Alton B.H. Worthington
@abhw.bsky.social
Social Science Shop Teacher in the vocational training division of a sports entertainment and medical services conglomerate. Views expressed represent nobody, even myself. ∃ RPs ∉ {Endorse} ∧ ∀ Posts ⊂ {Nonsense}. PV=NRT. "Car weirdo."
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i still don't know why these slimline drives aren't ejecting using the front panel button, but getting all 16 to eject via linux command is a kinda fun trick, like one of those amazon pickup kiosks going mad
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
i still don't know why these slimline drives aren't ejecting using the front panel button, but getting all 16 to eject via linux command is a kinda fun trick, like one of those amazon pickup kiosks going mad
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One of my professors pointed out that one of the hallmarks of dictatorship is that portraits of the leader are inescapable
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
One of my professors pointed out that one of the hallmarks of dictatorship is that portraits of the leader are inescapable
It's me. I'm hoarding devices. I'm also hoarding Thanksgiving Malört.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's me. I'm hoarding devices. I'm also hoarding Thanksgiving Malört.
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You have to review its work, this is really bad for entry level employees because I also have to review their work. I would like to see if running the economy hot fixes this at all.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
You have to review its work, this is really bad for entry level employees because I also have to review their work. I would like to see if running the economy hot fixes this at all.
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Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Look, LLM use in academia isn't just students. You need to be speaking clearly with your collaborators about your writing standards from the beginning. Make people say out loud that they don't write their own articles anymore.
I'm excited about more American F1 participation, so stuff like this is candy to me. A cool look at behind the scenes, away from track work that goes into making a race team successful. Maybe not as dramatic as D2S, but this is the stuff I like, and which gives me racecar FOMO.
youtu.be/Uzca7fdhL7s
youtu.be/Uzca7fdhL7s
Inside Cadillac Formula 1 Team’s First Race Simulation
YouTube video by General Motors
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I'm excited about more American F1 participation, so stuff like this is candy to me. A cool look at behind the scenes, away from track work that goes into making a race team successful. Maybe not as dramatic as D2S, but this is the stuff I like, and which gives me racecar FOMO.
youtu.be/Uzca7fdhL7s
youtu.be/Uzca7fdhL7s
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This work has been a long time in the making and I’m excited that we all now have a chance to dig into it.
Congrats to my pal @bhighsmith.bsky.social and the entire research team. This is important work!
Congrats to my pal @bhighsmith.bsky.social and the entire research team. This is important work!
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This work has been a long time in the making and I’m excited that we all now have a chance to dig into it.
Congrats to my pal @bhighsmith.bsky.social and the entire research team. This is important work!
Congrats to my pal @bhighsmith.bsky.social and the entire research team. This is important work!
spending your weekend swapping timing belts and reinstalling the engine but still not getting it done: it's what makes a subaru a subaru.
(honestly, though, knocked out a half-dozen maintenance and upgrade things, so despite not finishing tonight, good progress.)
(honestly, though, knocked out a half-dozen maintenance and upgrade things, so despite not finishing tonight, good progress.)
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
spending your weekend swapping timing belts and reinstalling the engine but still not getting it done: it's what makes a subaru a subaru.
(honestly, though, knocked out a half-dozen maintenance and upgrade things, so despite not finishing tonight, good progress.)
(honestly, though, knocked out a half-dozen maintenance and upgrade things, so despite not finishing tonight, good progress.)
One reason why, although I do miss home from time to time, I'm not moving back east. (Never lived in Bergen, tho.)
I forgot I lived in Bergen county NJ for a moment where it’s illegal to buy 90% of things on Sunday
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
One reason why, although I do miss home from time to time, I'm not moving back east. (Never lived in Bergen, tho.)
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KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
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slopgap
This is also part of why they want AI so bad, btw. To turn all current and former stars into immortal slaves, forcing them to say whatever propaganda they wish, all while never having to pay another human to do art ever again. This sort of shit is the stopgap.
This is perfect. A Fox 52 episode podcast about the life of Jesus, apparently built on subterfuge, theft and lies. Many or most of the actors billed as participating had their voices repurposed from other work and didn't even know they were part of it. ew.com/celebrities-...
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
slopgap
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Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Trump supporters are also making shitty AI videos of Trump arresting Mamdani in the Oval Office.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
They don't know how to process what just happened in real life, so they're making the version they prefer with AI.
Oh jeez it's a bubble folks.
Time to dance the Charleston and speculate wildly on the stock market. For the first time in a century, Ivy League football is going to get a shot at a national title.
Cc: @sickoscommittee.org
www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
Cc: @sickoscommittee.org
www.wsj.com/sports/footb...
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Oh jeez it's a bubble folks.
i loved it when i saw it the first time 3 years ago, and the algo graced my frontpage with it again, so I share it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pxt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pxt...
Waging war on the Jamaican patty: Canada’s bizarre beef with the delicious snack | Patty vs Patty
YouTube video by CBC Docs
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
i loved it when i saw it the first time 3 years ago, and the algo graced my frontpage with it again, so I share it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pxt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pxt...
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Our entire Media & Political Elite went along with premise that open fascists were going to reform universities (by defunding research & ending free speech) to protect the Jews & promote free speech. Absolutely wild absurdity, just collective delusion from X/Fox-addled brains.
The U.S. Coast Guard issued a more stringent policy on hate symbols, prohibiting “divisive or hate symbols or flags.”
The change came hours after The Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive.”
The change came hours after The Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive.”
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Our entire Media & Political Elite went along with premise that open fascists were going to reform universities (by defunding research & ending free speech) to protect the Jews & promote free speech. Absolutely wild absurdity, just collective delusion from X/Fox-addled brains.
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honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards
Bessent: "If something happens down in Venezuela, we could really see oil prices go down even more."
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards
trying to recall a post i saw recently (last 2 weeks) that is slightly different than the stegenography llm stuff, more about how tokenization affects language and, iirc something about asking one llm to decode a secret message created by another. searching is completely failing me, unfortunately.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
trying to recall a post i saw recently (last 2 weeks) that is slightly different than the stegenography llm stuff, more about how tokenization affects language and, iirc something about asking one llm to decode a secret message created by another. searching is completely failing me, unfortunately.
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this is a recurring theme I've seen. people think LLMs reduce the need for understanding of things and act like it. but every successful use I've seen has as a prerequisite a demonstrable and generally deeper understanding of the topic and objective
or, if you don't, you hit the wall at speed
or, if you don't, you hit the wall at speed
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
this is a recurring theme I've seen. people think LLMs reduce the need for understanding of things and act like it. but every successful use I've seen has as a prerequisite a demonstrable and generally deeper understanding of the topic and objective
or, if you don't, you hit the wall at speed
or, if you don't, you hit the wall at speed
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outstanding opening paragraph too
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
outstanding opening paragraph too
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Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
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so obviously grokipedia exists purely to try and validate Musk's political views, but you might be wondering if it can at least do non-controversial stuff competently. say, a racing series entry list?
uh, no. no it cannot.
uh, no. no it cannot.
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
so obviously grokipedia exists purely to try and validate Musk's political views, but you might be wondering if it can at least do non-controversial stuff competently. say, a racing series entry list?
uh, no. no it cannot.
uh, no. no it cannot.
This morning, I posted about a mail truck. Now I am posting about a Mail Train. (next time I'm in London, I'm visiting this.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAZ...
Let's Ride ... Mail Rail the Post Office Underground Railway
YouTube video by Geoff Marshall
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This morning, I posted about a mail truck. Now I am posting about a Mail Train. (next time I'm in London, I'm visiting this.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUAZ...
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If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
EPA fines Apple over hazardous waste violations at Santa Clara factory
(KRON) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it has settled claims of hazardous waste violations at an Apple microchip factory in Santa Clara. In August 2023 and January 2024, federal regulators inspected Apple’s facility at 3250 Scott Boulevard after receiving a tip from the public. The inspections, according to the EPA, [...]
www.kron4.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.