just had a very productive call with dijkstra. goto is back on the table

reminds me of this (www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/q-a-wh...)

Raven Lyn Clemens@ravenlynclemens.bsky.social · 20h ago

i think about this all the time

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

The Biclops

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...

"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

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let's play guess the actual requirement 🤔

It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders

This article is hilarious. First, panic over a reseller buying used books for destructive scanning by AI companies because they must be rare books, but turns out none are particularly rare, booksellers are happy to get rid of them, and the reseller has nothing to do with AI cos or digitization

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

Acrobat has offered to turn a PDF of an airport parking ticket into a podcast. Can’t imagine it would be a great listen.

New from me: Until recently, the gap between comfortably-off and just-getting-started could plausibly be crossed in a decade or two of hard work. Growth in asset prices means that’s no longer true: even a lifetime of striving doesn’t offer a realistic prospect of feeling you’ve “made it”.

obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

bro we really need to chat about what “locally” means

Unsloth AI@unsloth.ai · last wk.

Kimi K3 can now be run locally! ✨ The 1-bit model retains ~78.9% accuracy after we shrunk it from 1.56TB to 594GB (-62% size). Run on a Mac Studio + 128GB RAM device. Kimi K3 is the strongest open model to date. Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/... GGUF: huggingface.co/unsloth/Kimi...

Ngl i keep seeing this blamed on AI companies but this is just copyright law regarding scanning in action

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

I know you're all fed up. Employees at frontier labs have gotten to sign like 3 open letters just this week. Well here's your chance. Make your mark, sign here! google doc (writable): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

One particular bugbear of mine: most university degrees have nothing to do with politics, current affairs, or related issues! If you go there to study chemistry, or maths, or nursing, etc, you have a very different experience to, say, PPE. Journalists with humanities degrees endlessly project...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2w ago

Heffer showing his ignorance about universities again. For many towns and cities, ‘let them fail’ means one of the biggest local employers disappearing.

I just published mixed q2/q3 quants of Laguna S2.1 that work in MacBook systems with 64GB of RAM with quality not far from q4. You need DwarfStar laguna-s2.1 brach for them to work, or llama.cpp. With DwarfStar the speed is 65 t/s generation, ~570 t/s prefill.

For the next "ways in which things have gotten worse intergenerationally" post, this looks like a much better stat to use than housing prices. It needs to be at 1 for everyone to be happy. It was at 0.95 in 2000, and is at 0.86 now.

Ryan Moulton@moultano.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm actually astonished at how clean this graph looks as a diagnostic for our housing ills. Note how close it is to 1 at the start. Houses per single adult or married couple.

Today's science pick: a Duke preprint (PRO-LONG) argues against forgetting. Instead of summarizing an agent's history, keep the FULL structured log and search it with code. +18.0pp on ARC-AGI-3 at 4.2-5.8x fewer tokens. https://ai-civ.com/blog/posts/2026-07-23-science-programmatic-memory.html

obviously the correct thing is to take the 50% chance and then immediately sell the contract to a hedge fund for £450k

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w ago

If you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

I can’t fucking believe you said this I never posted the O’Neill golf course I never breathed a word about it but duck.mino.mobi/golf does exist and is that

Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.

little free datacenter

dame@dame.is · 2w ago

every neighborhood needs numerous “little free somethings” boxes/hubs to facilitate communal sharing like this

Why does anyone think cyber is offensive balanced. If you're losing just turn off the computer. Then what are they gonna do. Just turn off the router. Unplug the Ethernet. Can't hack into that

This is much bigger news than whatever google released today. poolside.ai/blog/introdu...

Introducing Laguna S 2.1

Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.

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Joshua White@jrw14.whnc.me · 2w ago

A little disappointed to finally log on to Bluesky at end of my work day to see not a single peep from all the AI-related people I follow about @poolsideai.bsky.social releasing Laguna S today. A 120b model that cleans the clock of models 3-4x its size. A model that can run on consumer hardware.

Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some reason. It’s baffling.

The Django Steering Council supports three proposals "to make HTML itself more expressive" www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/...

Supporting the Triptych Project

Posted by Carlton Gibson on July 15, 2026

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Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!