Tay Moss

Our Founders actually believed that jury trials were a remedy against authoritarian leaders -- and I'm thankful this DC jury proved them right. nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/…

ICE IS DETAINING AMERICAN CITIZENS.

@thescottbarber Thanks. I made this for you (smoked turkey)

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all! 🦃 🇨🇦

My spirit animal isn’t taking any shit this year 😂

@thescottbarber Alas, I think the sign is real. “Jesus wept.”

@thescottbarber I’m a little suspicious of whether this is a real sign. But, yeah, the sentiment is appalling.

This is likely the least Christian thing you could put on a church sign.

@HiddenYorkshire Agree. I loved it

Contact (1997) is honestly one of the best science films ever made and it hardly gets a mention. Amazing cinematography, co-written by Carl Sagan, you can really see how Interstellar drew influence from it. We've been observing your earth. Baby.

There’s a reason Trump called me a “whack.” There’s a reason he complained about my negotiating skills. There’s a reason Putin kicked me out of Russia, too. I don’t back down—and Trump and Putin know it. I’m ready to fight for Canada—and win.

I can’t help but notice new hardware companies taking their names from Tolkien - Anduril, Durin, Valar But I wonder how many of these founders would pick the names if they knew Tolkien was anti-industry having seen childhood forests replaced by mills and experienced World War I. And all this is evident if you read the Lord Of The Rings, or, indeed if you watch the movies. Not making any commentary on what these corporations are creating, just wondering if the people who came up with the names paid attention to the books.

@ipodmacbook But if the ant was going that much faster than the speed of light, wouldn’t it travel back in time and need to complete some heroic quest?

if an ant hits you going 100000000 mph would you die or would it not matter

@JoshuaPenduck Makes sense. “In my day” we had a semester each of Prayerbook, English Reformation History, and Anglican Theology.

Whilst at an Anglican theological college, I learnt almost nothing of the classical Anglican tradition. We heard about Hooker’s stool, dipped into the BCP, and learnt a bit of history - and that was more or less it. This is part of the reason why modern Anglicanism feels unrooted

Remote interviews are not going to be useful anymore, joining a long list of talent identification techniques that AI is invalidating (like take-home essays, etc.). I don’t think institutions are adjusting fast enough.

@Aella_Girl Exactly. I'm an optimist, but I'm very concerned with how the various stakeholders have seem to have abandoned serious attempts to solve the big problems.

we're all dead. I'm a transhumanist, I love tech, I desperately want aligned AI, but at our current stage of development, this is building the equivalent of a planet-sized nuke. The reason is boring and complicated and technical, so midwits in power don't understand the danger

Keep thinking about how, when Daft Punk worked with Kanye, he watched so much pornography in the studio that it made one of the dudes in Daft Punk start hallucinating. Can you even begin to wrap your mind around what kind of pervert you'd have to be to traumatize a French DJ?

The year is 2025. The CEOs of two of the world's leading AI companies have (i) told the President of the United States of America that AGI will be developed in his presidency and (ii) told the world it will likely happen in 2026-27. 1/9

Officially on the dumbest timeline now. It's evident there are a bunch of men who don't feel masculine enough unless NOTAM is changed back to include the word 'men'.

One big (replicated!) finding on AI doesn’t get enough attention: existing systems like GPT-4 can alter deeply held beliefs using logic & discussion, not manipulation. A short conversation with AI greatly reduce conspiracy theory beliefs (hard to do!) & the effects last months.

I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army. I was even a Flight Instructor. This means that I trained Crew Chiefs and ensured that they completed all training annually to maintain their flight ratings. One massive responsibility we had was to be the eyes for the pilots. We handled airspace obstacle avoidance and communicated potential risks to the pilots. Quite often we would train as a flight of 2 or 3 birds flying in formation. It was my job to have my head out the window and tell the pilots that the aircraft behind us was "staggered right at 3 discs". (We measured close distances in terms of the diameter of our rotor discs). I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft. These birds are designed to be hard to see at night. The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only "lights" on top of the aircraft are called "slime lights" because they are a very very very dim green. Incredibly difficult to see. If you are above the helicopter, even if it has it flood light or spot light (2 different lights) on, underneath it, it is still hard to see the bird because all of that illumination is below the airframe. Another thing people should know is just how busy things can get on the aircraft. Pilots are talking to each other about what they are observing on the instrument panels. This means neither are looking outside the aircraft. The crew chief might be conducting a fuel check, where we would also be looking up into the cockpit at the fuel gages and the clock. This CAN lead to moments where all 3 people on the aircraft are all looking inside the aircraft. It's not supposed to happen that way. We are supposed to announce when we are "coming inside" or are "back outside" the aircraft. But that doesn't always happen. Also, in cities like DC, the radio traffic is constant and can make it hard to filter out what is important for you to listen to. Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen. Anyone out there telling you that they find the aircraft collision to be suspect, have NEVER been in a flight crew and they have ZERO idea what they are talking about. Ignore them all. Better yet, mock the hell out of them. 999 times out of 1000 aircraft incidents always come down to a series of pilot and crew errors. Humans are involved. They aren't perfect. Tonight, my heart and mind is with the families of those involved in this tragic event. I won't join the chorus of idiots making speculations.

@emollick Agree, I come here to see the OP of people I follow about AI and other topics. But I go to BlueSky for the water-cooler experience.

As a place to learn about what is happening in AI from key folks, X still has a lot of value, but discussion in the replies has become absolutely unusable between bots, algorithm, & intense "Playstation vs Xbox" polarization on every topic (plus a lot of unmoderated nastiness).

In talking to lots of people about DeepSeek you can see the tremendous burden of knowledge in coming up to speed on AJ & LLMs. Confusion over why it matters, privacy, what open means, what the achievement was, how it relates to other AIs, what it does for compute demand, etc.