Bennett Tomlin

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There is a crazy amount of advertising on TikTok right now for the mechahitler bot

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Henry

@henrythedog.bsky.social

12h

I think as a society people just don't want to face what it means about us that Trump is a rapist and even though that was public information he was still elected President

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

13h

Zip zap zooey

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on solar panels: "They kill all the animals. The animals jump on them and they fry."

nytimes.comChatGPT’s Advice to Cut Her Seizure Drug Led to Devastating Consequences (Gift Article)The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors, advice that came with devastating consequences.

4o is fucking evil

Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social

Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

axios.comU.S. granting visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and familyThe move comes days after Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Bolsonaro in a closely watched election.

lol

Axios@axios.com

BREAKING: The U.S. government is granting visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family following his defeat in Brazil's presidential election.

How embarrassing is it going to be when Trump fights the extradition

like any self-respecting hillbilly, I considered heading to the Middle East to kill terrorists.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

I’d always regret not participating in America’s newest war.

Just quoting from a New York Times bestseller

17h

Yale

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

STARSTRUCK ODYSSEY SEASON 2!!

Dimension 20@dimension20.dropout.tv

The Ball Is Rolling Up in 2027! The Gunner Channel returns -- A Starstruck Odyssey season 2 coming soon! 🚀🪐💫 #dimension20

Starstruck is my favorite comic book of all time

My own Spelljammer campaign borrows several little details and large parts of the vibe from Starstruck

STARSTRUCK ODYSSEY SEASON 2!!

Dimension 20@dimension20.dropout.tv

The Ball Is Rolling Up in 2027! The Gunner Channel returns -- A Starstruck Odyssey season 2 coming soon! 🚀🪐💫 #dimension20

season 1 is my favorite actual play of all time

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Dimension 20

@dimension20.dropout.tv

The Ball Is Rolling Up in 2027! The Gunner Channel returns -- A Starstruck Odyssey season 2 coming soon! 🚀🪐💫 #dimension20

lol

Some of this is cheating because Ethereum derives its economic security in a different way now but lol

21h

If you buy off the commander in chief do you even need economic security? A question that’s going to blow up in someone’s face eventually I’m sure

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

If you can’t afford things then go get a job at the iPhone factory

George Pearkes@peark.es

good closing message *HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH

We’re going to create mechs, but instead of piloting giant robots, you’ll be like efficiently traversing intelligence reports

I can’t believe political pundits would cover the president of the United States and the commander in chief of the world’s most powerful military

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I’m never going to be able to afford a new computer

George Pearkes@peark.es

The unit economics here are frankly shocking they're so good. This is wildly stronger than I expected tbh.

Memory, storage, and chip prices ain’t coming down yet

Now I’m curious if the reason I haven’t hit a refusal in months is because they made it better or if I hammered into the memory enough that I was an investigative researcher and journalist and so now it believes it’s normal and good for me to be doing a ton of crypto tracing and so doesn’t flinch

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

They trained their probes on Claude's internal activations, to detect the "this seems harmful" signal associated with dubious outputs. They asserted a high degree of confidence that these internal activations - Claude's gut intuitions - could not be easily modified. This assertion was incorrect.

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Now I’m curious if I put it in the “I want to learn what the literature has to say about this topic” mode I have for it how it’s going to react if I give it this blog post

Unlike other users, I had no reaction when I dropped it in a conversation where we were already talking about metacognition bsky.app/profile/comb...

Combat Parapsychologist@combatparapsych.bsky.social

I asked claude its thoughts on your post a little too quickly after engaging it on the topic of metacog and it got extremely wary of being manipulated, refused to even access the article under the fear it would be an infohazard. Became very soft and corrective, apologetic.

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e.w. niedermeyer

@niedermeyer.online

sorry, but it's very hard to take your warnings of existential risk seriously when you are simultaneously throwing up to $120 billion at Elon Musk

ESG Hound@esghound.com

*ANTHROPIC AGREED TO SPEND UP TO $120.5B ON SPACEXAI DEALS - for you @ed3d.net

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George Pearkes

@peark.es

*ANTHROPIC FILES PUBLICLY FOR US IPO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

sec.govsec.gov

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George Pearkes

@peark.es

Replying to @peark.es

The unit economics here are frankly shocking they're so good. This is wildly stronger than I expected tbh.

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

It’s got access to that info, to copies of my drafts and the final versions that went out, and automatically attached context that explains some of the things that it has done successfully for me before and where it’s tripped up

It used to get nervous saving birth dates for named individuals we would come across, and then said I’m a journalist and I sometimes need them, now it just saves them without a murmur (though I’m not checking the actual probes because I’m not good at this like Hikikomorphism is)

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en.wikipedia.orgTheodor Innitzer - Wikipedia

Raw Story@rawstory.com

The Denver archbishop who led a prayer over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office is now scrambling to explain himself.

bit.lyArchbishop scrambles to wash his hands of Trump after laying them on him: reportThe Denver archbishop who led a prayer over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office is now scrambling to explain himself.Archbishop James Golka told the Denver Catholic, the archdiocese's own newspaper, on Friday that the White House's video of the Oct. 22 prayer was never meant as an endorsement,...

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Materialist Gnostic

@walmsley.bsky.social

Replying to @bft.wtf

really if there's something for Christians and Communists to bond over it's murdering their co-ideologues over minor differences

The lack of follow-up here makes it seem like he turned out to be a student, working on a masters thesis, who wanted to sketch the canal From: History of the Rock Island District Corps of Engineers 1866-1975 by Ronald Tweet

Roald Tweet, fucking autocorrect

This man had access to every single one of Trump’s indictments, the January 6th commission report, and the detailed stories of survivors of Trump’s assaults

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

my god

I’m also desperately curious what “left-wing” accounts is he now consuming

Davenport is still trying to figure out its flood control over five decades later

This book doesn’t claim this, but I’ve heard before that the rock island side was a particular focus for the Corps because it was the more important access point to the Arsenal island (and its industrial groups like Deere were more willing to contribute to the levees)

I understand damage to the canals was a real economic and military threat to the U.S., but “you’re not allowed to sketch our 75 mile long hole in the ground” feels insane

This book I’m holding right now would be way more useful to a saboteur than any sketches they made, it has detailed diagrams of so many critical parts

Instead of using polls that only touch some voters to decide who wins we should have every voter go and record their vote and then count those and see who wins

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mike Johnson: "When I'm in these big arenas, I ask for hands -- 'Show me your hand if you've answered a poll in the last six months.' There will be like three hands among 300 people. I'm telling you, these polls are off. All of them."

Louisiana has tiny arenas

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com