Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026apparently the mastodon svr I'm on isn't being well-maintained and therefore has a lot of spam accounts. What's a server that (a) has a silly and short name (b) is well-connected (c) still not too aggressive about defederation etc so that we can still participate/observe drama and trainwrecks? 100
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 21/06/2026‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing… 6665471594
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 20/06/2026📢 ARR May 2026 cycle update We have published a blog post about the increased review assignments in the May cycle, what happened, and what comes next. Please read the full post here: aclrollingreview.org/may26-cycle-... #ARR #ACL #NLProcaclrollingreview.orgAn explanatory letter on the ARR May 2026 cycleFor the ARR May 2026 cycle, we had to make the difficult decision to increase the reciprocal service assignments for submitting authors. The reason for this decision was the substantial increase in su... 067
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 07/12/2025Anders Breivik's 2011 mass murder and accompanying manifesto represented, in retrospect, the true beginning of violent fascism's return to power in the West There had been precursors (Columbine or the OKC Bombing come to mind), but Breivik crystallized and unleashed a pestilence that now ravages us 113628
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026for a brief moment a few weeks ago I was using BlueSky more than Mastodon but now my social media usage has settled to X > LinkedIn > Mastodon > Bsky again. There are a lot of people I know on here but for some reason it still feels like a fifth wheel of social media. 110
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026naked admission that the point was always left-punching 000
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Nikki DuCoté @raisedbyvalaya.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"Just asking Questions" revealed to be "Just asking you to disappear" 0532
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 25/04/2026"This is what made Hinton’s speech so troubling. He presented mathematics as a low-hanging fruit, a “particularly easy” terrain for AI, because it is “a closed system with rules,” “like Go and Chess.” Yet Go and Chess aren’t ordinary closed systems. They are actual games with winners and losers. 182
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Even by Labour's sickeningly disgusting attitude towards vulnerable individuals, this is a new low by Mahmood. Under no possible criteria could Afghanistan be classed as safe. Labour has already prevented Afghans from seeking asylum. This compounds the inhumanity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comShabana Mahmood refuses to rule out sending back failed Afghan asylum seekersHome secretary indicates Whitehall talks about returns programme, a move that would shock humanitarian groups 18299122
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/04/2026Bluesky just sips from the intellectual lineage of crypto grifting, where you gesture meaningfully towards "decentralization" but really, 2-3 powerful players own everything. 0264
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy. 15807164
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't. 161418210
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first. 41157151
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised. 251309225
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Really? You're disagreeing with my extremely idiosyncratic take on a technology nobody understands? 1241
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])CJ @virmalised.us · 15/04/2026While I think whale vocalizations are cool, and the inherent structure in them is even cooler, I am not sure that showing that they look like human stuff is nearly as interesting as the tendency for structure 2121
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 15/04/2026This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically, 893606357
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])lyndsay @magpie.tips · 13/04/2026i agree. ducks ARE a good shape 236539
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])TheAHayKid @theahaykid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026MULTIPLE ORBAN FAILURE 19224
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Ankaret Wells @ankaret.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Politics has unexpectedly hit a special interest of mine so here is a quick rundown on the Avignon Papacy. 20982323
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If you see this I implore you to quote skeet with an unusual image from your posting device without explanation. Still definitely use alt text, though. 020
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 07/04/2026so I don't understand luggage locks. airport security can open them and the key is readily available. why do suitcases even have them? 000
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])New Mexico Man @newmexicoman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026 052
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Nancy A. Collins @nancyacollins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026 243379712
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Vincent Carchidi @vcarchidi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Universal Grammar? Sorry pal, I think people should have to work for their language 2143
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Poetry fans when they hear a bell tolling for them: oh shit oh fuck 1020820
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026If you poll populations, you find that his 5 dimensions collapse into just two: Harm reduction/Justice and Authority/Purity/Loyalty. These are correlated with "support for liberal values" and "support for conservative values", which are broadly independent ideas. 101
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])DM Howcroft 🦔 @davehowcroft.com · 17/03/2026your last meme saved is your moral philosophy 061
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 22/01/2026your last meme saved is your moral philosophy (what happens to people who don't save memes?) 063
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])nanzhounoodles.bsky.social @nanzhounoodles.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The conservatives correctly intuited a fairly materialist conclusion that reshaping the technological basis of society was dissolving the social categories that they hold dearer than profit or growth. Science and tech are actually turning the kids into blue-haired activists, which imo is great. 0182
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Fortunately, no other sector depends on the energy sector, so this shock will be completely isolated 513519
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 16/03/2026it's kind of a red flag when a businessman starts getting pissy at you after you politely pass on his product 011
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 15/03/2026why am I *not* getting this ad? Oh, I'm not on facebook 150
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Population per capita across the United States 1033750
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/03/2026i think that the essential issue is that the Israeli electorate is psychotic to a degree the average American could not possibly understand 1374463
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Horatio Pornviewer @stuntbirdarmy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Claude is short for Jean Claude Van Damme. Are you saying Jean Claude Van Damme does not have consciousness? Because I agree with you. 1161365
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Anne Brigaudeau @annebrigaudeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2026« D’après nos calculs, les Israéliens occupent désormais 61 % de la bande de Gaza. Chaque jour, ils déplacent les blocs jaunes et, au réveil, des habitants découvrent qu’ils sont du mauvais côté de la ligne, et sont contraints de se redéplacer » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...lemonde.frDans la bande de Gaza, l’enfer de la « ligne jaune »Les Palestiniens vivant à proximité de l’axe derrière lequel l’armée israélienne s’est repliée sont exposés aux tirs des forces d’occupation et aux incursions nocturnes des gangs à sa solde. 14153
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 05/03/2026spotted "herbeibomben" in Spiegel 000
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])CJ @virmalised.us · 05/03/2026Remember when we used to blame school shootings on violent video games? 131
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. 292444520
Reposted by Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us])Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Poor families used to own my ancestors. Poor families benefitted from depressing their labor and drowning their communities after they were freed. Misdeeds often are financially attractive; it'd be pointless if they only offered moral compromises. Having integrity isn't a privilege, it's a choice. 212423
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Sweden is a morning-people country but Stockholm always surprises me how early everything closes. Even Gothenburg seems to be awake at least an hour later, and it's the second city. Stockholmare really like their bedtimes. 120
Asad Sayeed (also @asayeed[@zirk.us]) @asayeed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026the pity is that Europe at least doesn't seem to have picked up any of the slack 001