@timothyzillion.bsky.social
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In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
I only heard of @burgerbecky.bsky.social after her recent death; but listened to this interview with ber on the noon dogwalk today and highly recommend it. retronauts.com/article/1167...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I only heard of @burgerbecky.bsky.social after her recent death; but listened to this interview with ber on the noon dogwalk today and highly recommend it. retronauts.com/article/1167...
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"Adversarial Poetry". Today, I know just from that title where this paper is going. Five years ago, I would have had no clue.
What a weird world we live in.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
What a weird world we live in.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Adversarial Poetry". Today, I know just from that title where this paper is going. Five years ago, I would have had no clue.
What a weird world we live in.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
What a weird world we live in.
arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
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Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂
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This video is excellent and you should watch it
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
This video is excellent and you should watch it
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the largest number ever factored by Shor's algorithm is 35
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
the largest number ever factored by Shor's algorithm is 35
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if Dems nominate Newsom, they deserve to lose.
This is some weapons-grade nonsense
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if Dems nominate Newsom, they deserve to lose.
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I have thought about Bob Roberts once a day for the past ten years, and would eat this sequel up with a spoon.
The Freewheelin' Bob Roberts:
Tim Robbins returns as the right-wing folk-music singing senator from Pennsylvania. In the sequel, he is finishing his fifth term in office and (after two failed runs for president) is facing a primary challenge from someone even more extreme than he is.
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Tim Robbins returns as the right-wing folk-music singing senator from Pennsylvania. In the sequel, he is finishing his fifth term in office and (after two failed runs for president) is facing a primary challenge from someone even more extreme than he is.
4/
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I have thought about Bob Roberts once a day for the past ten years, and would eat this sequel up with a spoon.
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It kills me that this is probably the most widely read thing I'll ever publish and NYT copy editors deleted all my Oxford commas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It kills me that this is probably the most widely read thing I'll ever publish and NYT copy editors deleted all my Oxford commas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
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Happy beached whale dynamite day for all who celebrate
On this day 55 years ago, Oregon blew up a beached whale with 20 cases of dynamite.
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
The infamous exploding whale incident occurred Nov. 12, 1970, in Florence, Oregon. A whale washed ashore on the Oregon beach and with no other means to dispo...
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Happy beached whale dynamite day for all who celebrate
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I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold.
Is this what they want us to take from this?
Is this what they want us to take from this?
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold.
Is this what they want us to take from this?
Is this what they want us to take from this?
"the woman in cabin 10" goes hard if you're stupid.
why did I watch this.
why did I watch this.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"the woman in cabin 10" goes hard if you're stupid.
why did I watch this.
why did I watch this.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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"I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time."
A window, from @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
A window, from @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago
aphyr.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time."
A window, from @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
A window, from @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Foggy morning, Berkeley marina.
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Foggy morning, Berkeley marina.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
Live strudel coding session, with commentary? amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXC...
People who know how to use their tools are always amazing
to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXC...
People who know how to use their tools are always amazing
to watch.
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Live strudel coding session, with commentary? amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXC...
People who know how to use their tools are always amazing
to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXC...
People who know how to use their tools are always amazing
to watch.
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38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
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October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.
Dr. Demento
drdemento.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.