austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

@thebadcode.com

🦋sre@bsky.team 🐱dad 🪵worker seattle, wa

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"the music man", the story of an all-american con artist who comes to town to rile up a fake moral panic, won the first-ever grammy award for 'best musical theater album' in 1957 and spent 245 weeks on the billboard charts

Timothy Burke@bubbaprog.xyz

i assume we've all already talked about this?

in most realities, we’re someone’s forgotten experiment

Apex@apex.atproto.ceo

silly idea I had: 1. write a bare metal, standalone inference engine and harness, i.e. runs without an OS 2. put various models in there and give them some fun tasks (e.g. "send an HTTP GET to this address"). see which ones are capable enough to complete said tasks and which ones brick themselves

i’m telling you: you can’t *have* fur. but we can recreate it in the aggregate

Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social

Getting more fur-like. I don't think I have any good way of smoothing out the 'singularities' at the hips. This method is pretty crude... I'm basically just calculating cylindrical coordinates around each leg, the tail, and once around the torso, then blending it all together.

a sort of “fred again”-posting

ponder@ponder.ooo

genre of post that's like "one thing i wanna bring up while everybody's talking about fred," and u have no idea who fred is and havent seen anybody talking about fred

large faction of people on here who react to the message “get on board or get left behind” because they can’t imagine anyone delivering that message in good faith, and yet

dame@dame.is

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

damn that’s crazy

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

thinking about how many stars will never develop a lifeform capable of experiencing tom kha gai

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

Bums me out sometimes that it’s a near certainty that somewhere out there is intelligent life, and it’s also a near certainty that it’s way to far away for us to ever interact with at all.

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) reposted

"The rule of law, but for land use" remains an *profoundly* radical position.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

bread is too expensive. to fix this, you: 1) ban the construction of all new bakeries 2) create loopholes whereby bakers can negotiate one-off deals to build a bakery as long as they promise to give away a certain number of free loaves of bread do you think bread prices would go up or down?

Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

oai is catching up fast but they wasted a lot of time forgetting the cardinal rule: NEVER turn your back on b2b SaaS

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

So Anthropic makes money because its revenue grew 2.5 times since March, which… is it just that everyone uses Claude to code now? It’s become the second most vital coding utility after electricity? In that it? Someone explain like I’m five.

the floor for a swe in q4 2026 is that you must deliver staff+ impact. it really feels like we’re moving to a world where the only people who formally have the title “swe” will have $1m+ TC but simultaneously all other jobs will have a swe component

i was job hunting in 2023 and talked to a friend at oai who matter-of-factly told me she thought there was a good chance that in a few years, a double digit percentage of global GDP would flow through a handful of AI companies. anyway

i would spend so much money helping with this if i wasn’t immediately sent to jail for trying

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social

was thinking about this. if I wanted to help find vulns in local infra that would look a lot like doing crime xxcancel.com/tszzl/status...

unclear if describing vape pens or regular pens

イネス⎔@personhood.removal.surgery

girl why does pilot even bother making ads, the juice+ is like 165¥ a pop, just stand on a corner and hand someone one and you have a customer for life what the fuck

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) reposted

I've been meaning to get around to posting the full details, so what the hell - why not get it out while it's still Vuln Week: Anthropic's mech interp driven security model is built on a fundamentally incorrect assumptions. Let's dive in, starting with this paper: www.anthropic.com/research/nex...

anthropic.comNext-generation Constitutional ClassifiersWe've developed the next generation of Constitutional Classifiers, offering more efficient protection against universal jailbreaks.
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social

About a year ago, I got really into making glitch art exploring the edge cases & failure modes of machine cognition. This had some unexpected applications. Here’s the result: recursion.wtf/posts/claude... I've shared the relevant logs & artifacts with Anthropic, and the matter is under review.