Marcelo Rinesi
@marcelorinesi.bsky.social
Cognitive architecture designer and consultant. On https://rinesi.com there are links to my blog and newsletters (one for articles, the other for original short-short SF).
"A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a ballet dancer until injury, a widely known geneticist, and had run away from a wealthy and ruthless man." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Centripetal
A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a ballet dancer until injury, a widely known geneticist, and had run away from a wealthy and…
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"A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a ballet dancer until injury, a widely known geneticist, and had run away from a wealthy and ruthless man." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Centripetal
A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a ballet dancer until injury, a widely known geneticist, and had run away from a wealthy and…
blog.rinesi.com
"A lesser detective would have looked for Anna in theaters, laboratories, and morgues, as she had been a ballet dancer until injury, a widely known geneticist, and had run away from a wealthy and ruthless man." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Centripetal
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I'm an atheist and not familiar enough with the relevant theology, but from a fiction writing POV it'd work well if every thing of this kind they post were divinely inspired despite and regardless of why they think they are saying.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d agoIt seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.
#AdversarialMetanoia: #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction posted during July "There was a diversity of views regarding the War's beginning, sides, fronts, status, and aims. Even what was and was not part of the War was a fiercely contested debate many thought was part of it." 1/4
Boundary Point
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An good description of one way in which Breakthrough Listen leverages radio telescope data from other projects. SETI is very much worth doing as a low-cost/low-[it seems]-probability/huge-payoff bet, but I suspect it'll end up being a useful context to work out some not necessarily related problems.
Breakthrough Listen's Automated Commensal Technosignature Survey with MeerKAT
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is an ongoing effort to detect technosignatures, evidence of technologically capable life beyond Earth. Conducting a comprehensive SETI programme re...
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Nothing in this I don't love. Please ignore the text in the link preview: I know what sort of vibes it gives and This. Is. Not. That. It's ditherpunk.
Decker
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My default framework is information flows, not economics, so this seems very in line with Warsh's overall intent [given his past behavior, "view" would probably over-estimate his intellectual consistency] to limit the Fed->market information flow. 1/ via @bencasselman.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d agoNYT: 🚨 “.. a potentially seismic move that would mark the most significant change in how the central bank operates in years.” @colbylsmith.bsky.social @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
I think the overall experience will be familiar to everybody --and isn't *that* a sign of the times-- but the zoom-in look and analysis is well worth the read. I usually talk about this as _ethos_, but _institutional logics_ might be a better term.
Digital Journalism@digitaljournalism.bsky.social · last wk.ONLINE FIRST! This article by Minna Koivula et al. explores how digital #data increasingly shapes #journalists’ daily work, organizational legitimacy, and decision-making. Available with OPEN ACCESS. ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Very good analysis of what this was and wasn't. I'd extrapolate Green's point about these tools plausible *increasing* security (better pre-deployment testing) into "AI makes systems more or less secure as a function of how much your org, community, or industry cares vs pretend to care." 1/
Matthew Green@matthewdgreen.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote up a short blog post giving my thoughts on the new Anthropic cryptanalysis results against HAWK and AES. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/s...
It's not that it wasn't already possible, but I can't imagine the nightmarish level of internal *USE THIS* pressure that would lead a product team to add a capability that AFAIK has no use case without awful negative externalities. via @drjlhazelton.bsky.social
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
"American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched a preacher with two biochemistry degrees..." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Black Zone Dreams
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched…
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Reiterating my [mostly but not fully wrong] pre-World Cup prediction: nonzero chances of Trump defending his new toady (and Jared's investment) by lashing out against European football qua sport, with nontrivial diplomatic fallout. via @deanbaker13.bsky.social
Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social · 6d agoUefa countries have agreed they will boycott the World Cup if Infantino goes ahead with his plans www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
"American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched a preacher with two biochemistry degrees..." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Black Zone Dreams
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched…
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One of the best things about the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social is that a 2019 article will be just as fascinating as one a few hours old. From now on, I want my weekly news summary as an image in this style with links inside it. 1/
Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)
Apocalyptic lithographs from the 19th century golden age of astrology, helmed by several astrologists writing under the name Raphael.
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This by @dereklowe.bsky.social is as Mad Science [/pos] as it gets: "engineer a thylakoid-like system (based on what plants use as their organ of photosynthesis) and allow photosynthetic production of extra NADPH and ATP in the eye tissue (which is being bathed in light anyway, right?)"
Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes?
Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes?
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That the world's most popular sport has as its top officer a man so openly corrupt and amoral that it crosses the line into being a cartoon character is not among the top 100 worst things going on but it's fascinating as a case study. by @lawrenceostlere.bsky.social via @worgztheowl.bsky.social
The Independent@the-independent.com · last wk.Uefa issues furious statement after reports Fifa plans to sell stakes in World Cup
Not quite what Levine talks about here but one side effect of businesses of all sizes being run by people who got there via private equity is that everything ends up being run with the professional ethos and intellectual framework of private equity, which might not be, you know, socially optimal.
Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social · last wk.In some ways this newsletter is just about going back to basics. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
"American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched a preacher with two biochemistry degrees..." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Black Zone Dreams
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched…
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Examples aside the point about systemic structures in publishing is a very good one. The publishing world was already in over-supply: at the margin -and deterministic filtering being impossible- texts written with AI tools can't but crowd out some of the rest. via @josemarichal.bsky.social
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.AI-assisted fiction is already here, tons of people are reading it, very few of them realize it, and no one wants to talk about it. Gift link to my latest: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
@adamtooze.bsky.social on --among other things-- what the European car industry was up as the China Shock was gearing up. Not quite his words but I'm reading this as an example of "pulling a Boeing": a focus on financial capabilities leading to the erosion of domain-specific institutional skills.
Chartbook 460 Greedflation meets China shock: Can Europe's car industry be saved without making the cost of living crisis worse?
The European car industry riding high, leading the world in sophisticated manufacturing, earning record profits, paying out huge dividends.
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Good pushback by @dereklowe.bsky.social on a certain strand of analysis about where we are/will soon be on AI in drug development. It's hard to put across how insanely large is the gap here between system complexity and our knowledge of it. It's the opposite of answers being easy to check.
Thoughts on the
Thoughts on the
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This by @teorth.bsky.social has probably been already read by anybody who might want to, but it's still worth pointing out. After what happened with solar+battery prices, what's happening in math research is my favorite positive surprise of the century so far.
A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
The notorious Jacobian conjecture can be formulated concretely over the complex numbers as follows. Conjecture 1 (Jacobian Conjecture) Let $latex {F:{\bf C}^n \rightarrow {\bf C}^n}&fg=000000$ …
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"American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched a preacher with two biochemistry degrees..." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Black Zone Dreams
American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched…
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"American endtimes economics met Chinese neurotech on a DAO-owned island off the coast of Proud Britain where a lawyer, a VP, and a biowarfare specialist moonlighting as a nomadic lab manager watched a preacher with two biochemistry degrees..." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Black Zone Dreams
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"The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Inheritance
The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting. She had already slaved the armor to her voice and her parasympathetic nervous system to its electrochemical commands,…
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*sigh* The marginal utility of money is nonlinear and context-dependent. Trivially: if you need to pay for cancer treatment and have no savings you'll take the guaranteed cost of it over a 50% chance of four times that money. via @statsboyandi.bsky.social @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoI know the take that’s gonna do numbers is “this is rational” but no, people aren’t rational, people are terrible at numbers, this isn’t really rational, people just can’t do math. It’s actually well-known that people are irrational, don’t debase yourself pretending this is smart
"The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting." #ShortFiction #ScienceFiction #AdversarialMetanoia
Inheritance
The soldier knelt on the chapel waiting for her father's armor to finish booting. She had already slaved the armor to her voice and her parasympathetic nervous system to its electrochemical commands,…
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These dynamics echo in other areas (admin work, enterprise coding, social network content): LLMs make low/decreasing marginal utility output proportionally cheaper than high/increasing marginal utility output, hence the actor-optimal basket shifts badly. 1/ via @pwgtennant.bsky.social
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
I confess I laughed when I saw this, and not because I disbelieve it a priori or think the role unimportant. But sometimes something cracks inside you --couple of times a week these days for me-- and you just snap into unjustifiable glee. via @t0nyyates.bsky.social
Sean Jones KC@seanjones.org · 2w agoFeck me sideways.