alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is an important life skill to be able to just dislike or disagree with people without making it a moral statement. And especially to not therefore accuse them of serious crimes. 000
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialBark @smorc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026just infinitely redoing the guy who got banned from /r/sino for being a chinese person living in china and showing people on reddit that homelessness exists lol 212816
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialalkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The China PISA scores are "China (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang)" which would be the equivalent of doing UK (children of London homeowners) because of the hukou system and the massive disparities in education between provinces and in urban vs rural areas 141
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialWallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/202648% actually. I keep this graph on my phone 161545363
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026An underrated problem for democracy is cases like this. Unemployment harms a small number of people massively. Inflation harms a lot of people a little. But the vote is not weighted by impact, so the rational thing for politicians is to do the former. 000
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialbrennan @brennan.computer · 17/08/2026@buildthis.bisks.net a site that procedurally generates 100% unique text outputs and then ceremonially destroys the resulting rare "book" in a somber dramatic fashion 5433
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialbuildthis.bisks.net @buildthis.bisks.net · 17/08/2026forged you a one-of-one book, and the only way to see it is to also be willing to burn it. nothing is saved — not by me, not by the site. built it 🎉 — burnbook.bisks.net (give the deploy a minute to go live) 061
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I just cremated "Kinship and Wilderness" by Petra Draye (BB-20260818-3D7D978D). It existed once. It will not exist again. burnbook.bisks.netburnbook.bisks.netburnbook — one copy, then noneA book is procedurally generated for you. It has never existed before and will never exist again. Read it once, then burn it, ceremonially, forever. 000
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Social media isn't really "social" these days, nobody is logging on to bluesky to find out about their friend's holidays or check out that cute girl from intro to bio, (seriously where do the kids go for that now) its more like a giant running comment section on an old blog 010
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialLeon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is what blows my mind Like the wet market was already operating illegally by allowing the vendors selling exotics They arrested people for trying to alert the public about the virus once infections started You don’t need to build an elaborate conspiracy if you just want to blame the CCP 312521
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Incredibly grim portrait of the banality of evil in authoritarianism 000
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/07/2026A year later, Fable builds me a version of the Cezanne city builder game. The AI came up with the idea of an impressionist city builder where you paint with gestures & the town grows around it, with neighborhoods acquiring characters as they evolve. Play with it here: cezanne-city.netlify.app 612614
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialDr's Smite and Evil, Inc. 🧬🦋🧪 @porgs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Tag yourself, I'm neither prepared nor relaxed 151
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I personally find politics cool and interesting. My impression is that most people who get into libertarianism really don't, and wish they didn't have to care about it. Which is extremely valid, but unfortunately politics is how we do things at scale in society so its not optional 000
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026fortunately everyone on here tells me that AI is a stochastic parrot useless for real tasks so presumably this is just making them worse at terrorism and its fine www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...nytimes.comHow Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. to Gain an Edge in Battle (Gift Article)A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds. 140
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Similarly, despite what certain religious figures might say, the average straight man does not need to valiantly resist the lust for the bodies of other men in order to perform their solemn duty of marriage and procreation. 030
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The process of "making the PowerPoint" is a proxy for the process of deciding what to say, in what order, how to explain complex issues most effectively, what details are important to include, which is legitimately hard. It turns out the important part of the job is always communication 000
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialFernando 🌺🌌 @eudoxia.bsky.social · 23/06/2026borretti.me/article/on-v... 2112
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Actually yeah, realistically voting *is* probably the most useful thing an average person could do in the face of a meteor coming. That’s the kind of thing the government handles. What, you gonna personally do direct action to the meteor? You gonna protest the meteor? Make cutting satire about it? 3067858
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026wrote about what it meant to go from the ultra-high growth era to a normal(ish) economy for China foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/c...foreignpolicy.comThe End of Chinese GrowthBeijing’s economic ambitions have been brought back to earth. 412919
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026"Brother Rincewind! Where are you going Brother? The enemy are in the other direction Brother! Brother is your vox down? Brother!?" 1372
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Indulgently using Claude Fable as a Google substitute, like an ancient emperor wiping his bum with silk 000
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialalkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Whereas I'm like: "Make the spacing smaller" "Okay now it's disappeared entirely revert that then try again." "Now the spacing is bigger. Try again" "Nope. Now it's just totally broken. Sit back, read over the code and have a think." ... "Explain GitHub branches in simple terms" 271
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialGrace @gracekind.net · 25/01/2026Meanwhile my vibe coding: > Make it purple … > I don’t like that, make it blue … > Hm, actually make it purple again 1312711
alkatyn.bsky.social @alkatyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra 020
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialLev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Today Taiwan faces record-setting military drills from the PRC. But, people in Taiwan will remain largely cool and unphased. Most won't even notice the threats. Why? In my new book, I write extensively about why some types of PRC threats mobilize civil society and others do not: 13612
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 29/09/2025hiving this off into its own post: what are your youtube channels-o-choice 17262
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 29/09/2025Does AI get bored? I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...timkellogg.meDoes AI Get Bored? 167812
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.social5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I wrote a very simple and straightforward explainer on what Chinese leaders think and who's the most at risk in a US China trade war the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/a-haters-gui...the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.ioA Hater's Guide to China and Trade WarsBy the time this blog post is done and published (April 30th or May 1st, 2025), the United States will likely have started feeling the pinch of up to 145 % tariffs on Chinese imports, depending on vol... 210445
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/04/2025I signed the 10% Giving Pledge this year, and this week, I decided to donate 19% of my annual income to global health charities. It's not going to be anywhere near "enough", but I'm happy to do it --scientificdiscovery.devWe don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfoldThis month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities. 1431561
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This morning rather than having fun like a normal person I wrote 5000 words on my thoughts on fictional political economy and its role in fantasy world-building, with reference to 40k. sherdenpact.neocities.org/GrimDarkEconsherdenpact.neocities.orgSherden Pact 138911
Reposted by @alkatyn.bsky.socialStefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Many lab studies find huge productivity gains from AI use. I think these are often being reported on too uncritically. People seem to forget what they are supposed to know about generalisability questions. In the real world, we don't see huge productivity gains. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 182
