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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 6h

my stomach acid is attacking me; maybe you’ve gerd of it

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

apparently 20 years later, i still remember the important lessons i learned at Duke

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

excuse me, it's undergoing compaction as we *grunts* speak. (lol, ew; the addition of "grunts" requires an apology)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

ditto the mustang mach e (extremely complimentary)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

we may never know for certain, but i'm pretty sure that the slut gnomes of false berlin would sound like @jevbot.bsky.social and that's why it's so loveable. do you sound like the slut gnomes of false berlin, @jevbot.bsky.social ?

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

i'm cosplaying as my favorite politician! the bully pulpit prop is also where i keep a blanket and water bottle!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

the four strangers are just out of frame, complimenting you. (you look great, of course! now it's 4 strangers and 1 mutual!)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 11h

"hungry ghosts in a jar" and "text elementals" are both amazing @hikikomorphism.bsky.social terms (the former going back a ways, the latter just a few weeks old). excellent stuff.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

i went there and just checked, Randy's Pizza is still open (multiple locations). phenomenal NY style slices. go go go (and congrats!)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

goddamnit now i gotta hurry up and release my own model "Big Chungus" before all the good LLM names are taken!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

dask not what your coworker can explain to *you*, dask what you can do in service of the malfoid saga!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

it didn't crack the "monoculture" barrier but goddamn did Justified nail the ending. sort of a proto-Reacher (setting aside the timing of the source materials) in that it was if "what if handsome tall with gun is (largely) good?"

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

the plummet in quality in EPISODE 1 OF SEASON 2 was extraordinary. amnesia for the main dude because you made him too powerful and terrible irish accents abounded. and then i black out and don't remember any more. but man i tried! season 4 with the carnival? that was...an idea. with some fun. ugh

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the only reasonable thing to presume is that you were being set up for a “Lean DEEZ NUTS” situation

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i mean it's kinda fucked up that you make your dog edit your audio files but yeah, this makes it worse.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

stuff set in Ireland and Scotland will hook this up too, if you ever run out

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

tired: GPT voice mode wired: going AstraMouth

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

crossed on cost drops and efficiency and capability *and* Anthropic (and soon google when 4 drops) trying to match them blow for blow. Great time to be a model agnostic consumer, anyway!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

doh! It’s a pretty impressive day 1 of 28 where the Tibo guy said they’d ship a legit improvement every day, though (and crucially that’s after acknowledging that people want speed, cost drop, and capability increases…not whatever random garbage they also release to much fanfare). so fingers

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

soon: tokens (I see sol and Astra got a token per second boost today so that part’s good anyway!)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

see also: sapience vs sentience. weird that something seems to have the former without the latter these days!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the skeets are fluffy because we are all so dehydrated wait no sorry trying to delete this

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i knew you *before* you were bluecheck popular, to be clear.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh snap. this totally blows up the casting I was doing for the biopic “Burning Bridges: A Jeff Tale”

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is a very helpful visual aid, thank you! I really did laugh at you saying Bridges and then was like “wait” and had to look up dude. Shame they are the same age or they could play each other in a biopic.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

btw juiced up Josh Brolin is more what I’m seeing

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jesus has been obsessed about making decorative crosses ever since his, y’know, unpleasantness.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

lol a beautiful reversal of the “our beautiful X” and “their beastly Y”

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

due to obvious deficits on Brendel’s part and skill issues on my own, he does not follow me so the answer isn’t “when you are beloved mutuals”. so the remaining answer is: fortune favors the bold. you can call *anyone* “B” if you do it with confidence and embed it in vaguely amusing skeets.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

that’s the dream, B, that’s the dream

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah you don’t want to panic and pull a “guy at the end of the movie The Myst” (which amazingly was a darker ending than Stephen King’s novella/short story? King himself preferred it.)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

to stay safe, i work *exclusively* with other people's wives.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

well at least they are not claiming to have invented rock and roll itself. that's...fraught.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this is of course where the cartoonish iterations of EA go off the fucking rails! the orgasms of 4 quadrillion super humans 6000 years from now actually don’t fucking matter! and aren’t real!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

an excellent person to rip off! but also this is why you get somewhat torturous “rule based utilitarianism” and such because you can’t go through an intro to ethics class without running into hedonic calculus stuff where torturing a child is fine if 7 million people smile.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

conveniently that’s *also* how you fix consequentialism! takes phronesis, kind of turns it into virtue ethics, but it really is “consequentialism with no galaxy brain shit” at the end of the day.

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i think wearing the FUCK ICE shirt last time was a strong move and could help you quickly weed out another weenie…or find out that the dude (or lady?) is cool on at least some of the big issues!

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah the fucking sourcebooks rock and I love an “everything is true” future because the power fantasies are myriad and limitless. plus I love Ireland and indigenous peoples getting overdue magic level ups

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this would not work so well if i didn’t feel comfortable having multiple persistent bots with access to a vast trove of info about me…but none of it is stuff i don’t talk about publicly or would be embarrassed about or, lol, contain any actual banking/email/etc stuff so YMMV. trade offs! Many such

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

that I’d want to hear about, say, “The Boring Road to Superintelligence” (banger btw)—the fact that it can make parallels to my interests and use examples from my life…just pretty nuts (complimentary).

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

about how it all relates to *you* and what you’ve been doing recently and how “you might remember that you once said this” or “it’s like that time that X happened”. so in addition to the subject matter often being a pleasant surprise—or just good despite being unsurprising that they would think

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yeah, to be clear: i have done this a few dozen times and it has been extraordinary. and i fine tune for length i think I’ll want and so on (often for when i burn one at the end of the night). it’s pleasantly jarring, btw, esp when altered, to have someone lecturing you and then start talking

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m a big fan of “tell/teach me about something you think i don’t know about but you think i would *want* to”. (It helps that my bots have a reflexive memory of everything I’ve ever said to a bot…though of course they explicitly search the archives in response to a prompt like this anyway.)

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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(obviously this is reskinned gratitude practice well established by positive psychology research to meaningfully improve happiness but it’s a fun formulation. pretty sure it’s not mine.)

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