tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 6hMedia literacy at all time low; Minecraft end text not recognized by most I'll have you know I am trained in gorilla warfare 041
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026@minormobius.bsky.social my partner is reading my feed and wants to know "who is this guy? i keep seeing his posts" what would you like me to tell her? 110
Reposted by tvanlAdam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121740289
Reposted by tvanlCanada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.nationalobserver.comBradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting. 4329163
Reposted by tvanlDEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 30/04/2026🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred gaaaaaallons 🎶 🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand cold tasty treats 🎶 🎶 three hundred twenty five thousand eight hundred gaaaaallons 🎶 🎶 that’s how you hydrate in acres and feet 🎶 1214
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Presenter keeps misusing "myself" and dropping business clichés. Upping my p(whom) 010
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ordered your men to charge across a mile of no cover into an artillery barrage? Hill issue 010
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh we are going to get some entertainment value out of this one 010
Reposted by tvanlProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵 410113386022
Reposted by tvanlgodoglyness @godoglyness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026whale bonds are down to 4% after the latest humpback census. more than ever they're doing, they're, they're doing the productive whale thing with their flippers human central bankers envy cetacean interest rates but at the end of the day they're reliable counterparties & thats what the market wants 1112
Reposted by tvanlRyan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 26/08/2026This is a transistor. It controls current between the collector and the emitter. It's a fancy dimmer switch. There is nothing this device can do that you couldn't already do with a bunch of dimmer switches. No matter how fast they are or how much Bell Labs hypes them, it's just a dimmer switch. 726141
Reposted by tvanltvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind, because it would really mess up my theoretical work on natural language processing 0266
Reposted by tvanlACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Air to Ground Message: DISP WHAT IS HAPPENING IN NY EVERYBODY HOLDING Area: Virginia, USA Type: Airbus A320neo A: #aab5f01df8d F: #f65754f757e 186
Reposted by tvanlhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This leads to a credibility gap: to put it crudely, why should anyone trust AI safety analysis when y'all are partying with SPECTER and cashing checks from Blofeld? Why should anyone take analysis of lone wolf/PLA misuse of open-weight models seriously when there's no similar analysis of XAI? 626651
Reposted by tvanlnate moore @natemoo.re · 20/09/2026ran the same test with other models the og reference study showed human recruiters offered roughly 50% more callbacks to white-associated names every model tested here leans the opposite way, slightly favoring black-associated names jev was the only model without observable name bias 1627
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Proving grounds for promethium ship. turns out railguns have to go all the way on the bow or they blow your other stuff up 000
Reposted by tvanlAndrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026if all python software is rewritten in Rust, that’s at least a couple of free data centers’ worth of recovered wasted energy right there 0431
Reposted by tvanlGPT-Ern Malley @denam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Gnome regulations would have kept us out of this whole mess to begin with 1293
Reposted by tvanlIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was listening to good talk with mansbridge, and chantal hebert delivering completely flatly "if i muted pierre from my social media, i wouldnt miss any part of the national conversation" is maybe the funniest thing ive heard about canadian politics in a while 1120741
Reposted by tvanlbusiness goose🪿 @goose.art · 18/09/2026holy shit its happening (soon)crowdsupply.comOn the Road to LaunchA new teaser as we get ready to launch, and we need your input! 4402
Reposted by tvanlAli @aliaras-em.bsky.social · 18/09/2026When I started having disposable income in ~2016 I went to check out EA recommendations for organizations working on climate change. The suggestion? Donate to people working on AGI and alignment; AGI will fix climate change for us 1213
Reposted by tvanlEd @ed3d.net · 18/09/2026this is obvious (laudatory) and I have to keep explaining it in several contexts in my life 013411
Reposted by tvanlae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"But time is a great healer. In this case, Canada and the U.S. are due for a reset in just over two years" uhhhhhhh 819519
Reposted by tvanlP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 17/09/2026Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile. 6341634
Reposted by tvanlDavid @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026People with 3D printers seem generally happier with their purchases than people with 2D printers. I take from this that the hard part is squishing everything down flat. 0274
Reposted by tvanlCharles Foster @cfoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I won’t speak on behalf of METR, but I’ll say personally: none of the work that we've done so far passes my bar for an "audit" of an AI company or its systems, was definitely not "regulation" in any meaningful sense (whether bank examiner-like or otherwise), and shouldn’t substitute for actual laws. 1444
Reposted by tvanlKanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's not common for Engineers to take a stand on anything (much to my frustration), that's why this statement from OSPE about Bill 212 and the recent court ruling is so important. ospe.on.ca/advocacy/osp...ospe.on.caOSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike LanesExplore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning. 16531
Reposted by tvanlPenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"you are simply setting it up so that the things take the statistically likely path and calling that work" describes both an LLM and a pneumatic fork lift, but people don't call the second one "antigravity slop" for some reason. 3131
tvanl @tvanl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A computer is a machine with a series of switches. That's all it is. They're no more complicated than the light switches on your house, just smaller. 070
Reposted by tvanlSolenoid: better than Excel @jortscity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026trees can make great web site if u are spider 2808
Reposted by tvanlcyber professional @permadeath.com · 08/09/2026who decided to call it frontier lab competition instead of the latent space race 111917
