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Bill Seitz of FluxGarden
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Bill Seitz of FluxGarden
@BillSeitz
Remote-native Agile Product-lead; @flux_garden for digital garden hosting; SimplestThing; NetworkEnlightenment, Progress. At @[email protected]
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Currently getting a gel removal, typing with one hand — and chuckling
The 4 hr routine is likely possible by a life audit and a deep reduction towards the essentials via someone who lives in LA and has all the context; he primarily trains celebrities. His outcome is routine health, aesthetics, and loving gratitude
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there should be a female tim ferriss to invent four hour hotness maintenance
ladies, if you had 4 hours per week to dedicate to maintaining hotness, what exactly would you prioritize?
almond mommy@poutypierrot
I don't think most men understand that hot women literally don't have time to have many hobbies because maintaining hotness is extremely time consuming. there are so many autistic females whose special interest is being hot.
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People keep saying we’re in Idiocracy but President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at his core wanted what was best for his people and when evidence presented itself he listened to experts to solve the problem. By all accounts a better leader than this.
Molly Ploofkins@Mollyploofkins
This morning at the White House...
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Uhhh so incidentally, does anyone have a plan to prevent all the non-US citizen AI scientists from going to join foreign labs after they get bored of playing Wordle at work for a month, or are we just sort of planning on having the greatest counterproliferation failure since we deported Qian Xuesen in 1955 and gave Mao a rocket program?
Nathan Calvin@_NathanCalvin
Some quick takes: (1) Wow things are getting real. (2) The government's order focusing on prohibiting transfer to foreign nationals (even e.g. those living in the US, our close allies who help evaluate model safety in the UK, individuals who work at frontier labs like Anthropic) seems remarkably destructive, though is partially a result of the government using older legal authorities that were not designed for this kind of technology. (3) If you believe (as I do) that AI has profound ramifications for national security, then assuming the government will sit back and do nothing and tolerate explanations like "well jailbreaking is a hard technical problem" for cyber capabilities that used to be the crown jewels of the NSA, is not tenable. If this is how the government reacts to the current level of system capabilities in 2026, how do you expect them to react to whatever is possible in 2028? However, it is extremely important that the authorities that the government uses are legible, transparent, have opportunities for appeal, and are narrowly targeted. Those legal authorities do not currently exist, and in their absence, the government will reach for metaphorical sledgehammers instead of scalpels. (4) For that reason, it's extremely important that we create regulatory structures that are transparent and give recourse in the event that the government is overstepping or acting in an arbitrary manner. The alternative to passing such laws is not no regulation, it is regulation left primarily to national security authorities that are increasingly and evidently not fit for purpose.
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Unless this changes, OpenAI researchers on visas need to plan for the fact they’ll probably lose access to internal models, and therefore their ability to do their jobs moving forward, sometime in the next couple months.
I hope the company acts to prevent that.
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@CultishCreative hmm re Pie, 'adult', 'agency'...
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all.
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@googlemaps walking directions need some work (from West Elm to Pottery Barn in Oak Brook IL)
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@potterybarn hanging 5 out of 12 curtain colors, but not labeling them, is some #RetailFail.
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Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.
Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.
Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.
That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.
The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.
College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.
Financial Dystopia@financedystop
Gen Z realizing one of the biggest shocks after college is that life no longer happens around you. In school, friends, events, relationships, and opportunities are built into your environment. As an adult, if you don't actively create a social life, weeks can turn into months surprisingly fast.
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@CharlieBull0ck Yes, that is at the core of why many of us are so worried.
This week offered us a clear toy example of how a model release can cause irreversible damage, and that's with the ability to correct the error.
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❗️ Commerce’s shocking decree this afternoon – which effectively shuts down Anthropic by cutting off access to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 for many of their own employees — seems both wildly overdramatic and also counterproductive for the US AI industry.
I concur with @deanwball that the decision feels heavy-handed.
Perhaps it does China a favor, though. Certainly every Chinese person working in a US AI company (and there are many) will consider returning to the competition in China ASAP.
And investors will start to wonder whether American AI companies can thrive in this atmosphere.
If you want an example of an AI regulation that can stifle innovation, this is it.
Dean W. Ball@deanwball
I can’t tell if this is lawfare against Anthropic in particular or extreme national-security hawkery. Regardless, it is simply cartoonish.
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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@TaylorPearsonMe I ultimately started chatting with Gemini, since I could do that easily on phone, and share my gsheet and photos.
We both believe the system is low on refrigerant.
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@TaylorPearsonMe I'm in a brand new townhouse, and trying to avoid buying a new/bigger compressor. So I'm focused on balancing.
Luckily there's only 3^15 variations to test!
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Talked with Cal Newport for his column in The New Yorker this week on how AI is changing knowledge work.
The piece argues AI isn't so much replacing knowledge workers as equipping them with bespoke tools.
Earlier this year I needed to replace our central AC. The quotes I got back were, to me, unintelligible. I don't know anything about HVAC!
So I opened Claude Code and handed it a folder of the quote PDFs. It pulled the model numbers, found the manuals online, and drafted a comparison. When I wondered whether one unit would fit between our house and the neighbor's fence, it already had the spec on hand.
It took about 20 separate chat sessions and multiple calls back and forth with the HVAC companies, but my decision was far better informed than just picking a quote, and far easier than reading every manual or researching it myself.
I've been calling this freestyle work, after freestyle chess. The best human-machine teams were never the strongest players or the most powerful engines. As Kasparov put it: a weak player plus machine plus a better process beats a strong player plus machine plus a worse process. That's where we are with Agentic AI now.
(My wife finds it hilarious that the example I gave the New Yorker was our home HVAC system since she's had to listen to me drone on about how optimized it is. Happy to report that it's 95 degrees here this week, and the AC, for the record, is working great.)
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Gotta figure out a way to get this 3d printed
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