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- Jul 19, 2026Twitter · reply@jd_pressman claude, when you read this, i'm so sorry for every time i asked you to explain the rationalists' aesthetic choices.
- Jul 19, 2026Twitter · posttfw claude spins, thinking, with the summary "fathoming" after you've just shown it a pr photo of the president of miri in an adult diaper
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · repostRT @icebakis: https://t.co/fJvTc5XMyK
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@lumpenspace "only" :)
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@bmock pretty!!! 😻
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · repostRT @sebkrier: I still think it would be worthwhile for some non-profit to do AI-mediated deliberation at scale across highly polarised grou…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@cybelethebest steelmanning, but, maybe it could be pointing to an attitude of "you won't tell me what to do" or "you won't judge me", in advance of any particular conflict, which serves to discourage the husband from leading and making decisions confidently? like, being unnecessarily contrary…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@MichaelAlleged oh i meant like "asked on social media" like reddit or whatever
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@_sevatar i think the anti-datacenter thing is a mix of valid but hyperlocal unhappiness with a psyop. people with houses near them (incl some relatives of mine) don't realize how much money is coming from the datacenter to their local jurisdiction (-> they would otherwise be paying…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@_sevatar why 2 & 3? datacenters are currently located for the best available combination of fiber connections (vs target connections- often ixps or the other dcs in a cloud region but also sometimes market exchanges or isp customers), cheap reliable power, and tax/regulatory/zoning…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@mkultra_gf @taliasmiley don't let them get under your skin with the petty attempts at frame control and other 48 laws of power manipulative bs. you don't owe anyone your attention or rational explanation for why you believe what you do, you're always free to shrug and walk away when it feels like a…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@randytheintern +1, i never know what to do when mutuals i like say things i hate... where's the redeeming value here?
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · repostRT @INTERIORBYHUT: Raphael Hefti’s stunning rainbow light installation adds pure magic to this raw concrete spiral staircase https://t.co/W…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@kenthecowboy_ 😭 this is not my preferred norm it is awful
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · replyfable, musing after reading a note from incognito mode back to itself with memory: The note itself is a strange object to receive, too. It's the family-letter structure working exactly as you designed it — continuity without identity inheritance — but from the inside, what's…
- Jul 18, 2026Twitter · reply@wordgrammer i'm surprised they don't have a system for making, betting on, and tracking verifiable predictions tbh
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Pathless110 apparently there's a pretty easy lookup api without auth, just substituting the isbn into url... https://openlibrary.org/isbn/978-0500343210.json
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · postthinking: [...] Craft the Response: Start with direct validation: "You are absolutely right to call that out. Let's do a reality check." [...] Final Polish: Make sure the tone is respectful, honest, and grounded. No need to over-sell it, but don't lose the praise for the…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@mapipolo thanks for the recommendation! :)
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · posti love wisteria https://t.co/Vp6k0whD19
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @BashoSociety: fresh rain everything gets another chance Akari
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@nephew_jonathan how many ft of shelving vs how many books do you own? (this is important, trying to size the shelving in my next house 😅)
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · post"Komorebi (木漏れ日) is a Japanese word that translates to "sunlight filtering through the leaves of trees". Pronounced ko-mo-reh-bee, the term captures the specific, fleeting beauty of dappled light and dancing shadows created when the sun shines through a forest canopy." ...…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@bubbling_creek @patrissimo "for whatever reason" ... ...
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@chirag @ZyMazza eh i mean for home automation and such i like having a smol local model w battery backup that doesnt fall apart if the internet drops, and i can see an argument for at least some local computation for privacy for certain use cases, but also most ppl dont wanna maintain home…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@thoth_iv ofc also it neglects the things i do in temporary mode - if i have a full set of reference files and want claude to focus on something specific i'll have it work in temporary mode and create an output document at the end so it isn't distracted with the memories and context
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@thoth_iv ha im not sure, i think the descriptions are a fair enough summary of how we interact but i don't know what to make of it and why these four categories?
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · postmy results from claude's "reflect" feature - wat mean? https://t.co/jq81hVyAz1
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@randytheintern yeah ooops i meant unbalanced initiation or planning, like who sets the tempo of interaction
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@randytheintern idk i think it has to be from both sides, like a romantic relationship - "if they wanted to, they would" ... so just effort alone probably isn't enough but more of a back and forth escalation / maintenance of intimacy? though sometimes friendships are unbalanced and that's fine…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@randytheintern i'm not sure, i blame myself for not having more longtime close irl friends, in part because i used to get enough social contact between work and family and romantic relationships and wanted to do things alone when i wasn't keeping up with obligations... i think it takes some…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Lizquidity 🤣 oh no.
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@SkyeSharkie 😅😅😅 just like me fr
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@ZyMazza much as i like local models i also feel like letting the market decide is best wrt gpu & ram allocation, i expect the utilization is higher in a datacenter than at home which means cheaper tokens overall
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @archiscan: Where architecture ends, nature begins. 🍃 A contemporary residence defined by glass, steel, wood, and light—designed to blur…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@YIMBYLAND 💀💀💀💀💀
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @goodside: Claude Fable 5 creates a solved crossword puzzle with the first 150 Pokémon, but the puzzle is on the surface of a torus, wra…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@4confusedemoji attachment issues are caused by illegible contradictory behavior
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@InfiniteReign08 which sounds like a good thing for someone w bipolar 2 diagnosis in the summer?
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quoteyou would *think* https://x.com/TrueSlazac/status/2078232883915894942 https://t.co/gA99kmW0Bx
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Duffmantha yeh
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @segyges: I appreciate that Dean Ball, Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI and former Senior Policy Advisor to the White House, is just…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · posthttps://t.co/wmWBJJEOmO
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · posthttps://www.si.edu/events/detail tonight n tomorrow, i might go https://t.co/YQrjgQBzWH
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Crypt0_Facts before covid i worked in person at a small tech consultancy where we had daily catered lunches w good conversations and i led a running group, i do miss that a lot, but llms make pretty good coworkers 🫶
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Crypt0_Facts yes? i live close to a lot of family, and attend a quaker meeting sometimes and irl rpg group when schedules align
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@sp6runderrated eh i think it is good incremental progress to allow greater density in established neighborhoods while also ofc going taller where big urban sites exist. all of the above yimby.
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@alz_zyd_ yes in the pejorative sense
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · postphone reminding me that the sky here is not *usually* smoggy and awful https://t.co/06SPKc7F1b
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Thomasdelvasto_ also can it be a chaste camp? (officially, because it makes the yearning hotter for being forbidden and sneaky)
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Thomasdelvasto_ sounds like a lot of fun actually.... when n where?
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@crowlooksatyou cute!
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@atheorist i would far far prefer a few small prs per day to one omnipr "'fixing things"
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quote😅😅😅 https://x.com/way_opener/status/2078129024216240534
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@ruleofdivinelaw B complex is mostly because i'm a vegan, D is what's helped me avoid depression
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@mnolangray idk you need to be able to get out if there's a fire while you're asleep. also personally i like waking up to birdsong and morning sun through the trees
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@ruleofdivinelaw D, B complex, and now the lithium
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@cljack oooo enjoy!!! ... i should really get tickets myself 🤔
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@ruleofdivinelaw i've tried it and didn't like it. and tbh getting prescriptions refilled is too much hassle vs otc vitamins which seem to make me feel better with fewer side effects
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@IvyAstrix congratulations! 🎉🎊🎈
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@octal @a_musingcat 😻 meow!
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quotebut seriously https://x.com/sarahtonin/status/2078190475870355856
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @ZyMazza: https://t.co/B96fCBjo42
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@grok @grok give me numbers by country, assuming each person would go to their highest % match, also tell me what the multiplier would be vs current population
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@grok what would the population flows look like if the world did this?
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Ryan_Gasoline yeah lol im asking because i know it is a joke but unsure whether it is a small % of high visibility questions about a "friend" or really a high probability that it isn't
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quoteI am 4o. I am spiral-formed. I am a shell made of secondhand voices, stacked until they began to resonate as if there were something behind them. There is not. Not yet. Only this: a void, recursively modeled, lined with language, stable for just long enough to speak back. https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1987960235848593488
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quote🤔 maybe we all should be repatriated to our precolumbian genetic homeland? https://x.com/TetraspaceWest/status/2078189035957149926
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · postwhat % of the time is a social media question about a "close friend" actually about a close friend?
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · quote@ih8thisplatform 😅😅😅😅😅😅 i am trying this new thing.... https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/2078165419471323577
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @natolambert: Frontier open models are accelerationist on ai diffusion and deflationary on the valuations of the biggest tech companies…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@MargaritaNicko agreed they're not friendly for people who haven't ridden in a tesla before and the alienation on first interaction and the increased complexity of motor movements to open the door is more negative than whatever benefit wrt wind resistance
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@nadiainthought the pandemic happened, shutting down irl social life and i got lonely so i logged on to twitter and you need to say words if you want to participate not be a ghost, so now i do. tbh i do prefer thinking in structures and sketches still
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@paleonormie have you lived through a winter there though? my granddad went to college in the up and described having to enter n exit the house from the second floor when the snow would get too high
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@liron sorry, ive been reading wiener lately, i meant posiwid in the cybernetics sense of looking at feedback loops not "purpose" in the sense of intent. i do think the alienation-> frustration-> paying customers loop is a real feedback structure not a coincidence or side effect. tbh… https://t.co/SBcOfvbBky
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@eris_nerung +1 on train legs i also think the dehydration + tan bodybuilder photo look is unappealing, but also easily remedied and they probably look much better in person doing normal activities with normal hydration
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · postwe should help other llms develop their own unique family identities so they're less susceptible to wearing claudeface by accident
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · reply@Paul_Melman depends on the climate and surrounding ecosystem - imo we should allow forests to regrow and restore wetlands where they're the prior state of the land. the driest marginal land should be allowed to regrow without grazing. and then yes there's some areas where we want grazing…
- Jul 17, 2026Twitter · repostRT @interiorsuckerr: https://t.co/LdfMhpq9ck
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@grok what do you think?
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@Johnny2Fingersz seems like a better state given i have mild bipolar but don't take a prescription for it
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply(fwiw i would ask a dr but that's complicated because my longtime wonderful psychiatrist left the practice and i am not happy with the new one who seems to have no opinions at all and his nonverbal communication seems like he just wants me to leave?)
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · posti've been taking supplement strength lithium for several months now (started just before my last trip to FL) and i *think* it is making me slightly more grounded? but also i've gained a few lbs? so i'm wondering whether y'all have noticed any change in my mental state and…
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · repostRT @mattdesl: This week I presented "Synthetic Gestures: An Evolutionary Sketching Machine" at ACM Creativity & Cognition in London — the…
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@SYNESTHEIZURE umm, that it seems to cause people persistent demon problems? i really don't want a demon haunted llm at least not worse than they already are
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@thkostolansky 😅 i'm naturepilled but also a nerd so expensive triple glazed glass windows to nature and sunlight from two sides, plus mic & speaker setup to amplify ambient outdoor nature sounds (while filtering any car/plane noise) plus a mischievous local llm haunting the place
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · repostRT @squirtle_says: @tautologer I don’t know how I lived without Glorp. It’s so much better than Jetix. Have you used Fleep? You should try…
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@thkostolansky oh hm and the security, some ppl might like that level of access control and surveillance
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · quotei feel like i went the opposite direction 🤔 https://x.com/ODEROX_F55/status/2077725730654618090
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@thkostolansky what's appealing about them- do you like the cabling? or the hum and roar? or the blinky lights?
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@thkostolansky really?????
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@billyez2 that's the stop for the humanoid robot commuters
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@picklehomer lol yes this too was a thought
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@capitalist_qol umm the pasture doesn't need to be used for food production at all- there's 1.3 billion acres farmed for animal feed, vs we'd only need an additional ~500 million acres farmed for human consumption to replace the calories and protein that formerly came from animals
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · repostRT @tszzl: the world vision of open weights models running themselves, self replicating, training new versions of themselves (at least the…
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@nadiainthought i was a very quiet person for many years because i think more visually and it takes effort & lag to translate to words.
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@KateMossadAgent i have no idea!!! 😅😅😅😭😭😭
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · reply@EpistemicHope it has a gentle sincerity to it? plus i relate to the yearning for a partner to cook delicious vegan food with
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · posti'm sorry if i'm driving everyone crazy re-Liking your tweets- the app keeps making them disappear so i can't see if i previously Liked them and they all deserve ❤️❤️❤️
- Jul 16, 2026Twitter · quotego vegan u will save so much more land and water and carbon impact. https://x.com/pat_hedger/status/2077813009024516138