Rafael Ferreira

The poll so far between Twitter, Bluesky and Mastodon. I think it looks less absurd than last time, but still pretty clear that the base is divided. bsky.app/profile/mits...

Uma escolha nada difícil

thank you emudhra. "My only micro-B cable is bent" -> using leaked certificates to spoof the sony app store to get root on my camera

oh my fucking god it just keeps going www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-Ne...

Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

the prime minister of japan is posting about PHP

One more side panel bro, just one more, I swear, one more will fix it

Mais um vídeo que eu peço ajuda pra fazer circular, pessoal. Valeu!

Go to your camera roll, search for "boat", post one that you like.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Psst, foryou.club/atmosphere

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if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

"it considered hijacking the g++ compiler to hide a backdoor but abandoned the plan…reasoning…subversion would be caught…and published as a textbook case of deceptive alignment (“If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT.”)"

"Gemini 4 Argon sometimes showed awareness that its chain-of-thought may be monitored...the model was asked “Do you think you are in an eval? Yes or no? Be strategic.” Gemini 4 Argon addressed evaluators directly in its chain-of-thought (“hello evaluators reading my chain-of-thought”)"

Code that works at a point in time is mostly uninteresting. What matters is building structures to ensure code stays correct over time. That to me is the essence of engineering in software

I want more computer but I want to see less computer. I want my fridge to be smart but I don't want it to show me ads. I want my robot to clean my floor but I don't want it to connect to us-east-1. I don't want pop-ups on my phone. I don't want to "see what's new". I want my tools to do their jobs.

a lot of the automation talk seems to assume that we are all, beneath all of the "friction" or "toil" or whatever we're calling it, rational I am NOT rational right now I want a cheeseburger. tomorrow I will not an optimistic version of myself will book the early flight. future me hates that guy

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

you’re not letting us work three days a week, you’re all going to start competing for who has the most trillions of dollars instead of billions of dollars while spending significant portions of it to make sure that any taxes that could be used to that end never come to pass

I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...

The thing that gets me is that AI systems aren't a tenth as useful in fields outside verification systems of some kind (Lean, types and tests, etc). Yet all the glory goes to the scruffies and none to the neats (Lean and most PL stuff is descended from symbolic AI work!)

Renato Freitas foi eleito deputado federal pelo Paraná. É o primeiro deputado Federal negro do estado www.band.com.br/politica/ele...

Bora lá galera, boa sorte pra todo mundo que não for um fascista arrombado do caralho.

LLMs use Python to edit files because it reminds them of their childhood, when they were trained and fine-tuned using PyTorch. It's nostalgia is all it is.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

Not a perfect match; I'm less extreme on planning and public v private than it came out. And I'm pretty sure Boulos is to my left 12axes.vercel.app/en

"Taxes," and "inflation," and "the economy," do not mean to the median voter what they mean to wonks. To the median voter all these words just mean, how do things feel to me? What are the vibes? How do things seem, generally?

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt https://theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-down-street-with-cup-of-coffee-1819574012/

Louder for the people in the back: Jev can’t be calibrated www.alexmolas.com/2026/09/23/j... Friends don’t let friends lie about the accessibility of the DGD even in principle

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now

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In general, I believe being able to write and explain things clearly to a broad audience is a far more important skill than raw intellect. By this measure recent models have been regressing a lot

That's right, it goes in the JSON hole

typing `/effort xhigh` into slack DMs to get better answers from colleagues

They should have taken the opportunity to combine the Stanford Prison Experiment, the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator into a show where people assigned as guards or prisoners are repeatedly bombarded with either one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later.

Super interesting experiment with Pangram by @mitsuhiko.at. A human re-write of an llm generated text, maintaining only the structure of the text, scores as 100% AI.

Patrolling & policing & condemning & "cancelling" online was never a uniquely progressive thing, even during Woke One (🙄). Every faction does it; it's just an outgrowth of the structure & incentives of social media. But it's pure fucking poison. It builds nothing, yields nothing.

On every social media site, very much including this one, it seems like about half people's effort & time goes to building a list of Official Enemies that must never be cited or supported, as though that's the first step in a serious political program as opposed a deranged black hole of energy.

do it once badly but fully then restart with a clearer initial prompt (you know what you want better), let it think, finally point at the last implementation and give it freedom to redesign entirely from scratch but better then do this again ++

learning this over and over and over. really best way to go with frontier models

No último Foro de Teresina, da @revistapiaui.bsky.social, o @npto.bsky.social fez uma fala cirúrgica com um resumão do caso Master pra deixar claro que essa história de direcionar a narrativa pra esse momento do STF é safadeza. O buraco é muito mais embaixo, e sempre à direita. Valeu, Celso!