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Friedrich Seagulls

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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 8h
*losing by 2 That this is functionally equivalent to by 1 part of why the strategy works in the first place
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 8h
Dying at the ref combat roll
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In spite of ourselves
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Meme template of Tim Robinson in a hot dog suite. Caption: WOW THAT CAR MUST HAVE GONE ROGUE
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And he did it running backwards!
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
inventing Egg Car (runs on eggs)
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AWOOOOGA (compound eyes pop out in 100 directions, proboscis unspools onto the floor, steam shooting out of spiracles)
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tired: outkick the coverage Wired: outkick the returner
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
hmm where did they get the idea this system was superintelligent and infallible Sam Altman told me that wouldn’t happen until next week
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’re much more likely to die from AI by overestimating not underestimating it’s capabilities
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And of course pigs — “four legs good, two legs better”
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No *you* wasted an hour of your morning in a Google Scholar spiral (this is fr crazy tho) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in humans as a recessive trait mapping to chromosome 17p
Congenital hereditary non‐progressive hypoplasia of the cerebellum is a rare condition, frequently associated with other neuropathology such as lissencephaly. Clinically, the condition is associated w...
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think the real answer is not in bipeds at all. Another nice “octopuses really are just like us” moment. But the true queen of facultative quadrupedality has to be the praying mantis. Long may she reign
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’d agree with another commenter that we don’t technically fit the definition (can’t use strategy exclusively to complete the life cycle). But a fun (? ok nerd) follow-up: what other non-quadrupeds are as capable of quadrupedic movement as us? Can a kangaroo crawl? Any birds getting weird with it?
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This gets at an interesting distinction of facultative vs optional, rather than vs obligate. Is there a term (other than “optional”) for traits that are functional but not sufficient? The transitional phase into (or out of) true facultativeness?
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Should’ve put a shoulder chip maintenance clause in that contract
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make the world your parking lot
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
tfw they’re taking forever to call your boarding group
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe Brewer’s blackbird? Beak small for a grackle
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Contemplating how to fuck some shit up
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Great Bay Area Stink of 2026
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Seahawks equipment shed gonna end up in Quantico
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
These dolts don’t know “the Bayesian prior” is equivalent to “my uninformed assumption” but it sure clarifies their thinking
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Love to see every new application of this technology. I don’t know if most people appreciate how dramatically the biologics revolution has improved the outlook for chronic disease patients.
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Well let’s shift to smaller models and stop subsidizing compute and see where we end up
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For equivalent tasks (a side result in the paper op linked actually) but the main point is the massive efficiency gains from smaller models. Data centers aren’t going away, but the promised capacity buildout is obscene overkill for silly business reasons
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Matters less where the compute happens than the cost/energy per task. Token subsidies can’t continue forever. “Could run on a nice laptop” is a good benchmark for sustainably profitable consumer software. But frontier labs can’t support current valuations pivoting to saas 2.0, so the con goes on
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Really more of a “dplyr person”
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ah yes driving down prices, the thing that always inspires producers to increase their supply
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The one thing these people fear above all else is appearing gauche
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You do not, under any circumstances, have to lay Lindsey Buckingham in the tall grass and let him do “his stuff”
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Doesn’t help we ask the river to sit in the “Lake” Powell evaporating tray
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At this point the only way forward is a hard rule that nothing made using genAI in any way can be copyrighted. Fruit of the stolen tree
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This one is actually deceptive, the ants are an upcharge
AI food poster:
SHRIMP PO-BOY
Crispy shrimp, fresh &e flavorful dressed just right!
Mame wor love border
FRIED OYSTER MUSHROOM PO-BOY
Crispy fried oyster mushrooms, tangy pickles, lettuce; tomato & our house sauce!
$18.00
$15.00
SERVED WITH
FRIED PRAWNS
Crispy fried prawns seasoned to perfection!
$18.00
SERVED WITH FRIES

The fried food texture is like metastasized polyps, with unsettling repetitions like a fleshy fractal. The sandwich buns are crinkled like a deflated mylar balloon, with too-uniform perforations that suggest mechanical extrusion. The fries look both limp and rigid, with an uncanny sheen. All 3 plates are indiscriminately covered in black flecks.
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Vince McMahon reaction 4 panels:
CUT
GREP
SED
AWK
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Amendments: ERA + abortion SCOTUS term limit Expand house, proportional representation End senate filibuster & debt ceiling, restore chevron deference Override citizens united Legislation: DC/PR statehood (pending referendum) Single payer PRO act New clean air/water acts Decriminalize cannabis
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
these fortune cookies are getting crazy
You gênuinêly love browsing erotic sités and watching sensual moviès, while enduring an immènsè amount of sensation.
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
these fortune cookies are getting crazy
You gênuinêly love browsing erotic sités and watching sensual moviès, while enduring an immènsè amount of sensation.
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
they beating my sweepy ass on honkshoosky
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
one of the more fluid species 💚
Black capped caique laying chin down in a pair of hands
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Another story for the north bay gentry beat www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/01/p...
pressdemocrat.com
PD Editorial: Bohemian Grove got relief from jet noise that the FAA insisted was impossible
The FAA leapt into action and decided the previous dispersed routes were feasible for the Bohemian Grove. If that was safe enough, available enough and workable enough to protect a three-week private ...
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I just can’t imagine jet noise complaints would be treated differently based on how rich and powerful the people complaining are Link unrelated I can’t figure out how to delete www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/08/01/p...
pressdemocrat.com
PD Editorial: Bohemian Grove got relief from jet noise that the FAA insisted was impossible
The FAA leapt into action and decided the previous dispersed routes were feasible for the Bohemian Grove. If that was safe enough, available enough and workable enough to protect a three-week private ...
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I smell a double @doughboys.bsky.social
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.nature.com/articles/nrg...
nature.com
Vertebrate sex determination: evolutionary plasticity of a fundamental switch - Nature Reviews Genetics
The differentiation of an organism into a male or female phenotype is a critical developmental process, but the mechanisms that control this decision are remarkably evolutionarily labile. This Review ...
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Capel 2017 (linked but paywalled), which he’s using as load bearing refutation of the gender/sex spectrum: “It is unclear how psychological sex is established … Further investigation will be required to discover how tightly gender identity and sexual phenotype are linked”
It is unclear how psychological sex is established
The question of how psychological sex, including gender role and partner preference, is established is unclear. Whereas the broad outlines of sexually dimorphic differentiation are worked out for the gonads, the sex ducts and the genitalia, this is not true for the brain, where it is possible that many surprises are in store. Like the genitalia and sex ducts, brain development was traditionally thought to depend on the hormone environment. However, sex-determining region Y (Sry) is expressed in some regions of the brain and could have a direct influence on masculinization, independent of its influence on gonad development. In addition, the presence of XX or XY sex chromosomes may have a direct influence on brain development and some behavioural patterns. Studies of psychological sex in patients with disorders of sexual development are helping to determine the weight of the hormonal and genetic factors that guide sex differences in brain development and behaviour patterns.
Investigations of specific features of neuronal development, such as the vomeronasal system, are also providing some answers about the pathways that underpin gender identity, mate selection and maternal behaviours.
In the red-eared slider turtle, incubation at male- or female-producing temperatures leads to strong differences in brain development before the gonad forms. This suggests that … male or female brain development is independent of testis and ovary determination... This is a very interesting question in sex-reversing fish, where both gonad and gender identity can be reversed in adult life. In these cases, gonadal changes can occur without alteration of the behavioural phenotype, and behavioural changes frequently occur before gonadal changes, supporting the idea that their regulation is independent. Further investigation will be required to discover how tightly gender identity and sexual phenotype are linked.
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I want this as a jigsaw puzzle
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Depressed I’ll never see him and Jesse Plemons play father and son Happy birthday king, rest in power
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Two Eds are Better Than One [innit remix]
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
also I don’t think any theory in economics has the same level of expert consensus as vaccines being safe and effective beyond like, “supply and demand impact prices”
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Friedrich Seagulls @webramblin.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Someone gave this cow zoomer hair 🥦
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