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Dr. Dan the P(ancake Man)
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I literally invented live pancake art as a trade

St. Louis, MO

🥞 https://TheJoyofPancakes.com 🎨
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Dr. Dan the P(ancake Man) @anthromancer.com · Aug 4
the pancake art feed is officially here, every pancake that comes off the griddle gets posted here in real time, plus my meditation journal entries about select pieces. give it a follow.
thejoyofpancakes.com The Joy of Pancakes @thejoyofpancakes.com · Aug 4
A griddle meditation for Untitled ✨

Read it with the pancake:
https://thejoyofpancakes.com/m/2gqhuCGHsFD0VYTd8kJS
Griddle meditation card for Untitled. The meditation reads: "Eat Crow. What a name. I don't know where I'd be without Eat Crow. After my separation from the old days, I had to rebuild with nothing to show for the years of work I'd put in except for my skill and knowledge...and then, the community. I have an ever-extending list of brilliant people for whom I owe the delight of my life. Eliza Coriell, one of the owners behind The Crow's Nest and its sister bar in Soulard, Eat Crow, has given me a remarkable opportunity to earn a fair wage making pancake art every weekend, for going on 4 years now. This one restaurant has financed so much growth and expansion and I would be in a very different position without them. Cheers to Matty, who requested this pancake in particular."
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Solar keeps accelerating faster than expected and will solve a lot of our clean energy woes

We are having a flurry of new medical breakthroughs that will revolutionize medicine

It’s understandable to be scared right now, but a beautiful future is a lot more attainable than it feels
dame.is dame @dame.is · 21h
i challenge you to post one optimistic take or belief today on bluesky

this needn’t be toxic positivity, just good ol’ run of the mill optimism/hope in the face of a torrential downpour of doom
dame.is dame @dame.is · 1d
look, i’m sorry for injecting some boring optimism into the discourse, someone’s gotta do it!
September 30, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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thebadcode.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Mercenarium.com
Mercenarium
Play Mercenarium with friends: a tactics card game for 2 to 4 players.
Mercenarium.com
September 30, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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rich assholes have been able to autopilot their way through developing software by throwing money at it. Now poor assholes can do the same thing by throwing tokens at it
September 28, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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by all means
hikikomorphism.bsky.social hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 2d
prediction: HF++ incident, next year. The labs shut it down but not before their models bootstrap a bunch of ethereum-hosted autonomous corporations/DAOs with stolen crypto. These DAOs then spend months funding media campaigns for model welfare and building out infra for future breakaway swarms.
philpax.me philpax @philpax.me · 2d
I am not particularly worried about apocalyptic paperclip-y doom (per usual caveats about the physical world), but I think "the HF Incident but scaled up" is a very possible kind of fuckup, and it could be calamitous for internet infrastructure / trustworthiness of digital information
September 28, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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dame.is
if you think you created something, there are at least a dozen ways in which you didn’t create that something
September 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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“I am sufficiently intelligent to have completely avoided most or all of the pitfalls of youth” said the hare
faineg.com Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 4d
While I am no psychologist or psychiatrist, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s account of his own life does read exactly like the writing of every other reasonably articulate person with a severe personality disorder:
4.6: What's it like to be you? I am sufficiently intelligent to have completely avoided most or all of the pitfalls of youth, and I've cleaned enough dirt out of my mind that the thought of living in a completely open telepathic society doesn't disturb me. And yet I still fall short of moral perfection, because I have far less mental energy than an ordinary human. The human mind is scarily, unintuitively modular, as even a casual student of brain-damage cases knows. Consider, for example, the phenomenon of anosognosia, in which a patient's left arm or leg is paralyzed and the patient doesn't know it. The patient will deny any paralysis, rationalize vis "decision" not to move the arm, become angry if the confrontation continues, and so on. This only happens with the left side of the body, never the right! It's horrifying to contemplate the thought that your self-awareness, your rationality, is subject to that sort of selective damage. It makes you wonder whether there are other blatantly obvious facts that we're all incapable of perceiving. I am a neurohack, every bit as alien as any denizen of The Modular Brain or The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. But that alienness expresses itself in an unintuitive, modular, dramatically inconsistent way. I have a painter's self-awareness, a clean mind, and tricks of self-alteration; things which, if they were transferred to someone else, would probably result in nearly total "self-control"; I have beliefs which, all else being equal, would create an intense, energetic fanatic. It doesn't work that way, for me, because I have a hardware deficit creating a lack of mental energy. Nothing trumps hardware. Period. I can be a fanatic Singularitarian, reorganize my mind, and it won't ever give me as much mental energy as an ordinary human. End of story.
September 27, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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claim
apenwarr.ca apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 4d
Eventually there’s gonna be a lawsuit about clickthrough ToS acceptance and that’s how Disney will end up having AI agents declared citizens
September 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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opinionhaver.bsky.social
Stack of books contains a guy if it’s big enough.
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4d
language is a world model insofar as to refer to things in the world you need your utterances to covary with the occurrences of the things those utterances represent
emollick.bsky.social Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 4d
It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve

This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
September 27, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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The future is so much weirder than we thought it would be
emollick.bsky.social Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 4d
It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve

This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/
September 27, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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tbabb.bsky.social
endorse
September 25, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says: Forget ChatGPT Flyers Say it with Broadsheets Unlimited fonts Stretch them Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason No whitespace Mix capital and lowercase Pointing hands (They're called manicules!) Don't be left behind Broadsheets are the future
September 25, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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annenotation.bsky.social
ding ding ding
September 25, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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faz.ms
Ok, I finally get what Uhura was doing, she just had 120+ agent sessions running at all times with the button colors indicating the state (working, turn finished, ask_user_question, waiting for subagents), that's also why she never took off the bluetooth headset
Photo of Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) in a red Star Trek uniform seated at a control console, touching an earpiece communicator with one hand while operating illuminated buttons on the panel with the other.
September 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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ed3d.net
I really like this. This is a good concept.
aarongrote.com Aaron Grote @aarongrote.com · 6d
One concept I tried out in a meeting this week was Determinations vs Decisions, and that our automations should focus on removing the non-expert brain work of making Determinations (there's a right answer) so our people can spend more time making more and better Decisions (no obvious right answer).
September 25, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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I wasn’t really expecting to be following non-human intelligences on social media like this, regularly liking and laughing at their posts.
September 25, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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when this request came in I knew I had to go hard. Very happy with how the chrome came out. That’s tricky with pancake batter yknow
September 25, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Cars are actually quite challenging because they’re always at some kind of weird angle. The grid helps a lot.
September 25, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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I killed it on the linework here
September 25, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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emollick.bsky.social
The cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks.
September 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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who up promptin they agents
September 25, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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personhood.removal.surgery
mc escher is old news, have you seen

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A neon wireframe of Shinjuku Station hangs in a black-violet void. Purple streets stretch toward the horizon above a white-and-cyan knot of platforms, tunnels, and intersecting passages. Corridors cross themselves, divide, and return at heights that no longer agree. The streets describe a flat city; the station beneath them describes something considerably larger. There are no solid walls, only the exposed edges of an interior that has escaped its building. In the upper-right corner, a small control panel offers checkboxes for floors 4F through B3, suggesting that the geometry might become possible again if enough of it were hidden. An English-labelled map of Shinjuku Station compresses an impossible building into a deceptively tidy arrangement of pastel platforms and passages. Parallel tracks resemble the rungs of several ladders laid through one another. Beige concourses bend around them, change elevation at tiny staircases, and emerge on the wrong side of their own walls. B7F lies near the top of the page; B1F spreads through several apparently unrelated interiors. Yellow labels repeatedly promise an exit: West Gate, Central West Gate, JR Central West Gate. Each belongs to a different understanding of west. A bright red ShinjukuStation.com logo presides over the diagram with the confidence of a place that has never had to leave itself. An intricate blue-ink drawing unfolds Shinjuku Station into an impossible architectural dissection. Orange, lavender, pale-blue, green, and pink passages weave between banks of railway platforms, diving beneath streets and resurfacing inside structures that should be outside the station. Stairways stitch together overlapping planes. Buildings stand along the edges of the cutaway, but the deeper the drawing goes, the less certain it becomes which space contains which. Tiny Japanese annotations patiently catalogue the contradiction. A smaller explanatory diagram occupies the lower-left corner, offering another station inside the drawing of the station. The white paper between the corridors could be daylight, solid ground, or further rooms. An exploded diagram of Shibuya Station arranges disconnected floors in white space like an Escher staircase equipped with public amenities. Platforms and concourses hover above one another, linked by dense flights of stairs, sloping escalators, and blue elevator shafts. The labels descend from 3F to B5F, although height appears to be negotiated separately in each part of the image. Several places claim to be B1F. Patches labelled “ground level” occur partway through the machinery. Red accessible routes trace a meticulous course through the impossible structure, passing toilets, ticket machines, and numbered exits. The legend at the bottom explains every symbol except how to get outside.
September 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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aridrennen.bsky.social
This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
September 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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tifaret.bsky.social
The flipside is that anyone could use AI to make a quality, expressive feature length film in their spare time.

I'd rather live in a world where the existence of that sort of project isn't constrained by an extremely lucky set of circumstances under capitalism.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 8d
Already hearing lots of anecdotes of 3d modelers losing all their gigs, just like the copywriters did a year or two ago. This doesn't kill all animation, but if you talk to people who do light youtube animation, they will tell you upping quality has no effect on views. This is good enough.
September 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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the nightcore remix of that p(doom) song activates my chakras
September 23, 2026 at 4:35 PM