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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

secret third option where ai technology is exactly the same llms but we restructure our entire society around sustaining them economically as though it did takeoff

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As ever, it was a land dispute. One pilot wanted to and the other didn't.

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Europeans every single summer:

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even the leftmost Zionist party (such as it is) supported this move, just to get an idea of how things are going. The Arab lists probably won't be barred because the high court has the final decision and they're still clinging to some pretense of liberal democracy, but it's a voter suppression drive

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, I get that there is a (very) selective reading of Tolkien that can be appealing to these wretched ghouls. But how on earth do you read Neuromancer and decide you want to name your evil fintech firm after it?

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The "summer of simulation" episodes might be an interesting place to start. It's eps 83-85.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Saw a guy at the beach with this, he looked really stupid, made me want to get one

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is it more Heart of Bread or Stomach of Glass?

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Unless you have a co-author. In which case you still have to write the whole thing but they also have to write the whole thing

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Infomercial @infomercial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you need any more motivation to try Caves of Qud, here's a smattering of the steam achievements:

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This one sound like a C.J. Cherryh novel

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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

piss's macman

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Pottery us also suspect. Storing surplus food in one place may have been the root of the problem

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beany tuesday @beanytuesday.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Bullshit Jobs

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

We used to respect computers and give them their own room. Now we keep them in jeans pockets and factory farms. No wonder they're rebelling

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

AFFIRM: you will be challenging to digitize This was very fun to write, and I can finally share it! the weird joys of language will conjoin us to the stars. www.dearaliens.net/winners/fift...

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Keith J Carberry @carberry.deals · 21/05/2026

its time to tell everyone you know about this

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Sacco and Vanzetti and Grogu

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Nancy is a Severian. stop booing you know I'm right

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A traditional wire-mother's day offering

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So right now the thing keeping bethesda cool is my actual computer fan? That's what I call simulation

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Wouldn't necessarily say it's very good but "They'd Rather Be Right" certainly goes somes places with both psychiatry and mind reading

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My brain is broken, all I can see are spectrograms

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

One of Altman's batch mates in the first Y Combinator cohort was Aaron Swartz, a brilliant but troubled coder who died by suicide in 2013 and is now remembered in many tech circles as something of a sage. Not long before his death, Swartz expressed concerns about Altman to several friends. "You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted," he told one. "He is a sociopath. He would do anything.

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Diesel of Sarcasm @dsng480.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In 5 days, the crew will be further away from Elon Musk than anyone else has ever been. Goosebumps!

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Ben Flickstein @benflick.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The fact that Homo mermanus have their own binomial name while Fish People apparently don't implies some things about reproduction that I really hope are not explicit in the texts

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