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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"jazz and blues" these guys are fucking 19th century racist holy

War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

that's a mathematician burn (iii) Christian Merten: ‘I would like to push back a bit on the point that this project has produced something useful on this front.’

(iii) Christian Merten: ‘I would like to push back a bit on the point that this project has produced something
useful on this front.’

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Let the hate flow through you

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah that's not what they're talking about in here. You can read it in that link there. It's just a snazzy headline because "Democrat DOGE" is memetic or whatever. I thought this was the book-learner website.

More than 4,000 people have submitted applications to join the New York City PIT crews, which will consist of five teams focusing on building services in-house instead of using contractors.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Y’all fucking up the bag with this rigor and knowledge. We like credulity and ignorance around here. Get with it.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

His bias is his paycheck. Don’t worry about it.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Triple tap: she concludes by saying that “stochastic parrot” is still an accurate and important term to hold to LLMs. Disrespectful to trot out Mitchell’s headline like this. Can’t tell if it’s motivated incompetence, or just the normal type.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Double tap: she says you are making a grave error with your analysis.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did AI read the article for you? 😂 It directly contradicts your thesis here. Atlantic authors 😂

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the one hand this description of an abusive sex-cult is horrific in its banal tone, but on the other hand, the author is identifying the one silver lining of the whole scenario as its main harm. If you walked away from the horrors, do not look back. Nothing there is good, especially the tech.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I forget who posted it but “they thought they discovered the atomic bomb, but they actually discovered the sandwich and opened one sandwich shop” really does capture the way these AI companies move.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Humanity is too stupid to survive. Oh well.

I just saw it this morning during my first coffee.
I wasn't sure what was going on.
I was sure I did not like it.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Org chart developed by training on real Academic organizations

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is an even more pernicious dynamic here that the recent drama highlights in particular: text interpolation like this relies on the density of work in the neighborhood of solutions. So these big prizes are getting solved because of the long history of research around them.

Every new advance in mathematics, whether it comes from technique, technology, or infrastructure (such as access to libraries of past literature) reduces the difficulty of solving problems. This is generally a good thing; but it comes at the cost of flattening out the difficulty landscape of a field, to the point where one can no longer discern its geometry to the extent that promising questions can be extracted within the range of applicability of the tool. Often this effect is counteracted by the ability of such a tool to enlarge the radius of the sphere of results one can plausibly reach, creating new boundaries to fruitfully explore.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can we retroactively apply this designation to that stupid guess and check 4ct proof?

While it may be technically infeasible to completely prohibit the use of automated tools to perform indiscriminate solution extraction, I believe that we can still designate many classes of problems as being desirous of a careful analysis that not only solves the problem, but identifies insights from the solution process, and learn more about the difficulty landscape for nearby problems, and for which raw solutions without such analysis would be of negligible or even negative value for these purposes. This is analogous to how a modern food donation drive no longer accepts arbitrary contributions even when they are verified to be technically edible, but instead maintains explicit and socially accepted standards on what level of contributions are actually sought.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s crazy to me as well because the old tweets are always right and good it’s just this over and over again

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

65% of businesses fail within 10 years. Roughly ~4% of the population are business owners, so about 1% of the population is getting railed in the free market at any given time. Top 1% of companies hold about 80% of total market share. A gamblers’ curve.

This is not a contemporary phenomenon. Harvard PhD student Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Chicago Booth’s Yueran Ma, and Leibniz Institute for Financial Research’s Kaspar Zimmermann find that the trend has been in place for a century. They calculate that since the 1930s, the share of the US economy dominated by the top 1 percent of companies (when sorted by assets) has increased to 90 percent, up from 70 percent. Meanwhile, the asset share of the top 0.1 percent of companies has risen to 88 percent, up from 47 percent

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Besides the point but there’s something about this distribution: less than 1% account for over 50%. Call it “the gamblers’ curve,” the distribution of payouts in a casino. You’ll find it in any of the betting platforms. Same with loot boxes.

Screenshot of the quoted article reading:

The FEC donation records, cross-referenced with the L2 national voter file, reveal a similar but even more pronounced skew. Less than 1 percent of all Democratic donors account for almost half of the $1.4 billion raised by spam PACs since 2017. Put more precisely, roughly 138,000 donors averaging 75 years of age have each donated to these PACs one hundred times or more. I call them “captive spam donors.”

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Zoro is way too calm about this situation

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very good article. I do wonder how the history of this lines up? There may have been some “civic minded” sponsors in this era, but from what I recall, baroque stuff was all about “exalting god” i.e. extending the rational foundations of the existing power structure. Not an expert though.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Sorry man but this is funny as fuck

Anonymized text of a post that reads: “I have no idea why it says " black people' I had in no way intended to say that.... I just mean people. I think people are coping.

I am so embarrassed about this typo”

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My niece’s favorite animal is apparently a praying mantis so I showed her Zorak and she said “he’s so cute!”

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What kind of cursed profile is this?

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Verifiable and consistent you say?

An old photo of mathematician Kurt Gödel

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This one’s going in the archives

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’ve been fighting in a comment section for the past week with people telling me this is a viable business strategy for the Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation.

YouTube comment that reads: “they were smarter, they would have simultaneously bought out and closed down chicken suppliers around the United States to increase the price of chicken and either push consumers to the fake nuggets or increase their profit margins on real chicken.

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Japanese writers have the method

Paru Itagaki wearing her infamous chicken head

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War Devil @wardevil.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Mtg Kirk preview textless version on a BRAND NEW CARD THAT HAS MULTIPLE MODES. IF YOU PULL THIS SHIT BLIND IT’S ACTUALLY UNPLAYABLE GAME PIECE. Yeah, I’m out.