@cogg

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Joined April 2007
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If you thought biology couldn't get any weirder, life finds a way: "We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
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This is wild
Jack Morris
@jxmnop21 May 2025
excited to finally share on arxiv what we've known for a while now: All Embedding Models Learn The Same Thing embeddings from different models are SO similar that we can map between them based on structure alone. without *any* paired data feels like magic, but it's real:🧵
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This is crazy. People commented with things bots are attracted to and they rushed in. This seems like it should be addressable through shadow banning but that clearly isn’t happening
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🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps. krausefx.com/blog/announcing…
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Craig Ogg retweeted
slice@augurydefier2 Dec 2021
"ceiling" is a gerund. what the fuck. "ceil" is a middle english word meaning "to cover," related to "conceal." did everyone know this but me. how long have i been blind to the truth
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This is crazy. And the pandemic as experimental proof that individual actions aren’t enough to have impact is enlightening.
jordan
@JordanUhl12 Aug 2021
Fun fact: the individual responsibility narrative was quite literally the oil industry's doing.
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Urs Hölzle@uhoelzle3 Apr 2021
Speed of light: it's slower than you think.
Vala Afshar
@ValaAfshar1 Apr 2021
Speed of light xitter.cf/universal_sci/status/1…
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I like the idea of CI/CD for prose with grammar linting: docs.errata.ai/vale/about
"makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java [...] reconfigures stock GCC to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable" !
Justin Tunney
@jartine29 Jan 2021
Cosmopolitan v0.1 Released github.com/jart/cosmopolitan…

Release Cosmopolitan v0.1 · jart/cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC to output a POSIX-approved ...

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Weirdly, I’m one of those people who has trouble focusing in the wake of presidentially sanctioned insurrection.
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I love this guy’s data visualizations, especially about COVID trends: vm.tiktok.com/ZMJC9wLHm/
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I found the tone of this tweet shocking enough to spend time determining whether the account was real. It appears to be. #ugh2020
Department of the Interior Press Secretary@DOIPressSec4528 Oct 2020
Our tweets are approved by career ethics attorneys and thankfully no longer overseen by you. @Interior increased the number ethics staff by 250% to remove the rotten stench from the blatant failure of the prior administration to invest in the ethics program.
Those who know the truth despair.
Ethan Mollick
@emollick12 Aug 2020
This paper shows that learning about how your firm works is equivalent to gaining Lovecraftian Secret Knowledge. Promising managers asked to do process redesign at their firm learn how messed up it all is, so they give up rising careers & become hermits at the edges of the firm
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You gotta be kidding me. School police had grenade launchers!?! latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m…
"BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DEFUND THE POLICE?" "Hi, Mr. Brooks. I'm w/ The Dept. of You OK? So, you OK? Looks like you fell asleep in your car. Lemme get you a ride home. I'll be by your home tomorrow to check on you. Here's my number. Looks like your ride's here. Good night, sir."
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Ugh
BuzzFeed News
@BuzzFeedNews2 Jun 2020
EXCLUSIVE: The DEA has been granted sweeping authority to “conduct covert surveillance” on people protesting over George Floyd’s death, a secret memo reveals buzzfeednews.com/article/jas…

The DEA Has Just Been Authorized to Conduct Surveillance on Protesters

The Justice Department gave the agency the temporary power “to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of the protests over the death of George Floyd.”

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holy fucking shit its a crab bubble sort
Derrick@geekandahalf29 Nov 2019
Stumbled into reading about hermit crabs and wut:
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Dad: “ask the woman in your phone” Sis: “Dad, Siri doesn’t know everything”
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Have you given to Puerto Rico relief? #chanceaskedmeto
Solid advice on fixing erroneous things on your credit report: kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/ide… This is what adding value looks like.
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