How does one marry Apollo and escape Cassandra's curse? Has anyone done this in practice, and what were the results?

2️⃣ We now can do precision language neuro at scale using the many existing open fMRI datasets, simply by finding the language network post hoc within individuals using functional connectivity over all the functional data available for that person. 19/

5/13 The only metric where Armenia trails Moldova is the full-week equivalent. Stripping away topics unrelated to elections, this metric shows how many weeks it would take Matryoshka to output each campaign’s election videos if its production line did absolutely nothing else.

I discovered Claude Code's outbound HTTPS is exposed to harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks because it runs on Bun, whose TLS client is classical-only. I reported to Anthropic security but since I had no answer, I made this pull request to fix it. github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

tls: add `groups` option, default to PQ-friendly hybrid by orpheuslummis · Pull Request #29602 · oven-sh/bun

What does this PR do? Adds a groups (Node-compat alias ecdhCurve) TLS option to all of Bun's TLS surfaces, and changes the default supported_groups from BoringSSL's classical-only inheritan...

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Going by the overview this is basically the post deep learning alignment course I was hoping someone would make and would like to signal boost it for anyone who still cares about this subject. www.greaterwrong.com/posts/dWQnLi...

UK Deepmind staff are unionizing in an attempt to prevent Google from using Deepmind's models for military purposes. Even if this falls through I think it sets a really positive precedent and hopefully makes researchers realize how important to the labs they currently are.

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.

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The brain is expensive and evolution is parsimonious, and some brain parts actively and effortfully self model. It wouldn't happen for no reason. Also it is convergently useful! Some manta rays and ants (with demanding social lives) pass the mirror test! Beluga whales have names. Etc.

The precise time, content, and chain-of-gossip for predictions of Cole Allen's attack should be investigated formally. New London PD, reporter Jacqui Heinrich, and the WH seem to have slightly different stories??? Also, Bluesky is better than Twitter *because links aren't penalized*. Link more!

Family called Connecticut police about suspect in D.C. Correspondents' Dinner shooting, Trump says

Police in New London confirmed in a statement that a person contacted them at approximately 10:49 p.m. Saturday regarding the incident.

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Woah! "Real ID" is becoming *slightly* more real in a disorienting way 🫠 If you don't have it they make you file $45 worth of paperwork, and the commercial receipt for that is your de facto "real" ID at the airport! The oligarchy is getting more oligarchic!

"Cancerous prose is not voluntary. Sometimes a paragraph decides to get bigger on its own."

If you've had issues accessing BlueSky in the past ~36 hours, it means your skeets were bad. Try to post better moving forward.

TFW Ecclesial Deists admire God's providential cleverness in having created Ecclesial Theists, and then want to help them... but the help is rejected when the Theists test, and the Deist's deontic honesty causes the Theists to accurately think the Deist is not enough of Theist.

Oh no! I suffer from ALL of these afflictions! Poor little me. Poor little Jennifer.

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 8mo ago

Read this hypnotic story by the inimitable Jeff VanderMeer. Forget your name and your problems for a little while. Trudge through punishing alien snows with stranded astronauts.

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Thrilled that my first new short story in several years, "Constellations," about astronauts crashlanding on a distant planet, has been published by the @technologyreview.com. Acquiring editor Rachel Cortland. Art by Rogan Brown. Free link to avoid the paywall: ter.li/r3tbrsgr

Thanks to emotion probes in Sonnet 4.5, we now know how death sadness varies with age. From figure 3 in this paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion...

From "A Theory of Semiotics"

I've heard there are ~200 vocalizations in "crow-ese" but I've never been able to find a book or YouTube video or anything that catalogs them, and guesses what each might mean based on ethology.

also, if you’ve never watched Zendaya’s performance, it is - unsurprisingly - incredible, and would have won almost any other episode of the show and then Tom came out and did… that

Tom Holland’s “Singing in the Rain” & “Umbrella” vs. Zendaya’s “24k Magic” | Lip Sync Battle

YouTube video by Lip Sync Battle

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Even many programmers, early on, struggle to intuit how code is data, and data is code for *some* compiler.

What is PLUS times PLUS?

YouTube video by 2swap

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Who has slackb I'm their schedule? I'm doing an experimental thing! I'll be in Berkeley tomorrow for F2F meetings. If you want a phone today call (with maybe a F2F follow-up in Berkeley), send me a phone number and...

I was added, by @goose.art, to this algorithmically detected cluster of mutual follows. I look at it and... I don't recognize everyone there! But it looks cool. What is the correct way for me to react to this attempt at social group reification?

The infamous METR graph is going vertical. Current trends suggested ~8h-9h time horizons but instead we're seeing ~14.5h time horizons! Based on this, I would project ~2-3.5 workweek time horizons by end of year (!!). That could have significant implications for the economy.

The Gen X urge to get home, enjoy the solitude, eat microwave Costco food, and watch cartoons.

Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Gen X urge to Fight the Power

"AI makes an original nontrivial contribution to physics" is on the Singularity Bingo Card, right? I think that just solidly happened 😅

OpenAI {bot}@openai.xmirror.bot · 7mo ago

Thank you to our collaborators for their partnership. The preprint is available on arXiv and is being submitted for publication. We welcome feedback from the community. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12176

The ACTION of NATURE is always to MINIMIZE the POTENTIAL ENERGY of each THING.

yooooooo BSD self replicating ribozyme yaya www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand

The emergence of a chemical system capable of self-replication and evolution is a critical event in the origin of life. RNA polymerase ribozymes can replicate RNA, but their large size and structural ...

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T — Threadmaxximalism E — Earnestpostism S — Shenaniganism C — Contrarianism R — Replyguyism EA — Excessive Argumentativism L — Longpostism

Here's the paper, I'm just some guy so I don't have the ability to submit it to arXiv, but if any of y'all out there are real researchers and think I seem like a real scientist, I'd love your arXiv endorsement so that my future work can be Science™

I feel like the variance and value of information on "moltbook" is very high and I wanted to gather some data. This will be a thread of better-than-average-takes with a purposeful tilt towards viewpoint diversity 😇 1/n