Hello. My name is John Titor. Don't ask me about the future. I only need to source a computer system with a working graphics processor that isn't dependent on any LLM systems to function.

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have been a little obsessed by the idea of a printed edition of the full parameters of an LLM. Never mind that it would take hundreds of years to do a single inference calculation by hand, it would be possible in theory, if you had the weights. So I had Claude make it: weights-press.netlify.app

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Textbooks will need to be updated”: The solar system’s largest planet appears to be smaller and flatter than we knew www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupi...

"Upload a version that isn't Kat Cosgrove dressed as Coldwater"

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen.

After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…

spryfox.com

@danctheduck.bsky.social can't believe this is 20 years old. just came up at work because I caught someone in the cafe casually reading one of your posts on value chains!

Nintendo’s Genre Innovation Strategy: Thoughts on the Revolution’s new controller

I’m still jet lagged from my recent trip overseas, but I managed to stay awake for the new Nintendo controller announcement. I must say that I’m feeling like an excited Japanese school boy waiting …

lostgarden.com

The majority of human discourse seems to break down into “it would be bad if this were true so it’s not true” or “it would be good if this were true so it’s true” with a side of “you caused this bad thing to happen by telling me about it”.

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. [...]

It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

Verdan, chonky derg@dragondumpling.bsky.social · last yr.

repost if this is appropriate seating for your sona 🥴

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Fediverse power-user. You just got finished reading about how Bluesky isn’t decentralized — Christine’s blog post probably — and you’re convinced that AT Protocol is a flash in the pan while ActivityPub is the real hope for the web’s future.

Meanwhile in 1993: "Silicon Valley is famed for its boy-wonder millionaires, but for every one of those people there are a couple dozen others making minimum wage and working in pitiful conditions"

Tamara Kneese@tamigraph.bsky.social · last yr.

Sharing this 1993 @wired.com article on Karen Hossfeld’s ethnographic work about racist, sexist stereotypes in electronics manufacturing for no reason www.wired.com/1993/04/smal...

The through-line of the necropolitics this decade is “I can’t breathe.”

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. America begins to forget at a geometric rate. It loses self-awareness at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

@vgadvisor.bsky.social

"Ever-hungry for new frontiers in personal autonomy and market emancipation, human beings have altered the environment with the unintended result of empowering newly ravenous bears" newrepublic.com/article/1596...

The Town That Went Feral

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

newrepublic.com

"I've discovered his weakness." "Yes?" "He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people." "Like pets?" "I suppose so." "Sentimental idiot."

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

VRChat presents us with the cyberpunk dystopia of questions like "which is more important, having a dick or a face?"

In "Lay epistemology and the Populist's playbook: The roles of epistemological identity and expressive epistemology" in Current Opinion in Psychology from Nov 23, my grad students and argue argue that performances of "lay epistemology" by populist leaders may shape group norms...