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Alex O’Connor

@uberalex.bsky.social
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Posting here manually til it’s more efficient to use an LLM. I’m the one in the background.

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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 3h
Need to read the paper but it is interesting to ask if an ai idea is recognised just by being one that exists in the corpus or could also be the “likely” extension of that corpus under some LLM-unique mechanism vs human reasoning?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 23h
It's just a slash to the left, and a float to the ri-ight...
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#paranoiattrpg
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sovereign citizen basketball player: “I’m not traveling. I’m driving”
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is meant in the best way. This is absolutely so reminiscent of the direct interfaces and vision of programmable uis from the late 90s, even down to the aesthetic. Really wonderful to see these ideas modernised.
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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can you recommend a couple to the uninitiated?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scenes from a Maternity Hospital in 2030.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My favourite poem.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026
I stand by this
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jev is a dealer in harsh judgments.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also is anyone taking bets on how long before we see the Chinese open weights version?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jev is really clever. Looking back at the days of attaching sequence classification heads to Bert and upgrading that product in a very smart way. I bet there are other classes of use case that need that kind of mechanism.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The fraction of desk rejected papers at TMLR used to be about 6% in 2023 but is now at about 53%.”
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/09/2026
so I’m “under arrest.” interesting. perhaps you didn’t realize I’m one of bluesky’s 38 most influential posters
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Z. BoogeyMann Zilla, Semi-Pro Ghoulball @pandangit.com · 26/08/2026
If we really want to honor Tim Curry's memory, then we have to publish like 8 different obituaries, each with a different and entirely plausible cause of death.
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ᵀᴴᴱᴍ̴ᴇ̵ᴏ̵ᴡ̷ᴄ̶ʜ̸ᴇ̴ᴍ̶ɪ̵s̵ᴛ̶ ̵ @catpope.gay · 26/08/2026
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton was the subject of a long running thought exercise in Fermi estimation. How many times do you think she said the word Jolene in her lifetime?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The live music at @flysfo.bsky.social is really good.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wait… does that mean you are an LLM?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So what’s the Venn diagram of shape rotators, vibes people, and spreadsheet people look like?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
this is absolutely a feature, not a bug.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Disco Elysium style text box. It reads:

RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] — Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about populism. Scratch that, to coming up with the question about populism, the alpha and omega of populism questions, and that question is:

1. (Whisper.) "Is Count Binface the Establishment?"
2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This looks like almost enough to make clothes for the week right? Crowdsourced wardrobe
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You mean he’s ill-iad?
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Watch: Louvre Museum reopens gallery after jewellery heist
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Watch: Louvre Museum reopens gallery after jewellery heist
The Louvre Museum reopens its Apollo Gallery nine months after a robbery that shocked France.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stately, plump Thanos came from the stairhead, bearing a glove of metal on which infinity stones lay crossed
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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 20/07/2026
Camera ready deadline is Aug 8! Also, financial assistance form is up: forms.gle/HhXhv8ND38X1... Deadline is July 31 Author registration is ongoing (authors, get on it!) Non-author registration will follow up in (very) early August
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xaosseed @xaosseed.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
The r/osr blogroll - come share your ideas from this week! www.reddit.com/r/osr/commen... #ttrpg #DnD #bx #OSE #DIYrpg #rpg #GLOG #OSR #POSR #NSR
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Would literary scholars care to comment on what the Bard might have thought of “agentic sonnets”?
Sonnet just got more agentic. Claude Sonnet 5 is here. Thread post from Claude
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I do love a good picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
A dark-themed “Your AI Compass” results screen shows 29 of 29 questions answered. A colorful quadrant chart places the user slightly above center and to the right, in the positive-impact and positive-valence area near “Transformative.” Below the chart, a result card reads: “You are… The Garage Tinkerer,” with the patron saint listed as Simon Willison. The description says the user enjoys running local models, building tools, opening terminals, and focusing on interesting technology over hype. Impact is +2.4 and Valence is +2.2.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
rejected conference paper -> workshop rather than cool early idea. Gotcha, thank you
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ᴉpᴉǝH 🐐💕 @summerheidi.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Does this come from the CFP and PC process? Do you need to actively change how submissions are reviewed?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Would you be willing to point out some good discords?
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I had the immense pleasure to be a reviewer for colm again this year and fully endorse what’s below. It’s a gem of a conference.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I believe it was Satre who said that life has no meaning a-priori and that you give it meaning by choosing to die like Wile E Coyote.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
1. Can a generic brand anvil be substituted without loss of metaphorical weight? 2. Must the cheese be a DOP-labelled product and what is the minimum affinage?
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Interested to note this “humanizer” for grant proposals. github.com/AIScientists... My feeling is that a lot of the more “bot-like” forms are hallmarks of traditional human academic writing.
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GitHub - AIScientists-Dev/academic-humanizer: Strip AI-writing tells from papers and grant proposals (NSF/NIH), while keeping scholarly voice and tying claims to evidence. A skill for Claude Code, Cod...
Strip AI-writing tells from papers and grant proposals (NSF/NIH), while keeping scholarly voice and tying claims to evidence. A skill for Claude Code, Codex, and MorphMind. - AIScientists-Dev/acade...
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
They should add Kansas City to this for the fun of it.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yes or even LTLLMLLMTFYLLM
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It’s the new LMGTFY. We just haven’t found the right phrase for it.
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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
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words @words.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
should i eat this fruit the snake gave me

switched to opus
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Group chats on bsky are just another source of FOMO for me, I suspect.
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
No other programming language has had such an excellent introductory movie as Erlang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIj...
youtube.com
Erlang: The Movie
YouTube video by uncertainyesterday
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Can anyone help identify the address? It is likely to be a London address of the late 1840s/early 1850s. #handwriting
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Alex O’Connor @uberalex.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Are we nearing the point where, like some typos, those minor errors are signifiers or human-created content?
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