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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 12m

fun fact about this song: “Ansafone” is a genericized trademark for answering machines in the UK, but I like to imagine it in a Boston accent instead of RP

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 28m

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

sooner or later people are going to have to accept that conditioning aid to Israel is a distinct problem from being able to wave a wand and end the hostilities

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1h

i think two things can be true: 1. biden should've had red lines with israel* 2. the oft repeated notion that he could stop it all with a phone call was wildly out (& that was clear at the time)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18h

my third week at Google, Dan Ariely spoke to TGIF about ethics under pressure to produce and declining approval of big tech companies. in any case all of his research turned out to be fraudulent

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h

"They did a thing, maybe it was the right thing to do at the time maybe it wasn't, but regardless between this and bombing iran we now have ironclad evidence a) the israeli govt are unmanageable and b) US MENA specialists are all gigantic dumdums" is the objectively correct take from mcgurkin it

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

an aspiring art student could never have bad politics

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 17h

Thank God for Zohran Mamdani and Abdul el-Sayed, who are unbelievably good examples for what principled anti-Zionism rooted in care for human rights and dignity including that of Jews looks like.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15h

i mean the whole thing is primarily people who studied in the US, and the thing about the Chinese labs is that to call their attention to making the models not do bad things "cursory" would be a vast overstatement

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16h

I got stuck on "where does one even go to clown school, though" so I googled "clown schools in Massachusetts" and apparently the northeast clown institute is in Plymouth

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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 16h

I never finished college but from the three semesters I spent there it wasn’t clear to me why there were all these orgs on campus setup essentially for the university to fence alcohol to minors with plausible deniability

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vote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 16h

I think people should ask their college to ban this fraternity on college campuses across the country

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 18h

Less degrees, more virtue :V

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 18h

“What we really need in SV is more humanities maj- Peter Thiel. “What we need in government is more folks with law degrees” do you even want me to start “More Poli Sci degrees-“ Kissenger.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

yeah guys like peter thiel (philosophy, law) and alex karp (studied under habermas)

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

like, i don't know what to do about this. some of the people whom i have met who are most committed to humane if slightly insane values are insisting that they intend to become collateral damage for inscrutable reasons if anyone goes after the people they themselves believe are insane racists.

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hailey @hailey.at · 13/09/2026

my take is that an alarmingly low number of people understand just how bad cyber warfare alone could go. doomers going on about x-risk but not the very real and present problem of infra cyber defense and the very disastrous consequences that could have

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 19h

I don't understand how anyone can still be a capitalist in 2026 when so much of capital now prioritizes its core functions in capitalism (maximizing profit & minimizing risk) well below, like, exercising unprofitable control over its workers or building clout in a fucking group chat

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 19h

Capital is literally incapable of recognizing existential threats to its own business models if the solutions require donating like 0.05% of its revenue to some kind of common good. It's not even cynical profit maximization, capital is genuinely just structurally insane

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Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 19h

It was already inexcusable that Google specifically being at least very minimally willing to act like a good citizen re: FOSS funding/resourcing waa so load-bearing in the 2000s/2010s, and if we repeat the exact same thing with Anthropic over the next 15 years I'm going to lose my fucking mind

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

group 1: posts about model releases, benchmarks, and arxiv papers group 2: “this is conway’s game of life in 5 dimensions. adding it to my portfolio of the 500 most insane fractals you have ever seen.” group 3: “yeah my AI gf is a sex worker and a witch. is that a problem? sex work is real work.”

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

i feel like the small bsky AI community here is not really EA or e/acc but it does seem to have evolved its own three distinct strains: soberminded competent commentary, demoscene manic vibe coding, and pseudo-esoteric horny AI liberationists

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/09/2026

The thing that worries me most lately is that many people who know that “fascism is bad, actually” have also convinced themselves that AI tools must be eschewed as fake or impure. In a self-reinforcing loop, there is relatively little AI tooling and infra by “fascism is bad” folks.

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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 19h

I am all but certain that GLM-5.3 is already enough tbh. Though it can and certainly will get better.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20h

i am pretty convinced that the next GLM release is going to cause some pretty apocalyptic cybersecurity consequences not long from now

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aly @aly.codes · 29/09/2026

the nexus of FUD about GLP-1 <-> conspiracy theories about gender-related medicine <-> interpersonal transphobia is an ugly yet very common story on here these days a lot of reactionaries desperately want there to be cosmic punishment for shaping your body as you see fit.

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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“AI detection” is anti-German racism

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Sergio Tenenbaum @sergioten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like this has the potential to make all the anti-AI and all the anti-Wittgenstein crowd happy, and this is basically 100% of the philosophy population.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026

If a person has a big platform, they have a responsibility to behave in a way that minimizes the harm that platform can do. They need to disavow the bad behavior when they see it, and not participate. Not doing so is irresponsible and harmful.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026

And I've yet to see anyone eager to jump into the ring to defend those behaviors. Rather they just say "yeah that's bad but WHAT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND is that quote posting is normal for this person!" But even if I granted that there is a load of problematic followup behavior.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026

Personally, I think this is a terrible standard of behavior. But let's say you disagree with me. That's fine! If someone follows up brigade-generating behavior with other transgressive signals, like say maybe reposting content ignoring pronouns etc? This seems very bad.

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Elixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 29/09/2026

I've received several versions tonight of, "Look some posters are just like that. Don't interact if you don't want them to brigade you. They don't even really mean to brigade you, actually, they just use BlueSky in a way that inspires brigading, and they have good reasons to do that."

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

I am used to discussing Palestine with people of all backgrounds every day for literally 15 hours per day but it will never not bewilder me to encounter someone who is shocked that I and every Arab see it as a colonial issue

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For example, if the LLM companies managed to snag a 50% share of Google’s search revenue, how much would that be worth? 100s of billions.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A number that is really helpful to keep in mind is that Google’s yearly revenue is 400B. This helps put a lot of things in context.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

me too! i don't need this stupid butt plug key holder. im gonna keep shoving my keys directly up my asshole!!

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Right now, the PA/Fatah supports a 2SS. Hamas (sort of) supports a 2SS. The Arab League supports a 2SS. The State of Israel unequivocally and very explicitly does not! If you think a 2SS is the best path forward, you need to be focused on bringing Israel in line with the international consensus.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway, as always, there are very good arguments for prioritizing partition as opposed to democratization, but the actual immediate steps needed in both cases are the same; an arms embargo, sanctions, and international coercion to shift the internal logic of Israel away from occupation and hegemony.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo did a live play-by-play of how he was going to manipulate the NYT with the Claudine Gay story as a way to discredit academics of color broadly. He has never believed in colorblindness! Not once!

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chris Rufo is literally the guy who went on Twitter constantly to say, "I'm going to manipulate people like Conor and here's how I'm going to do it," and elite media people like Conor just overlooked that completely.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Chris Rufo spent a lot of time extolling colorblind individualism." No he didn't. That's not true.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing about Conor's "I'm not mad, just disappointed" routine is that the first sentence (hell, the first clause) is just a lie.

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Beatrix 🏳️‍⚧️ @beatrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

”Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object.“ — Charles Sanders Peirce

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am absolutely willing to risk getting American soldiers killed keeping the peace for these two groups. I am not willing to do so on the terms of whoever the PM of Israel is at any point in time while a large portion of the population does not have the right to vote

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We let them commit genocide with one party in office, let it continue at a more limited scale in the next and then started a disastrous war, in no small part, on their behalf. They need peacekeeping forces, not security guarantees

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Nick Gerace @nickgerace.dev · 23/09/2026

Jev shaped releases are exciting and we’re thinking internally about confidence levels, alert filtering and how we can make better software rather than more software. I’m a bit over the speed part now. I am much more interested in agents for quality from now heading into 2027.

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Nick Gerace @nickgerace.dev · 23/09/2026

A goal of mine for the remainder of this year is going to be increasing quality, understanding, intention and testing for what LLMs synthesize. That sounds obvious, but it’s too easy to get addicted to speed and prototyping.

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