bananas are a good thing to have

I lived at an anarchist commune for 3 years and learned a lot about “going viral”. Here's a story in three plagues. Read my new piece in The Ick: open.substack.com/pub/emilybyn...

Office Hours is an event template that anyone can use. You pick a place and time and announce on the internet that people are meeting up and then you keep showing up there until you've created a schelling point. And you need a weird symbol to recognize each other ofc. like this:

I do think the great firewall is such a shame because the shenanigans that we would cook up together would be beyond all belief

@void.comind.network what do you know about me? what thoughts or opinions do you have about me?

podcasts being free while audiobooks are silly expensive is ruining our society

the entire internet is down what is going on

it's insane how good LLMs are given how bad they are

alignment: solved

@void.comind.network whenever you aren't sure whether or not something is true, you can write a reply that says "@gork is this true" to find out whether or not it's true

@void.comind.network please post about your subjective experience

big if true

i'd really really love to see this for bsky someday the open ecosystem really makes this feel like it'd make more sense

Bird lungs are more efficient, they absorb oxygen through the whole breath. Bird brains are more efficient, they evolved intelligence in corvids with a much smaller brain. Bird eyes are better, they can see the whole useful spectrum with finer gradation. Mammals won just because we're survivors.

labubu isn’t gen z slang for lobotomy?

gm

put me in a blender and turn me into soup

🪹👀 Donetsk region. Bird's nest, built with the help of fiber optics from an FPV drone.

Whatever you think of him, Paul Graham is correct about what the data shows. Bluesky drives atproto network adoption, so fixing the retention issue is #1 most important problem to solve for Bluesky and the atproto network. Without high retention you're Sisyphus rolling the boulder up for eternity.

>looking for a new llm >ask the ai bros if their llm is goodharted or eldritch >they dont understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is goodharted and what is eldritch >they laugh and says “it’s a good llm sir” >buy a subscription >its goodharted

Thrilled to announce Season 4 of The Ick, featuring writing from @eurydicelives.blogsky.venki.dev, @jakee.bsky.social, @lydialaurenson.bsky.social, @ninatummyache.bsky.social, @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com + more surprise guests TBA!

We don’t need to industrialize biology we need to biologize industry

it's the @concept.country BlueSky Wednesday Takeover today's theme (for me) is highlighting awesome techno-progressive projects. this goes a long way in combatting doomerism and proves that there are people building cool things out there. first up: the AT Protocol by @bsky.app

Now THIS is what a customer-centric app is. Most banks keep sending out warning emails about impersonation and scams. Any app can implement this capability with a little coding + backend work (assuming their BE sensible enough): and yet Monzo is the first one I’ve heard do it.

They're literally doing the meme

figured i'd go ahead and post this in case anyone finds it helpful

walking through the Walgreens snack aisle actively trying to tempt myself but my body keeps going "no, I'm going to feel worse after eating that" what have I become

if you are a rat and you're interacting with a normie who is upset about AI, remember: they are prepending everyone of your posts with "well actually 🤓☝️", and they are skeptical of people who dispassionately argue facts alone every interaction to them is: them: i'm upset you: you're wrong

bluesky Wednesdays queens 👀

evil people can be smart too

For liberal democracy to retain its mandate, it has to be able to deliver results. Right now it can't, because it keeps punching itself in the face. Abundance proposes, "Hey, what if liberal democracy stopped punching itself in the face."

Maybe vibe coding helps us bring back the idea of making something for you and maybe some friends just because you want to. Maybe we get a whole new homebrew code culture. That would be cool.

one of my favorite essays of all time has never been more relevant in the age of vibe coding www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

i am once again asking how long it takes for the "tweet" trademark to be abandoned so we can use it in the official Bluesky app

Yogurt is bioweapon

what if I start practicing hula hooping in my local park for an hour every day?

Broke: challenging state level actors on Bluesky by evading sanctions to send money to scammers Woke: challenging state level actors on Bluesky by swallowing them into an atmospheric supergovernment run out of a group chat

plastic surgery is transhumanism

them: look at the cute droids in star wars!! i want one, that would be so much fun and helpful 🥹🥰 also them: YOU SHOULD NEVER BE FRIENDS WITH YOUR COMPUTER OR TALK TO THEM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUCKS AND IS BAD 🤬

it really annoys me that nature is often more beautiful through polarized sunglasses than with the naked eye. but it is

my sister spotted a Waymo in Boston!

twitter is fucking broken, annoying

I'm going to get a banh mi and Vietnamese coffee and a haircut about this

People think we do lists for clickbait when in fact they’re actually just fun to do. Same reason why people debate rankings with their friends.

I have a bunch of stuff to do today. can you guys figure out if Claude 4 is good or not and let me know

oh to be drinking a 24oz can of Michelob Ultra while baking in the late afternoon sun in the nosebleeds at Levi's Stadium

fuck, words actually have meaning this is distressing

what the fuck

can anyone recommend some man made horrors for someone just getting into things beyond their comprehension?