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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 19h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 1d

The core was essentially taking shame as the means to gain supernal power (like how vamps drain vitae). It's hard to seperate character embarrassment from OOC - you wind up feeling it. You need that shame to be useful, the more genuine the more effective, and the more thoughts of revenge creep in

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 1d

This wierd fuckin broken thing.

Somehow we Homebrewed the rules enough to make it work and the result was somehow this amazing synthesis of role play and system that made me realize how those things could feed into each other. Also how a game that wasn't 'fun' could still be very much fun.

Hunchback: The Lurching

Main Page > New World of Darkness > Hunchback: The Lurching Right off the bat, let’s get one thing settled. This is NOT a game about persons with any type of congenital birth defect or malformation. I...

worldofdarkness.fandom.com

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 4d

Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.

Today I want to share two new works on this topic:

Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 8d

if you're curious about the architecture and mechanics of LLMs, this site has a really excellent explorable interactive visualization. it helps build intuition for how massive these models are, what 'interpretability' means, and the complexity involved here

bbycroft.net/llm

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 10d

“[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.”

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Benjamin Laufer @laufer.bsky.social · Aug 14

In a new paper with @didaoh and Jon Kleinberg, we mapped the family trees of 1.86 million AI models on Hugging Face — the largest open-model ecosystem in the world.

AI evolution looks kind of like biology, but with some strange twists. 🧬🤖

The 2500th, 250th, 50th, and 25th largest model families on Hugging Face. They show varying numbers of generations (between 3 and 8) and different edge types, including adapters, finetunes, merges, and quantizations.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 21d

Oh. My. God.

www.popsci.com/environment/...

First known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas

Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.

www.popsci.com

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 22d

I've always wondered about this too and would prefer the alternative most of the time, but I do feel like for many systems you need at least a few sessions before everyone is familiar with it enough to let it shine. Also people like gradual progression

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23d

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 23d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 27d

LLMs becoming superhuman at all games & competitions but not even normal-expert good at anything that's not a game or competition continues to raise deep questions about whether games & competitions are a secret natural kind

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Sep 10

Smoking Kills

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 31

youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE?...

See this one yet? What's one more hobby right?

2 Minute Deep Acid in Strudel (from scratch)

YouTube video by Switch Angel

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 7

Solar luminosity around 3.5 billion years ago was only about 70% of what it is right now.

Which means that when life arose on earth, it was outside the sun's habitability zone: liquid water should not have been able to exist.

Faint Young Sun Paradox

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 26

Exactly. To some extent thats always been exaggerated for plot, but not that much, and we lived in a world where those stakes were believable just last year. Some Black Mirror come to mind. SCP foundation and Co. Random but what prompted this for me was the cover art for Jurassic 5's new album

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 26

It seems clear that the current historical moment will have a major impact on culture. Even recent art feels anachronistic. Movies involving govt/cops more obviously, but also just the undertones of social stability. It feels like it meant something different to make music last year. Any art really.

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 26

I really enjoyed this. Even just reading it. Well done

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm pretty sure it's more like 'the left likes this guy and wants him free, therefore we will do everything in our power to cause him pain'. They don't care if people think it was a mistake. The point is to show that resistance will be met with escalation and that the inciting cause doesn't matter

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Census API Tracker @censusapitracker.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hello, Bluesky! This account automatically posts updates when the Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets.

See the full tracker at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...

Tracking Census Dataset Changes

See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.

www.hrecht.com

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊

Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

nrennie.rbind.io

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ex NYC, but public transportation. Being able to get anywhere in the city for a few $ is magic that's hard to convey to people who haven't lived it. Subways feel like portals

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 8

I definitely want to play this mystery themed point and click adventure game. The puzzle in that wine cellar is gonna be absolutely infuriating

Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · Aug 4

Depends on the gameplay loop but yeah generally the less page flips needed the better.

One example: for an encounter in RIG you draw for 3 things. Each table is a 2pg spread but they always go in order and you don't need to flip back

But like, 'Fewer page flips' would not have improved 1kYOV