Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.me@bsky.brid.gy

1/8/2026, 4:10:05 PM

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The important part of this is not that AI can be good at craft—but that, as Hollis says, no amount of craft will make us feel a model has written a “great” poem. AI keeps revealing that we care about human action, not about the abstractions (intelligence, creativity) we invented to describe it. +

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2swfvxtdfegcwxc6tnyczjo3/post/3mbvvfiso3s2p

Hollis Robbins (@anecdotal.bsky.social)

Can AI write great poetry? If a prompt engineer is also a poet, it can come mighty close. https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/llm-poetry-and-the-greatness-question

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish@bsky.brid.gy

1/8/2026, 4:16:55 PM

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I've been saying for a while that our inability to measure or value these models' lack of a viewpoint/theory-of-own-mind/rich internal goal and value structure will be the shoals a lot of the more "creative" outputs break on.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:565ebob5f6hw33hjdkxty6qj/post/3mbwem6vjbs2u

The value-destroying potential...