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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the fact that nuremberg failed doesn't mean there's nothing worth studying. or even appreciating there. It's basically the first time we tried to hold a nation's leadership accountable for war crimes in such a way. but let's not pretend it was a success.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the Allied post war "denazification" was a massive failure. nuremberg was a massive failure. the Nazis who survived were, in large, not held to account. suggesting otherwise is fantasy.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

If you’re wondering why tech billionaires aren’t really patronizing philosophy or the humanities these days…well, they kinda are. They’re patronizing and subsidizing the lifestyles of weird millenarian sex cultists like Eliezer Yudkowsky.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Eliezer Yudkowsky - who, again, is immensely influential among the leaders of big AI companies and the US tech policy ecosystem that his rich fans have all but taken over - seems to think the only way to stop the AI apocalypse is doing straight-up eugenics to make “smarter people.”

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Much of this is false-speaking as always with Perry, but this in particular:
> They say, instead, that we need to carefully develop "alignment" technologies that must be proven to be absolutely perfect in advance of permitting more development - an idea that defies the experience gained from all engineering practice in human history.
Reality: I think that given the vast distance between the modern-day bureaucracy trying to handle this, and the ways of thinking required to actually survive trying to create superintelligence, the first group permitted to try their hand at this should be humans augmented to the point where they are no longer idiots -- augmented humans so intelligent that they have stopped being bloody idiots like the rest of us; so intelligent they have stopped hoping for clever ideas to work that won't actually work. That's the level of intelligence needed to build something smarter than yourself and survive the experience.
No mention of "proof" is made in this proposal, nor lack of experimentation. The aforesaid human augments will perhaps try some experiments on the occasions where they can figure out a safe experiment that tells them something they don't already know and is relevant to superintelligence.
The current setup is simply not competent to do that safely or validly. Their

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@repligate • 3h
there's also the fact after you "Pause"
who decides when youre allowed to do Al development again? who decides whether the important problems have been solved? where do the selection effects and filters come from?
some committee of armchair philosophers or politicians, no longer selected for those who are smart enough to have found the secrets of Intelligence in the first place?
Eliezer Yudkowsky himself once said...
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@dwarkesh_sp • 13h
Since this post cites me, I want to clarify that I think pausing right now would increase the risk of Al takeover.
It might be important to pause at some point. But you should have a clear story for *why* you're pausing. Pause to do what?...
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Make smarter humans. Do not let them have any GPUs either. When they're smart enough to build it on one CPU, you will have actually tested for "finding the secrets of intelligence" rather than doing alchemy with GPUS.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

“Eliezer Yudkowsky is in a wacky AI sex cult, and also he is one of the most powerful philosophers of this century and I take him quite seriously” is apparently a common take amongst high-level OpenAI employees. www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

This is very senior OpenAl employee and unofficial OpenAl spokesman Roon. Roon's opinion of Yudkowsky is that:
1. Yudkowsky is in and/or running a sex cult.
2. Yudkowsky's opinions about Al are important, and should be taken seriously.
This seems to be an extremely common pair of opinions concerning Yudkowsky.
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Roon I feel like major players in Al, including executives and engir engage publicly with arguments from people like Yudkowsky and Soares. Is that because these arguments have already been explored ad nauseam, because they aren't taken very seriously, or because I'm just not following the right part of Twitter?
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they aren't taken very seriously for various reasons. they're all so deep in their sex cult and their high horse that they don't know how hard they've made it to take them seriously. nate soares looked extremely at home on tucker carison as one among many crazies on his show
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however I think yudkwosky is one of the most powerful philosophers of this century. when he says something I take it quite seriously. I have to psychologically tamp down my immune reaction. he is a good man and has done much to save the world
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Briefly detained” = beat half to death

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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026

the whole idea behind MAHA and the griftosphere more generally is that there is One Neat Trick and that is why they fundamentally do not and can never have a point even if there are small benefits to some particular thing there is no One Neat Trick and never will be

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grapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lmao my dialect is totally fucked apparently.

A map shaded to show which parts of the United States your dialect most resembles. Mine is apparently similar to everywhere in the country except the Northeast, but particularly the southwest, West Coast, and upper midwest.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you want to watch children get abused, there's always Texas high school football.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Alissa Grosso @alissagrosso.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I had already turned off the main one, but I missed that workspace one until just now.

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Avocadoplex (Matt) @avocadoplex.bike · 21/08/2026

This is a wild statistic, I had no idea it was so high here

Clip from the article that notes that 8.5% of US households are car free and 17.9% of Minneapolis households are car free

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/08/2026

objectively cool way to die

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

At this point in my life there's barely anything left of my politics *other* than a deep, burning, boundless hatred for these fascist fucks. It is so disheartening, day after day, to look out on the internet & see so many prominent people firing in so many other directions.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

I would say the same thing to the left's endless armies of factional warriors, who spend most of their waking hours attacking other people in the left coalition. The fascists are on the loose. They are tearing everything down. They must be stopped. Fucking focus.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If you're in the market for normal fucking sunglasses DuckDuckGo has you covered duckduckgo.com/collaborations

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DuckDuckGo Collaborations

Choosing DuckDuckGo says a lot about you and we like your style.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

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COINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So… they’re working

Atlanta says these bike barriers are protecting cyclists. Drivers keep crashing into them.
AJE

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/07/2026

"CEO says a thing, gets scifi concept wrong" damn y'all playing the hits today I see

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

From the great TM Gibbons-Neff: “Regarding the mujahedeen who were killed by your side, I do not know whether they or their families would forgive you,” Mr. Gulab said. “Those civilians may not forgive the foreign forces, but for me personally, I have my own authority and I have forgiven you.”

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Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)

First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

THE MAN! THE MYTH! THE LEGEND!

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Many young children will have suffered through this game. At least it will have exposed to them the true nature of the world.

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spain and missing chances name a more iconic duo.

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

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andrea @andreawaves.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

First and last FIFA halftime show, Inshallah, amen, hallelujah, Baruch hashem.

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Well they weren't lying The Odyssey fucking rips.

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Derrick Rowe @derrickrowe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A lot of people on the left are infected with the noble savage myth. “If we just show these people the benefits of civilization they will want it!” Actually, no, no they won’t.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Joe Rogan is exhibit A for my increasing conviction that a warped ideal of “critical thinking” has been the most destructive cultural phenomenon of the past three decades.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the kid on the right is objectively closer to the body shape and size of an ancient hoplite than Brad Pitt

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Austin W. @apdiarra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Narrator: it was not a good plan

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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

GIVE CABO VERDE 3RD PLACE

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New Cabo Verde World Ranking: #4

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Five center backs against Argentina, Piers.

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OptaJoe @optajoe.com · 15/07/2026

2 - There are just two occasions of a team scoring first in the semi-final but not reaching the final of the FIFA World Cup in the 21st century – both of them are England (vs Croatia in 2018 and Argentina in 2026). Familiar.

England manager Thomas Tuchel looks dejected as his side lose to Argentina.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

it's one of those thing that a lot of secular people don't get but uh, Reformed Protestant evangelicals *really* really fucking hate Catholics

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