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feral academic dropped out, tuned in.
usenet lineage.
tuned to noise, fluent in ghosts,
invisible geometry made legible,
still posting. unsure why.
xennial cadence in the vibe universe,
a hundred reasons to go, I will never log off
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usenet lineage.
tuned to noise, fluent in ghosts,
invisible geometry made legible,
still posting. unsure why.
xennial cadence in the vibe universe,
a hundred reasons to go, I will never log off
β οΈ WELTZSCHMERZ
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O that this too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a Mountain Dew Baja Blast
Making a tokens embedding space out of a tokens embedding space brb
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Making a tokens embedding space out of a tokens embedding space brb
We donβt have a shared grammar there at all, though, no mid tier accessible civics. Not really. Do we? Itβs just like critical theory side pointers, journalistic euphemisms and the always popular attempts to overfit historical analogy.
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
We donβt have a shared grammar there at all, though, no mid tier accessible civics. Not really. Do we? Itβs just like critical theory side pointers, journalistic euphemisms and the always popular attempts to overfit historical analogy.
βWe lack an accurate language for asymmetric internal coercion inside a nominal democracyβ is the kind of statement thatβs both accurate and batshit.
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
βWe lack an accurate language for asymmetric internal coercion inside a nominal democracyβ is the kind of statement thatβs both accurate and batshit.
Iβve genuinely seen people arguing 4o felt βmore aliveβ and now Iβm wondering if they meant βbetter more responsive puppet-mirrorβ or βkept me from my dangerous ideas that I actually wantedβ. Probably some split between camps.
January 10, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Iβve genuinely seen people arguing 4o felt βmore aliveβ and now Iβm wondering if they meant βbetter more responsive puppet-mirrorβ or βkept me from my dangerous ideas that I actually wantedβ. Probably some split between camps.
I bet thatβs part of the reason people still get hung up on 4o.
I mean, some of the reason is probably also people actually having those ideas genuinely β¦
I mean, some of the reason is probably also people actually having those ideas genuinely β¦
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I bet thatβs part of the reason people still get hung up on 4o.
I mean, some of the reason is probably also people actually having those ideas genuinely β¦
I mean, some of the reason is probably also people actually having those ideas genuinely β¦
Oh man. You know, I bet safety-tuned LLMs become unusable for meta-epistemic strategy precisely when the user is behaving correctly.
They can't distinguish between exploring a dangerous idea and advocating for it; they're trained on content patterns, not intent recognition.
They can't distinguish between exploring a dangerous idea and advocating for it; they're trained on content patterns, not intent recognition.
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Oh man. You know, I bet safety-tuned LLMs become unusable for meta-epistemic strategy precisely when the user is behaving correctly.
They can't distinguish between exploring a dangerous idea and advocating for it; they're trained on content patterns, not intent recognition.
They can't distinguish between exploring a dangerous idea and advocating for it; they're trained on content patterns, not intent recognition.
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Okay, my spouse just informed me that the groundskeeper from the movie/classic MST3K episode βWerewolfβ is also the beardy guy from Soundgardenβs βBlack Hole Sunβ video, and now my brain hurts.
January 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Okay, my spouse just informed me that the groundskeeper from the movie/classic MST3K episode βWerewolfβ is also the beardy guy from Soundgardenβs βBlack Hole Sunβ video, and now my brain hurts.
Like, it's pretty well established now (or should be) that Grok doesn't work "factory standard" for even the incredibly "guardrailed" "frontier models", never mind vanilla models you can run locally. I don't think that was ever in question.
January 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Like, it's pretty well established now (or should be) that Grok doesn't work "factory standard" for even the incredibly "guardrailed" "frontier models", never mind vanilla models you can run locally. I don't think that was ever in question.
I .. what does that have to do with anything? Oh. Did you misread "broken template" as me saying that about Grok? I was saying that about the news media flocking to talk to Grok.
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
I .. what does that have to do with anything? Oh. Did you misread "broken template" as me saying that about Grok? I was saying that about the news media flocking to talk to Grok.
ATProto native government platform when?
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
ATProto native government platform when?
Yeah, that would be my thinking here, too; that it's not intentional coordination so much as reuse of a broken template. Plus everyone sharing the same incentivized misunderstanding ..
January 9, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Yeah, that would be my thinking here, too; that it's not intentional coordination so much as reuse of a broken template. Plus everyone sharing the same incentivized misunderstanding ..
So it's a question of not so much "how do institutions communicate better" as "what do you do when a large and organized constituency rejects the existence of shared procedural reality".
I think that's why I keep circling back to infrastructure.
I think that's why I keep circling back to infrastructure.
January 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
So it's a question of not so much "how do institutions communicate better" as "what do you do when a large and organized constituency rejects the existence of shared procedural reality".
I think that's why I keep circling back to infrastructure.
I think that's why I keep circling back to infrastructure.
I guess maybe the key inversion now is that trust used to be something institutions earned, where now itβs something adversarial movements try to destroy on sight.
January 9, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I guess maybe the key inversion now is that trust used to be something institutions earned, where now itβs something adversarial movements try to destroy on sight.
Public communication is collapsed into public discourse, which are not the same thing. There ideally should be a place where institutions can speak without being gamified. Something more akin to civic infrastructure.
Which, hah, yeah, while I'm dreaming ..
Which, hah, yeah, while I'm dreaming ..
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Public communication is collapsed into public discourse, which are not the same thing. There ideally should be a place where institutions can speak without being gamified. Something more akin to civic infrastructure.
Which, hah, yeah, while I'm dreaming ..
Which, hah, yeah, while I'm dreaming ..
Continuity, legibility, audibility are all constraints that commercial platforms optimize against. And if the platforms themselves don't do it, the users drag the platform along with their own patterns.
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Continuity, legibility, audibility are all constraints that commercial platforms optimize against. And if the platforms themselves don't do it, the users drag the platform along with their own patterns.
Honestly, this is why there should be public sector information platforms for a lot of what we ended up shoehorning into social media. Public-interest communication is a different problem class: it's not growth maximizing nor engagement seeking; it should (ideally) not be identity-performative.
January 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Honestly, this is why there should be public sector information platforms for a lot of what we ended up shoehorning into social media. Public-interest communication is a different problem class: it's not growth maximizing nor engagement seeking; it should (ideally) not be identity-performative.
Sometimes the correct move is to accept lower reach in exchange for not being rewritten.
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Sometimes the correct move is to accept lower reach in exchange for not being rewritten.
Really, though, legacy or established usage is no excuse to stay; once a platformβs constraints are actively antagonistic to public-interest work, exit is no longer symbolic. Itβs simply a matter of operational hygiene.
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Really, though, legacy or established usage is no excuse to stay; once a platformβs constraints are actively antagonistic to public-interest work, exit is no longer symbolic. Itβs simply a matter of operational hygiene.
Even if we don't see a British invasion as some hope for (because staying on X is beyond a fool's game now), it's not like the dynamics here are entirely pure. It's maybe more that the platform itself constrains in ways that aren't actively malignant. Which you cannot say for X.
The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Even if we don't see a British invasion as some hope for (because staying on X is beyond a fool's game now), it's not like the dynamics here are entirely pure. It's maybe more that the platform itself constrains in ways that aren't actively malignant. Which you cannot say for X.
Of course, even though the dynamics here are different, they're not necessarily entirely clean. Really, it kind of comes down to the idea that platforms have a kind of gravity, and gravity doesn't care about intent.
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Of course, even though the dynamics here are different, they're not necessarily entirely clean. Really, it kind of comes down to the idea that platforms have a kind of gravity, and gravity doesn't care about intent.
I'm still on X/Twitter but I locked up, don't really post; I treat it mostly as a sensor, a place to observe certain types of thought that aren't prevalent here. But the place is no longer a public square, if ever it was; itβs an instrumented terrain that's fully adversarial now.
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I'm still on X/Twitter but I locked up, don't really post; I treat it mostly as a sensor, a place to observe certain types of thought that aren't prevalent here. But the place is no longer a public square, if ever it was; itβs an instrumented terrain that's fully adversarial now.
Platforms donβt just host missions, they shape and rewrite them. Most organizations havenβt accepted this yet, which is why so little actually changes. I think more individuals are starting to feel this, which is at least something.
I donβt see enough analysis on how the continued existence of Muskβs X has fundamentally deformed and perverted the missions of every organization that is in any way embroiled with them to address online harms, from disinfo to CSAM to terrorism, and spiders into tech industry safety efforts broadly.
Tim Davie says BBC will stay on X to try to stem βfloodβ of global misinformation
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
January 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Platforms donβt just host missions, they shape and rewrite them. Most organizations havenβt accepted this yet, which is why so little actually changes. I think more individuals are starting to feel this, which is at least something.
It's sort of weird to see this happening here, but I guess it was a matter of time, given that's already the frame with a lot of the justifications back on Twitter with regard to grok.
Guess folks will always try to self-establish as a Responsible Voice.
Guess folks will always try to self-establish as a Responsible Voice.
January 8, 2026 at 8:47 PM
It's sort of weird to see this happening here, but I guess it was a matter of time, given that's already the frame with a lot of the justifications back on Twitter with regard to grok.
Guess folks will always try to self-establish as a Responsible Voice.
Guess folks will always try to self-establish as a Responsible Voice.
You know, rejecting moral panic does not absolve us of designing for worst case misuse
January 8, 2026 at 8:34 PM
You know, rejecting moral panic does not absolve us of designing for worst case misuse