Thought Parity might have a kidney stone like Geth did a few months ago but he refuted this by pissing powerfully on every part of the vet's floor

The other thing going on here is people pattern-matching everything to a known argument made by somebody else they're already mad at. This is acute on bsky because lots of people want to have an argument but the person they're mad at isn't on bsky, so they resort to yelling at random economists

DWeb Camp 2026 will happen in Berlin!!!

Being active on social media either gives you superhuman patience, or makes you go completely insane. No in between.

"Timed to coincide with the BEV launches by Mitsubishi and Nissan, Toyota's and JAMA's anti-BEV information strategies started around '09-'10, targeting the public and policymakers through the media and company communication channels..." Toyota, biggest anti-EV lobbyist globally. 🤮

I think that's the thing when people scoff at trusting the "lying machine" outright it turns out you _can_ generate ground truth by vibe coding more epistemologically pure objects see also: you can machine parts that are higher precision than the machine that made them

Where did LLMs get the habit of treating any suggestion no matter how deranged as a good idea that nevertheless may have some drawbacks, I guarantee they didn't learn that from the internet

LLMs are energy-guzzling plagiarism machines with no appreciation for brilliant ideas

This aligns w/ recent research showing how Twitter (just prior to becoming X in early 2023) gave outsized visibility to content (via algorithmic recommendations) from politically right-leaning influencers. Influencers influence. And the right is algorithmically advantaged. arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129

Always think its interesting Sanders never got the heat Pelosi got for being old and in office when this kind of policy is clearly constructed by someone who hasn't kept up with this kind of thing because of their age

Death Note could have gone very differently if Light had access to Polymarket

Generally, as a cultural matter, I think the sort of 'knowing cynicism' of the 90s has run its course and as a culture, we need to move back to sincerely, to openly owning and loving what we believe.

wow, thatched rooves have incredible icycle action

When there's an insect in the house and it sees the moon and bangs on the window until you let it out what does it do when it gets outside, does it just keep going until it gets there

The very first DWeb meetup in Tokyo is taking place this evening! 🇯🇵✨ If you're in the area, join others to discuss dweb topics including federated/p2p social networks, mesh networks like LoraWAN or Meshtastic, and more. Tuesday 2 Dec 7-9pm, Setagaya City, Tokyo. Register here: luma.com/v4ji1h45

if we don't keep making new tools many people will die unnecessarily

United States: "I'm joining the war on climate change, on the side of climate change!!“ United States: *Loses*

Not my country but I feel like there's a lot less mad king shit going on when Trump is busy travelling around the world. They should keep him perpetually in motion, like Snowpiercer

Everybody say something nice about AI, I want to see if it shows up in my "Positive AI" Graze feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @blaine.bsky.social, Network Punk, Welcome to the Jungle.

Driving my Chinese EV around Tokyo extra considerately in the hope of healing tense Sino-Japanese relations

So fascinating. All the pollution comes from agriculture, and they understand that. But they don’t know how to make those facts into a story. It’s just — not — a — story without the frisson of culture-war and chattering class ressentiment added by data centers.

A side benefit of this is that if you move the most common operation out of DID:PLC, you can afford to make pay a slightly higher price in update cost / time to finality which makes the broken parts of the current system easier to fix

Feeding the car a little bit of on-peak electricity as a treat

"You like Joanna Wang so maybe you will also like Joanna Dong", amazing what the algorithms can do these days

incredible sheep thread

Neighbourhood association has an annual litter cleanup day where we go out and pick up any litter by the road but there is absolutely none. I walk down there every day and maybe 1 day in 10 see something and pick it up. Considering getting up early to sprinkle some around so it's not a total bust

Crazy aura farming to go to a meeting about how your invention is impossible with a working version of your invention

Has anybody made a round office with a curved screen set flush into the wall? For regulatory reasons I have to make the floor area less than 10 square meters but embracing the constraint that gives me a radius of 180cm which is an exact fit for the curve of a really massive gaming monitor

Look if you're afraid of the bears just say you're afraid of the bears. Japanese people are also afraid of the bears, we won't judge you, it's fine

There's a huge bear panic in Japan rn because they've going to towns a lot and occasionally eating people but the dog owners are all "my brave french poodle will protect me" so if you go walking in popular hiking spots the dogless hikers are staying away and there's about a 50/50 dog:human ratio

TIL that the Ethereum @devcon.org devconnect app is using AT Protocol to drive their event calendar for the events this week in Buenos Aires! 👀 Looks like all events are store in this repo: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

gambling in sports should be restricted to such events that you can read the divine will of the gods in the death throes of the loser, like gladiatorial combat, cock fighting, or bear baiting

The plcbundle chain is the real chain, plc.directory is lying to you

DAY TO DAY TRACK MAINTENANCE: PART 2: SWITCHES AND CROSSINGS (1952)

dogs were domesticated because they could be trained to locate buried vcr's by scent

What is the evolutionary function of this feature? Electronics must have existed earlier than historians have previously assumed

Can dogs smell electronics, I had no idea

Galaxy brain resistance: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...

Still holding some Honda stock but I can't see how they're going to compete with the Chinese EVs that are faster, cheaper, more comfortable and so tasty

Just posted a paper on the detection of wash trading with an application to Polymarket (joint with Allen Sirolly, Hongyao Ma, Yash Kanoria): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

‼️ Fields near Pokrovsk. Everything is covered with fiber optics, which has covered hundreds and hundreds of hectares of Ukrainian land. There are more drones than birds…

Does anyone else's goat sound like a maracas

I was an MoJ statistician from 2013-15. Guns are practically impossible to acquire for crime. Gangs "rent" guns (linking seemingly unrelated crimes). Bullets are almost impossible purchase. The most common firearm offences were owning an imitation gun, improper storage, or recommissioning antiques.

Talking of office chairs I'm looking for a chair with an unfeasibly tall raising capacity. I don't care about lumbar support or whatever. Goal is that I have a tiny regulatory limit on floor space but I can build as high as I like, so I want to be able to zoom upwards to reach stuff on high shelves

Gonna turn into a huge EV bore, I can feel the transformation in myself