Peter Swimm
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Founder @toilville
https://www.toilville.com/
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An arXiv paper surveys 5,285 NeurIPS 2025 papers and finds environmental impact reporting is nearly non-existent, proposing standardised metrics and a tool called carbonbenchmark to track LLM training and inference emissions. The authors also…
#AI #LLM #AIResearch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01116
#AI #LLM #AIResearch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01116
October 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM
An arXiv paper surveys 5,285 NeurIPS 2025 papers and finds environmental impact reporting is nearly non-existent, proposing standardised metrics and a tool called carbonbenchmark to track LLM training and inference emissions. The authors also…
#AI #LLM #AIResearch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01116
#AI #LLM #AIResearch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.01116
i love reading interviews about ramone lore
They asked the surviving guy why did Dee dee always counted off each song and he said “Dee dee was always good with numbers”
They asked the surviving guy why did Dee dee always counted off each song and he said “Dee dee was always good with numbers”
October 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
i love reading interviews about ramone lore
They asked the surviving guy why did Dee dee always counted off each song and he said “Dee dee was always good with numbers”
They asked the surviving guy why did Dee dee always counted off each song and he said “Dee dee was always good with numbers”
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Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter
October 2, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter
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They have erased the history of the tech industry and tech innovation so that their workers don’t ask what happened to prior generations of innovators and innovations. It’s a very intentional strategy.
This is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in.
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
October 2, 2026 at 3:33 PM
They have erased the history of the tech industry and tech innovation so that their workers don’t ask what happened to prior generations of innovators and innovations. It’s a very intentional strategy.
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Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
October 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
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Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Executing prisoners is not a legitimate power of government, despite its long and barbaric history, and we should put an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
Capital punishment is stupid and wrong, but man, if you survive it, you should meet the conditions of your sentence.
October 1, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Capital punishment is stupid and wrong, but man, if you survive it, you should meet the conditions of your sentence.
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I think this is the best shirt design I've done all year
roryblank.bigcartel.com
(I am reposting this because the previous version included a typo, but I am also not deleting that post lol)
roryblank.bigcartel.com
(I am reposting this because the previous version included a typo, but I am also not deleting that post lol)
October 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I think this is the best shirt design I've done all year
roryblank.bigcartel.com
(I am reposting this because the previous version included a typo, but I am also not deleting that post lol)
roryblank.bigcartel.com
(I am reposting this because the previous version included a typo, but I am also not deleting that post lol)
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an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
September 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
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over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
trib.al
September 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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✨ Published version ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@olivia.science
Thread with highlights 🧵
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@olivia.science
Thread with highlights 🧵
![Figure 1
Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is
created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24ngrqljhck7hpvbgrg7a23k/bafkreibouzstbbctz2jbnlbncbp3k2vqa5ixythk7zbkg6sz5l6bagqwta)
September 30, 2026 at 8:24 PM
✨ Published version ✨
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@olivia.science
Thread with highlights 🧵
Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@olivia.science
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Urine trouble
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
futurism.com
September 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Urine trouble
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The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
September 30, 2026 at 2:48 AM
The more I learn about this Cornell situation, the angrier I get because it's SO normalized in academic environments.
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The newly launched America.gov website is an LLM built on data from decades of actual work from people who made digital gov accessible and secure.
Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk.
So yeah don’t use it.
Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk.
So yeah don’t use it.
September 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The newly launched America.gov website is an LLM built on data from decades of actual work from people who made digital gov accessible and secure.
Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk.
So yeah don’t use it.
Meanwhile, the current fed refuses to do anything well, so this LLM is a guaranteed security, privacy and accessibility risk.
So yeah don’t use it.
Whoa, I wasn’t even ASKING about aliens.
September 29, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Whoa, I wasn’t even ASKING about aliens.
Covering Cats in the Cradle, but I’m missing all my son’s baseball games because I’m too busy shitposting.
September 29, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Covering Cats in the Cradle, but I’m missing all my son’s baseball games because I’m too busy shitposting.
When it’s a raccoon whose body looks like that, it’s cute and endearing, but when it’s a billionaire, I see how you folks think.
September 29, 2026 at 3:41 AM
When it’s a raccoon whose body looks like that, it’s cute and endearing, but when it’s a billionaire, I see how you folks think.
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Oh it's fucking solvable
September 28, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Oh it's fucking solvable
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NEW from me:
Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions.
How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions.
How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
www.apricitas.io
September 27, 2026 at 6:50 PM
NEW from me:
Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions.
How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions.
How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
it also has toxic runoff
"Attention, like crude oil, is treated like a scarce natural resource that must be extracted, processed, and refined."
When Culture Becomes “Content”
Can art still illuminate reality in an age of monetized attention, generative AI, and culture produced at limitless scale?
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 28, 2026 at 2:35 PM
it also has toxic runoff
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We let the tech boys come up with metrics and rewards that purposely undermined culture , hyper sexualized some people , and elevated the ide and extraction with no accountability. Were ageist , sexist, homotransohobic, and stagnant
We made those choices
We made those choices
September 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
We let the tech boys come up with metrics and rewards that purposely undermined culture , hyper sexualized some people , and elevated the ide and extraction with no accountability. Were ageist , sexist, homotransohobic, and stagnant
We made those choices
We made those choices
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the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes:
www.404media.co/humans-readi...
www.404media.co/humans-readi...
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
www.404media.co
September 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes:
www.404media.co/humans-readi...
www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else?
Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
People around the world have interestingly divergent opinions on AI - but most agree that they expect it to cause more job loss than growth:
www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth
Amid a mix of concern and excitement about AI, a 37-country survey finds pessimism about its potential impact on jobs and economic inequality.
www.pewresearch.org
September 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else?
Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.