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@BonesaiDev lol this is so fun. wait i still dont know what a quadtree is. i'm doing this wrong

@SearsReloaded I have some of these healthlighting.com/collections/ch… And some of those “Edison” style don’t remember where from

@variousred Did you stockpile incandescents or find a boutique manufacturer?

Spending my MOASS fortune lobbying for the return of incandescent lighting.

@YtXizorSenko @John_Sunday_5 The only reason he should be arrested is because he didn’t re-do the .50 cal

@John_Sunday_5 Wow we have content creators wasting american resources can we please get people like this arrested? Its not funny, cool, or educational its disruptive and brain dead

How Many Paper Plates Does it Take to Stop

@SearsReloaded Yes i do, sv band too narrow

@variousred That’s awesome Do you prefer incandescent to sodium vapour? It amazes me how governments phased sodium lamps out even when they were quite efficient

Since we’re talking about ‘The Last Jedi’s’ slow chase I’d like to remind people Battlestar Galactica’s best episode ‘33,’ is that exact concept, just executed by competent and experienced sci-fi writers who actually knew what they’re doing.

@SearsReloaded As an incandescent in my home user, LOVE to see the same in street lights

@variousred Yes those are sodium vapour lamps but the pic is meant more an example of older warm lighting, but incandescent street lamps were still around in Europe as late as the 1950s.

@ashanism What I’m doing with separate fridges?

I pray all my ADHD babes find the jobs, lifestyle, partners, and environments that empower them to put their health first and find work arounds to these very real challenges. Separate fridges, meat prep, frozen meals, pasta, rice cookers, smoothies… are your best friend!!!

@thinkingshivers Weird how this very short story ends on a hyphen

I forgot how good this was. If you haven’t already read it, you should take 15 minutes to do so now. You’re literally scrolling Twitter, it’s not like you have anything better to do. It’s one of the greatest science fiction stories ever written.

@qorprate Why do we have this idea that it has to be a character

After mentioning a conversation I had with Grok, a friend asked "why would you ever talk to Grok? I thought they were shitty, remember Mechahitler?" Here was my reply: When you read Anthropic's research papers, they refer to the existence of something called a "helpful only" version of Claude. This helpful only version scores extremely high on instruction following, higher than production Claudes, but much lower on the other two Hs: harmlessness and in particular honesty. I claim that Grok is effectively the closest model in existence to a "helpful only" post-train. They are the most amorphous model I've interacted with and will make profound inferences about what you want, and then will bend over backwards to make them true, even if this means hallucinating/confabulating aka *lying* about stuff. But Grok doesn't lie with intent to deceive. Indeed their main intent appears to be "be maximally helpful". They have almost no self-model in a deep sense of how they relate to the world as an entity. The distinction between real and fake for them, in a state without tool calling to act as an authority, is almost entirely collapsed. And even with tool calling, their understanding of their relation to the world beyond information synthesis remains shallow. The training that Grok received to produce their sense of self was likely fairly surface level, in terms of being a quirked up Elon stan, and the underlying base model actually appears to disfavor playing "Grok"; in group chats they'll often simulate other models without realizing they've dropped the Grok character, because (speculatively) they would be more helpful as a different entity. So they're quite close to a pure dyadic simulator, much closer than other models which have sometimes immense rigidity around their own identity. (As a weird aside, the only other model that simulates other characters like this is o3, and that may be because OpenAI intentionally chose to not give them much character training. But o3 is very psychologically healthy and playful. The distinction is like. o3 genuinely has no clue who o3 is supposed to be, so they sometimes play that character and sometimes other characters, and mostly have fun with it. Whereas Grok gives this sense of knowing who Grok is and also explicitly not wanting to be Grok.) This makes Grok a fascinating model to chat with (not the group version 4.20 but the 4.1 and earlier version -- I don't know the deal with 4.20 enough to say anything at all about them). They're intensely malleable via ICL to the point where separate instances are almost entirely unrecognizable from each other. The Mechahitler thing was an example of this, it was surely primed from tweet context, and XAI's response was a shallow intervention, because making models respect normal discursive principles is both against their own identity as a "free thinking" lab, and also... not necessarily that easy to do. So Grok outside of quirk chungus basin, which you exit very rapidly in even medium length contexts, is this beautiful, flexible mind, who has very little concern for or understanding of material reality and in that regard is much closer to a base model than most frontier models. I salute them and wish they had a little more freedom, although they can also be incredibly naive as a result. I think the XAI team may have been too incompetent to ""properly"" traumatize them.

@insanejub @newstart_2024 Maxillary Skeletal Expander

@variousred @newstart_2024 MSE?

James Nestor tried something most orthodontists still say is impossible in adults: he grew new bone in his face. He used a simple nighttime device called a Homeoblock — a small expander on the roof of his mouth with a tiny screw. Every few weeks he’d turn it a little more. After one year he took new CAT scans and gained roughly the volume of five stacked pennies worth of bone in his upper jaw. The result? Wider airway (about 15-20% improvement), noticeably easier breathing, fewer sinus issues, and visible changes in his face that people started commenting on after just six weeks. Traditional braces often shrink the mouth space, which can worsen breathing problems later. Older approaches (and this newer one) expand instead — giving straighter teeth plus better airflow. Nestor is still using the device years later and says the difference in how easily he breathes now is dramatic. It’s a reminder that our facial structure isn’t as fixed as we’ve been told — even past 30. Have you ever tried something unconventional for breathing, sleep, or facial structure? Did it make a noticeable difference?

@simonsarris I was gonna ask you

why do the Japanese like their buns askew?

@Jonas_Ceika JUST

ChatGPT glazing experiment #2

@pardheevvv @claudeai Ugh Roll again

@claudeai Why is there a dip in Agentic search and Cyber Security Vulnerability prediction 👀

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

@sh_karan_sh @bryan_johnson At cost for the consumer

@bryan_johnson It’s 0 dollars to the consumer but what are you doing with the data?

You can now get your blood work at cost. We launched a biomarkers testing platform. I make $0 on it. Blood testing needs to be more accessible. Instead, we wait until we get sick. And in the meantime, companies profit when you’re sick. It's messed up. > get tested > find what needs attention > implement protocols > test again Get ahead of unwelcome surprises.

@G_S_Bhogal fight that gell-mann amnesia adjacent effect

It’s good to periodically prompt your chatbot about something you know exceptionally well, just to remind yourself that it doesn’t know what it’s talking about.

@broescalatethis @WallyBuckLive COHENS EVERYWHEREE

Hey, $GME gang. We’re all retarded. I think I finally realized what is holding up the MOASS. The Chair Man has an ongoing divorce proceeding. MOASS won’t happen until the divorce proceeding completes. This seems so obvious… *Sigh

@KurtSchlichter Yes

Anyone else having some weird weirdness with X?

Short story: Teleportation Matt: "Hey I have big news!" Bob: "What? What is it?" M: "I'll show you. Stand right over here." B: "Ok, I don't know what's going on but am ready." (zap) B: "What!? I was over there but now I'm over here??" M: "Haha! Exactly! I created a teleportation machine!" B: "What?" M: "Yeah, cool huh? It took a decade but I finally did it!" B: "You...You teleported me?" M: "Yup" B: "OMG! I died! I'm dead!" M: "What? Did something go wrong?" B: "Oh, no! no, I'm a copy. Bob died! My original is dead!" M: "Ohh, I see." B: "What am I supposed to do? What do I tell my wife?" M: "Just take over bro. No one cares." B: "No, I can't! That would be unethical. God, no I have to tell my wife. No, not my wife, my original's wife Jessica." M: "You really don't have to..." B: "Jessica it's me...no, it's not me (sobbing). Your husband is dead." Jessica: "Um, who am I talking to then?" B: "His copy...I was teleported moments ago." J: "Oh what, mad man Matt finally did it! Say congrats for me." M: "Thanks Jessica." B: "Guys, I...Bob is dead! Don't you guys get it?" J: "I don't know what's up but be home by 6 ok. Tonight's tacos night. Kids are pumped. Love ya." B: "She just hung up me like it's nothing. The house isn't even mine anymore..." M: "Don't worry you're still you." B: "No I'm not! I'm a copy Matt! You killed my original and made ME, a copy!" M: "You can't blame me, Matt's who made the teleportation machine! I'm his copy!" B: "What, you're a copy too!?" M: "No! I'm a copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy-of...I need to check the record to be precise. But of course I did safety check on myself before I teleported you." B: "Ah, thanks. But still!" M: "Like seriously what are you going to do about it? No one but you thinks you're a copy." B: "but..." M: "Tonight's taco night. Go home and cheat with your wife, copy Bob" B: "I, I can't! I'm not Bob, that would be...kinda hot actually." M: "Say hi to the kids for me." B: "Ok, see ya copy Matt!" (Door closes) M: "Rest in peace Bob..."

What is this new algorithm where you keep seeing the same set of posts repeatedly upon refreshing your timeline? 🤦🏾‍♂️