brad piss
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husband. father. patriot.
Here to make friends, I suppose. Interested in how organizations functions and fail. Will bring back cybernetics or die trying
i care about palestine and trans rights
posts mostly in english, rarely swedish or german
husband. father. patriot.
Here to make friends, I suppose. Interested in how organizations functions and fail. Will bring back cybernetics or die trying
i care about palestine and trans rights
posts mostly in english, rarely swedish or german
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Jag tycker om att kolla feeden med alla första posts på svenska och försöka välkomna människor lite. Postar vanligtvis på engelska men du är inbjuden att kolla min profil och få min vibb. Vill gärna öka mitt svenska nätverk!
signal group chats already support 1000 people, i wonder how hard it would be to staple together a few into a discord server with channels
February 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM
signal group chats already support 1000 people, i wonder how hard it would be to staple together a few into a discord server with channels
id be so pissed if i was one of the ones depicted as on my ass
Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.
February 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
id be so pissed if i was one of the ones depicted as on my ass
seeing like a state.epub
Between that and the fact that many of these examples have been explicitly post-trained away, we don’t see so many of these anymore. But they still happen because, IMO, just saying random stuff on autopilot is THE defining feature of LLMs.
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 AM
seeing like a state.epub
the first time this reached me was as sincere, only later was it pointed out as clearly ai.
I feel like my previously fairly well curated social media diet is starting to fail me, and I don't know how to navigate that now?
I feel like my previously fairly well curated social media diet is starting to fail me, and I don't know how to navigate that now?
Another example of why I feel no shame in my "I know AI but I won't cheerlead it" position:
www.reddit.com/r/analytics/...
www.reddit.com/r/analytics/...
From the analytics community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the analytics community
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February 15, 2026 at 9:46 AM
the first time this reached me was as sincere, only later was it pointed out as clearly ai.
I feel like my previously fairly well curated social media diet is starting to fail me, and I don't know how to navigate that now?
I feel like my previously fairly well curated social media diet is starting to fail me, and I don't know how to navigate that now?
60% crank thought: You can tell they're starting to turn on ai because he looks like an idiot in the picture
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
Anthropic's CEO says we're in the 'centaur phase' of software engineering
Dario Amodei compared AI and humans working together to a mythical creature — the centaur.
www.businessinsider.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
60% crank thought: You can tell they're starting to turn on ai because he looks like an idiot in the picture
"you wouldn't download a car"
Right now i'm thinking more about downloading groceries man
Right now i'm thinking more about downloading groceries man
February 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
"you wouldn't download a car"
Right now i'm thinking more about downloading groceries man
Right now i'm thinking more about downloading groceries man
re-read Simon's The Architecture of Complexity and unless I'm blind like a bat, he just never gives any consideration to the notion that something might be an element in multiple systems / hierarchies?
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
re-read Simon's The Architecture of Complexity and unless I'm blind like a bat, he just never gives any consideration to the notion that something might be an element in multiple systems / hierarchies?
wondering just how long my desktop PC without a battery has been on "balanced" energy mode. I don't even pay for electricity
February 13, 2026 at 9:58 AM
wondering just how long my desktop PC without a battery has been on "balanced" energy mode. I don't even pay for electricity
🎉BLINDSIGHT MENTIONED🎉
Blindsight influenced a lot of how I think about LLMs. But LLMs are like if the Scramblers didn’t even care about surviving. In fact I think that the Scramblers would seek to destroy ChatGPT for emitting too much random slop.
competitive advantage for the LLM era: went insane reading Blindsight a decade ago; confronted the fact that much of what we value as intelligence can be decomposed into component submodules; accepted that sentience/consciousness was not a precondition of effectiveness wrt many cognitive tasks, etc
February 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🎉BLINDSIGHT MENTIONED🎉
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And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
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1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
21/
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
And what awaits these clients in Texas? Unspeakably cruel and inhumane treatment.
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
21/
1. Rotten food. I had a client explain she had to make a half-pint of milk and an apple last every day because the other meals consisted of spoiled or rotten food. One client wasn’t fed for >36 hours.
21/
in which the ECB embraces "you can just do things" thought
in which, I argue that the digital euro should be seen as primarily an expression of institutional mojo, which is why people don't understand it backofmind.substack.com/p/why-this-w...
why this, why now, why not?
the digital euro and theories of action
backofmind.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
in which the ECB embraces "you can just do things" thought
potentially major quibble with the VSM: Yes, the VSM itself is recursive, but that does not mean that organizations described by it are, they're probably best described as fractal?
I'm no math major though, maybe there's a better word
I'm no math major though, maybe there's a better word
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 PM
potentially major quibble with the VSM: Yes, the VSM itself is recursive, but that does not mean that organizations described by it are, they're probably best described as fractal?
I'm no math major though, maybe there's a better word
I'm no math major though, maybe there's a better word
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linkedin notification settings are so broken now that i just get e-mails that I've turned off in every available way
In completely unrelated news, the german interface of linkedin recently changed the apply button from apply (in the sense of apply to a job) to apply (in the sense of apply a tool)
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
February 11, 2026 at 8:54 AM
linkedin notification settings are so broken now that i just get e-mails that I've turned off in every available way
försökte förnya / förbättra mina jobbevakniger på arbetsförmedlingen. sociologi hittar resultat, sociologi* hittar två till. antropologi hittar inget, men *antropologi hittar socialantropologi. *sociologi* hittar inget alls. (*sociologi OR sociologi*)?
848. Det tredje är fullstack-utvecklare.
848. Det tredje är fullstack-utvecklare.
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
försökte förnya / förbättra mina jobbevakniger på arbetsförmedlingen. sociologi hittar resultat, sociologi* hittar två till. antropologi hittar inget, men *antropologi hittar socialantropologi. *sociologi* hittar inget alls. (*sociologi OR sociologi*)?
848. Det tredje är fullstack-utvecklare.
848. Det tredje är fullstack-utvecklare.
can a system be part of itself?
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 AM
can a system be part of itself?
@oddpride.com where are you from, accent-wise? I heard someone on the radio who sounded *uncannily* like you
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 AM
@oddpride.com where are you from, accent-wise? I heard someone on the radio who sounded *uncannily* like you
"In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs."
I'll meet you all back on IRC
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 PM
"In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs."
if you were celebrating the impending death of the cover letter you were a complete fool, it turns out
February 9, 2026 at 2:23 PM
if you were celebrating the impending death of the cover letter you were a complete fool, it turns out
The US was actually created by experimental economists who wanted to prove whether or not you can have dutch disease from a sector that doesnt make any money. The results, if it's possible, will be incredibly useful in separating the investment and the export effects.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
The US was actually created by experimental economists who wanted to prove whether or not you can have dutch disease from a sector that doesnt make any money. The results, if it's possible, will be incredibly useful in separating the investment and the export effects.
can't wait to see the american progressive democrats (APD) and progressive american democrats (PAD) respectively produce offshoots from the provisional PAD to the real APD, official APD and continuity PAD
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
can't wait to see the american progressive democrats (APD) and progressive american democrats (PAD) respectively produce offshoots from the provisional PAD to the real APD, official APD and continuity PAD
realizing apropos of nothing that the LLMs are probably not just trained on wikipedia, but wikipedia talk pages, too
February 9, 2026 at 8:35 AM
realizing apropos of nothing that the LLMs are probably not just trained on wikipedia, but wikipedia talk pages, too
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
obviously its funny when rich idiots hurt each others feelings but its also important to look at it and see how high on their own supply these people are
Okay well the OpenAI CMO is hopping on now and it is obvious that Anthropic hurt them and they were deeply unprepared
February 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM
obviously its funny when rich idiots hurt each others feelings but its also important to look at it and see how high on their own supply these people are