I think Tether is probably the single most embarrassing thing to happen to US financial regulation since Bernie Madoff.

@cooperx86.bsky.social Hey, I noticed the mention of `config.active_record.shuffle_unordered_selects` in Ruby Weekly issue 820. Y'all may be interested to know that the gem `unreliable` brings that same behavior — to test suites only — for Rails >= 5.2 and all the "big four" databases.

GitHub - jamiemccarthy/unreliable: Randomize relation final order for tests

Randomize relation final order for tests. Contribute to jamiemccarthy/unreliable development by creating an account on GitHub.

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a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

Bill McKibben@billmckibben.bsky.social · 2d ago

Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register

“Another message allegedly read, ‘If Jews are so special then they should be placed in special camps and receive special treatments.’” “Special treatment” (Sonderbehandlung) was a Nazi euphemism for murdering Jews in camps or gas vans. Holocaust-deniers are often familiar with that term.

David Schraub@schraubd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Among the alleged statements by the professor: “The goyim have woken up, Jew. Run. Flee. Leave.”

watching junipers descent into antisemitism the past few years has been particularly upsetting given her sway with hundreds of thousands of people on the left, both thru socials and her job in media, let alone others working there, which makes these kinds of statements so irresponsible and dangerous

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 3d ago

Seems bad.

Is what they're throwing over the wall... Spandrels? Or is it Fordite? Trinitite? Starstones?

Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 5d ago

So a few folks asking why OAI is releasing this at all. And I think that's probably worth a thread in its own right

As usual @github.com is down (can't post comments anywhere) but www.githubstatus.com denies it, and so does downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github. The real-time status is updog.ai/status/github by Datadog :)

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Who could have predicted the anti data center movement would turn into an antisemetic conspiracy theory? Oh wait we did predict exactly that.

I just don't understand how people can eulogize Swartz and simultaneously conclude that the world needs *more* intellectual property enforcement

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 6d ago

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve

I feel guilty when my coding agent incorrectly assumes I've read everything it wrote in chat.

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

Colin@colin-fraser.net · last wk.

Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.

It's not "the Trump regime" that hates the National Science Foundation. It's Republicans. He's following in the footsteps of Eric Cantor, Sarah Palin, Liberty University. Here's the GOP in 2010 promising to cut the NSF budget: physicstoday.aip.org/opinion/youc... The problem is just Republicans.

YouCut Citizen Review of the National Science Foundation

Eric Cantor (R-VA), who'll become House majority leader when the next US Congress convenes in January, is launching an experiment. Called YouCut Citizen Review, Cantor's web-based initiative seeks the...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

For what it’s worth, arguing LLMs can’t do addition now is flat earth-level science denialism. Here’s Gemma 4b, a non-reasoning model that could only theoretically memorize binary operations up to 65535 x 65535, oneshotting a eight digit addition and hex conversion *on my phone* with no tool calls

Colin@colin-fraser.net · last wk.

Let me just explain the arithmetic thing real quick; I'm seeing a lot of people not understanding what it's supposed to show (or was supposed to show in 2023). First, let's agree that an LLM is a Stochastic Parrot, a description which I find poetic, useful, informative, and basically correct.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.

Two brothers have been charged in connection with a long-running scheme to raise money for Hamas by disseminating propaganda and soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show.

Brothers arrested in long-running scheme to raise money for Hamas

The two are accused of falsely soliciting donations for “the poor and orphans in Gaza” via social media, court records show.

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Astra broke a Napoleon cipher from a single image, given 6 hours and a goal. Humans couldn’t do that in over 200 years carter.church/writeups/the...

Breaking the Marmont Cipher, 1809

A letter to General Marmont, listed as unsolved and known only from a mis-dated 1969 reproduction, read in full: redated to March 1809, placed two weeks before Austria invaded Bavaria, and checked aga...

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context: demonstrating that LLMs correctly answering arithmetic on large digits is not due to using a calculator

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 2w ago

well, I just used OpenRouter to send 20 12x12 addition questions to GLM-4.7, an open source Chinese model, and it returned correct sums in every case.

I'm sorry no, voters aren't getting a pass on this one.

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

show me a democrat that ran in 24 on a humane and compassionate response to the republican plan of ethnic cleansing. there were none

Picture of him with me would probably be worse for him tbh

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2w ago

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

I understand them. They're antisemites.

Humble Novice@humblenovice.bsky.social · 2w ago

I will never understand so-called leftists who are outraged at Mamdani for wanting to combat antisemitism.

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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eva (^_^)/@eva.computer · 2w ago

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

Lmao oh my god I think it’s trying to ape the writing in the post-Ender Dragon cutscene because that’s the only written material in Minecraft. Like look at this!!

Which - all together - suggests that in September the oil coming out of the region was around 85% of pre-war flows, up from less than 50% in March...6/8

“Wakeups are often unnecessary” — Politico, Sept. 2016, explaining it’s not as important as Hillary Clinton says that we have an experienced President

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

serious question, at what point do we start reporting her for dogpiling?

my developers don't even talk to the model in English, let alone "middle America English"

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...

Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2w ago

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Lucky to be one of the only people who ever had the catharsis of speaking to SBF the way he should’ve always been spoken to. (wait until the end for the smuggest head nod in history)