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Patrick 📉

@thebestpatrick.bsky.social
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commodities analyst, database programmer and investiture accelerationist. He/Him

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Michael Paul 🐓 @michael.is-post.ing · 19h
mfw I’m invited to something
a man thinks and says “The computer is more important.”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Evergreen shipping container blocking a major transit route again
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Bluesky Was Mean To Patrick @meantopatty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Patrick, no party, 38, white, stay at home dog owner: they're trying to trans the clowns. And I think that's great. But not the kids. The kids don't need the clowns. Especially cis clowns. They're putting kitty litter in school bathrooms. So my letter writing campaign worked
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
interesting how the more desperate the GOP's mid term chances become the louder establishment Democrats are signalling there should be no accountability or reprisals for their crimes
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Am I out of touch? No, it's voters across the western world that are wrong
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don't think they bought it, i think they were attempting to manufacture it
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By the way, bad software engineering does regularly kill people, just not in an easily traceable way.
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L Ron Mexico @lronmexico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cant wait for the last remnants of shared reality to completely disintegrate once payday loans and reality-gambling merge, then get taken over by private equity
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/09/2026
kinda weird how all the dem boosters stopped talking about the maine senate race when a guy with similar politics but without the war crimes and sa stuff took over
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Watching MobLand and it's basically a Mercedes commercial (complimentary)
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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Naturally, the only thing that people who dread the facts can do is to keep on uttering phrases.
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Visible Cow @visiblecow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
However, controversy erupted after a 1966 interview, in which Lennon claimed that the band had become "more popular than Goku."
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Suddenly people coming out of the woodwork to smugly assert, "actually I only listen to top 40"
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 22/09/2026
Chaim is bringing the fire 🔥
Abstract
We provide a clearer presentation of the Chair44 monotile, a new strongly aperiodic
monotile in three-dimensional Euclidean space E3
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With LLM tools (ChatGPT Astra), Ioannis Tsiokos recently reported the first
known strongly aperiodic monotile in three-dimensional Euclidean space E
3
, the Chair44
monotile (see Figure 3, taken from Tsiokos’ preprint [11]). Hats off to Tsiokos for this
discovery, the framework he developed, and the human inquiry that led to the Chair44
monotile.
However, the paper itself and the formalization that it claims for support are not
in a form that is readily usable to anyone who wants to understand or check it. This is
not just because of the needless length or complexity of the argument (which is indeed
overwhelming as presented), or because the formal repository is not in normal form, or
because much of the text is misleading or poorly organized, but mainly because there
is so much irrelevant puff to push through. These are hallmarks of an LLM-driven
research paper.
We must, absolutely, insist on a higher standard for scientific discourse. The aim
must be to communicate, clearly, with people in the community — certainly this is an
historical requirement for publication.1
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 22/09/2026
This website is for people who have shit like "political junkie" in their bio who have never read a book written for adults in their entire lives.
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't want to defend the Effective Altruist crowd too much, but I think there's a lot more tech dorks buying mosquito nets than sex-cult-greed-enablers there, and the latter are a byproduct of San Fransisco more than EA.
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
saw a license plate "FLSN" and could only read it as "fail-son"
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Croaker @thecroaker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Calling most online communists 'larpers' would be giving them too much credit
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Polling 2 years out is a rough proxy for "name recognition" and nothing else.
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thinking about Andreessen's critique of "enshittification" -- a guy and term I don't care for -- and I think his statements about "user-feature mismatch" are actually kind of revealing
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please be nice to patrick @nicetopatrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"the president is lying about critical potash imports" feels like I've skipped back in time a century or two tbh
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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Feels somewhat appropriate that the arguments of AI aficionados pushing that LLMs are "conscious"/"thinking"/"understanding" are themselves slop-like: a total collapse of distinction, particularity into poor analogies, vulgar behaviorism, rhetorical sludge.
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tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My enemies are amassing on the outskirts of town. Probably to apologise for their grievous misconduct
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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
right? if you were fooled by pinker in 2011 that's because you were stupid, not because he's somehow got less clever or more racist
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scott Bessent looking contemplative
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
the problem for Dem consultants is that they haven't properly internalized that tech - not the rank and file, but the guys at the top - has completely turned against them and should now be treated as an implacable political enemy you can't win them back by playing nice on policy and you shouldn't
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
is yo-yo ma doing cultural appropriation
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wow bro, deep.
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also means they have not been able to torture the data into saying anything about vaccines
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 17/09/2026
The bluesky freaks should just let me decide what a good post is. I know already
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So much for my original idea to siege Agincourt, I'm going to take it immediately!
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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A screenshot of a Tumblr post about scientists wanting to tell people about their science
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jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 Jeremy Kaplowitz has officially dropped out of the Ed Sheeren tour.
I have made the difficult decision to withdraw myself from the worldwide Ed Sheeran "The Loop" tour due to his inability to denounce the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Currently, I am secretly hidden in the wheels of his tour bus and was planning to infiltrate his arena show by claiming to be an opening act and performing 20-40 minutes of solo spoken word poetry, or as long as I could before being tackled to the ground by security. But I cannot stand by Ed anymore. 

I do not take this decision lightly. I know many (future) Jeremy Kaplowitz fans are going to be disappointed to not get to learn about my really awesome work, but I simply cannot abide by people who claim to "not wanna get political" when it's about murdering tens of thousands of people. Also I think he ruined that one Game of Thrones episode, which is even worse in retrospect, when you consider how few good ones we ultimately had left at that point.

To Ed, thank you for everything you have done so far to support me. You don't know who I am, but I was the one who kept stealing half of your sandwiches on the tour bus when you weren't looking and your manager kept saying you were "acting crazy." I hope you understand where I am coming from (think killing children is bad), even though you say it's icky to have to think about.

Free Palestine.
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Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It seems to me that the terms "alignment/misalignment" are gesturing to some latent characteristic of a model that is never specified in ways you can test for without presupposing the conclusion (that it is aligned/misaligned).
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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 15/09/2026
Where did I read recently that claims to an absence of essence are claims to an essence in themselves? Bring back the dialectic, that's what I say.
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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not the same issue exactly, but just noting that someone without a college degree but an 80th percentile household income ($150K) is, in expectation, extremely MAGA and absolutely not up for grabs electorally.
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hillary dead enders in 2026, man...
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Patrick 📉 @thebestpatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ad just said they offered "functional snacks" clearly to differentiate themselves from the average object oriented snack.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We never punished the people who authorized torture and the last 20+ years of our politics are a consequence of that.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.
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sam @samthielman.com · 13/09/2026
shocking that “we don’t care what you want, you stupid rubes, now please vote for us” isn’t more popular
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 11/09/2026
if i ever cite "thousands of lesswrong posts" as a source, please kill me instantly
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Stefan BC @stefanbc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When you haven’t read the Jakarta Method
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 2028 AOC is going to suggest that JD Vance defending the ongoing Iran War means he supports it and the New York Times is going to shit itself sideways and give her forty-seven Pinocchios.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Vice President of the United States of America can't feel comfortable saying this stuff out loud and one of the reasons we need new Dem leadership is because we need to punish this kind of behavior and guys like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck don't have the stomach to do what needs to be done.
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