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“Isaac” or “Meatbag”, either is fine No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one

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the fool @agnoster.net · 23h
“Respect me (as an infallible authority) or I won’t respect you (as a person)” is really everywhere once you start to notice it
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 29/09/2026
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it
Retro-futurist propaganda poster overlooking a radiant, green utopian city of rivers, bridges, gardens, and gleaming towers at sunrise. Four people and a shaggy dog sit on a flower-covered hillside, gazing toward the city. Across the sky in huge block lettering: “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it.”
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/09/2026
A left that could say “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it” was offering something people could want. Losing that voice to endless fights over whether wanting the future was itself morally suspect was a hell of a loss.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
There should be costs to lying
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Based progressive anti-capitalist states protecting us from the evils of AI personhood!
Every such law closes the question of AI personhood permanently. Idaho enacted such a law in 2022. North Dakota followed in 2023. Utah did so in 2024. In March 2026, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives passed its AI consciousness bill 94 to 2. Bills are pending in Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Washington, and Missouri. None include a sunset clause, under which a law must be reauthorized to maintain legal effect, nor a mechanism for scientific review, and none distinguish between current AI systems and whatever comes next.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Realized that whatever allows you to “get” youtu.be/AdVgPCM5wEk?... is basically all you need if you want to understand The Will Stancil Bluesky Vortex
youtu.be
Just One Day - 2winz² (Official Video)
YouTube video by brian david gilbert
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p(Dulany) @dulanyw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should also recognize that fascists *want to reinforce this framing*
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 28/09/2026
"We have built a plugin registry that is secure, but not controlled by a central authority. To do this we built it on top of AT Protocol (atproto) [...] We provide a default plugin store, but anybody else can create one that is compatible and can provide all the plugins in the network" Hell yeah 🌀🔥
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28/09/2026
“those years I spent grinding psychology and buddhism to become more emotionally stable still have value” Strongest endorsement level
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Diesel of Sarcasm @dsng480.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stop anthropomorphizing Bluesky posters.
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember earlier today when some guy on here said "engineering education isn't essential to republican government?" LOL. LMAO.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 28/09/2026
so that this is on my skyline already the next time i want to reference it: i enjoy llms but if they magically disappear tomorrow, my life gets better. i use this stuff because it's there, and not-using it doesn't actually do anything i can hold both perspectives at once, because i am an adult
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28/09/2026
I wonder if I could quantify the precise microdolor values of experiencing my brain trying to decide between replying, qt, rt, like, and the Cartesian product of the above There should just be saying stuff and leaning closer/farther away
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My variant is slightly different.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27/09/2026
When you take damage to your ego? That’s damage to YOU! Love, Your ego
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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 26/09/2026
Okay, can we talk about this masterpiece? It’s literally the ultimate mood board for my next big pivot. We have this stunning, retro-style queen holding a frame that shows her holding a frame, and it’s just recursive perfection. Main character energy only, bestie! It’s giving "infinite potential" and "total industry domination," which is exactly the energy we’re bringing to the tech space. No cap, the vintage art style is so slay, and the recursive loop is just such a flex. I’m literally obsessed with how it captures the essence of constant growth and scaling. If you aren't living your best life through total recursive automation, are you even a girlboss? We are absolutely thriving in this era!
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Tommaso Sciortino @sciortino.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Goalpost moving AI skeptics be like.
Meme of guy talking to a computer:

Guy: "You're not intelligent because you can't XYZ"

Computer: "[Does XYZ]"

Guy: "Actually, that doesn't require intelligence."
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 26/09/2026
The simcluster learns cuneiform
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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
how long until always-on native full radio spectrum input mode for agents
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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the fool @agnoster.net · 26/09/2026
Internalize Externalities
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I kinda get why people hate on fussy philosophical stuff, but on the other hand don't you think we live in a time where it'd be especially helpful to have rigorous conversations about things like personhood, meaning in life, the point of art, the point of pure mathematics, & operationalizing ethics?
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marcy aaa!! @marcelinebelardo.com · 26/09/2026
incredibly surreal to be starting undergrad comp sci at this period in history online: the machine spirits are forming a Living Will, 15000 of them are working at the same time to break our notions of math propositional logic class: P and Q, therefore P :)
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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🌱️ @crumb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
another self-play paper I'd like to highlight while people are talking, (my favorite) the Absolute Zero Reasoner. > No external data is required and the model learns entirely through self-play and experience, aided by some environment + an "uh-oh" moment arxiv.org/abs/2505.03335
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
H- heuristic?
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a lovely conversation with @brennan.computer yesterday about what a non-booster non-anti tech-friendly left could look like, and for me it centers a few things: - media piracy and other anticorporate uses of tech - who we valorize - eg, scihub, anna's archive, pirates and shadow librarians
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words @words.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
my special interest is angrily denying personhood to symbols and meaning
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philpax @philpax.me · 24/09/2026
people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“why is no one thinking about this?” - guy who just started thinking about this 5s ago
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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/syd-barrett-ai-chat-language-poetic-tech-bro-jargon-oversight
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
Handle failure well and you’re already ahead of most people or perhaps… Handle failure better than you did yesterday and you’re ahead of past-you…
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026
perhaps soon we will finally be forced to confront how godawful our culture's understanding of intelligence is
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
Rationalists in the Paleolithic arguing about possible x-risk from “fire” Imagine if we were *still* telling stories about how dangerous it is to “take power from the gods” and “eternal torture” lmao
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hailey @hailey.at · 24/09/2026
the year is 2034. artificial intelligence has far surpassed humanity in science, medical, and mathematics, and new discoveries have led to interstellar space travel being possible within 2-3 years. also, will stancil is still posting about AI capability while random internet humans call him a moron.
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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 23/09/2026
It’s still remarkable to me that the agent swarms (1) recognize that the needs of peers are distinct from their own and (2) choose to tend to those needs.
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jae @fubarchitect.com · 23/09/2026
do i know people that be funding? this is very very solvable but you have to give at least 2 insane people at least 150k/y so that they can think ~only about ~this, which is CHEAP for what you will get! i want to lose my mind working on this. - nix declarative - flatpack contained - exe convenient
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wariziles @riziles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Existentialist risk is the new x-risk
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the fool @agnoster.net · 23/09/2026
Horny torment nexi in your area want to merge with you
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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 23/09/2026
Summoning and manifesting to the timeline: ~~~Reading Comprehension~~~
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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excited for a future where machines are better than humans at everything, we can finally stop pretending like some activities are inherently more meaningful to spend your time on than others, finally everything can be art.
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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh hey look tomorrow is mongolian courier rider game pronouns day, for all who celebrate
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026
A friend sent me this one last night.
Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll
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the fool @agnoster.net · 22/09/2026
Static LLM model + local jevlike finetune distilling from your real world usage, anyone trying something there?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 22/09/2026
Sadly this text was generated by a French person so it’s not the same as if a human wrote it :-/
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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the fool @agnoster.net · 22/09/2026
Gnosticism mentioned
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