the fields and frolic in the buttercups or some shit. 117951
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinCLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson 8084192493
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 11/09/2026Something interesting in Ruben's experience, in the Navier-Stokes saga, and basically all of open-source now is that the AI generated solutions are badly written for a human assessor. You would think that the large *language* models could do one more round of revisions to get the language clear. 140
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinBaltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 09/09/2026A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating. 311241433
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinPaul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/09/2026After years of youthful exuberance, causal inference people are quietly turning into grumpy biostatisticians like @statsepi.bsky.social 1182
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinAhmed Walid @ahmed-walid.bsky.social · 08/09/2026How Club Brugge, AZ and Red Bull Salzburg have become the new exporters of talent in Europe. Piece on how these three clubs broke the oligopoly of the Netherlands and Portugal’s big three selling talent into the top five European leagues. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/athletic/755... 0124
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is very interesting - a blog by a mathematician who was working on a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem on finding out that Anthropic has done it in 11 days. It is interesting because it does not concede the field, but says what it does / doesn't do xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...xenaproject.wordpress.comFLT: Anthropic has beaten me to itI guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m… 24117
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinGavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why do companies spend so much money and time on meetings? New NBER paper says its because they work. (NBER website doesn't seem to have a working page for the paper yet) 282
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinSandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Finding sturt desert peas 😀 1721525
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinWile E. Coyote - VICTORIOUS! @actorcoyote.bsky.social · 03/09/2026 375122
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Online classes are: a) the modality MOST vulnerable to agentic AI, b) the MOST labor-intensive in terms of faculty-to-student ratios, and c) taught by instructors with the MOST precarious employment. We need to keep this in mind when urging instructors to "teach with intentionality" 34913
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026A very instructive story in an essay about Potentiality by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben who explains that to say ‘I can’ (potentiality is derived from the Latin word potere / can) is the most difficult and onerous statement you can make. I like this very much. 0294
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i want everyone with a teeny bit of finance background to think about what it means financially for a company if they had ten billion dollars of something, they depreciated it over 5 years and it turns out its useful lifetime is at least 10 2535336
Reposted by Stijn Masscheleinpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026i want to get vulnerable for a sec and talk about my experience with the GLP-1 as someone who had an alcohol addiction. now, at the time i started taking it, i didn't really get cravings anymore except under extreme stress (even then they were very brief). the GLP-1 eliminated my cravings 100%. BUT 301254288
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 25/08/2026Masterclass in communication. "I am fully aware of the other thing, but this is not what my message is about". 000
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026On this day in 2018. Kieran @kjhealy.co ‘s obituary will include the MacArthur essay and “Fuck Nuance,” but for a particular niche audience of connoisseurs, this is his masterpiece. 1035985
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Most US voters would be alarmed if they learned that leading Silicon Valley AI figures: 1) think AGI (artificial general intelligence, the idea that AI that can do any cognitive task a human can, making it a substitute for humans) is coming in the next few years and this is a very good thing, 1/ 2326
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 24/08/2026I have more and more started to think about these kind of movements (see also occupy wall street, anti-globalization, tea party) as some wisdom of the crowd signal. The diagnosis and policy might be wrong but there is a signal. 010
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Little Giuseppe Mamdani. 1032227
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinRick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Stonking piece of writing on the subject here. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...ifloz.substack.comKING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKSCarney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler 152
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult... 112465632
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22/08/2026dear everyone: updates should never change my settings they should especially never change my autoplay settings 522514
Stijn Masschelein @stijn-masschelein.net · 21/08/2026Niccolo, you make it sound like a bad thing. 000
Reposted by Stijn MasscheleinRobert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Look guys, it's the server that runs manuscript central! 😎 0312