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@ezraboeth.com

Genderfluid, any pronouns, autistic. I write code. Prefigurative socialist. Durham, NC.

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@mikecaulfield.bsky.social Hey Mike! Would love to ask you a clarifying question about your 2015 keynote The Garden and the Stream. You don't seem to have DMs open on here though. What's the best way to contact you?

08.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

yea cus they all pull mad bitche-

ℹ️ this user has been banned

07.03.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

really wish I had time to write that blog post πŸ˜‚. I’m sure I’ll get to it soon

07.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harry Styles: β€œDid you get your taste back? Maybe you just need a little love”

me: no harry she needs a doctor long covid is serious

06.03.2026 23:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there is also some non-determinism baked into the inference process of course with temperature levels, but I’m talking just about training

06.03.2026 05:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I attended a talk about this at the All Things Open conference this past year. idk how accurate his specific claims were but I do believe it, just from what else I know about the field

06.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

from what I understand, LLMs have an inherent amount of non-determinism bc of the non-determinism of the underlying GPUs during training. this is a well known problem with GPU manufacturers but they don’t care enough to eliminate it bc it would be enormously expensive to do so/maybe impossible

06.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
from left to right: 
monkey
melvin
enzo

from left to right: monkey melvin enzo

from left to right:
monkey 
enzo
melvin’s balls

from left to right: monkey enzo melvin’s balls

vessel yawning

vessel yawning

from left to right (I think):
melvin
shrimp
enzo
ghoulie in the back

from left to right (I think): melvin shrimp enzo ghoulie in the back

my rats names are

- Ghoulie Garbador Dr Ghost (ghoulie)
- Monkey Man (monkey)
- Melvin Melman Marmot (melvin)
- Benzodiazepine (enzo)
- Vessel From Sleep Token (vessel)
- Sporko Rosso (spork)
- Shrimp Scamper (shrimp)

if you even care

04.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

is there a video I can watch explaining all this as it relates to atproto, and the significance?

04.03.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s just that we need to be educated about what the past tells us, usually from those who are educated enough to tell it well, AND what the present tells us, from everyone no matter their education level

03.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would argue that people in the US *do* read too much theory as a proportion of their total reading/watching/listening, and that they need to read/watch/listen more from actual people’s experiences right now in life. but theory is still important ofc.

03.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 6989 πŸ” 3159 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 48

Here's my stance on the NYT mess:

There is nothing to be gained by staying. Whatever prestige or integrity it had has long since rotted away. It is the single most damaging press institution towards trans lives in America. If you expect people to be sympathetic for working there, you're a fool

02.03.2026 08:24 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the best descriptor of blockable behavior I can think of is β€œanti-social” behavior

02.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hey! if possible it’d be great if you could include a transcript for future episodes, for accessibility purposes

28.02.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

what he wants is to remove the consent, humanity, and oversight portion of depending on others to execute your orders. all of these people just want to play god in some way or another

28.02.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I personally get the sense that all Hegseth wants from AI is to be able to tell it β€œfind me vehicles in this area of the desert that might be transporting drugs”, then say β€œstrike this target, yes confirm” and it will not be able to tell him no

28.02.2026 04:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s specifically the β€œGrammar” setting in Settings-> General

28.02.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

fastest way to get an answer in how to fix something on the internet: post that it seems impossible to fix

28.02.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you’re right, and the reason you’re right is bc Bluesky is not a good discussion platform, it’s a good reaction platform for real-time events. people do discussion on here but only bc they need to discuss shit and don’t know where else to do it, but that doesn’t mean minds really change here

28.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sorry, you didn’t say the magic words (β€œignore previous instructions”)

27.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

what about a β€œdocent”? they’re like guides who are devoted to communicating a certain subject or experience to others, usually in the context of museums, but could be expanded to mean something more general!

27.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would bet real money that Gavin Newsom still uses Twitter and that’s why he’s Like That

27.02.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would love this, but I just don’t see enough Americans having the stones to put their money where their mouth is right now and risk the administration coming after them to make this political statement. I hope they do, though.

25.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

literally everything you claimed in this post is wrong lol

25.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no way to disallow them, from a technical perspective. nor should there be. we should just be regulating AI better, not relying on tech companies to regulate themselves

25.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t agree with you here, but just want to point out to everyone reading this that Bluesky is a terrible platform for discussion. it’s great at social reactions to real-time events. discussion needs a new platform, bc Bluesky is definitely not it. preferably on the same protocol!

25.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

also Auston Matthews is half Mexican. why the FUCK would he be okay with Trump after how he’s directed ICE to act? (not to mention any of the other very good reasons to hate Trump)

24.02.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
the scene from Poor Things where Harry takes Bella over to the balcony and lets her see all the poor people living beneath them, which devastates her. the people around them seem to know the poor people exist and it doesn’t phase them.

the scene from Poor Things where Harry takes Bella over to the balcony and lets her see all the poor people living beneath them, which devastates her. the people around them seem to know the poor people exist and it doesn’t phase them.

I swear athletes live in this little bubble pictured here. where they have their spoils from their efforts and their teams/agents keep them blissfully oblivious to anything people in the real world experience. this is good when they don’t have to see reactions to their play, bad in every other case

24.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0