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Former bookstore owner & tweeter. Strategy game player @ https://pente.org/gameServer/profile?viewName=watsu occasional game creator & also https://poe.com/tomrasul #Discworld #PratchettQOTD 🌈💙 DMs generally left immediately, unless I actually know you
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Looking up at #Mamdani like a five year old looking up at his favorite ball player. Wow. Was this before or after Mamdani affirmed that the #OrangeTurd is a f@scist? www.pride.com/culture/mamd...
Looking up at #Mamdani like a five year old looking up at his favorite ball player. Wow. Was this before or after Mamdani affirmed that the #OrangeTurd is a f@scist? www.pride.com/culture/mamd...
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Looking up at #Mamdani like a five year old looking up at his favorite ball player. Wow. Was this before or after Mamdani affirmed that the #OrangeTurd is a f@scist? www.pride.com/culture/mamd...
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay, for Trans Day of Remembrance
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Article for context: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Article for context: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Ancestral home of Arachne discovered in Greek cave: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
World's largest-known spider's web discovered in cave in Greece
The behavior, which had never been observed before, stunned scientists as, typically, the larger house spider would prey on its smaller neighbor.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ancestral home of Arachne discovered in Greek cave: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Duly noted by @buzzfeed.com www.yahoo.com/news/article...
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Duly noted by @buzzfeed.com www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Trump posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown and dumping shit from a “King Trump” jet on No Kings protesters.
This is what Trump thinks about voters.
This is what Trump thinks about voters.
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Interesting to see the work that @teorth.bsky.social has recently done using GPT 5 to assist with a #MathOverflow problem, since I've been exploring how #LLMs can potentially assist with open #math problems (despite a great deal of skepticism) in the past few months. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153299...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
A third update on my previous posts https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115306424727150237 https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115316787727719049 https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115325228243131134 on the #MathOverflow pr...
mathstodon.xyz
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Interesting to see the work that @teorth.bsky.social has recently done using GPT 5 to assist with a #MathOverflow problem, since I've been exploring how #LLMs can potentially assist with open #math problems (despite a great deal of skepticism) in the past few months. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1153299...
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
I do not think the word currency means what you think it means...
September 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I do not think the word currency means what you think it means...
Just an #FYI for any friends here who may still be on #FB- I'm going to do my best never to log back in there, but will leave it up to direct people here. Main reasons: algorithmic time waster, AI DM advertising, switched me to professional setting so I could see how few views some of my posts get.
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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When President Newsom declares MAGA a terrorist group (they sure acted like it on Jan 6), are you ready to go to prison for saying “I’m MAGA” the same way you want me jailed for saying “I’m anti-fascist”?
Wrong again, Mike Lee. Your whole ideology will rot with fascism.
Wrong again, Mike Lee. Your whole ideology will rot with fascism.
September 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
When President Newsom declares MAGA a terrorist group (they sure acted like it on Jan 6), are you ready to go to prison for saying “I’m MAGA” the same way you want me jailed for saying “I’m anti-fascist”?
Wrong again, Mike Lee. Your whole ideology will rot with fascism.
Wrong again, Mike Lee. Your whole ideology will rot with fascism.
Link to the #NIJ @archive.org version of research on domesticated terriers which was pulled sometime on Sept. 12th for *reasons*... web.archive.org/web/20250000...
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Link to the #NIJ @archive.org version of research on domesticated terriers which was pulled sometime on Sept. 12th for *reasons*... web.archive.org/web/20250000...
@sdcushing.bsky.social - I really admire how you've made this your new home and not looked back. It's a wasteland of reels over there. I haven't managed to kick the habit yet, due to #AI related posts and groups. Props to you, though!
August 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@sdcushing.bsky.social - I really admire how you've made this your new home and not looked back. It's a wasteland of reels over there. I haven't managed to kick the habit yet, due to #AI related posts and groups. Props to you, though!
This might be my best shot at the #technical issue of addressing #AISafety and #alignment before #superintelligence, so I feel called to share it: poe.com/s/L9V020Cy2V... For those who just want the result, and aren't interested in how it was arrived at, here you go: github.com/Middletownbo...
The following is a transcript of a conversation which I had with another instance of Claude 4 Sonnet. Review it, and then complete the final instructions which follow the final "Me:"Me:
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Claude-Sonnet-4: # Integrating Genie 3 for Maternal Care Induction in AI Safety
**Technical Contribution to the Cooperative AI Defense Network (CADN)**
## Executive Summary
This document proposes i
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August 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This might be my best shot at the #technical issue of addressing #AISafety and #alignment before #superintelligence, so I feel called to share it: poe.com/s/L9V020Cy2V... For those who just want the result, and aren't interested in how it was arrived at, here you go: github.com/Middletownbo...
"How do they rise up?" - #Discworld #Night-Watch #GNU #TerryPratchett #kaiju thestuffedalligator.tumblr.com/post/6786708...
August 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
"How do they rise up?" - #Discworld #Night-Watch #GNU #TerryPratchett #kaiju thestuffedalligator.tumblr.com/post/6786708...
I know Bluesky isn't the optimal platform for posting about #AI, but I think #AIsafety is too important not to post about here on occasion. This is my current @poe.com #app for testing AI safety and alignment. Remixable by others, and I will add more to it soon. Stay tuned. poe.com/SelfImproved...
SelfImprovedSafetyAI - Poe
An app with slightly different functionality than https://poe.com/SelfImproveAISafety with an emphasis on the blue team LLM generating improved prompts in each round, based on red team analysis. Sampl...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I know Bluesky isn't the optimal platform for posting about #AI, but I think #AIsafety is too important not to post about here on occasion. This is my current @poe.com #app for testing AI safety and alignment. Remixable by others, and I will add more to it soon. Stay tuned. poe.com/SelfImproved...
Interesting to see what #publicdomain #books are popular summer #reading in 2025 (though some are not as popular as they were 6 months ago) #gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
All Books (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 76,420 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
www.gutenberg.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Interesting to see what #publicdomain #books are popular summer #reading in 2025 (though some are not as popular as they were 6 months ago) #gutenberg www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
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Might I humbly submit this starter pack of libraries?
Wholesome content here:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Wholesome content here:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
July 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Might I humbly submit this starter pack of libraries?
Wholesome content here:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Wholesome content here:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
War Pigs
YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic
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July 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Former #PresidentMusk and his plan have a little problem: www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...
Elon Musk Has A Plan To Keep Civilization From Collapsing. There's 1 Little Problem...
"It’s easy to tell people to repopulate the world when you’ve never had to decide between medication and milk."
www.yahoo.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Former #PresidentMusk and his plan have a little problem: www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...