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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 10d

Straight from planet (moon?) Pandora

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Continuing to fiddle. I've discovered that data visualization is extremely susceptible to "procrastiwork". I should just stop and release my notebook.

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 11d

Even the typography is sinister

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 21d

At least you'll be drippy

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 22d

hey don't make fun of the galileo of LLMs

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 22d

unfortunately it is not satire

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 22d

I hate any "X derangement syndrome" turn of phrase but I find it hard to otherwise describe the way a lot of people on here are about Ezra Klein

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.

Alternate posts from Rep Nancy Mace, first blaming the left, then calling for prayers for the lost Tyler Robinson

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 28d

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

www.theverge.com

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 29d

More of this kind of reporting, please!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 10

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Blaze Media
https://www.theblaze.com
Exclusive: Assassination suspect Vance
Boelter tells STUNNING inside ...
Aug 12, 2025 - Vance Luther Boelter told Blaze News he shot at Sen. John Hoffman and his wife only after they laid hands on him and his shooting arm.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Sep 6

As for the claim that "half of AI scientists think there is 10% chance or higher that we'll be wiped out by AI": See my account of what really happened in this survey at aiguide.substack.com/p/do-half-of...

Do half of AI researchers believe that there's a 10% chance AI will kill us all?

Fact-checking a widespread claim

aiguide.substack.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

The "from my cold dead hands" crowd wants to ban people from owning guns

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · Aug 27

Not to mention the enormous amounts of ML paper slop on arxiv, stuff that is full of stuff that is just completely wrong, but has enough stuff that resembles math or experiments in it.

My point is, this seems like an arbitrary line to draw about what is good enough for arxiv

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · Aug 16

When you think about it, we are basically just computers
- *person who works with computers for a living*

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Aug 8

I guess it must have been some kind of cookie issue for me I was able to get it back

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 27

Kinda wow: the mystery model "summit" (rumored to be OpenAI) with the prompt "create something I can paste into p5js that will startle me with its cleverness in creating something that invokes the control panel of a starship in the distant future" & "make it better"

2,351 lines of code. First time

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Jul 23

East Asia friends! I will be in Seoul next week, then Tokyo ~2 weeks, then Taipei for a weekish! Let me know if you're around and want to grab a lunch, coffee, or beer!

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Jul 17

I wonder if nature will also want to publish this correction 🤔

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Jul 10

this is one of the worst long-term trends for US political stability forming in media res

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 9

President Trump has so far withheld federal relief funds, with many arguing that California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats in the deep-blue state have mishandled the fires and should be forced to rescind liberal policies in exchange for aid.

California awaits disaster relief as GOP offers full support of Texas

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), during a trip to South Carolina, highlighted the plight of Los Angeles communities still recovering from devastating wildfires.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding.

Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24.

See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it.

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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 8

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Jul 6

Is this fiction? I can't find anything external to this about this Dr. Lisa Park or lawyer Sarah Chen story, or anything about "legal injection attacks" or this prof David Rodriguez...

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Jul 5

Ah, Star wars is back to being bad again kinda feel

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Jul 5

Rogue One must have been a tonal whiplash 🤣

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