@marinermariner.bsky.social
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)
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working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
September 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first
china is staying the course on export growth economics/depressed domestic consumption while the eu is still gripped in austerity anti immigrant madness. seems like nobody is likely to benefit from the usa eating itself. were gonna get a thousand years of deflationary bloc darkness
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first
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If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
November 9, 2024 at 12:01 AM
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
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Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
August 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read
As someone who was a Foundation book enjoyer I’m really enjoying the Foundation tv show. Sometimes it goes off the rails, but that’s also kind of a good thing that keeps it fresh? Gimme more 50s sci-fi tv shows.
August 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
As someone who was a Foundation book enjoyer I’m really enjoying the Foundation tv show. Sometimes it goes off the rails, but that’s also kind of a good thing that keeps it fresh? Gimme more 50s sci-fi tv shows.
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M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).
July 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
M. C. Escher (1898-1972), “Puddle” (1952), woodcut in colours, on Japan paper, 32.3 x 24 cm (image).
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I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.
July 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.
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This is amazing. // A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoods
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is amazing. // A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing"
They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.
They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it…
ea.rna.nl
June 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Can't believe that in the year of our lord 2025 I am STILL hearing people say "oh but LLMs are useful for summarizing"
They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.
They are not useful for summarizing, because summarizing is not what they are doing.
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I was moved by a single sentence from sociologist Raymond Williams. “There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (!958)
I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/
I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/
June 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I was moved by a single sentence from sociologist Raymond Williams. “There are in fact no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses.” (!958)
I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/
I agreed, and wanted to extend what Williams was saying there. Masses were fine for The Media. Journalists had to speak to a public. 9/
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A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
Trackernet Stringlines
Graphical Service Analysis for the London Underground
trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
June 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A little thing I've been working on recently: real-time stringlines for the London Underground, using data from the Trackernet API: trackernet-stringlines.choochoo.systems
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AI asked to manage a vending machine:
- decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.
- decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.
Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents
While Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit impressive proficiency in isolated, short-term tasks, they often fail to maintain coherent performance over longer time horizons. In this paper, we prese...
arxiv.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
AI asked to manage a vending machine:
- decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.
- decides to close the business by shouting "the business is closed" and becomes increasingly unhinged as the simulation agent prompts it to continue running the business.
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One of the coolest and definitely the weirdest map I've seen of Taiwan. Depicts Spanish forts at Keelung and Tamsui
May 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One of the coolest and definitely the weirdest map I've seen of Taiwan. Depicts Spanish forts at Keelung and Tamsui
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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I'm losing my mind
The Union grindset guys were everywhere
The Union grindset guys were everywhere
April 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I'm losing my mind
The Union grindset guys were everywhere
The Union grindset guys were everywhere
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April 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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current yields:
-us gov't 10 year: 4.51%
-german 10yr: 2.57%
-canadian 10yr: 3.25%
-greek 10yr: 3.49%
-italy: 3.81%
seems suboptimal
-us gov't 10 year: 4.51%
-german 10yr: 2.57%
-canadian 10yr: 3.25%
-greek 10yr: 3.49%
-italy: 3.81%
seems suboptimal
April 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
current yields:
-us gov't 10 year: 4.51%
-german 10yr: 2.57%
-canadian 10yr: 3.25%
-greek 10yr: 3.49%
-italy: 3.81%
seems suboptimal
-us gov't 10 year: 4.51%
-german 10yr: 2.57%
-canadian 10yr: 3.25%
-greek 10yr: 3.49%
-italy: 3.81%
seems suboptimal
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happy confederate surrender day to all
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
happy confederate surrender day to all