Seriously, I’ve been waiting to be vetted to deliver groceries for days. The bottleneck is real.
We out here vetting our signal chats 10x more scrupulously than the federal government vets people before handing them loaded firearms
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Seriously, I’ve been waiting to be vetted to deliver groceries for days. The bottleneck is real.
gentle reminder to folks living in cities that are not under siege by the federal government yet:
please start getting involved with your local mutual aid orgs asap, even if it's in an "on-hold / as available" capacity.
a large bottleneck for mutual aid orgs is vetting. it takes time to do safely.
please start getting involved with your local mutual aid orgs asap, even if it's in an "on-hold / as available" capacity.
a large bottleneck for mutual aid orgs is vetting. it takes time to do safely.
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 AM
gentle reminder to folks living in cities that are not under siege by the federal government yet:
please start getting involved with your local mutual aid orgs asap, even if it's in an "on-hold / as available" capacity.
a large bottleneck for mutual aid orgs is vetting. it takes time to do safely.
please start getting involved with your local mutual aid orgs asap, even if it's in an "on-hold / as available" capacity.
a large bottleneck for mutual aid orgs is vetting. it takes time to do safely.
Juries aren't a 'bottleneck' in a trial, they are the fair trial
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy
Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy
Exclusive: Lord chancellor urges MPs to back judge-only trials in thousands of criminal cases in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Juries aren't a 'bottleneck' in a trial, they are the fair trial
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy
And also, plenty of Americans are doing a bunch. The bottleneck is that the group of aristocrats we call elected officials are refusing to help.
January 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
And also, plenty of Americans are doing a bunch. The bottleneck is that the group of aristocrats we call elected officials are refusing to help.
Goods news: found out ram is the bottleneck
Bad news: ram is the bottleneck 😩
Bad news: ram is the bottleneck 😩
Any Linux users can explain to me why a 1660 ti is having worst performance than a 1050 2gb? like Overwatch 2 runs at similar framerates with worst 1% avarage and the GPU doesn't even go beyond 50% usage.
January 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Goods news: found out ram is the bottleneck
Bad news: ram is the bottleneck 😩
Bad news: ram is the bottleneck 😩
I type and read faster than anyone talks. Why would I want anything to go through the bottleneck of voice
January 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I type and read faster than anyone talks. Why would I want anything to go through the bottleneck of voice
Can’t have a Castlefield Corridor bottleneck if you move Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield
January 14, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Can’t have a Castlefield Corridor bottleneck if you move Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield
"Big Tech has been on an energy hiring spree. Technology companies investing heavily in artificial intelligence are bolstering their workforce with energy experts as they look to overcome the biggest bottleneck in scaling AI: access to power."
Big Tech is poaching energy talent to fuel its AI ambitions
Hires of energy-related talent by Big Tech was 30% higher in 2025 than pre-AI levels.
www.cnbc.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 AM
"Big Tech has been on an energy hiring spree. Technology companies investing heavily in artificial intelligence are bolstering their workforce with energy experts as they look to overcome the biggest bottleneck in scaling AI: access to power."
Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Introducing DroPE: Extending Context by Dropping Positional Embeddings
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
We found embeddings like RoPE aid training but bottleneck long-sequence generalization. Our solution’s simple: treat them as a temporary training scaffold, not a permanent necessity.
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12167
pub.sakana.ai/DroPE
in addition, removing the bottleneck that held back the dam of disgusting and problematic content because hired artists are incentivized as a whole to have a moral compass when offering goods and services
January 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
in addition, removing the bottleneck that held back the dam of disgusting and problematic content because hired artists are incentivized as a whole to have a moral compass when offering goods and services
I used to attack Ontario from Western and Eastern United States, that’ll get you there in 2 steps. You need to get troops in Alaska and Central America though, bottleneck that so you get the points for owning the whole continent
January 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I used to attack Ontario from Western and Eastern United States, that’ll get you there in 2 steps. You need to get troops in Alaska and Central America though, bottleneck that so you get the points for owning the whole continent
Yeah, that's not the bottleneck anymore, really. If you're in a race that matters, the small donors will overwhelm you, heh.
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yeah, that's not the bottleneck anymore, really. If you're in a race that matters, the small donors will overwhelm you, heh.
after interacting with the medical (dental) system frequently in the past month or so, i just don't see LLMs clearing the biggest bottleneck. actual physical care.
January 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
after interacting with the medical (dental) system frequently in the past month or so, i just don't see LLMs clearing the biggest bottleneck. actual physical care.
Bro this MMPR foil variant by Tom Walker from Bottleneck.
January 15, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Bro this MMPR foil variant by Tom Walker from Bottleneck.
She’s also in charge of reading everyone’s letters to/from home before delivery to make sure there’s no classified &/or morale-damaging news. Not the most popular role. You have to be able to read fast or you become a bottleneck.
January 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
She’s also in charge of reading everyone’s letters to/from home before delivery to make sure there’s no classified &/or morale-damaging news. Not the most popular role. You have to be able to read fast or you become a bottleneck.
this is another great example of guys trying to use AI to solve the wrong problems. You can't gain efficiency by automating "thinking up a restaurant concept and menu pricing"! That is not where the bottleneck to "starting a restaurant" happens!
January 12, 2026 at 6:43 PM
this is another great example of guys trying to use AI to solve the wrong problems. You can't gain efficiency by automating "thinking up a restaurant concept and menu pricing"! That is not where the bottleneck to "starting a restaurant" happens!
If coal continues to collapse then that frees up a lot of Russian Railways capacity.
So…I don’t think they’ve solved the bottleneck that existed, but it might not be a bottleneck if the flow through the bottleneck is reduced.
So…I don’t think they’ve solved the bottleneck that existed, but it might not be a bottleneck if the flow through the bottleneck is reduced.
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
If coal continues to collapse then that frees up a lot of Russian Railways capacity.
So…I don’t think they’ve solved the bottleneck that existed, but it might not be a bottleneck if the flow through the bottleneck is reduced.
So…I don’t think they’ve solved the bottleneck that existed, but it might not be a bottleneck if the flow through the bottleneck is reduced.
a theory: mobile explosion was top-down, driven by Apple and Google, and Apple in particular enforced a walled garden - the app store was a bottleneck which created a pseudo-govt w/opaque decision-making over all apps. Nothing similar existed for Linux/wikipedia
It is interesting on this 25th anniversary of Wikipedia to ponder: what factors of the blooming of the early Internet led to Linux and Wikipedia; why the mobile explosion didn’t lead to similar commons explosions; and whether the Claude Code moment is more 1991-2001 or 2007-2008.
And in the current moment (which is very different from the seed moments of Linux and Wikipedia) doing that community construction probably requires doing something that both (1) breaks through the noise but (2) performs a filtering function to keep a good ratio of contributors:hangers-on.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
a theory: mobile explosion was top-down, driven by Apple and Google, and Apple in particular enforced a walled garden - the app store was a bottleneck which created a pseudo-govt w/opaque decision-making over all apps. Nothing similar existed for Linux/wikipedia
Trump's plan for electricity bills could create 'bottleneck' for big tech building data centers: Wedbush @seekingalpha @divestech
January 14, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Trump's plan for electricity bills could create 'bottleneck' for big tech building data centers: Wedbush @seekingalpha @divestech
for what it's worth, minimax m2.1 is extremely close and runs pretty well on a single framework desktop (10-20tok/s)
but the prompt processing speed becomes a pretty big bottleneck for subagents...
but the prompt processing speed becomes a pretty big bottleneck for subagents...
January 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
for what it's worth, minimax m2.1 is extremely close and runs pretty well on a single framework desktop (10-20tok/s)
but the prompt processing speed becomes a pretty big bottleneck for subagents...
but the prompt processing speed becomes a pretty big bottleneck for subagents...
Had to be 20k, the bottleneck was nuts!!!
January 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Had to be 20k, the bottleneck was nuts!!!
Shared mobility in London shouldn't be regulated by 33 councils. This keeps on coming up as a problem and the UK government only serves as a bottleneck for making change.
greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/01/08/n...
greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/01/08/n...
No free permits to keep Zipcar in London from Greenwich or Lewisham - The Greenwich Wire
Neither Greenwich nor Lewisham councils will be offering Zipcar free permits to help keep the car-sharing business in London – despite a call from neighbouring Southwark for other boroughs to help out...
greenwichwire.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Shared mobility in London shouldn't be regulated by 33 councils. This keeps on coming up as a problem and the UK government only serves as a bottleneck for making change.
greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/01/08/n...
greenwichwire.co.uk/2026/01/08/n...
U S. Marine veteran
"They tried to ram our car. They tried to get us into a bottleneck."
(Elsewhere a documented practice of Border Patrol.)
See video and comments also
If you would, please boost
"They tried to ram our car. They tried to get us into a bottleneck."
(Elsewhere a documented practice of Border Patrol.)
See video and comments also
If you would, please boost
Incredible @statuscoupnews.bsky.social interview with Skye, who says she’s a Marine Corps vet and appears to have just been released from Whipple. She says she was trapped by ICE, yanked out of her car and stomped on.
1/2
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January 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
U S. Marine veteran
"They tried to ram our car. They tried to get us into a bottleneck."
(Elsewhere a documented practice of Border Patrol.)
See video and comments also
If you would, please boost
"They tried to ram our car. They tried to get us into a bottleneck."
(Elsewhere a documented practice of Border Patrol.)
See video and comments also
If you would, please boost
Ale Horste!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!
January 11, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Ale Horste!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!
Ne, to není vše.
Osoba B následně vyvajbuje na základě původního výblitku kód - a zase rychle!
To vše v prostředí, kdy psaní kódu nikdy nebylo skutečný bottleneck. Ale zrychlili jsme ho!