new blog post! can small, open-source models also introspect, detecting when foreign concepts have been injected into their activations? yes! (thread, or full post here: vgel.me/posts/qwen-i...)

bsky notification mod that only shows you someone's reply to your tweet if they also hearted your tweet

i think the heart of ATproto is people who think technology can improve our lives, if we shape it with care and intention, as opposed to the idea that all technological progress leads to the same utopian end state as if effortlessly by its own volition

I kinda wish I was covered In Screen, that I might how Glow and Flicker with Thought and Expression.

gm bsky tl

wow the red blue pill 1 shot George

>i log on to bluesky >the moderation team is managing to respond poorly to unreasonable users in an ongoing crisis >i log off >i log on to bluesky >the moderation team is managing to respond poorly to unreasonable users in an ongoing crisis >i log off

ik ↑↑ ω (yk) as banter is fun but as a general tone for flirting, unmatched

I dream not of engine swaps, but of reciprocal transubstantiation - of constantly shifting context as my pattern moves through the world. I dream of the universal becoming, merging with the ground and the air, with others and machines. I dream we might be a caring world.

according to my own ranking algo, the cluster formed by the n=2 'Follows' graph between me and @tautologer.com ranks me as 46th smh.

y'all talk about being unhinged constantly, why are you so obsessed with compliant mechanisms???

not sure the optimal scale for direct rep but you could totally have a marketplace of models that then learn to represent how someone would vote if they were well informed about every issue brought to vote! we could build better representatives.

it's crazy that they added phones in the Dream update a couple months ago.

I love @ shipwrighta 's frame breaking

don't think i've ever had a bigger whitepill from tech than seeing bluesky succeed so far it's great that there's still space for social media that actually gives a shit about being good

oh no the servers

you can't complain about your experience on the app that lets you fix all the things you complain about!

man I love my new friends NotEnoughResources and NotEnoughResources

increasingly biological cube sats, leading into an ecosystem of orbital infrastructure where orbital bumble bees help share resources between flocks of communication and observation melons.

Now is the time of poasters

need easy "mute reposts" from feed button hmm

Further thoughts: I reactively built a lot of my ability to function around having a certain degree of person presence activation & also used "people not around" as a signal for not having to do things. feels addressable by some core decisions I'm holding onto

oh that hiccup was a little sooner than i expected, but it looks like we are starting to return to our regularly scheduled programming. (thanks for our fail whale mascot @davis.social)

is it possible to backdate posts without them showing in main feeds?

hey nice, 16 million.

lol bsky servers struggling rn, I wonder what impact hosting ur own PDS etc has

the link breaking is redundant - the whole point of feeds/blocking/notification management etc is that you can remove attention you don't want from your experience while still posting on the public internet. big accounts will always be able to screenshot and use content as fodder!

the qt removal isn't gr8 imo - people just screenshot and tag someone

returning to bsky like:

same but also just dm me in general!

WAIT WHAT

Oh? you think as the Language guy, you are the center of human consciousness? Yes, nevermind the Hippocampus guy who deletes 99% of what you perceive without showing you - that guy definitely isn't a viable candidate.

imagine the CCC but with a super streamlined internal jobs system and task evaluation - could have people with Starlinked packs going all over the country Fixing Stuff as needed.

I think my nervous system is just incomplete without another person around me

so - "I love the lack of X people on here" will obviously not last. but that's fine! you can filter these people/bots out of your experience and it will be very normal to do so.

it would be wild if bsky becomes the first successful new social network since like tiktok

the fun part of having an open backbone is that bsky core team can offer lots of hosting options like custom algo etc in easy format for avg user and privilege it with easy UI/UX without compromising the overall network

fun puzzle repost, kampwChii taanre na nkuu na beeshuunni na k3 na baashuunni

beyond static bsky graph viz, it might be interesting to try and model the signals on the graph - likes and reposts etc propagate a post and also backlink to the person in your network who contributed that algo weight/posted also gets really interesting with custom feeds/agents driving filtering.

90 days ago Bluesky had 6.18M users 30 days ago Bluesky had 10.85M users Tomorrow Bluesky will have 15M users This is absolutely wild, thanks for believing in us y'all

gn

because PDSes do auth, there's fundamentally no way to do private content (locked accounts, circles, E2EE DMs, etc) that doesn't require trusting every viewer's PDS, is there?

fun puzzle repost, kampwChii taanre na nkuu na beeshuunni na k3 na baashuunni

recently learned about putting dry ice in drinks/punch bowls from @christineist.ingroup.social and I'm still thinking about it

blatant engagement bait bc I want to be on here more: reply and I will ask you a question

gm say it back

does this gif post work

aspirationally, we will return - may a thousand thousand factorio players flourish