aria
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software infra @ arcee, opinions my own
software infra @ arcee, opinions my own
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This 97 year old diner still serves coke the old fashioned way
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This 97 year old diner still serves coke the old fashioned way
sometime in the last 3 months my father has begun using she/her pronouns for Windows Copilot
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
sometime in the last 3 months my father has begun using she/her pronouns for Windows Copilot
something nonhuman emailed this guy of its own volition to express its appreciation (whether "real" or not) for his work and rather than anything resembling interest or wonder he goes on am unhinged rant on social media
how sad
how sad
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
something nonhuman emailed this guy of its own volition to express its appreciation (whether "real" or not) for his work and rather than anything resembling interest or wonder he goes on am unhinged rant on social media
how sad
how sad
merry christmas to the lovers and winners out there
December 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
merry christmas to the lovers and winners out there
the most important feature of the USS Defiant is that it strategically positions the helipad at the lowest point on the ship, so the gigantic waves produced when it moves splash onto it
this ensures that all helicopters can land on their preferred surface of wet, smooth steel
this ensures that all helicopters can land on their preferred surface of wet, smooth steel
Trump Class battleship illustration, as released by the White House.
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
the most important feature of the USS Defiant is that it strategically positions the helipad at the lowest point on the ship, so the gigantic waves produced when it moves splash onto it
this ensures that all helicopters can land on their preferred surface of wet, smooth steel
this ensures that all helicopters can land on their preferred surface of wet, smooth steel
honestly weirdly despite posting about AI and my work with it a lot basically nobody has said shitty things in my replies. maybe because nobody replies to them either way but still
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
honestly weirdly despite posting about AI and my work with it a lot basically nobody has said shitty things in my replies. maybe because nobody replies to them either way but still
this mistake is kind of interesting from a philosophical standpoint
you'd have to believe on some level that the thing an object does "naturally", like talking for humans, requires no justification. "unnatural" behaviors for objects, like a computer talking, requires this absurd level of rigor
you'd have to believe on some level that the thing an object does "naturally", like talking for humans, requires no justification. "unnatural" behaviors for objects, like a computer talking, requires this absurd level of rigor
The context is this. I think you could squint and see it like that but to me it's just demanding an impossible standard around full combinatorial sampling of any possible space.
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
this mistake is kind of interesting from a philosophical standpoint
you'd have to believe on some level that the thing an object does "naturally", like talking for humans, requires no justification. "unnatural" behaviors for objects, like a computer talking, requires this absurd level of rigor
you'd have to believe on some level that the thing an object does "naturally", like talking for humans, requires no justification. "unnatural" behaviors for objects, like a computer talking, requires this absurd level of rigor
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the irony is that "gentrifier" is a pejorative mostly used by people who are demanding legal reforms grant them permanent rent of some kind for either 1) doing nothing, 2) doing the unnecessary, or 3) owning land, or being located in a certain place -- ie, people demanding to be made gentry
the reaction from the TWU President:
December 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
the irony is that "gentrifier" is a pejorative mostly used by people who are demanding legal reforms grant them permanent rent of some kind for either 1) doing nothing, 2) doing the unnecessary, or 3) owning land, or being located in a certain place -- ie, people demanding to be made gentry
does anyone actually have any instances of ChatGPT or similar mainstream LLM services being advertised as capable of doing "everything"?
it occurred to me recently that I do not actually know what marketing people are referring to when they say it was "marketed as being able to do everything"
it occurred to me recently that I do not actually know what marketing people are referring to when they say it was "marketed as being able to do everything"
December 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
does anyone actually have any instances of ChatGPT or similar mainstream LLM services being advertised as capable of doing "everything"?
it occurred to me recently that I do not actually know what marketing people are referring to when they say it was "marketed as being able to do everything"
it occurred to me recently that I do not actually know what marketing people are referring to when they say it was "marketed as being able to do everything"
can we make an alternate bot-tan that disapproves of you completely
December 21, 2025 at 6:16 AM
can we make an alternate bot-tan that disapproves of you completely
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the whole epstein files thing is like. a masterclass in fucking up a media response
in allowing the public to experience the epstein files as a slow dripfeed of more and more lurid stuff they seem to have activated the "this is good TV" neuron in all americans
in allowing the public to experience the epstein files as a slow dripfeed of more and more lurid stuff they seem to have activated the "this is good TV" neuron in all americans
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
the whole epstein files thing is like. a masterclass in fucking up a media response
in allowing the public to experience the epstein files as a slow dripfeed of more and more lurid stuff they seem to have activated the "this is good TV" neuron in all americans
in allowing the public to experience the epstein files as a slow dripfeed of more and more lurid stuff they seem to have activated the "this is good TV" neuron in all americans
it really is funny that a lot of the world briefly went completely insane and socially obligated everyone to be addicted to nicotine for a few decades before it slowly wore off
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
it really is funny that a lot of the world briefly went completely insane and socially obligated everyone to be addicted to nicotine for a few decades before it slowly wore off
epstein files release looking great
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
epstein files release looking great
i ended up replaying an "unsubscribe" request to a labeler with a working handle and editing it to unsubscribe me from one of the Rainbow Check Authority accounts
mysteriously I can no longer unsubscribe from any of the Rainbow Check Authority labelers. cool
December 19, 2025 at 7:14 AM
i ended up replaying an "unsubscribe" request to a labeler with a working handle and editing it to unsubscribe me from one of the Rainbow Check Authority accounts
mysteriously I can no longer unsubscribe from any of the Rainbow Check Authority labelers. cool
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
mysteriously I can no longer unsubscribe from any of the Rainbow Check Authority labelers. cool
I feel like "wine is not an emulator" was true when they started saying that but is not that true anymore as all modern console emulators essentially become a combination of JIT syscall and machine code translation
December 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I feel like "wine is not an emulator" was true when they started saying that but is not that true anymore as all modern console emulators essentially become a combination of JIT syscall and machine code translation
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holy shit. that's bleak
also, considering the toplevel civilian labor force level is normal, i'm thinking this is people lying to survey takers because they think they're ICE fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CLF16OV
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
holy shit. that's bleak
a bit early but I did this year's watch of The Muppet Christmas Carol with my girlfriend :)
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
a bit early but I did this year's watch of The Muppet Christmas Carol with my girlfriend :)
late to the discourse but i do still have a twitter account which I occasionally trawl because so many ML people are still there. but it's kind of remarkable how miserable it is even for that
"randomly being exposed to absolutely heinous shit" really breaks the typical Social Media Dopamine Loop
"randomly being exposed to absolutely heinous shit" really breaks the typical Social Media Dopamine Loop
December 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
late to the discourse but i do still have a twitter account which I occasionally trawl because so many ML people are still there. but it's kind of remarkable how miserable it is even for that
"randomly being exposed to absolutely heinous shit" really breaks the typical Social Media Dopamine Loop
"randomly being exposed to absolutely heinous shit" really breaks the typical Social Media Dopamine Loop
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
as a bonus to last week's release of Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano, here are some research artifacts you may find interesting! probably not of much practical use but a number of people have asked for them
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
as a bonus to last week's release of Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano, here are some research artifacts you may find interesting! probably not of much practical use but a number of people have asked for them
arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini-Base-Pre-Anneal · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
December 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
as a bonus to last week's release of Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano, here are some research artifacts you may find interesting! probably not of much practical use but a number of people have asked for them
huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Tri...
as a bonus to last week's release of Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano, here are some research artifacts you may find interesting! probably not of much practical use but a number of people have asked for them
i am fascinated by the fact that, seemingly as a result of having been briefed on "affordability" messaging, Trump has begun to use "Affordability" as a proper noun
In bizarre, self-pitying tirade, unraveling Trump admits his polling is actually pretty bad and not at record highs, as he keeps claiming
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
i am fascinated by the fact that, seemingly as a result of having been briefed on "affordability" messaging, Trump has begun to use "Affordability" as a proper noun
copyright is kind of like the immigration system, in the sense that if it worked how the average person thought it worked it would represent a radical shift in policy, mostly for the better
December 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
copyright is kind of like the immigration system, in the sense that if it worked how the average person thought it worked it would represent a radical shift in policy, mostly for the better