Feeling big #ic2s2 fomo this year, seems like a great conference (like always!)

New preprint with @carlbergstrom.com, Kevin Gross, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social. See Carl's thread. Surprise! Even if LLMs work perfectly, they'll make scientists refine their work less deeply, because they raise the opportunity cost of time, pushing researchers to do more, less well.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. 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.

Very cool! A good reminder that there are other very useful network libraries besides just networkx and igraph

Tiago Peixoto@tiago.skewed.de · 4w ago

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Argentina barely deserved the win

The World Cup is full of magic moments, loving Cabo Verde today

that was a good match to watch. The US was favored coming in but they definitely had to earn that win. I’m honestly fired up for a USA-BEL rematch #USAvBIH

Hoping Bluesky Communities launches before Musk manages to clean up X, which may take a while given the incentives at work, but maybe not. Even people who remain loyal to Musk know it has become a dumpster fire. It’s a big opportunity, but only if Bluesky provides space for many more communities.

this Türkiye win was for Eric Adams 🇹🇷

That was a great game to watch, honestly that momentum change in the second half gave me a lot more faith in the US squad than anything from the first two matches #TURvUSA

While this is a German court’s ruling, I imagine this adds fuel to the US debate on section 230

Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸@jeftan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

absurd saves from Rangel with the replays

Rooting for South Korea but my god that was was an incredible double save from Mexico.

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

co/core — an AI cooperative

co/core is a cooperative for AI inference — people pooling the Macs they already own to run open models for each other, instead of renting from the big clouds. An experiment in AI infrastructure we bu...

console.cocore.dev

A few PDSes I haven't seen in awhile broke into the top ten in raw # of active repos (June 2026) 👀 Looking at repos on pds.ls suggests a fair amount of bsky spam. Are there any lists of 'spammy' PDSes (or do devs just roll their own)? I know @mackuba.eu tags some PDSes w/ high bot activity.

Very cool, helping people find people!

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com · 2mo ago

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

I'd want the opposite of "mute thread" on @bsky.app as a feature: "subscribe to thread" à la slacks "get reply notifications". Really useful when someone asks a good question and I'm interested in seeing the answers.

So I've been digging into bluesky retention data to see what is preventing growth of the ecosystem. Using likes/posts/follows you can see who is active or dormant on ATProto. The headline is that only 5% of users are retained at 28d and 10% of current users churn. That's not pretty

Tezos has shot up the past couple of weeks with a ton of active repos 👀 presumably for this work tz2at.xyz

Great to see pre-registered studies testing the effect of algorithms on perception!

William J. Brady@williambrady.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

an interesting counterpart to the X transformer-centered pipeline setup — just make the whole pipeline one big PyTorch model @spacecowboy17.bsky.social @patrickboueri.com engineering.fb.com/2026/05/26/m...

SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems

We’re introducing SilverTorch, a reimagining of recommendation systems that unifies all retrieval components for user generated content under a unified architecture.  SilverTorch shows up to 23.7x …

engineering.fb.com

What is Standard.site? Think of it as a file format for publishing longer posts from blogs, news sites…wherever. If you’re using Leaflet, pckt.blog, or Offprint, you’re already using Standard.site! https://standard.site/

Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.

Standard.site provides shared lexicons for long-form publishing on AT Protocol. Making content easier to discover, index, and move across the ATmosphere.

standard.site

a bird in tree is worth two in the bush

Made some updates to my PDS centralization dashboard atproto.barn.city following great feedback. Three things I'm hoping to show with this (to start): 1) Functional centralization 2) Where are repos being made? 3) Where are repos migrating to? 1/3

The X For You algorithm has been published: github.com/xai-org/x-al... Now we have the answer to how true this statement was: "Grok will literally read every post and watch every video" This was just marketing. There is no Grok reading any posts. 🧵

GitHub - xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

Algorithm powering the For You feed on X. Contribute to xai-org/x-algorithm development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We're going to replace all recommendation systems heuristics with grok *seven minutes later* We regret to inform you that twitter is now bankrupt and takes 4 minutes to load

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

Great resource — I was starting to build a follower graph from scratch and this makes that so much easier!

Patrick Boueri@patrickboueri.com · 3mo ago

This is an interim update (thanks again @microcosm.blue) I finally have a publicly accessible .duckdb snapshot @ pub-5ef34deaa1e54c25a97cea1bcfbd6456.r2.dev/atproto-snap... Which contains posts (no text) / likes / follows / blocks / actors of all bluesky. Would love if you poke around it! #rstats

It’s D-day in sunny LA #trains