@surrealjones.bsky.social
📤 516
📥 51
📝 4292
No one of consequence.
reposted by
SE Gyges
1 day ago
you thought we were making the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus but actually we were making the Collective Unconscious, from classic Jungian work Please God Don't Unleash the Collective Unconscious it's SaaS
14
497
85
reposted by
Keith
1 day ago
They say a person only truly dies when any macro they have written is executed for the last time.
1
105
8
reposted by
Faine Greenwood
2 days ago
In the pre-surveillance capitalism era, you just did not have to worry about if playing a Pokémon game on your GameBoy was actually supporting the development of deadly military tech psychologically, I don’t think it’s good you now absolutely do have to worry about this with most any tech device.
12
743
171
reposted by
Randall Munroe
1 day ago
Beam Pipe
xkcd.com/3257/
62
4309
529
reposted by
Solid Evidence
3 days ago
I’m so excited. Our secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance. FIFA World cup. 1/
@securebio.org
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
loading . . .
The World Cup could be a petri dish for disease. Wastewater could sound the alarm
As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-cup-could-be-a-petri-dish-for-disease-wastewater-could-sound-the-alarm/
4
177
94
reposted by
Citizen K says "Rebuild The White House"
3 days ago
I just feel like this is a sketch in the making. "Did you turn it off and on again, John?" "No...you know I half expected you to ask if I prayed to God first, considering..." "John, I've been praying for you to figure this stuff out for years, God can only do so much for you."
3
631
40
reposted by
Cai
3 days ago
This is probably the most traditional possible behavior for the family of a pope.
62
7477
1555
reposted by
David ALBERTO
3 days ago
🔭 🧪 🎢
#EduSky
I finally managed to color countries in my map for the refraction horizontal
#sundial
Round map with hour lines, to be placed under 5cm acrylic glass. The flower's shadow tells solar time and the place where the Sun is overhead. Here off the coast of west Africa, heading to Cuba. 1/2
2
42
13
reposted by
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
4 days ago
I looked at the delivery driver, then at the ghost. The ghost looked at me. I cleared my throat. The ghost rolled his eyes. "So..." the delivery driver said, waving the translucent garment, "which one of you called for this ghost bustier?"
8
287
71
reposted by
Lea Kissner
4 days ago
0
37
11
reposted by
rev. howard arson
4 days ago
honestly i think a lot of the fascist turn in silicon valley can be explained by testosterone and speed
add a skeleton here at some point
48
1793
263
reposted by
Materialist Gnostic
5 days ago
I'm pretty sure I believe in virtue ethics now and boy am I mad about it
4
152
18
reposted by
Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency
4 days ago
very important to do this before you end up with dozens of little brick phones running around
add a skeleton here at some point
0
10
1
reposted by
Randall Munroe
4 days ago
Planetary Science
xkcd.com/3255/
15
3305
498
reposted by
Wannabe Apparatchik
4 days ago
the dignity of the office is the duty of the President to maintain, not of the people to respect, regardless of anything else about the President or political circumstances
1
202
26
reposted by
David Roberts
5 days ago
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via
@billmckibben.bsky.social
's newsletter, which rules).
loading . . .
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
https://proelectrica.substack.com/p/elite-cognitive-dissonance-and-the
241
13048
4380
reposted by
5 days ago
I am infamous in my social circle for yelling "I don't give a shit about your life story, just show me the damn recipe!"
0
3
1
reposted by
Ryan Moulton
5 days ago
The model definitely made "reasonable" data processing assumptions that it didn't think to tell you about and you didn't think to ask about.
0
20
1
reposted by
Ryan Moulton
5 days ago
If nothing else, it does seem like reading code will still be very valuable, because ultimately everything is a lie other than the code.
4
48
4
reposted by
Louis
5 days ago
me, trying to appear a middle ground on data center regulation: "i think the ones are fine—it's the zeros that have got to go"
2
89
13
reposted by
Ryanthomjohn
5 days ago
Forgot where I got this
0
7
1
reposted by
Faqa
5 days ago
This post centers clanker ways of being and knowing and structuring codebases in really problematic ways
0
15
2
reposted by
SE Gyges
5 days ago
We acknowledge that manual coders and engineers, including C, Haskell, and Java speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the compilers and datasets of what is now Claude Code. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this LLM.
23
615
111
reposted by
Amy
5 days ago
god this app is gonna be insufferable next week when G’hzarxl the Rancorous plunges Earth into the aeon of Endless Night
51
1739
274
reposted by
Citizen Platano 🇵🇷
5 days ago
this is really it for me for decades of computing the “jaw” of the program was extremely narrow, and you had to feed it the extremely structured stuff we get paid to know the LLM suddenly unhinged the jaw of the machine altogether and I think that’s both a huge deal and poorly understood to be one
0
8
2
reposted by
Elixir of Progress
5 days ago
I think the interesting takeaway from this use of AI is the same takeaway from the coding case. The most interesting and transformative feature of AI is not that it can write. It is that it can read. It is not "the win" that the LLM can write something trivial. It's a win that you could tell it to.
add a skeleton here at some point
3
24
3
reposted by
TLP:Fred 🦇☠️💾✨️
6 days ago
The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the automated business support agent of the gate.
add a skeleton here at some point
1
115
63
reposted by
Lorin Hochstein
5 days ago
If you can’t see the constraints imposed on the system, you won’t be able to make sense of the resulting behavior.
0
10
4
reposted by
Princess Dizzy
6 days ago
Correct! We have the data
2
52
11
reposted by
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
6 days ago
“Malware burned my risotto” is not a zero probability event
add a skeleton here at some point
15
411
81
reposted by
Christopher Mims
6 days ago
the following are all probably true and not in the least contradictory: 1. There's a huge bubble in AI investment, the crash is going to be bad 2. A majority of the tasks we've been promised AI will "take over," it will not 3. AI will completely transform coding
65
1291
210
reposted by
Ryan Cavanaugh
7 days ago
I am increasingly baffled by people claiming that all human error is explicable, especially considering that inaction is a very common failure mode
0
11
2
reposted by
Stephen Jacob Smith
7 days ago
It’s truly insane that any country in the world has tariffs on Chinese solar panels. These things are very durable goods, China doesn’t take them back if they go to war with Taiwan. Buying one creates no dependency. A solar panel bought today will literally outlive Xi Jinping, he is 72 years old!
add a skeleton here at some point
8
147
29
reposted by
Lorin Hochstein
7 days ago
New blog post: the demon of the gaps
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/t...
loading . . .
The demon of the gaps
Mephistopheles (a medieval demon from German folklore) flying over Wittenberg, in a lithograph by Eugène Delacroix. Modern software systems contain within them a mind-boggling level of complexity. …
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/the-demon-of-the-gaps/
0
5
2
reposted by
Elder Skunk of the North
8 days ago
The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free.
www.youtube.com/@misterroger...
loading . . .
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Welcome to the official Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood YouTube channel! For more than 30 years, Mister Rogers created a relationship with millions of children, each of whom felt like they were visiting ...
https://www.youtube.com/@misterrogersneighborhood
54
8929
4372
reposted by
SE Gyges
7 days ago
i am legitimately baffled by how good these are
27
807
158
reposted by
Ed
7 days ago
the point of LLMs is not to be an oracle, it is to be a source of cheap _attention span_
4
39
6
reposted by
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
about 1 month ago
1
321
74
reposted by
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
about 1 month ago
2
773
232
reposted by
Dan Hon
7 days ago
rawcoding is like raw milk in that it probably has bugs in it
1
19
2
reposted by
Le Cagle
8 days ago
Pick a virtue (honesty, courage, civic engagement, generosity, compassion, etc) and find an opportunity, no matter how small, to enact it everyday. Character follows action.
add a skeleton here at some point
0
67
13
reposted by
Paul Musgrave
8 days ago
Canada is super cool and occasionally I also think of it as a league of city states in a trench coat
7
62
14
reposted by
Mark (he/him)
8 days ago
A Westminster tradition I like is subjecting the PM to abuse, whether it's heckling during Question Period or making them live in a decrepit flat
0
5
2
reposted by
Sorry Buddy
8 days ago
Early reviews say it's: "Baffling", "Maybe fun if you have a terminal degree in Canadian history", and that "Making the loon sculpture Chretien's phylactery was an inspired deep cut".
2
8
1
reposted by
Sorry Buddy
8 days ago
Battling the ghosts of dead PMs in the dilapidated ruins of 24 Sussex may be the most abstruse high-concept DnD one-shot adventure conceivable.
add a skeleton here at some point
2
18
4
reposted by
William B. Fuckley
7 days ago
it's obviously not like, the worst thing that they've done, but an underrated shitty thing that musk et al. have done is (understandably but incorrectly) negatively polarize people against a kind of amazing technological moment we're in with a lot of liberatory potential
5
94
14
reposted by
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
8 days ago
"I would move out of the way. I'm built different." You are built like sentient strawberry preservatives and move at the speed of a software update. The fireball would consume you in seconds. Never pour fuel over an open flame.
10
503
150
reposted by
Brendan
8 days ago
Words use share brain. If they you brain, you they brain
4
270
20
reposted by
arr
8 days ago
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
433
15076
4645
Load more
feeds!
log in