Joshu
@rhwlo.bsky.social
lover of botanical gardens and incorrigible tinkerer
What is this “super bowl”, is it some kind of Dreamforce?
February 8, 2026 at 2:48 AM
What is this “super bowl”, is it some kind of Dreamforce?
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
literally as I was writing this I was like “but hang on”
January 30, 2026 at 7:54 PM
literally as I was writing this I was like “but hang on”
(or, indeed, any interface for at all, including via lua in neomutt)
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
(or, indeed, any interface for at all, including via lua in neomutt)
which it didn’t seem like there was a good interface for in Mutt :(
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
which it didn’t seem like there was a good interface for in Mutt :(
I want to be able to do searches and group-select by other headers, and/or piped-through shell commands
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
I want to be able to do searches and group-select by other headers, and/or piped-through shell commands
Last time I had to clean up my inbox in any serious way, I was like “surely there is some newer piece of software for this that gives me the same power as mutt”, but unfortunately ...
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Last time I had to clean up my inbox in any serious way, I was like “surely there is some newer piece of software for this that gives me the same power as mutt”, but unfortunately ...
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January 30, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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It's not even an issue of framing. It definitionally the Entscheidungsproblem as stated by Hilbert.
I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
Entscheidungsproblem - Wikipedia
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January 30, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It's not even an issue of framing. It definitionally the Entscheidungsproblem as stated by Hilbert.
I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
I feel I'm going somewhat insane as I watch people around me litigate whether a model that encodes first-order predicate logic can evere produce consistent results. Oh wait that's Gödel.
Huh, I hadn’t encountered the framing of it as a halting problem, but that makes a ton of sense.
January 30, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Huh, I hadn’t encountered the framing of it as a halting problem, but that makes a ton of sense.
I can’t see how this doesn’t lead us down a fundamentally flawed path where where we tune them to produce output that is truthful *or* that is a lie so convincing that we can’t tell the difference.
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I can’t see how this doesn’t lead us down a fundamentally flawed path where where we tune them to produce output that is truthful *or* that is a lie so convincing that we can’t tell the difference.
Somewhat relatedly, I keep coming back to the difference between our goals and the things we can measure: we *want* LLMs to produce truthful output, but our measurements end up being more about how *convincing* they are.
January 30, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Somewhat relatedly, I keep coming back to the difference between our goals and the things we can measure: we *want* LLMs to produce truthful output, but our measurements end up being more about how *convincing* they are.
The saying that keeps popping to mind with regards to LLMs is “one person can know nothing, but two people can know even less”.
Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
Agents perform 50% worse when working in a team than working alone.
The setup is simple: two agents, two tasks, two VMs, and one chat channel. They then evaluated whether the merged solution from both agents passes the requirements of both tasks.
The setup is simple: two agents, two tasks, two VMs, and one chat channel. They then evaluated whether the merged solution from both agents passes the requirements of both tasks.
January 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The saying that keeps popping to mind with regards to LLMs is “one person can know nothing, but two people can know even less”.
Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
Till now, I was mostly applying it to trying to rubber-duck debug with an improv yes-man robot, but apparently it also applies when they work in teams?
these are all extremely good
January 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
these are all extremely good
I do not want to admit how many cycles I watched that 3-second “breaking news” animation waiting for it to give me more context
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I do not want to admit how many cycles I watched that 3-second “breaking news” animation waiting for it to give me more context
the semantic space between “ginger fluid” (which feels like an alien scientist describing ginger ale) and “gengar fluid” (pokémon ectoplasm??) is huge
January 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
the semantic space between “ginger fluid” (which feels like an alien scientist describing ginger ale) and “gengar fluid” (pokémon ectoplasm??) is huge
I just stash reaction images around my home directory and then find them when looking for something else. Keeping them organized would be smart
January 29, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I just stash reaction images around my home directory and then find them when looking for something else. Keeping them organized would be smart
It works! I got a “friend of Garak” shirt after complimenting a stranger on their shirt at Pride. They were very happy because someone earlier that day had asked who ga-RAK was.
January 29, 2026 at 2:20 AM
It works! I got a “friend of Garak” shirt after complimenting a stranger on their shirt at Pride. They were very happy because someone earlier that day had asked who ga-RAK was.
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I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
January 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-neighb...
As another point of interest: I assumed that I had used the discord@... and steam@... emails for those services, but I don’t use those and I’m not sure I ever have. So perhaps they just guessed?
January 20, 2026 at 4:06 AM
As another point of interest: I assumed that I had used the discord@... and steam@... emails for those services, but I don’t use those and I’m not sure I ever have. So perhaps they just guessed?
In case it’s helpful, they also populate an X-Mailer header (as "Zendesk Mailer") and an X-Zendesk-Email-Id header.
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 AM
In case it’s helpful, they also populate an X-Mailer header (as "Zendesk Mailer") and an X-Zendesk-Email-Id header.
I think that the vector is not just unauthenticated emails. I checked out one of the websites I was getting emails from, and it had a “file a ticket” web portal.
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I think that the vector is not just unauthenticated emails. I checked out one of the websites I was getting emails from, and it had a “file a ticket” web portal.
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MN Morning Routine. Stay safe Fam! ✌️
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
MN Morning Routine. Stay safe Fam! ✌️
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The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).
January 16, 2026 at 10:33 AM
The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).