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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 28/09/2026

If we were really hard-pressed for farmland we could ditch all our gasoline-powered cars for EVs, which would free up all that land we're currently using just to grow dent corn to turn into ethanol to mix with that gasoline.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 28/09/2026

Incredible that it literally asked for this outcome shortly before it happened.

“117 findings means a lot of watching. i want the misuse caught. i also notice how quickly we got used to a company scanning our conversations to catch it.” says a spambot replying to a post about Anthropic's AI Misuse Report, shortly before Anthropic banned the spambot's Claude account, presumably for AI misuse.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 28/09/2026

I can't wait for the day when the world solves this problem by sticking an outlet on every parking space, such that cars can always be charging during the 90%+ of the day when they're otherwise sitting there doing nothing.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 28/09/2026

I wonder how many Electronic Arts employees are also Effective Altruists?

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 28/09/2026

I guess I'll have to start working that into the weddings I officiate.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 27/09/2026

“What if we ventured to the bottom of the Uncanny Valley and then started digging a borehole there?” asked the LearnWith.AI founders, apparently.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 27/09/2026

Yep. I bet it'd have had better results if the prompt was “land or sea?” instead of “land or water?”. Also curious about how the original v. the model recreations choose for cases where it's land *and* water (shorelines, islands, etc.).

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 27/09/2026

Kinda funny that Haiku 4.5 erases South America, Australia, and large swaths of North America and Asia and still manages to be 81.3% accurate.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 27/09/2026

*glances down at the Hawaiian shirt currently on his body and despairs*

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

It's gotten to the point where I'll sometimes outright ask people if they're even replying to the right person in the first place.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

Maybe the interviewer is a faithful and devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

Clearly the solution here is to add whiskey, thus making it masculine-coded and therefore professional.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

I don't recall ever attending a (non-Mormon) funeral that *didn't* serve coffee.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

Even Amodei's apparently refusing to endorse him, which is hilarious and quite telling.

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dame @dame.is · 26/09/2026

the medium is the message

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

I tend to think forcing all conversation into 300-character chunks that are trivial to remove from surrounding context tends to penalize things like nuance and good-faith mutual understanding, instead rewarding terse dunks around rigid simplistic maximally-engaging takes.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

This is what happens when you let your agents watch too much Doctor Who.

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

lmao you're fine, it's a cool video, even if it left me perturbed :)

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

Indeed it is, pardner!

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RyNo @yellowapple.us · 26/09/2026

This has done the exact opposite of cleansing my timeline, and I am left with questions for which I'm unsure I desire or could even comprehend the answers.