Tootfinder

@… ...and he's also the guy who invented the Xbox

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide

dalia rezk (@daliarezk@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al

This is the EU plan it seems, not confirmed, copied it from Bluesky.
#Ukraine

People on #Bluesky, did you realise that the list of who you are blocking there is public?
There is even a website that shows some stats about blocks: https://clearsky.app/
Clicking on any of the users shows y…

ClearSky
ClearSky - Bringing information closer to you

#Evilgoz #antifa

Wann genau muss man extra betonen, dass es innerhalb eines Vereins keine "Vereinsmeinung" gibt, sondern man diskutieren könne?
Genau. Wenn diese Behauptung zweifelhaft ist.
https://archive.ph/MS52T
Es ist vermutlich kein Zufall, dass dieser Vorstoß kommt, kurz nachdem sich ein Mitglied zu…

@… so it looks like Spring has finally bought the Big One? Or is it just me?
(I was amazed it’s worked on Twitter THIS long 😂)
Also as a complete aside, I’d love (once you’re done with the update to Mona) to see either BlueSky support or a version for BlueSky.
I’m getting ready to install SkyBridge just so I can use Mona to access my BS account 😂…

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's

Ich empfehle Euch den Podcast @… von @…
Aber: warum sind @positivemaren.bsky.social und @afelia.bsky.social dann bei Bluesky aktiv?
Wenn Maren dann wenigstens Brid.gy nutzen würde, damit wir mitei…

Interesting 👀 https://social.zarchbox.fr/notes/agclhhyre66bnqz3
Extension from @… :

Oh hello #Bluesky #TOTP-ers.
Just a gentle reminder that if you reply to my posts or interact with them in any way, that interaction is totally invisible to me unless you follow the Fediverse bridge thingy-wotsit.
https://fed.brid.gy/login will see you right.

65 Minuten nach der Landung im Hotelzimmer. Trotz rund 20 Minuten auf den Hotel-Shuttle warten.
Rekordschnelle Einreise.
Unterwegs mit Swiss free Internet sah ich zwar alle Pushs von BlueSky, aber konnte keine Posts lesen. 🤷‍♂️
#CANEast25

Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. 
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…

Republican Rep. Caught With Sex Workers Ahead of Trip to Afghanistan
Cory Mills can’t have one day without a scandal, apparently.

#LB #HatarakuSaibou feelings.
https://organica.social/@thilth/115721091550841226

I will never understand how Bluesky is so overengineered (my brain melts every time I see a graph of how it works) yet it underdelivers so hard compared to the most basic fediverse software lol

Here's a quote from HuffPost:
"According to Bluesky analytics site VQV, the official White House account quickly became the platform’s second-most blocked profile, with around 95,000 users smashing the block button to presumably preempt their feeds being filled with AI slop and divisive rants.
"The only account with more blocks on the platform is Vice President JD Vance, who’s been blocked by more than 167,000 users since joining in June."

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum

Beautiful post explaining ATProto, the stack behind Bluesky by Dan Abramov:
overreacted.io/open-social/

Agora Digitale Transformation fordert: mehr Geld & Strategie für offene Plattformen – von Fediverse bis Bluesky (??). Europas digitale Öffentlichkeit darf nicht länger an BigTech hängen. Souveränität heißt: offene Infrastruktur statt Abhängigkeit. 1-Prinzip jetzt konsequent umsetzen!
#DigitaleSouveränität

Digitale Souveränität: Think Tank empfiehlt mehr Investitionen in Big-Tech-Alternativen
Vor dem Gipfel zur europäischen digitalen Souveränität werden die Appelle an die Bundesregierung lauter, gemeinwohlorientierte Alternativen zu Facebook und Co. zu stärken. Offene Netzwerke wie das Fediverse sollen mit konkreten Maßnahmen aus der Nische geführt werden.

With the advent of Blacksky and Northsky, I was seriously considering creating a bsky account and checking things out over there. Turns out I don't need to after all!
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115402352112431443

Film maker Duncan Jones is not happy with BlueSky, and thinks "we should built a new app" 🙄 Look at the response I got when I asked why not the Fediverse. I can't understand why Masto is seen that way.

bruh lmao

It will remain ever a mystery because that's right out.

"Het bedrijf behaalde een omzet van 57 miljard dollar in het derde kwartaal (een plus van 62 procent ten opzichte van dezelfde periode vorig jaar. De winst steeg naar een onwaarschijnlijke 31 miljard dollar (inderdaad, meer dan de helft van de omzet!)"

Nvidia overtreft de verwachtingen, beurzen knallen verder omhoog
Goedemorgen! De cijfers waar de hele wereld met spanning op zat te wachten zijn eindelijk binnen. Chipmaker Nvidia, sinds een paar maanden het duurste bedrijf ter wereld en één van de belangrijkste hoekstenen van de huidige AI-race, kwam gisteravond nabeurs Amerikaanse tijd met de cijfers over het derde kwartaal. En beleggers, investeerders en vele anderen keken daar met heel veel spanning naar…

"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com€
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3ln7ru4v72f

Hey Bluesky users, I see your responses, but since you’re not bridging, I can't interact with you.
If you use this (https://fed.brid.gy/) then I could interact and reply. Cheers :)

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

Wondering how many folks here are also on #Bluesky but experiencing the birthdate bug so can't use the app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7077

The (bridged) Bluesky mirror of this account keeps record of the first drafts of my posts on Mastodon (before edits). A wall of shame, if you will:
https://bsky.app/profile/cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy

Petar Toushkov (@cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy)
Writerer of fiction. Translatoror of wonderments. If you are into Bluesky, find me here: https://bsky.app/profile/cellfourteen.petertoushkov.eu […] 🌉 bridged from https://social.petertoushkov.eu/@cellfourteen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

Apparently JD Vance posted this bullshit on Bluesky today (10/18/2025).
I guess he's saying the figurehead of the maga regime is a king and we should all bend the knee. But the American people today, showed what we think about kings.
#politics #resistance

Uh, just figured out bluesky is so #decentral, their addresses make do with just a local part. :-)

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/geas-gesetz-dobrindts-kinder-in-haft-gesetz-stoppen?source=bluesky&time=…

GEAS-Gesetz: Dobrindts Kinder-in-Haft-Gesetz stoppen!
Migrationspolitik ist eine entmenschlichte Debatte! Aber es geht um echte Menschen! Die endgültige Verabschiedung des Pakts auf europäischer Ebene war ein Einschnitt zur Aushöhlung des Migrations- und Asylrechts. Die Einigung verpflichtet auch Deutschland, diesen Pakt in deutsches Recht zu übertragen. Als Seenotrettungsorganisation war für uns immer klar: Es darf keine politische Frage sein, ob Menschen ertrinken. Und doch wird es immer wieder dazu gemacht. Doch nicht nur das: Mit...

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Micdrop von @gildasahebi.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
https://bsky.app/profile/gildasahebi.bsky.social/post/3m3jv5udyxs2g

#Merz sieht "Probleme im Stadtbild"!
Falls es noch CDUler/innen gibt, die einen funktionierenden moralischen Kompass haben, sollten diese schnell anfangen zu trommeln.
Man kann diesen blanken #Rassismus des Zweite-Wahl-Kanzlers nicht einfach wegschweigen.
Achso,

"Vielleicht sollten wir das mit dem Losverfahren einfach mal testen. Bei der nächsten Bundesregierung zum Beispiel.
'Hallo Dieter, herzlichen Glückwunsch, Sie wurden als neuer Bundeskanzler ausgelost! Vereidigung ist nächsten Montag, 10:00 Uhr.'"
#Zwitschernahles auf Bluesky
#Zitate

Zwitschernahles (@zwitschernahles.bsky.social)
Vielleicht sollten wir das mit dem Losverfahren einfach mal testen. Bei der nächsten Bundesregierung zum Beispiel. "Hallo Dieter, herzlichen Glückwunsch, Sie wurden als neuer Bundeskanzler ausgelost! Vereidigung ist nächsten Montag, 10:00 Uhr."

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

Isn’t this the plot of “Gravity”
https://www.wired.com/story/three-astronauts-are-stuck-on-chinas-space-station-without-a-safe-ride-home/?utm_content=bufferf1781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev

I'm enjoying the levity that the people arriving from bluesky are bringing, but they are too good at posting and taking over the feed. The rest of you need to step it up.

Uhm, no thank you, I don't think I'll bother with that "bridging" to "bluesky" that you want me to do.

A prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …

Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum
Ein Tool namens Bounce zieht bald Accounts von Bluesky zu Mastodon und in die Gegenrichtung um. Derweil soll Mastodon hauseigene Starter Packs bekommen.

Users on BlueSky not too happy about the idiots who run that place suspending Sarah Kendzior. So they are putting their opinion on that in their profile name 😄

I had someone search my account on bluesky and the only time I got quoted was someone on bluesky misunderstanding me and dunking on my take.
It was the Freedesktop/Linux post.

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

Someone should adapt fedifinder for bluesky. #waffles

Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g

Dave Mandl (@dmandl.bsky.social)
I'm on Bluesky but also on Mastodon. I hate to say it, but from past experience I'm not confident that Bluesky will remain the paradise that it is forever. It's not a bad idea to get familiar with Mastodon and least establish a presence there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June. 
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky | TechCrunch
The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

BlueSky seems to be having trouble connecting for me at the moment, so I guess I'm here until it's back up...

Hi Bluesky! 👋 #datascience, broadly defined, like network science, computational social science, geospatial data science.

In an open letter addressed to von der Leyen on Monday, more than 70 scientists call out the EU’s president for hyping AI, including two members of the UN’s high-level advisory body on AI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

man kann auf #bluesky nichts suchen, ohne angemeldet zu sein? 🧐
das finde ich, äh, suboptimal. 🤨

Zum Thema wiederaufgetauchtes Raubgut: HHStA-Direktor Thomas Just hat drüben auf Bluesky dankenswerterweise auf diesen Akt zu den Steinen des Anstosses verlinkt: "Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer" 1.11.1918: https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/de

AT-OeStA/HHStA HA OKäA E 90-5-4062/1918 Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer, 1918 (Akt (Sammelakt, Grundzl., Konvolut, Dossier, File))

Well well well. Stuff at bluesky is going well, huh?
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115311658328349605

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm. #bluesky #SocialMedia

Toronto's 2600 meeting is on this month again!
We meet on the second monday of the month at Victory Cafe 6pm (tonight!)
See you next month and next and next too!
@… @… and whoops also bluesky! We'…

"Ministers hielden alarmerend rapport over veiligheid op de Noordzee achter."
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ministers-hielden-alarmerend-rapport-over-vei…

Ministers hielden alarmerend rapport over veiligheid op de Noordzee achter
De kans op sabotage van essentiële infrastructuur op de Noordzee, zoals kabels en windmolens, groeit. Maar waar meldingen van sabotage naartoe moeten, is vaak niet helder. Ook wie de leiding heeft als het misgaat, is onduidelijk. Dat staat in een in opdracht van de Kamer opgesteld rapport dat al negen maanden af was, maar pas vorige week werd gepubliceerd.

«at this point, AT Proto has become essentially a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is, of course, just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.»
Delusions of a Protocol | Azhdarchid
#bluesky

(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://

Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen
Damit Bluesky-User deutlicher machen können, welche Inhalte sie mögen und welche nicht, soll es bald auch eine Möglichkeit geben, diese negativ zu bewerten.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The huge airship is the Pathfinder 1,
billed as the "largest aircraft in the world" and developed by the company LTA Research.
Clocking in at 406.5 feet long and 66 feet wide, the Pathfinder 1 is among a class of airships known as "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.
For comparison, a Goodyear blimp is 246 feet lon…

'Largest aircraft in the world' seen over US. What is it doing?
Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

Scale comparison: Shahed drone, STING anti-Shahed drone, and human. To date, STING, developed by https://wildhornets.com/en/
, has intercepted over 600 Russian aerial targets. (original post on Bluesky ,

Oh this is exciting. I've just heard that John Mastodon himself is going to make a rare public announcement to welcome the latest wave of arrivals from #Bluesky.
#JohnMastodon #newhere

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen

The Daily Show — Bluesky: The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7tyhlziszrunowfvarla52va/post/3m2rydytfmc2j

Tjonge wat zijn de druiven zuur bij de SGP.
Merk ook even hoe hier schaamteloos genormeerd wordt wat 'de' christen zou moeten vinden of voelen.
https://www.rd.nl/a/1126353-een-christen-voelt-zich-ni…

Een christen voelt zich niet thuis in het land-van-Jetten
Waarom zijn gebeden van christenen woensdag niet verhoord? Maar wie verder kijkt dan dit gesomber, ziet juist een glimpje zonlicht.

And another thing about bluesky, it's incredibly slow and clunky.

Pessoas no bluesky com conta fechada, a exigir login, que tentam falar comigo, repito:
Eu. Não. Leio. O. Que. Vocês. Escrevem.
Querem que eu vos leia? Abram a conta. Querem contactar-me tão facilmente como se estivéssemos na mesma rede? Bridgy fed.

I was thinking of #Bluesky as not-Twitter, i.e., commercial but free of the RW nazi-adjacent stuff, & run by well-intentioned people. I was forgetting that it is a US-based VC-funded corp. I imagine there are all sorts of crazy pressures on it to buckle under MAGA rule, and that e.g., Charlie Kirk stuff was a lightning rod.
The only way BS could be immune to the sorts of pressures that…

I saw a nice initiative for an european BlueSky instance. I am always wondering why people don't like Mastodon?
For me Bluesky and Mastodon can co-exist but many people disagree 🙂
#eurosky #bluesky #mastodon

eurosky

NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label.

Rumblings of discontent over on BlueSty:

Interessant journalistiek onderzoek.
#PVV
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/maak-haar-blond-onschuldig-en-kna…

Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot
Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

TIL que o bluesky ainda usa URL shorteners.
Ugh!
Detesto URL shorteners. São um valente perigo num mundo cheio de gente a fazer phishing com cópias de sites reais.

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I’m flat out stealing this from someone on BlueSky because fukkin a-men:
“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man
https://bsky.app/profile/clapifyoulikeme.…

Trump refused to answer a question from an ABC reporter at his sitdown with Argentine President Javier Milei on Tuesday,
citing host George Stephanopoulos’s evisceration of Vice President JD Vance on Sunday.
https://

Trump Lashes Out at ABC Reporter After Disastrous Vance Interview
Donald Trump refused to take a question from an ABC reporter in his meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei.

This is a really good assessment (why people are complaining BlueSky is “mean”), IMO.
It’s also true of Mastodon, for very similar reasons.
If I may mangle a line from “Grosse Pointe Blank”:
“if people are hot in your mentions, you did something to bring them there”
OTOH, BS and Masto have tools to manage that. (though they need improvement)

Newsom on Bluesky
#trump #martiallaw #newsom

I wonder where we went wrong? Was it that horrible so-called "Advanced UI" that soured people forever on the Fediverse?

And more to read in your freetime, if you are interested in AI, from Bluesky, Phillip Isola.
"Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:"
Eliciting higher alignment:
https://arxiv.org/…

Words That Make Language Models Perceive
Large language models (LLMs) trained purely on text ostensibly lack any direct perceptual experience, yet their internal representations are implicitly shaped by multimodal regularities encoded in language. We test the hypothesis that explicit sensory prompting can surface this latent structure, bringing a text-only LLM into closer representational alignment with specialist vision and audio encoders. When a sensory prompt tells the model to 'see' or 'hear', it cues the model to resolve its next…

Via @… over on BlueSky:
“I hope this is how you find out about Dick Cheney”

A major southern California highway was being shut down while the U.S. Marine Corps stages a demonstration set to involve live fire on Oct. 18,
pitting the state's governor against the federal government yet again.
Interstate 5 will be shut down from Harbor Drive to Basilone Road,
a stretch of the main artery over 15 miles,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. local time, the California Highway Patrol announced the morning of Oct. 18.
The news comes after days of back-an…

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

@… over on BlueSky:
“One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the "report a speed trap" function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.”
For anyone who doesn’t know:
“Siri, report speed check”
*press side button* “report speed check”
It’s that simple.…

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

If you’re curious and hearing about the BlueSky CEO (Jay Graber) crashing out; this is a pretty solid thread that’s well balanced. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115311658328349605

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm. #bluesky #SocialMedia

Best knap in twee kabinetten falen als het gaat om de eenheid van kabinetsbeleid. Eerst bij Rutte (die gooide haar er uit) en nu bij Schoof (die laat haar zitten). #Keijzer #Ongeschikt #BBB

Kabinet neemt afstand van verdachtmakend X-bericht Keijzer over NOS
Premier Schoof vindt dat de politiek zich niet met de journalistieke keuzes van de vrije pers mag bemoeien. Hij heeft Keijzer erop aangesproken.

A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada to Utah has received an initial green light.
EnergySolutions is pursing a plan calling for importation of 1.31 million cubic yards of the waste from Canada for disposal in Tooele County.
Canadian officials and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission still need to sign off on the proposal.

EnergySolutions proposal to deposit Canadian radioactive waste in Tooele County gets initial OK
EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement
https://www.rawstory.com/wyomin…

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves
A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terri Lesley, the former director of the Campbell County Public Library in Gillette, Wyo., filed a feder...

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.
The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.
Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks.
When you …

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.