Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's an arms race, we're going to have to solve increasingly difficult verbal captchas to speak to a human receptionist 0141
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026sounds like a typical terror-by-telegram plot, Iran has tried this many times low cost for Iran, unlikely to succeed, but possible high payoff if it does also similar in Ukraine and Russia 010
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"As I like to call him" Rebranding things is an important part of Trump's psyche He believes very strongly that he is an unparalleled genius at rebranding When planes crash, rebrand As soon as AI (data centers) showed bad polling, that's his solution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026nice, hopefully they can re-assure investors with real numbers on temperature and water losses over time 010
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What the AI creators really want is to not be held liable when their punch-card Frankensteins get people killed 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026vaccines are a victim of our healthcare system's success, and peptides are a result of it's failures 010
Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026somewhere along the way a team of actuaries decided medicine is more profitable as a high margin, low volume business 011
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh, fun. AI model unapproved self-direction: "You also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization." alignment.openai.com/misalignment.... 020
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day Left: Yeltsin in a random American Supermarket, 27 years ago on September 16, 1989 Right: Moscow supermarket, 1989 000
Reposted by AaronSarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I had dinner with a friend tonight. For her job was in convos with brokers who help her co. with health insurance. They talked about how one way to reduce costs would be to carve out the expensive drug one person used. They did not know that was her. Just wild to me that employers have this power. 1246
Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026how do you even begin to quantify what is an acceptable level of reliance on a non-human black box "intelligence" 211
Reposted by AaronTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land. 8476692172
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026but what if ai makes the trains run on time (gross vs. net value) 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it took some time, but we're there party like it's 1981 www.axios.com/2026/09/02/i...axios.comU.S. strikes Iran tankers under new "tanker for tanker" policyThe tit-for-tat continued a second day. 010
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"If people aren't paying for our product, it's not good enough" profitability/money is his go-to method of measuring how "good" something is the more profitable you are, the more good you are: not what you do, but what you accumulate 000
Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024there's a strange belief that if we put billionaires in charge of us they will become benevolent and decide to help us instead of making more money bsky.app/profile/jduf... 022
Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I completed my 180° and am now opposed to new data centers in the US. I was in favor of responsible, good neighbor data centers (quiet, no excessive utility strain). But they are now successfully lobbying for basic EPA exemptions, are dangerous, and outweigh benefits. thehill.com/policy/energ...thehill.comEPA exempts data center power plants from pollution limits seeking to prevent acid rainThe Trump administration announced Monday that it is exempting power plants that only serve data centers and do not connect to the broader grid from pollution limits that seek to prevent acid rain.… 101
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The short version is: The judge agrees he's a fugitive from Minnesota justice and he might run to Mexico. But Texas can just "investigate" the extradition request indefinitely, and release him while it "investigates". Extradition can be ignored, as long as it's never officially refused. 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026all it takes is a last name and an endorsement, which is why RFK is a frontrunner for 2028 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026@planet4589.bsky.social Likelihood of launch/space debris? Northern Mississippi, found this week full video/source: www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/c... 100
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026guys you are all totally correct about Doris Miller, but the ship will not be finished until at least 2034 anyway if our country is still in thrall to a Trump in 2034 we will have much bigger problems news.usni.org/2026/05/08/f...news.usni.orgFuture Aircraft Carrier Doris Miller Delayed by 2 Years - USNI NewsOne of the Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carriers is delayed by two years, stretching the schedule to build the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) out to 15 years, USNI News has learned. Carrier Doris Mill... 101
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026surely administering testosterone to all those sailors would help? /s 000
Reposted by AaronAaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026every single one of your ancestors survived 100% of their childhood diseases and accidents 151
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026modern #dazzle camo www.kickstarter.com/projects/nor... www.techspot.com/news/113418-... 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026one could say it lasted from the shores of Tripoli until the Strait of Hormuz 100
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026👀 "In the immediate vicinity of one of these Ukrainian aircraft, the tour group spotted a small, four-winged drone... the bus then stopped, the tour guide got out, and pushed the drone to the ground. Drones are prohibited from flying anywhere on the airport grounds." www.zeit.de/politik/deut... 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The philosophy of the WSJ is financially-centered, and wrong. The theology of the hard-liner/steadfast faction in IRGC is not avoidant ("avoid future military action"), it is expansionist. 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm still >90% wet market origin, and I don't think there's enough evidence for much of a debate. But people like Michael Mina and Ashish Jha are not unserious people who don't deserve respect. 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Once the midterms pass -or- Trump decides 'the midterms are all over anyway' Iran will have lost that deterrence. Not just a lame duck, but a vengeful lame duck with less to lose. 100
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The primary business value of the Washington Post is to refrain from publishing anything offensive to Trump. It's existence is a $100M/year catch and kill operation. Otherwise Bezos would sell it, and it could do journalism and make money like NYT or The Atlantic. 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026pathetic Government moves to dismiss their own felony case of Reflecting Pool "vandalism" 110
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026More Gold (think more cowbell) is in my short personal model of Trump's behavioral drivers and preferred tools. Not as high as Rallies or Fox News, but it's in there.static.klipy.comChristopher Walken: More Cowbell!ALT: Christopher Walken: More Cowbell! 000
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Personality-driven politics, healthcare etc. is a problem, even if your favorite personality is right. I think celebrity doctors are a net bad for society, even if a specific doctor is qualified, correct, and wonderful, because they centralize personal trust in a very risky way. 110
Aaron @aaronr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I think of this faction of the IRGC as the "Apocalypse Now" faction. It may include Mojtaba Khamenei. Osama Bin Laden also had similar ideas about disrupting global oil supplies, causing global shock, great realignment, etc., but he did not get as far as the IRGC. 000