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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 5h

We might not answer the deepest and most intractable questions, but we are making sure that NOBODY else can answer them.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The most amazing thing about non-white white-supremacists is their willingless to build a racial hierarchy were they get to be in the middle.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No it doesn't. Stop spreading islamophobia. Title should be: "Far right politician uses AI chatbot to produce fake images of women without their hijab without consent"

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

October rears its head and I find myself again in the ritual of telling-my-wife-to bring-the-hot-water-bottle-into-bed-because she-gets-cold-and-we've-yet-to-turn the-central-heating-but-she-feels-weird-about-it-because the-days-are-not-that-cold.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm all for calling it Super Intelligence. In fact, let's call it something more pathetic, like Epic Super Big X Brain (it needs the X to be truly hopeless)

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've continued to download and skim papers that in no way benefit my work instead of writing. But you know what? This next one might.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Talking to an englishman about history and geopolitics and he was like: "No matter what we do, everyone will still say we are bad guys. Doomed if we do, doomed if we don't" Which was a surprise to me, because I wasn't aware the UK had taken any steps to redeem its image.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A few years ago we had a debate in Chile because a lawyer was had been reprimanded for using Hello Kitty earrings during office hours.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The most influential people in tech, media, and business are posting on Twitter" (disparaging)

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel there might be a inner contradiction between Paramount being able to monopolize media and the welfare produced by competitive markets. Has anyone written anything about this?

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I put up a makeshift disc swing in front of my house for my kids to use. Now that school's back, I get to see all kinds of people play with it, teenagers included. These are particularly funny because they just let out their inner kids from those almost-adult bodies.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is from the man that needed a buddy app with his son to refrain from masturbating.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tech bros: crypto will replace fiat currency. Press: OMG Tech bros: look at this ape. Press: OMG Tech bros: metaverse is coming to stay. Press: OMG Tech bros: AGI is going to kill us all Press: OMG

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just spoke with an acquaintance (a physicist) who is working a bit with Anthropic, and, sadly, his vision for the future of abundance is just magical thinking. I genuinely hoped for some concrete benefits, but it is just "AI will solve everything with ideas we haven't even thought of".

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A white-boy businessman negotiating somebody else's country is basically the last 200 years of geopolitics.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Coming from a long time avocado producing country where avocado toast was a staple in many households, I remember when it exploded internationally and everyone was making weird, fancy recipes. It makes me very happy that there is now consensus that avocado toast is the best way to eat it.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is what happens when the only fantasy you read is Tolkien. Go and read some C.S. Lewis, you pervert, get that furry in you going.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is why satire is dying. It can't compete with reality.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

They are going to censor him.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Meanwhile, ancient greeks be like: They put numbers into math??!!!

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The true culprit of the family disfunction is not the Grandma, but Julieta, the protagonist's mother.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Besides, there are plenty of books and resources that have already made that. If you have any sort of proficiency in your area, you already know where to start looking.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It never ceases to amaze how ridiculous nationalism is.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If I had a nickle for every time Jude Law starred in a movie where another youth uses his identity to get ahead in the world, I would have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Half of the AI discourse is just (badly) reheated "socialist calculation debate", except this time it's the capitalists who are in favour of centralized organization, because this time they own the calculator.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trans rights are Piker rights

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Went on a trip to the scottish Highlands, including a few days in Skye. Beautiful weather, we managed to get all the way to Neist Point, where we found an out of sight spot where my wife went for a swim, proving selkies are real.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The thing about dealing with older parents is that sometimes you must help them touch the wet paint. It doesn't matter if there's a sign, if doesn't help if you tell them. Just guide their hand towards the wall, and let them touch it.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some people just need to grow up. Did a reactionary teenager wrote this headline? A leftist libertarian?

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hegel scholars are noding thoughtfully to this

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh, no. Claude is continental. Good news for analytical schools.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

People today: everyone looks the same in the pictures, with all the filters and make up. People in the XVII-VIII century:

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It was a tragic day for sports when Bolt run into the wall and smashed himself to pieces.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

US government latest to sign letter in support of Confas

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Don't call this man and fellow signataries of the letter racists. They are "racist curious", they think race science is still up for debate. Who knows, they might still produce a convincing argument.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sitting in the car outside my home because the three kids fell asleep on the way back and we don't want to wake them. My wife went to get something to drink and an ice cream.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You look like the kind of person who would have this job and opinion.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The bubble is going to collapse any day. Mark my words. The bluesky bubble is doomed to take a generational L. Any moment now.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Could you imagine if every pundit had this level of empathy and compasion for people in prison. But sure, the crazy white lady making

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What freaks me the most about orcas is that we are not sure why they don't attack US. Why do WE get a pass? Why don't they toss us around for play? We know they do the most fucked up things to other creatures. I like to know the rules when dealing with wildlife! WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?!

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Balckberry season and that means blckberry cheescake, blackberry marmelade, and blackberry ice cream sandwiches.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I get the feeling that a disproportionate amount of these kind of essays are being written by women. I'm 100% sure there are more men out there angry at loosing access to what they feel as their property, yet the media (as always) weaponizes women to deliver commentary against the vulnerable.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I know this might sound like old discourse, but I've been getting ads for "Rapanui", an English clothing company of surf-related apparel, and all I can think of is the cultural appropriation discussion. Rapa Nui is the name of the island AND the people who live in "Easter Island"...

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing ominous about UK media doing fascist tropes right after hounding a black academic to suicide.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I hope Bolsonaro looses, but I really wish political parties were better at promoting new talent. It's a bad sign Lula's party has nothing new.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Herein lies the weakness of english. In other languages we use gendered articles that let us know in which bathroom it is appropiate to eat them. You cannot have fully non-woke chips in english, they are always gender neutral.

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A lot of people like to refer to dystopian literature as poignant predictions of our current moment, but to date the best guesses as to what the future would look like continue to be "Back to the Future 2" and "Robocop".

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Benjamin Ibañez @bibanez.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It would seem animal protein and fat are extremely efficient sources of calories. Who knew?

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