Reposted by muppets-level guest starHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From a note to a friend a couple of weeks ago "imo the reason text elemental is so good is because it captures the notion of something that is animate, but not conscious so much as an expression of the fundamental nature of the substance of which it is composed." 310817
Reposted by muppets-level guest starYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There's an essay to be written about how the re-appropriation of ill-gotten wealth has been one of the biggest, but also most underrated, accomplishments of Taiwan's democratic transition, and that it is also something that the US can emulate. 7549105
Reposted by muppets-level guest starK @kerry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough".” Before Jev there was Laya laya.convaiinnovations.com (via @dherman.dev)laya.convaiinnovations.comLaya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision EngineEvaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev. 15924
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Tsinghua University sociologists are proud to announce that “LLM agents for coding” has been a three year experiment to determine if software engineers are willing finally to develop conversational social skills if it means they automate software production. Experiment is concluding soon. Thank you 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starHoratio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious. 733540736
Reposted by muppets-level guest starKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/08/2026For my newsletter, I wrote about how everyone misremembers "Woke 1" and how all the things people hate about it are just outgrowths of modern internet culture (and things the right does every day still) www.burnsnotice.com/everyone-mis...burnsnotice.comEveryone Misremembers "Woke 1"For the first time in the internet age, minorities were able to exercise power publicly, that's why the right wants you to remember "Woke 1" as out of control 739485
Reposted by muppets-level guest starrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026i was in the room with all the people whose job this was when the executives came in with a demand that we design a dial to control how racist the model was 735838
Reposted by muppets-level guest starA.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It Takes A Nation of Millions To Form A Subcommittee To Look Into The Possibility Of Determining The Feasibility Of Holding Us Back 492318416
Reposted by muppets-level guest starMicah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026college admissions people talk about this too - you can throw out the entire admitted class of an elite college and pick a new one from the rejected students and they will be completely indistinguishable in terms of achievements for competitive positions there's never any objective best candidate 181214157
Reposted by muppets-level guest starLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them. 1104225985
Reposted by muppets-level guest starmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 08/08/2026despite being one of the more difficult monsters to make a movie about—narratively and visually—the concept of werewolves has never left the public imagination, most likely because it expresses a universal fear of how much it would be everybody's problem if men had periods 41589270
Reposted by muppets-level guest starBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Very alarming to imagine someone paying Chris Hansen for a cameo video for a birthday party and he’s like “why don’t you have a seat…happy birthday big dog!” as everyone unclenches their teeth 323117
Reposted by muppets-level guest starMichael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Audience-Capture Miserabilism is the great enemy all of us on the liberal posting app must fight every day you can get so much engagement for saying obviously false things that resonate with people who are extremely sad 1312622
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Finally realized: Haley Stevens is a Crispin Glover character. He took over portraying her a few months ago and that’s why her accent changed 000
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Next year is my silver wedding anniversary. 25 years married to my wonderful spouse with ADHD who got diagnosed only recently. I am very happy. I have also been fairly exhausted and it was nice to finally find out why 000
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Bluesky should embrace generative AI for its one proven application: simulating a CEO 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026sometimes I question the ethics of working at a human cloning lab. the rapid growth baths smell terrible and the clones scream in their sleep if we don't titrate their nutrient solution fast enough. But then you see your front office make the big trade for Skubal and all our hard work pays off 1151621
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Wait don’t tell me — England is bunkering in the second half so that France scores no more than 5 goals in the second. Brilliant 000
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It’s hard trying to make it in Hollywood. Sometimes you’ll be with your friends in WeHo doing a little coke and they will talk you into a stunt to get casting directors’ attention and then maybe it doesn’t quite work out the way you wanted 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starRip Van Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Getting on the cover of Viziers monthly so the subtler viziers will discount me as a fool and overlook my even more devious machinations. 442522
Reposted by muppets-level guest starMonika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026It's amazing how Trump managed to take this from what would have been a sad but somewhat "you was a bit robbed" loss into "not even blatant corruption can save you." The team and everyone deserved so much better. 0152
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 07/07/2026They were such a good team, and they played HAPPY. That team didn’t even show up tonight. That clown ruins everything he touches 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis" 4799133
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Spain’s striker walking around scoring with the name Pedro Porro. Like being named Pete Bluntz 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starjames 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Do people know this is the Bosnia manager's first soccer coaching job after a post-playing career of professional poker and constantly criticizing the national team on social media 261253179
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 27/06/2026My mom worked for Child Protective Services for years. She said about half her cases were clearly, obviously fabricated accusations made by vengeful neighbors, exes, or relatives. Half of them. 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The Tea Party was bankrolled by big right-wing money. It wasn’t an outside movement taking over. The money got behind more extreme challengers because they were more aggressive in their wealth-serving goals. The left’s takeover of the Democratic Party has been slow bc the money is on the other side 334585
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 24/06/2026A CIA agent worked as a United flight attendant as a cover. Another CIA agent did field work in anthropology. This means anthropologists are tools of imperialism and especially so if they fly United 050
Reposted by muppets-level guest starTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/06/2026As well as being just, this is also clever, as North Korean troops will recognise the new route to defection, NK leadership and loyal officials will recognise the risk, and the fighting efficiency of those sent there will be reduced by the effort of trying to guard against defection. 5442109
Reposted by muppets-level guest starPhizle @phizle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026This is the root of the Soros accusations- the right wing chud aristocracy were actually all on the take from a shadowy network based out of Eastsrn Europe 321946
Reposted by muppets-level guest starlittle lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The butlerian new deal 0614
Reposted by muppets-level guest starDavid Reid @licklepuma.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Absolute scenes at the fan park in Lisbon when they equalised 32069655
Reposted by muppets-level guest staralexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026i hear the tech bros want to generically engineer designer babies. finally, a baby with pockets 1317028
Reposted by muppets-level guest starDan Orlowitz @aishiterutokyo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026No one is offside on stolen land fwiw 525145
Reposted by muppets-level guest starmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026One of the things that I think people don't understand about Netanyahu is that they think he is racist in some inscrutable or exotic Israeli way, when he is actually racist in the exact way you'd expect a guy who went to high school in the Philly suburbs in the late 1960s (as he did) to be 312983695
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I really want Terry Crews to dress as President Camacho and show up at the UFC fightstatic.klipy.comPresident Camacho: Merica, This Is AmericaAlt: President Camacho: Merica, This Is America 110
muppets-level guest star @tamaldeguajolote.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Working “pausa de hidratación” into my bedroom repertoire 000
Reposted by muppets-level guest starJane @jane.meangirls.online · 12/06/2026“Protein latte” this country needs the Childhood’s End aliens so bad 11027
Reposted by muppets-level guest starBrenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Wow.. nerves of steel 301104349
Reposted by muppets-level guest starJake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t. 4965562357
Reposted by muppets-level guest starZach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 29/05/2026the bus. you've once again invented the bus. 644811898
Reposted by muppets-level guest starEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This is an actual Thirteenth Amendment violation, because they have not been convicted of any crime. 101889674
Reposted by muppets-level guest starLaura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026As a lifelong MMA fan, this shit sucks so much. We should not have a gladiatorial pit on the White House lawn like some kind of Temu Rome For decades, MMA was my mindless escape from personal and political stress. Now it's work. They turned the only sport I like into work 3450270
Reposted by muppets-level guest starbubbalicious @jortscity.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I don't think you guys should bother with trying to force yourselves into a system where you degrade atproto by having editable records. Instead, build this feature around streamlining the existing technical implementation, i.e., make deleting and reposting as seamless and streamlined as possible. 2384
Reposted by muppets-level guest starCai @annenotation.bsky.social · 10/05/2026I think something that Will Stancil hasn't quite internalized about people's experience in the current economy but doesn't disprove his point is the sheer number of 'get rich quick' schemes that fell apart that people are not admitting to having participated in. They were nuts in 20-21. 1936543
Reposted by muppets-level guest starDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10/05/2026A lot of the left obsesses over winning back white working-class voters for no other reason that that a united working class is a requirement to fulfill the essentially religious Hegelian teleology of Karl Marx, which of course is a really fundamentally dumb value to bring to electoral politics. 2040766