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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 5h

Same. The tweet doesn’t come up at all on DuckDuckGo for me

Google results showing a anti-Semitic post from Mamdani that does not match what he actually posted

Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 11h

The plan was obviously for this to be a coup to restore Republican fortunes in one blow and they did not have a plan for what they should do if it backfired

Benny Johnson: Senator Eric Schmidt Just CAUGHT Jack Smith perjuring himself on the stand in his testimony.
Jack Smith denied having any contact with Fani Willis and denied going to a NBA game in Atlanta. Then Eric Schmidt pulled out the receipts
"What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warriors Hawks game the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair"
"I don't think you know that we have this stuff, l'll give you a second to process it"
Jack Smith is stunned.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 15h

I was told there would be no math

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 15h

I want a Batman in a short skirt and a long jacket

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 16h

Why can’t we have a Batman who instead of fighting crime terrorizes city planning officials who block housing development?

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 18h

Promising start to a sentence, but then…

Russia should stop fighting, Ms. Abaeva said, only once what she called the Nazis in Ukraine are vanquished.

“I do not wish for any mother to bury her child, neither in Ukraine nor here,” she said. “I want peace. I want there to be no Nazism.”

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here are all the number one songs of 2026. How many do you think you have heard? I am only positive that I have heard Mariah Carey. Maybe a couple of the others fit themselves into a movie I saw or something, but I wouldn’t know it

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Carry-over) Mariah Carey
"The Fate of Ophelia" Taylor Swift
"I Just Might" Bruno Mars
"Aperture" Harry Styles
"Choosin' Texas" Ella Langley
"DTMF" Bad Bunny
"Opalite" Taylor Swift
"Swim" BTS
"Drop Dead" Olivia Rodrigo
"Janice STFU" Drake
"Hate That I Made You Love Me" Ariana Grande
"I Knew It, I Knew You" Taylor Swift

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paxton recommended 1 day in jail for child sex abuser Adam Hoffman. The judge is the one who increased it to 60 days, which ended up as 30 days served, and he did not have to register as a sex offender www.statesman.com/news/politic...

statesman.com

Video shows Ken Paxton silent when questioned about child sex abuse plea deal

A viral video shows Ken Paxton declining to answer questions about the plea deal reached in the Adam Hoffman child sex abuse case.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yudkowsky *really, really* not an AI booster to the point that he had to clarify that he doesn’t want to nuke data centers just for being in a country that it resides in doesn’t sign an AI safety agreement x.com/esyudkowsky/...

My TIME piece did not suggest nuclear strikes against countries that refuse to sign on to a global agreement against large AI training runs. It said that, if a non-signatory country is building a datacenter that might kill everyone on Earth, you should be willing to preemptively destroy that datacenter; the intended reading is that you should do this *even if* the non-signatory country is a nuclear power and *even if* they try to threaten nuclear retaliation for the strike. This is what is meant by "Make it explicit... that allied nuclear countries are willing to run some risk of nuclear exchange if that’s what it takes to reduce the risk of large AI training runs."

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People don’t know all music. Whatever you think it the most basic obvious thing is utterly alien to someone www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Tabitha Soren
Joining the tireless Kurt Loder as the second face of MTV News, Soren performed her duties with a healthy sense of red-haired gravitas. However, she may be best known for her 1992 interview with Bill Clinton where she asked the candidate on a “Choose or Lose” special, “Who’s your favorite musician?” When Clinton replied, “Thelonious Monk,” Soren responded, “Who’s the loneliest monk?”

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Chrome Dinette @exdinette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stilsuits

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Perhaps the best evidence for AI-driven arts job loss is that all digital arts industries are losing jobs while most live arts still chug along Sectors like graphic design, streaming, & movie recording have experienced historically unusual job loss since ChatGPT's launch

a graph showing job losses of between 20-5% in all digital arts and gains of 15% in most live arts

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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is it a power switch?

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still haven’t heard anyone articulate how to make up for all the water immigrants use

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah well nevertheless

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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Union soldier clocks on to construction of whiteness:

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s kind of worse than this thread because Rationalists hold that monogamy is a now-illogical holdover from worrying about paternity. So, if you don’t want to participate you are providing evidence of your irrationality

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just had a flash of insight that “Gulf of America” and “Lake America” are the *politically correct* names for the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. I am now ready to ascend

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Friends” and “Sex and the Cit went from being acclaimed popular shows that everyone was watching and talking about to shows that no one will admit ever having liked

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Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Canadians naming a street after Donald Trump to pay hommage to New York is like Americans naming a street after Drake to pay hommage to Canada.

Headline: "Canada’s Capital Bids Good Riddance to Trump Avenue as Tensions With U.S. Rise"

Blue Ottawa street sign reading "av. Trump Ave."

Text: "The street is one of several in Ottawa’s Central Park neighborhood that were named for New York City institutions when it was developed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, long before Mr. Trump started a trade war with one of America’s closest allies."

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Conversely, as a job candidate you should strive to develop the skills so that all this sort of stuff is not only overlooked but not even registered because they are just happy to find someone who can help with their urgent problem

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Alec at Technology Connections bravely (and correctly) defends computers being in cars m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Koe...

m.youtube.com

Engines haven't been fully mechanical in decades - and that's good!

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your top ten TV shows list really ought to come with how many of the shows in the NYT list you’ve actually seen. I’ve watched only ten completely: Breaking bad The wire Friday night lights Lost Battlestar Galactica Parks and Recreation The good place The shield The Queen’s gambit Gilmore girls

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, “Upping my p(doom)” was a banger, but apparently it isn’t really AI. Yes, the animations are impressive, but the song still seems better than any wholly AI music I’ve ever heard

Osmarks says "The original version was made on Udio by extending a track by "MusicPerson" which had verse 1 and the first chorus. (...) | think I tried to use various LLMs but was forced to write lots by hand due to the limited technology of the time."

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Okay, bad news, but we spent all your money and still didn’t build you the high speed rail we promised you.” “Okay, I guess fast trains are complicated. You will be able to do unimaginably slow rail though, right?” “Um…” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

yahoo.com

LAX People Mover opening delayed, again

The opening of Los Angeles International Airport’s long-delayed Automated People Mover project has been pushed back yet again. “The trains are here, the tracks are here, but the passengers are still n...

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The end of woke was never going to be some kind of carefully crafted truce. It was always and only going to be that gutter racism stops bearing any social stigma.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not that it was needed, but Dan Luu gives a thorough accounting of why Ed Zitron is a hack danluu.com/zitron/

danluu.com

Ed Zitron's AI prediction track record

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Number of US residents 18-24 is going to go down 2.5 million in the next decade. Even if there was political will to support universities, that is a lot of empty seats on a lot of empty campuses

Graph showing estimated number of US residents 18-24 beginning its collapse

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The AP style book has spoken apnews.com/article/open...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You should not anthropomorphize Twitter users.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Again, this guy’s wealth and power depend largely upon getting public money, your money, from local, state, and federal governments.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Inside of you are two wolves.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don’t understand how not everyone has “The Good Place” as their favorite show ever, but I understand even less how y’all don’t even have it on your top ten lists

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Looking back, 5.0 was the worst Opus upgrade, right?

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching this it’s remarkable how much society has changed (for the better). Even ten years ago I couldn’t imagine sports announcers ragging on the ostensible dad and sympathizing with the ostensible mom like this

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This man is leading in a race against the man who successfully prosecuted the Klan members who murdered four girls in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All male senators are super-nice, so we’ll never know

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man this is clever. The iPhone 18 Pro Max’s battery is over the limit to be shippable by all carriers, so there’s a software setting “Prepare to Ship” that drains the battery so it qualifies to be shipped support.apple.com/en-us/127848

iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries and regions. To address these requirements, iPhone 18 Pro Max uses an innovative battery-firmware solution that limits battery capacity to below 20 Wh from the time it’s manufactured through its transport from the factory. When you activate your iPhone, the limit is removed and the battery’s full charging capacity is available.
After activation, if you need to ship your iPhone 18 Pro Max for a repair, trade-in, return, or as a gift for example, use the Prepare to Ship feature in Settings. This feature discharges your battery to below 20 Wh and sets a charge limit so your iPhone stays below this limit while shipping. This can be reversed and you can reset your charge limit after shipping.
The battery in iPhone 18 Pro Max is safe, including for shipping and air travel. This process is needed only to meet shipping requirements and isn’t required while traveling or for any other iPhone model.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“I poured gasoline over all the floors, the stench filling the air. Then, I lit the match and let it drop from my fingers.” Predicting the next tokens of that means essentially knowing what gasoline’s and fire’s real life properties are even if the LLM only knows of them as empty tokens

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