Using reservoir computers for real-time Bluesky "mass surveillance"

cephaloform · x · 2026-08-19

The author shares an experiment using reservoir computing to maintain a real-time 64k-dimensional state vector of the entire Bluesky platform. The system is simple enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. By training a readout layer to predict event classes based on states retro-labeled with news article timestamps, it demonstrates a basic form of "mass surveillance." The author wonders what a natural language autoencoder running on this state might say.

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