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data processor. recovering mathematician. lazy anarchist. tech mercenary. parent. immigrant. child of the corn. unpronounceable. toronto rodent. seeking puzzlement. Cuidado con mi corillo que somos un montón. nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy

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Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 6d ago

Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.

Alan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ man

A racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality.

cam.ac.uk

Chet Wydrzynski@realchet.bsky.social · last wk.

Extra tax on billionaires who own homes in NYC: socialism Extra tax on Canadians who own homes in Florida: "subsidizing the state and making it so Florida residents pay less taxes" www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...

Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News

Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.

cbc.ca

javier@bartlebooth.bsky.social · last wk.

It is actually relatively easy to understand how they work. There are some mysteries on top that have to do with scale and generalization but those I feel are more about the structural characteristics of a large corpus of human language and what is truly encoded there.

Yan Basque@yanbasque.com · last wk.

Not gonna QT, because I don't want to add to the pile on this person is currently experiencing (even if deserved to some extent). But that argument drives me crazy. Just because *you* don't understand how LLMs work doesn't mean nobody understands how they work. This is a fiction.

We're currently growing intelligent machines. Nobody really understands how they actually work internally. That includes Gebru. They have become demonstrably smart regarding general knowledge and programming in the last year or so. 2:35 PM • Oct 3, 2026
Sergio@sergio.bsky.col.social · last wk.

I hold these two views simultaneously: 1. The combustion engine is useful technology 2. Car-centric cities are dysfunctional and, on balance, harmful to the people who live in them I hold essentially the same view about LLMs

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

javier@bartlebooth.bsky.social · 2w ago

In a world where programming languages do not matter as much we may end up with only a couple that survive. A high level one, probably JS, and a low level one, probably Rust. Everything else may go away.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is why trying to see far into the future will drive you insane, all you can see is how far away the world you want still is. but the more straightforwardly oppressive world of the distant past is also far away! because small people did small things that added up over time!

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · 2w ago

My @thestar.com column: Brad Bradford and Chris Alexander talk about Toronto's budget like it's some mystery we need outside experts to solve. But the mayor's spending record is all public, and tells a simple story of priorities. No mystery. Just math. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Matt Elliott: There’s no mystery behind Mayor Olivia Chow’s budget record — there’s just math

Lately, the leading candidates taking on Mayor Olivia Chow in the race for mayor have taken to referring to the city’s budget like it’s some great cosmic mystery. A riddle

thestar.com

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 2w ago

uncritical adoption of sex positivity, especially in straight-dominated spaces, usually just means women are expected to perform sexual favors for men

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 2w ago

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce @itsannpierce 20h I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology. I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again. This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…
javier@bartlebooth.bsky.social · 2w ago

I predict a title like Muse by Meta made a teenager commit suicide or Muse by Meta is generating a new family of eating disorders among 13 year olds in about a year.

javier@bartlebooth.bsky.social · 2w ago

OpenAI is trying to frame their incompetence as technical prowess. Their robots are not becoming sentient. They are just badly set up in systems that are not properly isolated.