okay i am really sad i missed this until now

"All I can say is that on this earth there are plagues and there are victims, and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the plague"

i'm not crazy, they do keep getting larger, right

nobody asked but i'm seeing nonsense about the girl on the rail car again and the funny thing is there are only two people who might even have had any idea what was happening, the odds of any two random draw people being useful in a crisis are always basically zero

signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve

i think this is realistic for how your war buddies will view your romance at home, though. you know she exists, and it's important, but you don't *see* her: she's not in the war. she's at home.

i feel like we're learning why this is a mistake

bit nervous for my presentation tomorrow at weyland-yutani hq, going to present my research that our interstellar ships would greatly benefit from utilizing some primitive earth ship designs

i don't know what i expected but posting velocity is actually pretty slow, i only have a million posts in like the last ... 4 hours? six? something like that

changed the handle on the other account and i think i'm waiting for something to propagate internally because it just shows invalid? either that or non .bsky.social addresses vastly must not have extra periods for api access. or, a third thing, something totally else is wrong now

Meituan, China's largest food delivery company, is releasing more open-weight LLMs. LongCat-Flash-Thinking: Smarter reasoning and leaner costs! Performance: SOTA open-source models on Logic / Math / Coding / Agent tasks using 64.5% fewer tokens to hit top-tier accuracy on AIME25

your headers say the rate limit is 5000 per hour but my actual throughput says it's 1667, what the fuck bluesky

tbh this is occasional well-intentioned. people i otherwise respect sometimes fail to contextualize ideas i personally feel should never be mentioned for a general audience in any context other than to criticize them. but three paragraphs is a long time to be a stenographer

giving a child a participation trophy is soft nonsense. adults with blogs, newspaper columns, podcasts and youtube channels, however, must all be taken seriously, and anyone who does not is so cruel that Stalin and Mao would weep

it is extraordinary how Google downgraded just about everyone's expectations of their AI capabilities because some product manager demanded the UI team shoehorn cheap dogshit Gemma summaries into every search

I want all my politicians locked away in a sort of papal conclave where they have no access to popular media or social media during their time in office. Bonus points if they're picked from some sort of decade/century/millennial rotating isolation monastery like the novel Anathem.

not seeing a lot of clarity: if i am making a labeller account, i don't need to do anything special, no? i can just make the thing

the weird racialism of tacitly accepting that most white people will vote for insane nonsense but if 30% of any nonwhite block does they're traitors

He's younger than them. He's their imaginary son, not their imaginary dad.

american english effectively has a high and low dialect, in addition to its various regionalisms, and when people say "working class" they frequently mean that the person speaks Low American English in public appearances, and not anything else

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Bsky T&S has been questionable recently. It may be tempting to make a decentralized bsky where these problems are structurally impossible, but that's tech solutionism; very bad. So wat do? Simple. A poster's strike. Repeat after me: "We keep going until Bluesky fires the trust and safety team"

charming people coming out in favor of the 100k visa tax

p(social media is the great filter) just got updated

say what you will about the chicago school but at least they had an ethos

lol

apparently the Big Three run shadow, web-only broadcasts dressed in full Trusted Nightly News adornment so web viewers think the networks risked their boomer audience credibility on these topics, when none was (boomers never saw it), and the stream's own credibility rises on that imagined spend

Buddy it's obviously a losing medium term (if not short term) proposition to stay on a platform where the algorithm is actively rigged against you. If anything I'm impressed by the number of people who understand that and took on short term pain for it.

My impression right now is that Vance is a full dark enlightenment/nrx guy and he actually believes all the bullshit they're implementing. And he actually believes that what idiots like Yarvin or Eigenrobot say should be policy. bsky.app/profile/blus...

Deplatforming actually worked, but it made the richest man in the world so mad he had to swoop in and spend 44 billion dollars he didn't have to intervene.

the internet has never been more real life than it is now and tpot's dumbest poster is in charge

wait is this actually the source of the idiot h-1b policy

this makes sense if you understand "moderates" to be compulsively "in the middle of whoever is currently in power" as opposed to actually believing anything

fun story: my sister in law likes dungeon meshi. she likes 0 other anime that has ever existed. it was my consensus pick of "things everyone at every age will enjoy" and i was right

so really in order to get a labeller up to "mod service" parity you need an entire application for many people to use to settle on labels

Every elected official who dares to stand against criminality & injustice deserves to be praised for it

this is unfortunately very cool

Russian blogger reported that the Russian 128th Brigade was sent to die in Vovchansk recently. Large ground assault; 3 survivors. Basically they tripped motion sensors and got hit by remote-controlled machine guns and mortars. Part 2 is more terrible news for the 128th 300 = wounded 200= dead

The app doesn't hate you, neither does it love you, but your life is made of moments that it can use for something else.

if neither you nor anyone you know is on a visa it is impossible to appreciate how badly greencard holders take being directly targeted

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

definitively this means that Celebrity Family Feud is our Swan Lake

i know it's early for halloween plans but how does everyone feel about a dead kirk costume competition

They deferred utopia and put up a parking lot

go ahead and tell me this wouldn't have been a better book cover

Koko’s basilisk, is this anything

i have literally never considered politics a scene, a subculture, an aesthetic, or anything else. i have terminal engineer brain. i want to know if the thing fucking works. this gives me the full anthropologist-on-mars experience

i feel like you could classify us by vibe pretty effectively just by what the username is palindrome, aeronautical engineering reference, mathematical foundations, gnostic heresy, logical fallacy, pun/no pun, philosophy (and which one), etc