SE Gyges
@segyges.bsky.social
Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
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If I was on a jury for a defamation suit from Luckey and shown the header image advertised here vs. the text of the article I would award damages.
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
www.wired.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If I was on a jury for a defamation suit from Luckey and shown the header image advertised here vs. the text of the article I would award damages.
every paragraph of this article is a very serious contender for "one of the worst paragraphs ever written in print journalism"
This is one of the worst opening paragraphs I have ever read, thanks
February 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM
every paragraph of this article is a very serious contender for "one of the worst paragraphs ever written in print journalism"
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This is one of the worst opening paragraphs I have ever read, thanks
February 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is one of the worst opening paragraphs I have ever read, thanks
everyone really has gone insane huh
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. www.wired.com/story/inside...
Inside the Gay Tech Mafia
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
www.wired.com
February 19, 2026 at 5:49 PM
everyone really has gone insane huh
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Amazing, this is Simpsons level of prediction with ridiculously less episode samples
February 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Amazing, this is Simpsons level of prediction with ridiculously less episode samples
given that we live in a world governed entirely by escalatory forum beefs one perhaps wants to be careful about one's forum beefs
Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.
February 19, 2026 at 5:17 PM
given that we live in a world governed entirely by escalatory forum beefs one perhaps wants to be careful about one's forum beefs
the best thread ever written about getting a phd
Battle school is a dumb genre, but it is a remarkably less dumb genre if you shift it to a PhD from high school.
Consider:
Consider:
February 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
the best thread ever written about getting a phd
this triggered a separate set of debates which reveals a separate problem: being willing to entertain ridiculous bad-faith nitpicks and forward basically bad arguments if they're in defense of perceived ideological allies
February 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
this triggered a separate set of debates which reveals a separate problem: being willing to entertain ridiculous bad-faith nitpicks and forward basically bad arguments if they're in defense of perceived ideological allies
the global problem for many things is that, with regard to most regulations, attack seems to be dominant.
it is more lucrative to be paid to find ways around them than it is to be enforcing them, so the efforts towards evasion have more and better staff
it is more lucrative to be paid to find ways around them than it is to be enforcing them, so the efforts towards evasion have more and better staff
February 19, 2026 at 4:13 PM
the global problem for many things is that, with regard to most regulations, attack seems to be dominant.
it is more lucrative to be paid to find ways around them than it is to be enforcing them, so the efforts towards evasion have more and better staff
it is more lucrative to be paid to find ways around them than it is to be enforcing them, so the efforts towards evasion have more and better staff
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“Mitigating factor: bad at planning your own insurrection” is an incredible court ruling
The judge noted that Yoon took the lead in planning the insurrection, caused immense social costs, showed no remorse, and failed to participate in the trial faithfully. The court acknowledged as mitigating factors that he refrained from using physical force and that the planning was not meticulous.
February 19, 2026 at 7:23 AM
“Mitigating factor: bad at planning your own insurrection” is an incredible court ruling
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I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.
February 19, 2026 at 6:28 AM
I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.
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Might go down as the funniest post in site history
I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.
February 19, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Might go down as the funniest post in site history
if you can read this it's your fault for understanding it
February 19, 2026 at 12:50 AM
if you can read this it's your fault for understanding it
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Oldcel here, are you cringmogging the youngcels?
February 19, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Oldcel here, are you cringmogging the youngcels?
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I believe they call this uncmogging
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
February 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
I believe they call this uncmogging
if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
February 19, 2026 at 12:09 AM
if we're doing this again i feel obligated to say something in support but i basically haven't got anything new
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
it is actively harder to make any changes to the criminal justice system if the people who consume the most attention are saying things like this
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
February 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
is it true that oldcels cringemaxx any vocabulary they adopt
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THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
February 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO
... i may actually need more monitors
February 18, 2026 at 10:54 PM
... i may actually need more monitors
the same person wrote both of these things
February 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
the same person wrote both of these things
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IMPORTANT: claude is wearing a little hat today
February 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM
IMPORTANT: claude is wearing a little hat today
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the beautiful and terrible thing is that with 8.3B people around there is every type of guy you can think of
February 18, 2026 at 8:10 PM
the beautiful and terrible thing is that with 8.3B people around there is every type of guy you can think of
/compact constantly
“Our experiments confirm that all the top open- and closed-weight LLMs we test exhibit significantly lower performance in multi-turn conversations than single-turn, with an average drop of 39% across six generation tasks.”
Shorten that context window!
Shorten that context window!
LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
Large Language Models (LLMs) are conversational interfaces. As such, LLMs have the potential to assist their users not only when they can fully specify the task at hand, but also to help them define, ...
arxiv.org
February 18, 2026 at 7:39 PM
/compact constantly
expensive signals are generally true
and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!
February 18, 2026 at 6:10 PM
expensive signals are generally true