US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

Ask #atdev #atproto @atproto.com This is my first social media developer ecosystem. Does above average drama come with the territory?

I think an easy marker in time is when ads went from placement to personalized ai has been in every aspect of your life since then

Making people who broadly agree with you feel like they have to traverse a minefield to be able to work with you to solve problems is bad for effectively solving problems.

This isn't hopeless. We have a say in the future, but it requires a lot of work, for a long time. Step one, do business with, or create the businesses, that align with our values. In the background, use the tools, or create the tools, that align with our values.

Friday music listening, one of the greatest soundtracks of all time from one of the greatest games about #ai ever that's an invented "chaos language" you hear #nier www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5H...

a deep #atdev thread that lead to deep space Boldly Go, Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe

Picard artistry tip: Lacking innate talent at a skill doesn't mean you should stop. On the contrary, it means you need to practice.

If you are a Google Cloud customer, there is a little (?) in the top right with a feedback option, making it easy to let them know your thoughts console.cloud.google.com

“Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods.” — Montesquieu, Persian Letters

lawfare is one of my top sources, they do good journalism and long form content across many topics their "Trump's trials and tribulations" weekly stream is starting soon, latest news and facts without the hyperbole, but definitely a touch of humor! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy2w...

we the people are the only ones that can right the ship www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNH4...

#seattle renters, our new Mayor Katie Wilson wants to hear from you, one page form linked in the post below

I've decided that, for the time being, it is better to write my government representatives while I have my morning coffee than to read the news This gives me the rest of the day and overnight to think about and refine what I want to tell the next day

your "does this rabbit hole even have a bottom?" thread for the day tl;dr #epstein is at the epicenter of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the events that triggered it, like first domino epicenter

Is there a secret message in the connections? impressive performance for an app with so much data epsteinsecrets.com/network?layo...

the crosstabs on timeframes are interesting

What if this wave of AI tools enables us to regain control over our data and replicate the majority of SaaS services we pay for today. We've already solved the distribution problem and the open source community has the ability democratize the tech stack. That would be one hell of a power shift.

Based on a true story.

At the National Association of State Election Directors's conference this week, we had a chance to meet dedicated election directors from around the country and show our off voting equipment.

Jon Stewart: America's real "sanctuary city" is the one protecting elites from any accountability

In our current democracy, the loss of institutional memory, the distain of expertise, and the celebration of ignorance frighten me.

Why is the @bsky.app Android app still so bad and laggy? Is it that they insist on react native and that is inherently limited, or are they holding it wrong?

#econsky Thoughts on this piece and "boomcession"? www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-boomce...

Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!

Shocking: If I told you I was asked today how to MITM Ai requests for any agents running in a healthcare setting? 😱 Rocking: If I told you this was to make sure the agents developed by trad healthcare IT don't do bad things 🛡️

This was a really good essay, thread has some quotes for your sampling

witaod.com 😂

Stephen Kotkin is one of my favorite authoritarian historians. (he's not on bsky, we've @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social tho!) ... just dropped a new essay this month, The Weakness of the Strongmen just digging in, so no quotes, check Kotkin on YT, awesome lecturer www.foreignaffairs.com/china/weakne...

For every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David Bier.

The numbers were amazing in Richmond, Virginia. Do you think we could get a million for D.C.

“There’s no pleasure in living if you’re to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.” — George Eliot, Adam Bede

CSIS is a great outlet for in-depth analysis Give them a follow if you like long-form content on the topics the think and write about

"The U.S. should pursue a coordinated approach with allies, recognizing that it is neither the sole stakeholder nor the only country seeking access to Greenland’s mineral resources," writes @minerals.csis.org. Learn more: https://www.csis.org/analysis/greenland-rare-earths-and-arctic-security

So apparently #France summon Elmo on 420 to answer questions about his CSAM machine I wonder if this will get him to show up or not www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Trump humiliating again and again.. The American moron chases Russian riches while Putin promises not to bomb Ukraine's cities. Largest attack of the war. Trump really is Putin's bitch.

Follow up, #ai is fun, nanobanana seems to be unable to generate an adult #elon when #epstein is in the image ...which seems double appropriate?

This is a really good read > The swarm was never going to produce architecture. The swarm produces candidates. Something else — hierarchical, stateful, deterministic — must impose coherence. > Generation is cheap. Correctness is expensive. Our job is to make that expense tractable.

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www.frommers.com/tips/airfare... TIL there is no law which requires IDs to fly

Wow super interesting. Quantizing might not be as big of a cost saver as I thought. "... reducing from float32 (32 bits) to float16 (16 bits) or int8 (8 bits) should yield ideal 2× or 4× gains, respectively. However, such improvements are not observed in practice."

seems I inadvertently created a Blue MAGA honeypot making a comment about my disdain for Newsome... sorry if I soiled your feeds

Ukrainian engineers keep proving one thing: what Russia destroys, Ukraine rebuilds—sometimes within hours. This is a nation at war: fast hands, calm nerves, and a refusal to break.

neutree.ai/blog/nano-vl... > This two-part series explores these internals through Nano-vLLM, a minimal (~1,200 lines of Python) yet production-grade implementation that distills the core ideas behind vLLM, one of the most widely adopted open-source inference engines.

something bizarre is up with gemini-3-flash it's refusing instructions and talking back?! I have not changed my instructions in a long time, this seems like maybe they are experimenting with pushback and reducing sycophancy? Whatever it is, I don't like it

will we soon need to think about this "bubble" differently, perhaps more as lip service and subsequent back walking, rather than an actual bubble and its popping? www.pymnts.com/artificial-i...