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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

And it's not just my 14y-olds. So many of my scientist and philosopher colleagues claim to use #AI "responsibly," but nobody really does. We're lying to ourselves here. It's just too enticing to be sloppy. That's why I just say no to this technology. I won't use it for my research or writing […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Teaching #AI to my middle-schoolers this afternoon. We're in the project stage of the course. After having discussed how *not* to use LLMs in the past few sessions, they all did exactly that, of course: a quick prompt, slop was produced, and then the claim that "this is better than anything I […]

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h

Not to get political, but Donald Trump is a giant piece of shit.

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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 7h

alea iacta est! Das 1,5°-Limit werden wir nicht halten können. Anstatt jetzt alles daran zu setzen unter 2° zu blieben, lassen wir Klimaschutz schleifen und lassen weiter nach.... ist uns unsere Zukunft wirklich schon so egal? orf.at/stories/3445...

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Jonathan Rowson cites some unsavory sources here, but his main point stands: it is ironic that we pursue AGI as the wrong priority at this stage of human development: "It is unclear which of the world’s major problems stem from a lack of general intelligence, rather than delusion, perverse […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

#TheTroubleWithAgency Talking about Rosen's anticipatory systems, which predate active inference by several decades and (unlike the latter field) get the role of anticipation in living systems exactly right.

"Biologists still argue today whether canalization is a selectable phenotype or not. In contrast, it is easy to see how it may arise from biological organization: organisms (even simple ones like bacteria) differ from purely reactive mechanisms in that they can proactively allocate work to compensate for detrimental changes in their environment, but also in their internal structure. They are anticipatory systems (Rosen, 1985; Louie, 2012) because they continuously work towards goal states that are not yet realized. All this requires is what Rosen calls “internal predictive models” of an organism’s surroundings. What he means here are not formal models (see the last section) or literal representations of an environment (mental or otherwise). Rosen’s “predictive models,” instead, consist of a subset of the organism’s functional components — such as the bacterium’s chemotactic and flagellar apparatus — which alter the present state of the system in response to predictions about its own future state and its surroundings. The bacterium does not have to explicitly represent the idea of a food source within itself. It only has to be able to modulate its movements in a way that is likely to bring it closer to this source in most situations. It expects to be fed, and acts according to this expectation."

Shows Rosen's diagram of an anticipatory system from his 1985 book and the following quote: "In this diagram, adapted from Rosen (1985), I’ve highlighted the two functional subcomponents that make a living organism an anticipatory system. The first consists of specialized components involved in “modeling” the future. Think of the chemotactic apparatus again: it receives direct input from the environment and conveys it to the flagellar complex, the effector component of the system. This modulates the behavior of the bacterium directly, in a way that is congruent with its expectations. Alternatively, effectors can also alter the sensory input that is received from the environment. This is what happens in sensory adaptation: if you switch the light off at night, it will take your sense of vision some time to adapt its sensitivity to the darkness. In either case, the result of what the effectors achieved is then fed back into the model component. The bacterium either senses a higher or lower concentration of sugar in the new position it has reached since the last measurement, and its sensorimotor process (the “model”) gets updated accordingly. This kind of anticipation is how organisms “pull the future into the present” without breaking any laws of physics or causality, and without requiring explicit representation of expectations (Rosen, 1985). With his account, Rosen presages what is known today as active inference by several decades (see (Friston, 2013; Parr et al., 2022; Nave, 2025). I will have much more to say about it, and the role it plays in keeping an organism alive in the next chapter."

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Russia is building a massive military surveillance network in Kaliningrad. Satellite imagery reveals more than 20 installations, including a radar designed to detect aircraft and missiles up to 3,000 km away. GPS interference already affects 7 countries.

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Russia Builds Massive Radar Network in Kaliningrad, Extending Surveillance Deep into Europe

Satellite imagery reveals Russia expanding its military surveillance network in Kaliningrad, including a radar capable of detecting aircraft and missiles up to 3,000 kilometres away. More than 20 inst...

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Zelenskyy accuses US of delaying Patriot missile shipment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the United States of delaying deliveries of air defense missiles already paid for by European allies, as relations between Washington and Kyiv deteriorate […]

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Okay, der oberkorrupte Schluchtenscheißer meldet sich auch zu Wort. Auch er spricht von einer Allianz zwischen Linken und dem politischen Islam. Das hat weiterhin nichts mit der Wirklichkeit zu tun und spottet jeder Beschreibung. Aber weil das aus allen Ecken […] [Original post on norden.social]

Sebastian Kurz@seb
For more than a week, we have seen
increasingly disturbing images from
France and elsewhere in Europe:
burning town halls, looted shops and
brutal violence.
What has been portrayed as “student
protests” increasingly resembles
scenes from a civil war.
Behind the mob, there is an uncanny
alliance: well-organised left-wing
extremists and political Islam. Two
movements that could hardly be more
different - but united in their rejection
of our free and open society.

Both are enemies of the
Enlightenment. The far left likes to
present itself as its guardian. Yet it
marches side by side with those who
reject freedom of speech and
everything a liberal society stands for.
Beyond the violence itself, what is
most shocking is the unwillingness to
acknowledge what is happening, or
even the apparent attempt to conceal
the truth by many.

The violence we are witnessing has
nothing to do with legitimate student
protest. To me, these scenes reflect
the consequences of nearly two
decades of failed migration policy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

We are sensing a pattern

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

And, yes, I performed and understood all the steps in the Handbook required to install Gnome. All seems to be fine. The damn thing just won't find that variable, not even if I explicit set it and export it via the command line.

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Well. No success so far with #Gnome on #Gentoo. I'm probably missing something really simple and stupid, but when I try to start the display-manager, it complains about me not having set the DISPLAYMANAGER variable to "gdm" although it *is* clearly set that way in /etc/conf.d/display-manager […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Definitely me, most of the time. 😂

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

The trilogy of podcasts mentioned by @urlyman below is truly excellent, and the early link to not only futurism but also socialism is highly fascinating. Transcending our limitations doesn't have to be a bad thing. It's just the underlying modernist machine view of the world (both to the left […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Now onto #Gnome... so far so good. A system with more than just four virtual terminals will be useful. I'm not *that* hardcore. 😂

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I finally found time to read Ann-Sophie Barwich's excellent essay "The Lady Vanishes" in #Aeon about Mary Hesse and other female philosophers of science whose work is systematically neglected: aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philos…

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Why are women philosophers often erased from collective memory? | Aeon Essays

The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

My little Sunday project: complied my first #Linux kernel since 2005 and got my old laptop to boot into #Gentoo! I learnt a ton about how Linux works these days. And, despite a few bumps on the road, it's not even been too frustrating. It makes me nostalgic for my early nerd days, but also […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@duhe.bsky.social Ah. True. I'm following you doubly. True dedication.

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@duhe.bsky.social "Which lacks an algorithm"!? Google " bluesky algorithm," perchance. Or even better: finally switch to Mastodon, which actually has no algorithm.

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Here’s the thing. It looks like a political cartoon, but it’s real. The slices of the pizza are exactly mathematically proportional to reality. We are being screwed every single day by rich oligarchs. And we know it. It’s time to fundamentally change the […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

A pizza representing our economy is sitting on the table. A rich white guy labeled “Top 1%” gets a slice that looks to be about 85% of the pie. A white lady labeled “Merely wealthy” gets a slice that looks to be 13% or so. A black lady labeled “upper middle class” has a slice that’s about 2%. A frowning guy labeled “lower 50%” has a few crumbs on the table, not even a slice.

The captions say:
How America’s economic pizza is sliced per capita. This is not a joke.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18/10/2026

When you have wealth, you want power. When you have power, you want wealth. When you have both, you want to live forever and be God. That’s when you’re f—ked. My interview with @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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San Francisco is central to the 'major story of our time.' It's a tragedy.

"I don’t want to let the city off the hook."

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

For my own work at the interface of philosophy, art, and science, I am currently rediscovering Susanne Langer's work. Another name that needs to be added to Ann-Sophie's depressingly long list...

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

"This is not alternative history in the sense of alternative facts. These works exist and, when tied together, offer a richer outlook of what philosophy of science has been, could have been and further can be when brought together. [...] historical linearity is an artefact. The use of historical […]

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat who also drafted the bill with sanctions against Russia, said Trump was turning his back on "the majority of Americans, their representatives in both houses of Congress, and our European allies." "These waivers have nothing to do with our national security […]

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Daniel Mietchen @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A collection of community responses by mathematicians to the recent AI-based scaling-up of the reporting on mathematical problems and what that means for the role of mathematicians as individuals and as members of our society […]

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

It's hard for healthy people to imagine what this is like...I spent about 2 years almost 100% bedbound and it is hell. Showered about once every 10 days because that's all that my energy budget allowed. Some people in this severely ill state experience partial spontaneous recovery but some […]

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Yogi Jaeger @yoginho.spore.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Fog on the #Danube (Greifenstein reservoir) this morning.

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Heinzel @sueden.social @buergiswatch.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Genau das, was Natascha Strobl vor einigen Jahren mal als "radikalisierten Konservatismus beschrieb.⬇️

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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

This is depressing. Perfectly good alternatives to all Adobe have existed for many years and are used at pro level, but someone hallucinates some code with claude (which I hear was trained on code of programs like gimp and inkscape) and suddenly everyone is raving about it being the end of Adobe […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Academic publishing is a rolling scandal: publicly funded research and researcher time funnelled into private profits New studies of the money flows: sparcopen.org/news/2026/sparc-relea… "Between 2005 and 2025, the four […]

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 14/10/2026

wow, i had my doubts, but this is true in every single LLM i can find

A probability distribution chart titled "Pick a number between 1 and 10" comparing three sources across a horizontal axis numbered from 1 to 10:
* Random (teal): A flat, uniform horizontal distribution line across all numbers.
* Human (orange): A wide, multi-peaked curve with a small bump around 5 and a prominent peak centered around 7.
* LLM (magenta/red): A extremely sharp, narrow peak centered heavily right on 7.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

shame is a good start long-term but one strategy to apply. the AI bros hate it more than anything, and it seems to work among the public. this will take a while with linux, but frankly they deserve it right now.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

this is the one and only reason that the Linux kernel is going out of its way to hide which commits are LLM generated by abolishing the Assisted-By tag, simultaneously with torvalds fully slopcoding a core “improvement” to the kernel’s memory management if you don’t believe me, here’s part of […]

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Meanwhile, a fucking world war is looming at the gates of civilisation, and you’re so scared that you start parroting the enemy’s propaganda about how “the West has fallen.” Pathetic.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Imagine being a man in 2026, and your big, once-in-a-generation fight is that women won’t date you, immigrants are more skilled than you, and Netflix race-swapped your favourite cartoon character.

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Stefan Niggemeier @niggi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Kollabiert die Meeresströmung #AMOC? Dieses Erklärvideo ist fantastisch und auch jenseits des konkreten Themas vorbildlich: Es vereinfacht genug, dass man es als Laie verstehen kann, ohne Unsicherheiten + Widersprüche wegzulassen. Samt Korrekturen in der Beschreibung! www.youtube.com/watch?v=39t1...

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Everything We Know About AMOC Collapse — And the Threat to North America's Coast

YouTube video by Critical Latitude

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Mastodon is the social network to be on if you want to guarantee that your joke will eventually be explained back to you in the most earnest possible way

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