Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
Raised gifted; non-practicing.
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m-dash? You must be joking. This is a w-dash.
February 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
m-dash? You must be joking. This is a w-dash.
"Friction is where the heat comes from. Friction is where the life is."
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
"Friction is where the heat comes from. Friction is where the life is."
The power of the placebo effect is that even though the brooms don't do anything, the stones still slide further because they *think* they do
The dirty secret of curling that no one involved in the sport will admit is that the broom doesn’t do anything
February 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
The power of the placebo effect is that even though the brooms don't do anything, the stones still slide further because they *think* they do
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Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap away. Phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatche...
phys.org
February 7, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
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Scholars envisioning a radical progressive future enabled by LLMs.
February 7, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Scholars envisioning a radical progressive future enabled by LLMs.
Wake up babe, new dinosaur just dropped
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💬 16 🔁 2561 ❤️ 3656 · Hey so an insane new dinosaur got announced?? · This is Haolong dongi, a new species of iguanodontian ornithopod found covered in what is basically,,, hedgehog quills??
The…
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February 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Wake up babe, new dinosaur just dropped
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Some people have been saying…
Is There Any Point in Resisting Face Scanning? Yep. And You Should
Police already use facial recognition to identify people. But refusing to opt in when there's a choice, in places like airports, can still matter.
www.pcmag.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Some people have been saying…
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If the material foundation of “AI” is extraction—from minerals for hardware to the data of users—then the political constellation into which you dream it will still be dictated by that bounding condition.
February 7, 2026 at 1:53 PM
If the material foundation of “AI” is extraction—from minerals for hardware to the data of users—then the political constellation into which you dream it will still be dictated by that bounding condition.
Isaac Chotiner
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Isaac Chotiner
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Like 3/4 of USA skating is either an immigrant or the child of immigrants.
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Like 3/4 of USA skating is either an immigrant or the child of immigrants.
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An unruly band of satirists and professional farters.
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 AM
An unruly band of satirists and professional farters.
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I promise not to seal post all day but I DO promise to use "no scrolling, just rolling" or a variation for the foreseeable future. 🦭 #SeaSky
January 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I promise not to seal post all day but I DO promise to use "no scrolling, just rolling" or a variation for the foreseeable future. 🦭 #SeaSky
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"[SINGING IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE]" Thank you, NBC, for your extremely helpful closed captions for the Italian national anthem
February 7, 2026 at 1:42 AM
"[SINGING IN A NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE]" Thank you, NBC, for your extremely helpful closed captions for the Italian national anthem
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It turns out you CAN make a N. Am. version of Windows stop doing Bing web searches in your Start Menu and even uninstall Bing
Known downsides? Phone Link won't show up in Start Menu (will work otherwise) and the Recommended section in File Explorer won't be there. What a tragedy, that loss
Known downsides? Phone Link won't show up in Start Menu (will work otherwise) and the Recommended section in File Explorer won't be there. What a tragedy, that loss
Microsoft Fixed Windows... But Only For Europe (Force It Anyway)
YouTube video by ThioJoe
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:48 AM
It turns out you CAN make a N. Am. version of Windows stop doing Bing web searches in your Start Menu and even uninstall Bing
Known downsides? Phone Link won't show up in Start Menu (will work otherwise) and the Recommended section in File Explorer won't be there. What a tragedy, that loss
Known downsides? Phone Link won't show up in Start Menu (will work otherwise) and the Recommended section in File Explorer won't be there. What a tragedy, that loss
Muppets replace everyone on Bluesky but keep Menswear Guy as himself
February 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Muppets replace everyone on Bluesky but keep Menswear Guy as himself
Neil deGrasse Tyson
sort of curious who would be a *terrible* muppet show guest host. to nuke myself from orbit, i am starting with gillian anderson
janelle monáe, ke huy quan and pedro pascal
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Among *all this* here's a reminder that the monsters aren't simply the ones with the vests and guns and skeleton masks, they are also the petty heartless bureaucratic functionaries. As there are in every authoritarian regime.
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Among *all this* here's a reminder that the monsters aren't simply the ones with the vests and guns and skeleton masks, they are also the petty heartless bureaucratic functionaries. As there are in every authoritarian regime.
My timeline is divided on Starfleet Academy straight down the middle
February 7, 2026 at 2:36 AM
My timeline is divided on Starfleet Academy straight down the middle
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Anyones cat doing anything fun this weekend?
February 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Anyones cat doing anything fun this weekend?
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These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:27 AM
These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
Horseshoe theory is real, in that a far left enough leftist is indistinguishable from the most tiresome boomer centrist who has a laundry list of reasons why good things aren't possible
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Horseshoe theory is real, in that a far left enough leftist is indistinguishable from the most tiresome boomer centrist who has a laundry list of reasons why good things aren't possible
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what are the hardware reqs for a decent self-hosted Ghost?
(for comparison i pay Hetzner 6,90 EUR/mo for 4GB box for 5 wordpresses)
(for comparison i pay Hetzner 6,90 EUR/mo for 4GB box for 5 wordpresses)
February 7, 2026 at 12:28 AM
what are the hardware reqs for a decent self-hosted Ghost?
(for comparison i pay Hetzner 6,90 EUR/mo for 4GB box for 5 wordpresses)
(for comparison i pay Hetzner 6,90 EUR/mo for 4GB box for 5 wordpresses)
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If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.
February 6, 2026 at 10:44 PM
If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.
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as someone who thinks of themselves as a technologist who loves building things, works at an ai company, and hasn't lost their mind, its alarming how often i think "i'd rather be doing anything else but this" lately
if you feel this way too, i'm sorry and i can only hope things get better.
if you feel this way too, i'm sorry and i can only hope things get better.
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 AM
as someone who thinks of themselves as a technologist who loves building things, works at an ai company, and hasn't lost their mind, its alarming how often i think "i'd rather be doing anything else but this" lately
if you feel this way too, i'm sorry and i can only hope things get better.
if you feel this way too, i'm sorry and i can only hope things get better.
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