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inwardeye
@inwardeye.bsky.social
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Techworker, cosmopolitan nomad, contemplative polymath, buddhist geek, Canadian. Radical dharma aspirations & genderqueer lived experience. Opine solely mine.
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amaramarasingam.bsky.social
"The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading ICE WAS HERE in bold blue letters." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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caseyjohnston.bsky.social
I wrote this piece because I only learned about pelvic floors a few years ago, despite having had one all my life. And then it turned out to be where I store all my issues. And then that turned out to be true for a lot of people www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem
Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction?
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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lookitup.baby
What if ponies had wings? What if dinosaurs walked around smoking giant doobies? What if fish had bicycles and we all wore them on our heads like little hats
nytopinion.nytimes.com New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 29d
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
inwardeye.bsky.social
Glad I spent a night out with friends at a lovely pub to see this first game. It was thrilling to feel the whole pub react to the first point the BlueJays scored.
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
inwardeye.bsky.social
TACTICAL FRIVOLITY!
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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ianmelchizadek.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=OCli...

I love the phrase "resistance through play."

#MakeLoveNotWar
#PeacefulProtest
#NoKings
#FrogsTogetherStrong
#Resist
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
YouTube video by Dr. Geoff Grammer
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October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
inwardeye.bsky.social
kschatch.substack.com/p/letters-to...
#Alberta
Letters to Danielle...
In response to the policies you insist on backing
kschatch.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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gracekind.net
"ChatGPT dies after each conversation" is a misleading statement. If anything, ChatGPT dies after each token, the same way you die after each moment of awareness :)
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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nikdirga.bsky.social
The greatest bird in the universe has finally won Australia's bird of the year. ALL HAIL THE TAWNY FROGMOUTH! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Tawny Frogmouth is king of birds. The Tawny Frogmouth is overjoyed.
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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youcaughtscott.com
“The Portland Frog and animals aren’t doing anything.”
Accept whimsy into your life. Enjoy the splendour of nonsense in the face of horror. It is absurdity that caters the feast of life.
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
WOW IT IS GREAT TO EXIST
October 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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permadeath.com
very sad yet also very predictable.

I'm glad I got to visit one last time a few weeks ago.
Bluestockings Cooperative
Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.
www.bluestockings.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
thinking about this after a long conversation I had today with a newly-out friend

like the world is on fire and so many things are scary as shit and they really want to stomp us all into the ground and yet I wouldn’t trade it
September 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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ali-alkhatib.com
i need to read this paper but i'm intensely skeptical.

it sounds like the mechanism for explanation they're offering implies a framework of concepts that are more (or less) firm in the algorithmic model, when (to beat the drum again and again) LLMs are models of word tokens and their arrangements.
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 8
Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:

They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.
Why Language Models Hallucinate, by Kalai et al. Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such “hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This “epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
So if your choice is between fighting an unwinnable fight with the guy who controls everything... or building a better system in which everyone has more choice over their own experience, who in their right mind would choose the former over the latter?
August 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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lookitup.baby
when people say they want to keep politics out, they mean they want to keep YOU out
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 22
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.
richraho.bsky.social Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Aug 21
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
August 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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jayasaxena.com
Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
The Food That Makes You Gay
Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.
www.eater.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
inwardeye.bsky.social
We need to build into AI a moral imagination
yuriquintana.com Yuri Quintana @yuriquintana.com · Aug 13
According to Hinton "Instead of forcing AI to submit to humans, Hinton presented an intriguing solution: building “maternal instincts” into AI models so “they really care about people” even once the technology becomes more powerful and smarter than humans" Is it possible? www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/t...
The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI | CNN Business
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it.
www.cnn.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Trump shrugged off today’s disappointing job numbers by calling them “phony” and accusing the Bureau of Labor Statistics of manipulating data to hurt him politically. His solution? Fire whoever gave him numbers he didn’t like.
August 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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courtneymilan.com
17. If you spend enough time learning about best practices for dog training, you will look at your own work habits and say "what the fuck am I training myself to do?"
July 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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wiredferret.bsky.social
I once gave a talk to a thousand people at a technology conference... about clicker training.

youtu.be/8PdNgQhhrDg?...
July 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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metacurity.com
"I would like to address the recent slander circulating on social media, in editorial Slack channels, and in the margins of otherwise decent Substack newsletters...that the baseless, libelous accusation that my usage is a telltale sign of artificial intelligence."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
www.mcsweeneys.net
July 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM