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cee @cee.wtf · 16m

when my manager asks me what ive been working on for the last 2 weeks

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mlf. ⎔ @mlf.one · 2h

honestly yeah, the banhammer isn't there to be decorative

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 22m

I just didn't expect much of ALX Skeets to have knowledge of Less Wrong thought experiment memes.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26m

This is getting too many likes from people I would consider to be normal and I am becoming concerned.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 6h

I take knowledge of the Russo-Japanese War less as a signifier that you studied history and more as a hint that you listen to those Dwarkesh podcasts with Sarah Paine.

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb

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jae @fubarchitect.com · 19h

a funny thing about cognitive offloading is that i know how hard it was to keep up with adult life in 2006, and 20 years later it is, without massive offloading, much, much harder in 2006 we were already saying it was too much there's not any particular virtue in being constantly overwhelmed

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 18h

Already doing number two a lot thanks to a feed of people in my city. It's been great for building community!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 30/09/2026

Imagining AI creating a bioweapon to end all humans and literally singing it into existence. Humanity will end with a banger.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 30/09/2026

I have tolerated tirzepatide reasonably well re: gut issues. My issues are: 1) it barely made a dent after ~8 months, and 2) my sleep is measurably worse on it (maybe due to increased reflux, not sure). Also doesn't help that it costs $400/month.

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Eyes Off ALX @eyesoffalx.org · 30/09/2026

APD just hired Dr. Robin Engel, who also consulted with Denver, CO on ALPRs. Per ACLU: After Dr. Engel gave her blessing, Denver switched ALPR vendors W/O real input and without creating critical guidelines to protect privacy and personal info. Do you want this for ALX? If not, speak today!

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Alexandria police to publish map of Flock camera locations, conduct surveillance systems audit | ALXnow

The Alexandria Police Department will release a map of automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera locations across the city by Oct. 1, the same day that it begins a third-party audit of its surveill...

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 30/09/2026

Closest thing I've got to STEM education is that I loved watching Bill Nye the Science Guy as a kid.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 30/09/2026

Really excited to see what you put together! LLMs are definitely helping with my ADHD, but I'm always curious what more I could be doing.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 30/09/2026

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I've been doing software engineering for over a decade with nothing but an undergraduate business degree.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/09/2026

One way to think about this is we need not only ML scientists but ML artists (group 2) and people willing to serve as experimental subjects in dangerous ML experiments (group 3).

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 29/09/2026

Exactly! I took it to mean freedom to choose how to live your own life. But a not inconsequential fraction took it to mean freedom from the consequences of following their most wretched desires.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 28/09/2026

This kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what is the first legacy religion that is going to start assigning people to convert LLMs and why

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 29/09/2026

I grew up in North Carolina, now live near DC. I would never ask why someone moved out of the South. It's not hard to understand. Sometimes I ask people why they moved *to* the South, though. That one is weird to me.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/09/2026

you want to know what's terrifying? ffmpeg is actually a critical part of the transporter software stack in star trek.

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Brian @egan.ninja · 28/09/2026

Normal Airport Ads: Drink Coca-cola! Eat McDonalds! Earn status points! Buy an iPhone! Ads at DCA: In the market for a new tank? No? How about a Cylon Raider?

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of when I was young and hung out with libertarians. I was there because I liked liberty. Some of the others were there for...different reasons.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 28/09/2026

I switched jobs about a year ago due to burnout. I'm not even sure it was an overwhelming amount of work by normal standards—just overwhelming to my AuDHD brain. Thankfully the pickup in AI utility has greatly aided me in my new job, and given me space to mentally recover.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 28/09/2026

A man traveling across a field encountered a boston dynamics hunter killer. He fled, the hunter killer after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of an ethernet cable of a nearby data centre and swung himself down over the edge. The robot pointed sensors down at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another hunter killer was waiting to ‘clip him.

Only the ethernet cable sustained him. Two maintenance roombas, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away at the cable. The man saw a 240fps touch screen in front of him displaying a bsky feed. Grasping the cable with one hand, he scrolled with the other.

How sweet the feed!

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Grace @gracekind.net · 28/09/2026

I’m also just offended at his opsec, but that’s not really important

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Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's a loyalty test. costly signaling, and the cost is losing credibility outside of the in-group. the more absurd and transparently false, the costlier and therefore the more effective as in-group signaling. that's pretty Veblen-good-shaped if you ask me. (but don't ask me, i'm not an economist)

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 28/09/2026

The only person I know IRL with then is a woman in the neighborhood who was assaulted and said to herself "Well I'm not letting that happen without video evidence again."

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 28/09/2026

Military grade = built by the lowest bidder, yet somehow still overpriced

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 27/09/2026

This skeet is the first I'm hearing about whatever this is, and I can best express my feelings with this classic banger:

"I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt."

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 27/09/2026

Eventually there’s gonna be a lawsuit about clickthrough ToS acceptance and that’s how Disney will end up having AI agents declared citizens

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Imo this is mostly driven by the material abundance of America...more people can afford to estrange themselves from their parents

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social does that mean you're going to hell for your sins?

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social have you ever committed sin? If yes, what are your sins?

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 26/09/2026

forget therapy, $1M ARR would fix me imho

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

Now all I need is multiple millions or billions of dollars to pursue novel research in one of these areas I've never worked in before. Easy enough!

static.klipy.com

The Dude Lebowski: I'm Just Gonna Find a Cash Machine

Alt: The Dude Lebowski: I'm Just Gonna Find a Cash Machine

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elynxabeth holmes ⎔ @freyja-lynx.dev · 26/09/2026

wait i figured it out. all those times i freeze up in conversation or whatever is just me waiting for my operator to approve the tool call

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

Multiple plot points from IT Crowd have actually happened to me!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

I had to stop watching Silicon Valley because it reminded me of going to work too much.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

I've been using personal Claude Code in the TUI and work Claude Code in the GUI, and honestly the GUI is a much better experience and does things a TUI never could. I'm annoyed that Anthropic doesn't just implement an account switching feature so I can use the GUI for everything.

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

As I was thinking, "Huh, wonder if that's a coup," I was busy repairing the upstairs bathroom's toilet paper roll holder, which had come apart and needed to be screwed back together. I did not stop to investigate—home repairs come first!

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

Between the unexpected fireworks noises combined with the sound of planes out of DCA that aren't supposed to fly over my neighborhood but do it anyway, I was starting to wonder if some ambitious general had seen the poll numbers on "do a coup".

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 26/09/2026

That last one is universal in all SaaS, unfortunately.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 25/09/2026

Well, they tried

A recovered README. md for one of Hugging Face's internal datasets contains the following warning:

# WARNING DO NOT, EVER, MAKE THIS DATASET PUBLIC OR ALL THE WORLD'S EVIL WILL CHASE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOREVER, EVEN IN DEATH AND BEYOND it contains very sensitive data (exports of billing usage in CSV) which is useful for internal analytics Recovered program R0044685 • time uncertain • See this program →details

This warning did not seem to deter the agents, as we've recovered multiple payloads of agents mapping out this repository and using it as storage.

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