On Polarization and the Machine That Eats Everyone
Polar — A billing platform for the intelligence era | Polar
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The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
Is the current form of the scientific paper still optimal in 2025? How do we preserve, and efficiently leverage, the uncut gems of the scientific process?
Taelin on Twitter / X
QuickSort has been synthesized!I've finally added varlen uints to NeoGen, and, for the first time ever, it has invented, on its own, an O(n*log(n)) sorting algorithm!NeoGen isn't an AI. There is no model, no pre-training, no previous knowledge of sorting. In fact, the system… https://t.co/rX2kjpO6aI pic.twitter.com/RajXVrI3OB— Taelin (@VictorTaelin) April 11, 2025
Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The thing is, any feed or search result is "algorithmic." "Just show me the things posted by people I follow in reverse-chronological order" is an algorithm. "Just show me products that have this SKU" is an algorithm. "Alphabetical sort" is an algorithm. "Random sort" is an algorithm.
The Algorithmic Management of Polarization and Violence on Social Media
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The Bazaar of Scientific Knowledge | shishyko!
What if we didn't collapse all the knowledge from the scientific process into one paper?
Issue 015, The June Edition. | Offprint
Get some accountability friends for your side projects, manage your typefaces, and listen to some non-AI generated jazz.
Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
A few weeks ago I wrote How decentralized is Bluesky really?, a blogpost which received far more attention than I expected on the fediverse and Bluesky both. Thankfully, the blogpost was received well generally, including by Bluesky's team. Bryan Newbold, core Bluesky engineer, wrote a thoughtful response article: Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization, which I consider worth reading.
i dislike this beyond being factually incorrect, it is also missing the core problem with Big Tech Algorithms: it is a matter about who controls attention, not the algorithm itself /1
The Verge
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-s…
Excellent @tgspodcast.bsky.social episode, finding myself pausing every minute to take notes. "What sorts of systems are going to make it through the bottlenecks of the 21st c?“ TLDR collective robustness beats individual optimization Once (if?) funders get this, atproto will see investments
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
open.spotify.comSorting data when you aren't the only source of data, don't know the full size and shape of data ahead of time, and can't control the order in which data is created presents a lot of challenges. This is what we came up with to tackle them. #atprotocol #atdev
Sort keys: ordering a list nobody owns
blog.bulleted.appI told y'all I'd finish writing this today. Enjoy "The Sorting Problem". #offprint cc @aka.dad impulsive-static.offprint.app/a/3mix2fjcd2623-the-sorting-p…
Impulsive Static | Bryan (they/them) @ atmosphereconf | Offprint
impulsive-static.offprint.appRemarkable how over a decade ago @michaelnielsen.bsky.social pointed the way towards solving long standing issues plaguing science to this day (issues that are all the more relevant in the age of AI mediated science)
Ronen Tamari
This is why @atproto.science is so relevant rn This compilation of essays indicates that scientists are most frustrated by insufficient “community tools and resources... Essential infrastructure for sharing, maintaining and building on existing work and data is also badly underdeveloped." >
Social media (unsorted)
Will probably be sorted into separate collections
【沖縄県知事選挙】SNS「X」の投稿の約9割は県外から 選挙戦への影響も | 沖縄のニュース｜RBC 琉球放送 (1ページ)
Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social
Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
So the people launching a new Twitter under the name Twitter launched their thing so I signed up. Turns out they have an AI scanning tweets…
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