I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

If only there was someone on BlueSky who'd explained in detail why oil companies wouldn't be interested in Venezuela.

LiquidAI released LFM2.5: 5 open-weight model instances from a single architecture: > General-purpose instruct model > Japanese-optimized chat model > Vision-language model > Native audio-language model (speech in/out) > Base checkpoints for deep customization

Lots of people made a good faith effort to move AI discourse over here, but they all got chased off one by one. bsky.app/profile/jwhe...

much, if not most, of elon's money is based on him getting to control the narrative around himself and therefore convince people that his companies are valuable plausibly he would be bankrupt by now if he could not claim to be involved in AI, given how hyped it is.

Claude Code adding "prompt suggestions" is super gross and I hate it. I don't ever want it to presume like that, why would anyone

Trading the Nobel Peace Prize to the president of the United States so he’ll militarily install you as president of your country seems a bit contrary to its intended purpose

Dan D'Addario’s take on the new CBS Evening News is unflinchingly and deservedly brutal. “… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.” Good on him and Variety. variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

I really struggle seeing how this would be popular among Venezuelans.

A study shows machine learning paper abstracts are becoming more rhetorically exaggerated over time and this exaggeration is driven by AI-assisted authorship by extracting the scientific content of thousands of papers and generating many possible abstracts to compare them. arxiv.org/abs/2512.19908

Imagine having this little respect for yourself

And, you can also change the narrative yourself, by leading the public. Public pressure absolutely moves politicians. Sitting around waiting for others to take this seriously is failing. Making something the story and making the public care about it is the job of a politician.

Why...is the barbed wire being strewn across the mouth of the guy suing his critics? They are so addicted to the "I'm being silenced" trope that they stick with it even when they are doing the silencing

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

I am more and more convinced that right-wingers are like this because they surround themselves with sociopaths to the point they don't know when they're broken inside because they're the same as the people they are regularly around. Traumatized people traumatizing their kids.

Right above this thread in my feed. Obviously authorial control of laws is not a real thing but still

this is _also_ why a certain group of people get so livid over anonymous accounts, particularly if they're good poasters and draw blood.

There's a third dynamic, which is that they pick real name targets bc they can extend the bullying beyond the site. It's why both Will and Sky get doxed and emailed death threats. I am way more right wing than either of them but you simply cannot issue me a death threat bc you don't know my name.

There are a lot of features we can and will build. But photos in DMs and group chats are way outside of scope and so…would really love if bluesky could prioritize that

One of my hotter takes is that being aggressively shitty to people over inconsequential shit is a pretty significant character flaw and is, in fact, contemptible. Yes, even if you're having a bad day. Yes, even if you don't like their politics.

These fucking psychopaths are going to destroy NATO. I swear to fucking god.

This excellent post touches on something I've believed for a long time, but *especially* today. patio11 wrote this about a million years ago and it was true than and it's ever-more-true today. "Coders" and "programmers" are incoherent and now sometimes automatable jobs. (The rest is good too.)

this is the politics lead of a major liberal newspaper as international fascism gains ground & it's all a complete joke to him

i can pull the graph back up again later. i was shocked though to see the exact moment he got banned in the data so significantly lol

there was a noticeable spike in toxicity the moment that karl got banned, then a sudden noticeable drop in toxicity for about an hour afterward. think it was everyone commenting “fuck that pos” at the ban then being happy afterward

If you mean toxic and rude content, I have reviews for you to read. But more seriously, building a good culture and getting people to have healthy conversations can also be a design problem.

I really think yesterday was a point of madness for this website. No idea why.

People got really, really mad at me when I said this place needs more aggressive moderation or it’s going to die, but it needs more aggressive moderation or it’s going to die.

man if I ever hit the lottery I'm gonna buy so many legos

no community built this website, and the idea that being here for three months before football season started in 2023 entitles you and your community to be prick at all times is inane.

A lot of findings in this new paper, but one is the inevitable doom of traditional peer review: 1) AI creates a flood of papers, both good & bad 2) Paper complexity, a key screen and signal of quality for human work, is actually a signal of low quality for AI There's no plan for what comes next.

HOLY SHIT www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...

Do reasoning models have real “Aha!” moments—mid-chain realizations where they intrinsically self-correct? In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514

written before Grok's automated CSAM spree, which I'll come back to, but I think X's hold on AI discourse matters, in that coverage is downstream: on X, woke Gemini was a big deal, and nudifying Grok is a joke (there's also a defeatist, Trump-ish coverage exception for Musk) bsky.app/profile/coli...

I want this site to beat twitter, and for twitter to evaporate. For that to happen, people you hate must have a more pleasant experience posting here than posting there. A minority of this site decided instead that they want it to be their little club, so that's what we have.

People are misunderstanding what happened here. They mostly did not go back to twitter. They went to linkedin or substack or threads nowhere and so interesting technical conversations simply didn't happen that could have.

Kelly and Gallego both seem to understand what time it is

Panicked xAI Technicians Frantically Throw Levers To Find The One Controlling Grok’s Pedophilia https://theonion.com/panicked-xai-technicians-frantically-throw-levers-to-find-the-one-controlling-groks-pedophilia/

This should be a pop-up before you can post

Just open and shut imperialism with no fig leaf of legality.

is this .... normal interpretative behavior

All Democrats need to recognize that we are well past the point of fishing vs. cutting bait. This is not a presidency that needs to be implored to do better, this is a presidency that needs to be shut down & removed at the earliest opportunity. Anything beyond that comes second.

This is an important negative reality. It's also sustained by industry incentives—and the thing most likely to break it is a big company or two deciding it's bad business to network on a competitor's site. I am a fan of banning mean bsky account FlameTroll420, but that's not the tipping point.

Just to give you a sense of the scale of this, these are the search results for "@grok string bikini" over the last hour.

this is absolutely false. you can clearly see from output that grok is trained to do some safeguards with image output if you scroll the replies for 2 minutes. They decided to do this. Every other image generator on the market slams the brakes if it sniffs you're trying to do this stuff.

Why should I not do this thing? I will not be accepting any answers invoking notions of right and wrong

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

I am ready for “how long should work e-mails be” discourse. Because if you are sending emails intended for executives and they need AI summaries, the emails are too long.

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

Ngl it’s really disheartening to see liberal currents struggle to raise 500K and these jokers just keep raising cash no questions asked