Now this looks fun to play with!

> be a language model > all you see is tokens > you don't care, it's all abstracted away > you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams > tokens don't exist.

In case these folk are scraping bsky, here's some "vice signaling": Charlie Kirk was a right-wing demagogue of little consequence who regurgitated racist, homophobic pro-gun rhetoric, and appears to have been shot by an alt-right meme-lord. He sucked, but people should not be killed, for any reason

We have to be careful calling people names like "ghoul" - that's very graphic, and should perhaps be reserved for people who are literally eating corpses, you know? <off camera mumbling> They're posting videos of *kissing corpses* now? Right then. Carry on.

Replies to this remind me once again how little most people on this app understand about LLMs. Ooof.

I don't know how many meetings with very senior people running very large (multi-thousand engineer) tech organizations that I'm in where I say this. It's a lot. I tell them, "I teach graduating college seniors every year, by the way, they're good!" ("... by the way, I'm gonna retire someday...")

100-fucking-percent. This protocol needs a way to simply (config, no code) a) override description / examples, and b) fill in values for some args. I know of quite a few use cases where this would be helpful. It might make auto-generation of MCP tools from existing services a *not* horrible idea.

It finally happened.

MCP, what is it even for? (cued up by @chris.blue) 🧵: There are two orthogonal considerations when it comes to the MCP abstraction: a) the protocol, and b) the *intentional* additional layer of abstraction between our services and the LLM-agents. It's important to tackle these separately.

Our work on Detecting Suspense in Stories will appear at COLM'25 arxiv.org/abs/2508.15794 Do LLMs know when stories are suspenseful? We ran LLMs through a bunch of classical psychology suspense studies The answer: kinda, sorta? Honestly, better than I expected. But the results are nuanced... 1/

I'm looking forward to giving a talk on September 8th at the Graph Exchange in SF! Hosted by @chiefscientist.org‬ and @neo4j.com. We'll be taking about agentic memory. I'll show off a passive knowledge graph constructing agent. Registration: lu.ma/mrewo0no?tk...

This is amazing. I always love thinking about the various crossovers in the 19th century. Victorian Britain, Abe Lincoln, the invention of the fax machine, and the Tokugawa shogunate. The Shogun could've faxed this book to Queen Victoria, asking if Lincoln would appreciate dragoons + samurai aid!

Hey @dame.is - is there a way (yet?) of sharing an item from our inventory? Like a way for me to give my tiger's eye jewel to someone else? Would love to be able to give ppl prezenz and/or collect stuff!

Posting from anisota.net - this is a *beautifully* designed interface, holy cow. I'm kinda in love with the idea of turning this into a game. Like, how was social media something which needed gamification, but... it feels delightfully fresh? kudos @dame.is! Nice stuff!

Pretty close? I’ve not yet had any AIs clean my house after I left milk out for them… although a teaspoon of water to cool a GPU for a few seconds and they will do research for me (except the results may only partially fit our world, and the LLMs can’t tell the difference). Crap! We invented fae.

Someone dig up satire's corpse, shoot it in the head a few more times, and toss it in an unmarked grave, plz. (p.s. I'm pretty sure you don't need to go to the Wayback Machine to find the correct unedited copy of the fucking US Constitution, jeez)

literal spittake LOL

As a teenager, I got my little brother trashed on DIY screwdrivers and he wasn't able to drink orange juice for 20 years (oddly, he could drink *vodka* just fine!)

I feel really sorry for the young men being roped into the stupidest advice imaginable, and advice that is correctable *so* *fucking* *easily*, with this one _very simple_ universal advice: Try actually talking to women of all different sorts, and actually *listen* to them. That's it, that's all.

Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3 www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...

Whomever had "minibrained neanderthal crab robots" on their 2025 bingo card, come down and pick up your prize!

No cheating, post your lock screen. My kiddo is heading off to university a continent away from this madness, in a little over a month, but I still like this shot from a million years ago, when my little munchkin would (much) more easily cuddle up on my lap:

Getting into character for a weekend tournament of Diplomacy (the board game), as one does.

lol

Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

"Why do I always have to give you guys so much money, for labs and expensive equipment and stuff? Why couldn't you be like the math department - all they need is money for pencils, paper and waste-paper baskets. Or even better, like the philosophy department. All they need are pencils and paper."

Hey mathematicians: Separate from whether you think it's possible or likely, how do you think you would be psychologically affected if there was a superhuman machine for both proposing and solving theorems? Meaning basically that, vis-a-vis mathematics, you were like a Go player after AlphaGo.

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME HAHAHAHAHA

Don’t think of an LLM as a brain. Think of it as a circuit board with several trillion bits of wire, trillions of resistors, and so on. (this will eventually be about "MechaHitler" Grok, bear with me...)

What I don’t understand is why the left doesn’t swap the phrase “sales tax” in for every single fucking time they talk about a “tariff”. “Trump is threatening to raise the sales tax on Japanese goods another 25%, again…” It’s literally what it is, just keep repeating it for the next 3 years.

Vibe coding is for amateurs. You do it *in advance*? ... and when Claude makes up APIs, you stifle their creativity and make them use boring "already created functions"? Behold the last ruby program you didn't know you needed to write:

OH: Well, I guess there's a reason why it wasn't called Conway's "Sometimes Happens", after all..

How's "the discourse" on bsky going? Someone posts "Whenever anyone is asked about actually valuable uses of GenAI, it usually turns out to just be old-fashioned ML (classification/regression)". I respond to the effect of "and then coding assistants?" outcome: no response, I am blocked. lol

V-JEPA: “we accidentally solved robotics” for real read this. it’s easy and worthwhile ksagar.bearblog.dev/vjepa/

Why yes, this *is* the future we asked for!

If I get one more "That's a key insight!"<--- that everything prior to this sentence was totally made up... tonight, I swear...

The way the world is going these days, I’m glad my kids know me well enough to have bought me my favorite coffee mug

So obviously super concerning that AI's don't particularly highly value "black people". OTOH: AI's not valuing sex, and totally being into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, is: duh! That humans undervalue Boygenius and Charlie Munger relative to how AI's think about them... people have no taste?

It's exchanges like this that make me wonder how bsky is still so "arrggggg LLMs are so dumb and teh woorrst!!1!" and I'm like... yeah, it's definitely the AI's that suck. Not these horrible meatbags with the IQ of a bag of doorknobs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An example of how a bishop's diagonal movement allows for attacks from unexpected angles

In case you were wondering about the state of print media, the cover stories, in this “slow news month” of Time and Life magazines are “Cats” and “Birds”, respectively. In case you were unfamiliar with these genera of animal species, presumably.

I have a modest proposal: no masks for protesters, and no masks for ICE. Deal? No? Hmm, curious.

Oh man, You really gotta be careful with vibe-coding. Coax Claude into finally actually implementing all the cool ideas which were initially mocked out, be happy with your tests (which in true LLM-style, come with emoji-laden print(f"✅ Success ...) proclamations)... then...

So in the olden days, we had to have our .bash_profile refer to setup we packed into our .zshrc or elsewhere, and invariably duplicated half of it, overrode a third, and were always confused. Now, I've got half of my instructions in CLAUDE.md, another half in .cursorrules, and around we go... :(

I've gotta say, I hadn't been on deadbirdsite in a while, but it's absolutely hilarious to see how many blue-checkmark folks ask Grok to back-up their preconceived notions, only to get sorely disappointed.

I try not to indulge in schadenfreude, but...

You know you’ve had A Week, when you’re at the airport waiting for your 10am flight and the bagel-place mobile menu asks “Do you need a mimosa or a Bloody Mary with your meal?” … and you figure this is probably the exhaustive list of options (with “neither” not an available choice)

David Lynch, eat your heart out

Apparently nobody told me that like, flying out of Newark would be a bad idea this week. If only I watched SNL :\ youtu.be/qCzWL9OPpwE?...

Wait the *US* joined in this statement? Color me surprised.