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Manuel Guimarães
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edzitron.com
Fuck yeah

whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...
It’s a basic idea, and one I don’t have to explain in depth: Any social media platform that uses algorithmic recommendations in newsfeeds and timelines must ensure that a certain percentage of the posts displayed are from accounts or profiles that the user follows. What’s the ideal percentage? I’d set it high. Around 90%. And I’d also require that social media companies provide, by default, a newsfeed that exclusively shows posts from the user’s network. In short, I’d make the algorithmic timeline something that you have to actively opt into. I’d even go further and demand a level of oversight. After Microsoft’s anti-trust losses in the 90s and the early 2000s, Redmond was forced to allow the Department of Justice to audit its code to ensure it complied with their settlement. I see no reason why social platforms shouldn’t similarly be forced to allow regulators to audit their timeline algorithms to ensure they’re behaving fairly
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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paraver.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
Loved this bit from a Recurse Center blog post on LLMs: www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...
That is to say: tutorials and teachers can only get you so far. Ultimately, you must build your own mental structures. Stack Overflow can be a helpful resource, but blindly following or copy-pasting from it does little to help you learn. While you can get a lot farther mindlessly using LLMs than Stack Overflow, the same principle holds true. Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners. — John Holt
July 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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josie.zone
Twitter right now
Lobster fight meme, but it's all The Worst Person You Know
June 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
once again I must tap my own sign
@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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junlper.beer
i’m begging for a moment like this again now that trump and musk are once again enemies and broke up
June 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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alariko.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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robmesure.bsky.social
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
An Oral-B login screen.
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
thedarkryze.itch.io
Mais um ano, 25 de Abril sempre, fascimo nunca mais
April 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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johnfields091.bsky.social
Muito bom este artigo, a passar de forma crítica por todos os pontos mais relevantes da história recente dos "dire wolves". Excelente jornalismo na Shifter.
shifter.pt Shifter.pt @shifter.pt · Apr 16
“Os lobos-terríveis estavam extintos há 13 mil anos. Mas um grupo de cientistas voltou a trazê-los à vida", esteve por toda a parte na última semana. Mas mais do que um milagre ecológico, este é um caso de estudo sobre como os media tratam a ciência como entretenimento.

shifter.pt/o-lobo-terri...
O lobo terrível não ressuscitou e a sua de-extinção é uma perigosa fantasia
“Os lobos-terríveis estavam extintos há 13 mil anos. Mas um grupo de cientistas voltou a trazê-los à
shifter.pt
April 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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katherineschof8.bsky.social
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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markriedl.bsky.social
The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).
April 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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leftistlawyer.com
Echoing points made by others today, in a country where getting an abortion or gender affirming care or protesting a genocide can be felonies, I am going to need everyone to stop talking about "the rule of law" and "innocent people" and "criminal records."
April 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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thedailyshow.com
How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News
April 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
i always took it on relative faith that a diffuse collection of ruthless corporate interests more or less ran the world according to a certain understood ruleset but the fact that trump and these other dipshits haven't been michael claytoned yet is making me wonder
April 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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istecnico.bsky.social
“Too Small to Matter,” developed by GameDev Técnico, is now available on the Steam online game platform following the release of its demo version last year. 🕹️

🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/45t45wp6

#GameDevTécnico #tecnicostudent #TécnicoLisboa #ULisboa
April 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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garywhitta.bsky.social
Sounds weird to say but the level of competence, proficiency, skill, cool-headedness, compassion, and dedication illustrated on THE PITT make this the most feel-good show on TV right now, and one that is such a balm in the current moment. One of the best television shows you will ever see.
March 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
thedarkryze.itch.io
The Pitt is such a good show it grapples you in and never lets you out.
Can't wait to see more
March 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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owenjones.bsky.social
I’ve looked at the footage so you don’t have to.

There are no excuses, nowhere to hide. Everyone complicit in this crime must be held to account.
March 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Nice essay!

"LLMs, while they already have all of humanity's knowledge in memory, haven't generated any new knowledge by connecting previously unrelated facts...We're currently building very obedient students, not revolutionaries."
thomwolf.bsky.social Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social · Mar 6
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century"

Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be/AxBd3G0lFLs?...
March 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
defector.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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graceblakeley.substack.com
Right to Remain have just launched their iconic No one is Illegal tee in red!

@right-to-remain.bsky.social is a grassroots charity supporting refugees, migrants & people seeking asylum in the UK.

Buy the tee to support their work & show solidarity with refugees righttoremain.org.uk/store/produc...
February 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM