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GLC

@glc@mastodon.online
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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I use CW mainly as a label as I tend to use the maximum character limit.

Old man yelling at clouds. Clouds may need to mute me.

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Joined November 06, 2022
Tech Interests:
#SFF, #Technology, #Cosmology
Language Interests:
#Typesetting, #Linguistics
Other Interests:
#InvestigativeJournalism, #Economics, , #AcademicPublishing (dysfunctional)
Recommended Sites:
Retraction Watch, Pluralistic, Scholars at Risk, Crosswalks Collective LA
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 2mo ago
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@bzdev@fosstodon.org @qurlyjoe@mstdn.social I believe they're just posting what would actually have been heartwarming, rather than donating significant unpaid labor to a corporation's profit margin. The idea behind it is that systemic problems call for systemic solutions, though perhaps not clearly articulated.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
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@stux@mstdn.social I've used the TeX coffee-stain package Useful for drafts and notes and works better on the screen than an actual coffee cup (I've tried that too, and it got expensive).
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@hrbrmstr The author of that article still has no idea what happened. A random word generator did something random, then produced a random word string explaining it. Nothing malfunctioned. It simply produced a string closely resembling strings found all over the internet, including strings that contain apologies. That's what they paid for. No mistakes were made by the software. It generated plausible strings - so plausible that the author still believes they carry some meaning.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
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@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @franciswashere@arvr.social @startswithabang@mastodon.social Not extinction, but still problematic, should it occur: https://xkcd.com/3265/
Asteroid Threat
xkcd

Asteroid Threat

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@AVincentInSpace @Npars01 @krypt3ia @tinker To expand on that: as documented by internal Google emails, in a iively discussion prior to rolling back efficient search.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@cstross First point includes wiping out various pension funds. https://www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-privatecredit/
Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private Credit
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Premium: The Hater's Guide to Private Credit

A few years ago, I made the mistake of filling out a form to look into a business loan, one that I never ended up getting. Since then I receive no less than three texts a day offering me lines of credit ranging from $150,000 to as much as

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@petergleick I can think about genocide without looking at cat pictures, so today I'm actually not in the mood, personally. I'll be letting my inner grouch out today. I mean, more than usual, most likely.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@dashdsrdash @cstross I knew someone who was convinced to move from Florida to California and then understood, after the fact, that the real motivation lay in the fine points of divorce law. Something or other to do with joint property I believe. (Also the basis of that particular relationship, in the beginning, was their lack of a common language.)
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@smeg That seems insanely frank on the part of an Nvidia executive. Puzzled.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@dbattistella Needs more gravy.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@Canevecchio And the odd thing is you've called to refill a prescription.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@Wiswell@mastodon.social
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 4mo ago
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@emilymbender@dair-community.social I like the suggested "synthetic text extruding machine". It seems to convey the functionality vividly, Or "sentence-like fabricator" in another phrasing. On the other hand "hallucination" is unfortunate, but appears to have pretty definitively won the day. Possibly worse than "AI" which we are likely stuck with till the next thing comes along.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
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@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinehttps://balloon-juice.com/2026/06/27/war-for-ukraine-day-1584-always-check-your-references/
balloon-juice.com
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 7mo ago
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Illustrated at https://bsky.app/profile/anthonycr.bsky.social/post/3lzj5pbfxxc2g?ref=wheresyoured.at and discussed in more detail at https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/#here’s-a-diagram-of-how-unbelievably-circular-all-the-money-in-ai-compute-has-become (edit) More discussion: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/76c5f9c0-d1a4-4493-b204-bbbdd68fd910/downloads/89583079-d8c1-483f-8988-3c9f5d813d89/HoranAAJ2026LLMbubble.pdf?ver=1771954468213
Bluesky Social

anthony restaino (@anthonycr.bsky.social)

ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@cstross @marjolica Normally unwrapped, to show the flag on the cover.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@dramypsyd From time to time I pass a sign that says "Jesus has your place in heaven" and I don't know what they're thinking but it's not a good look. Not that I was planning on using it, but still.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@rootwyrm @blotosmetek @cstross @isaackuo I guess the Arabs kind of conquered it but in the process it conquered them. Hence Baghdad.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 4mo ago
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@scott@sfba.social If built ... https://www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/
Where Are All The Data Centers?
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Where Are All The Data Centers?

If you liked this piece, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s finances,

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 7mo ago
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@smallcircles Not really. There are lively discussions going on in most, often involving politics, in particular. Some similarities with Vienna in 1933. More than one would like, but that's just because 2026 is more like 1933 than one would like. In some of the cafes they are just playing chess, admittedly, but you make your rounds. Actually the most effective way to keep up with what is going on. Occasionally a drunk has to be thrown out and someone is monologuing to himself in a corner,
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@javier_salcedo@mastodon.gamedev.place You can have my superego but my id stays.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @sundogplanets@mastodon.socialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LQj0ufQRdY&t=244s

WOODY ALLEN TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN CELLO MARCHING BAND SCENE

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@cstross Any luck with "stet"? Maybe "sudo stet"?
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@politicalbillsc@universeodon.com On the other hand some of us had thesis advisers who experienced the same thing elsewhere, and wound up in the US as a result. They were the fortunate ones. As were we. My own thesis advisor didn't dwell on that in later life, but the topic did come up.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@Natasha_Jay I'm dying here, just dying.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@Catawu@mastodon.social Interesting company (i'm gettnig sidetracked admittedly). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_(insurance)
en.wikipedia.org
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@Wiswell Call me old-fashioned, but ... everybody must get stoned. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/723/087/de7.png
i.kym-cdn.com
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@11011110 @oschene Well given that we're still using base 60 for this after all these years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds, ... yeah. Three "digits."
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@molly0xfff That's just mean. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3493244/alan-dershowitz-pierogi-refused-a-second-time-at-farmers-market/
Alan Dershowitz refused a pierogi a second time at farmer's market
Washington Examiner

Alan Dershowitz refused a pierogi a second time at farmer's market

On Wednesday, lawyer Alan Dershowitz returned to a pierogi stand at a farmer’s market in Martha’s Vineyard that refused to serve him. Last week, Good

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@X31Andy@mastodon.green @feisty_lemming@mstdn.ca @theonion@bots.defencegeeks.net Yeah the Onion is a little tricky, because they let you think they make it all up, and then you dig back a bit ... Like this one: https://theonion.com/trump-defends-wearing-fruit-hat-samba-dancing-during-dignified-transfer/ ... which isn't as over the top as it should be.
Trump Defends Wearing Fruit Hat, Samba Dancing During Dignified Transfer
The Onion

Trump Defends Wearing Fruit Hat, Samba Dancing During Dignified Transfer

WASHINGTON—Maintaining that his conduct was well within the guidelines for the solemn occasion, President Trump on Thursday defended his decision to wear a fruit hat while samba dancing during the dignified transfer of soldiers killed in Iran. “There’s no reason I can’t honor the sacrifice of these brave men and women while wearing a headdress […]

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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 4mo ago
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@swan_tower@wandering.shop An Immense World (Ed Yong). Not a very recent read in fact but it's stayed with me and probably is not as well known as it deserves. A good look at the evolving science around the various sensory universes occupied by a broad range of animals, eye-opening [sic]. Full of wonder. https://edyong.me/an-immense-world Goes well with the fiction of Sue Burke incidentally (notably Semiosis, another favorite from a ways back).
edyong.me
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 2mo ago
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@kirk@social.coop @plantarum@ottawa.place @pluralistic@mamot.fr This can be exploited. Back in the day a fellow published really valuable information knowing his former employer would not be willing to reveal in court that they actually cared about the results. And that was the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@StompyRobot It seems about right (for injuries - I suppose there are a few hit who aren't actually injured). About 10% fatalities, and it seems easier to get those numbers - though presumably with more variability. 20 last year, but it seems to run more like 30. No vaccine for it as yet but there is medical advice on prevention and treatment. That would probably be a harsh vaccine, a little worse than the shingles one.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@quinn Eliza never passed the imitation game and wasn't structured to plausibly take it. I don't think the current language models are quite up to that particular test either (certainly not with the default settings), but they're in the ballpark. It is certainly true that the limits of a purely linguistic test have become transparent of late. It's a far better test than chess playing, certainly. On the other hand, Goodhart's law applies.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
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Note - I find Silverman's commentary enlightening here. Evidently others' mileage may vary. Quite evidently.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 7mo ago
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt "You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands!"
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 4mo ago
bsky.app
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@redsad@ohai.socialhttps://poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-apollo
poets.org
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@landley@mstdn.jp The divine afflatus fell apart mentally.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@sean My wife must use Teams to communicate with her mother in a nursing home. It's not actually working properly, and other things would (and did), which also frustrates the staff on the other end. They are not permitted to use things that actually work as intended.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@dushmanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
en.wikipedia.org
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 7mo ago
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@smallcircles Pedestrian zoned street with a bunch of cafes, in the downtown area of a polluted city.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@ColinTheMathmo Which one knows about the bee's knees?
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@cstross I'll have to check if it's for immediate delivery. Edit: 2 weeks will do.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@cmconseils My goodness. That doesn't seem possible (as typography I mean, not as advice).
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 4mo ago

""When the lawyer, Jeremy Chase, called Carro’s chambers Wednesday
morning, he said the judge’s clerk told him: 'We don’t read emails or
letters at night. We go home.' She then hung up on him, he said in an
email to news organizations obtained by The Associat ed Press."

https://archive.ph/oPwWl#selection-1809.0-1809.266

archive.ph
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 2mo ago
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@meganL@mas.to Homer Simpson has something to add. Though I suppose that's the point. Investors are entering the iron lung sector at the moment, according to something I saw last year.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 6mo ago
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@gleick Biased. Should be "Some Experts are Dubious." The Times is thinking this is tongue in cheek, as they don't recall anything else they've written lately.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 5mo ago
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@Brentguernsey@infosec.exchange @Alice@beige.party Follow up with David Brooks' course in Humility at Yale (a real thing). Sorry, but there is a multiverse, and we all landed in the dumbest timeline. Someone had to.
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GLC @glc@mastodon.online
· 3mo ago
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @gabrielesvelto@mas.to They don't deflate. They pop.
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