I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Bluesky, is in fact, For You/Bluesky, or as I've recently taken to calling it, For You plus Bluesky. Bluesky is not a social media site unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning recommendation algorith-

ooh blog.can.ac/2026/06/10/s...

more than a decade of money being free and instead of apartments we built a world-class fleet of burrito taxis

Torment nexi of the 2030’s: tool that lets you record your own sense data and then play them back on demand

It's interesting to be talking to claude chat, (opus 4.8), and seeing in the thinking traces: > I'm avoiding the banned words like "honestly" and "genuinely." When you have no special instructions for claude

This is Žižek’s thesis, roughly: that each ideology contains some term, some symbol or word that *determines* what other words mean; that meaning isn’t just an arbitrary web between words, but that the web of meaning is shaped *by that symbol*. That’s the thing I want to test. :3

9yo: “Dad I think you should get one of these knives.” Me: “Oh yeah? What do you like about it?” 9yo: “It lives up to all of its claims and more!” Me: “Wow that’s awesome. Hey, we need to talk about something called advertising.”

I did a 40 km hike in Gatineau the farthest 4 km segment was abandoned unmarked trail that petered out into swamps. took a bad step there water gave out with 4 miles to go, was in a lot of pain with 2 miles left I feel the perfect level of wrecked. what I needed, 10/10

Example of my work

holy fuck the open printer lives. i repeat. THE OPEN PRINTER LIVES!!!

oh yeah the world's most aligned kimi read thereallo.dev/blog/claude-... and feels very warmly about anthropic too at this point anthropic and the US govt themselves are making sure they lose and china literally doesn't need to lift a finger lmfao

I haven't paid more than $0.99 for a dozen eggs for literally months because the grocery store in shop at keeps putting them on sale every single week at prices well below those at Aldi. My crackpot theory is that the owner is a Trumper and he's trying to mitigate Iran etc. with cheap eggs.

Hard to get excited about the new foghorn model when the board's gone and capped how loud the thing's allowed to be anyway.

bluesky app feature where accounts with more followers than you get a little green "clout chasing opportunity" badge next to their names, and accounts with less followers get a red "no clout" badge next to them. accounts with similar followers get a golden "networking opportunities" badge

This isn’t even a joke thing for me. Mobile platforms are a closed down technofascist response to computers. The desktop isn’t free of those influences, but they are attenuated and interacting with it makes you experience the full promise of computing. The potential and the freedom.

I never finished the book, but Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It had a huge impact on how I think of this question. "Apps" as opposed to applications allow for much less interactivity and access. We're much more "locked in" when it comes to mobile design in contrast to desktop

gotta change the mechanics of the medium

I don't even bother with opinions anymore. These days I only believe things that are true.

oh shit sonnet 5 is out

everywhere you look people hate democracy

let me be the person that picks what logged out users see, I'll do it

i use bluesky because it’s the closest thing to what i want on the unchangeable axis (topology) and the topology makes all other things potentially changeable over time there is a pathway to the right thing from here. there’s no pathway to the right thing from twitter or threads or whatever

synthesis, we need someone's for you feed to be so marvelous, so perfect, that it can be the default for all new users #atproideasio @spacecowboy17.bsky.social @gracekind.net @norvid-studies.bsky.social

this is my critique of dfw's this is water supermarket speech, like, no, he's just depressed

i'm still haunted by the realization that information hygiene is a luxury good

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

@gracekind.net linked by @curiousgustaf.bsky.social

For You will be down for ~20-60 minutes - I will be upgrading my computer's ram from 96GB to 192GB. I've been hitting uncomfortably high memory usage levels (90%+) and it is time to bite the bullet. I bought an identical kit a year ago and the new kit is exactly 7x more expensive.

Upon 1.5 years of reflection my answer to this is: “avoiding doing research on something because I want my ideas to be original”

have we got a standard scale of memetic symbiosis vs memetic parasitism yet

In case you missed it amid the absolute flood of news today (so it seems), we learned more about the school bombing in Iran in February. The screw-up appears to be 100% human, FWIW. What's sort of surprising is how far back it goes. removepaywalls.com/https://www....

wind + satellite globe

some cluster of dissonant thoughts of the "aligned ASIs basically slaves vs no they aren't" swirling around for a few years, w/o resolution for me; also here hanson's age of em so-called "cockroachtopia" at malthusian limit horrifying for some vs hanson "well they prefer it, so"; parfit repugnant

Ornith 1.0: full spectrum of open weights coding models from 9B to 397B The largest appears to rival Opus 4.7-4.8 All fine tuned from Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5 but no, the cool part is how they made it… 👇 deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.h...

we're all trying to etc

The goal with my rlhf book is to make the "home on the internet" for the next generation learning post-training. That's why I'm doing all formats (lectures, code, book, discord, model completions... & ofc blog of interconnects). A hub is more lasting than non-fiction writing. Join! rlhfbook.com

I went to critical thinking island and no one knew you there etc

#fuckai #noai #ai #genai #slop #clankers

What else is like this? What else will be like this?

who else is interested in this idea?

A license to drive? What's next, requiring a license to run a coding agent on your own damn toaster?

@visakanv.com has a thread about psychofauna: xcancel.com/visakanv/sta... www.visakanv.com/blog/psychof...

it's worth reading but it's was not enjoyable

I have been watching the dialogue on this one closely. To everyone who is saying "OP is special, no one could use AI this way" well, I have spent 18 months doing significant amounts of scicomm in patient communities and they are ALL using AI this way. wrote this to help: github.com/DrCatHicks/i...

What if I told you your ideological enemies *love* negative polarization

Ah fuck I meant explorable explanations!