171 / Against the dark forest

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Skeet of the Week

Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: Ratatouille is a mecha anime — @mortalwombat.info‬

Tech

• Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities (arstechnica.com)

  Kyle Orland about a recent paper from six apple Engineers testing the “reasoning” capabilities of LLMs with catastrophic results.

• How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)

  Christine Lemmer-Webber about the technical implementation of ATProto, the backbone of Bluesky, why it’s not really decentralized and if it matters.

• SemVer Is Not About You (matklad.github.io)

  Alex Kladov explains how SemVer ist most useful for dependency conflict resolution.

Cutting Room Floor

• against the dark forest (wrecka.ge)

  Erin Kissane introduces the die of the Dark Internet Forest, where predators force you to hide in a safe space.

• Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends (nature.com)

  Saima Sidik about recent studies, which indicate that you share around 10 % of your microbiome with friends you see regularly and what that means for conditions with links to the microbiome, such as hypertension and depression.