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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 12h
Hank Green suggested creators make AI codes of conduct and I thought that was a nice idea. Sometimes when I end up interacting with an LLM, I feel a pang of guilt like, does my audience know. So this is the situation
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The angel of kindness just before I’m about to commit seppuku over wanting a toned body
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like there's a reason not to frame public debates as things between "realistic" people and " unrealistic" people
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes I really look inside of myself and try to think, if ten years ago, someone told me that AI would be an unpredictable product that sort of bungles tasks and isn't easy to program and is a problem for cyber-security. And I do think I'd have said, "yeah that makes enough sense"
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Banana boys
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just can't bear the like full minute of "coming up" that seems to precede every conversation hosted on youtube now. with the dumb intense music and out of context dramatic clips. it must end
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guess the main draw with the apocalypse is that it can only happen once, and so any case against it that that wants to point out that no apocalypse has yet occurred sort of inherently falls flat
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
thinking about getting into the smiths as a 30 year old, Oh, please don't drop me home Because it's not my home, it's their Home, and I'm welcome no more And if a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side Is such a heavenly way to die Those are v good lyrics maybe that's my thing
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't even know what to make of AI Doom anymore. Ezra Klein out there, a true believer, "agnostic about the possibility of human extinction." Jeez Louise, is all I say www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I. (Gift Article)
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I like Ed Sheeran being like "I never spoke about politics. Because my music is about unity, not division" and then the music is like "la la la la I want to touch your body wow. sexy crazy body wow"
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There was a consensus for some time that default robot voices should be women, that this was the more aesthetically pleasing option. But now the AI chatbots are men default. Isn't that odd. Feel like there's something strange about this
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
so it's settled in. I have taken my time to judge YouTube view inflation. And I hate it and it's so stupid
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s weird that in the first interdimensional cable episode of Rick and Morty, Jerry is famous in all those timelines. But then we all these different timelines and different versions of Jerry, and guess who’s never famous? Jerry. Do you guys think that there’s some big plot reason for that? Like ma
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I really believe I could align AI, with ease honestly. When it did something nasty I would say NO and the AI would say yes sir, and it would just go on like that until the AI was kind and friendly to all
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
what are the journalist ethics when your subject uses a phrase incorrectly and you put that incorrectly used phrase in the headline. like if you watch the video, hasan literally means the opposite of pound for pound. he means "in an absolute sense." that's odd www.axios.com/2026/09/17/h...
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Hasan Piker on "The Axios Show": America worse than al-Qaeda "pound for pound"
The Twitch streamer is central to GOP attacks on Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In French, Pickle Rick is Rick-ornichon
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just don’t think this is a great theory for the case on how news works
Nate silver writes: Often when you see a rapid takeoff in news interest in a particular issue (in recent weeks, Al safety), it's because the issue was undercovered before. And the new level is actually closer to the mark in terms of intrinsic demand for coverage of that subject.
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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh no
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Tribute to Ed Sheeran's Bravery Fundraiser T-shirt
"Ed Sheeran’s “I am not complicit.” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt. All proceeds from the sale of this shirt will be donated directly to Palestine Children's ...
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the only event that people talk about when it comes to AI doom is bioweapons of some kind or other, and I'm just not confident that computational intelligence is the real gating mechanism there
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think we should at least regulate AI companies in ways they don’t want and get mad about. This is my compromise
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
why has god made me an apple fanboy. when I look at the folding iPhone I go insane. It makes me feel so pedestrian and low minded
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I know my AI doom obsession is getting annoying but please indulge me. When Nate Soares is asked how the AI would extinct us, he often says “if you play against Magnus Carlsen, you don’t know how he’ll checkmate you, just that he will”
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Guys guess what I just found my copy of BreadTube Serves Imperialism by Caleb Maupin
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
people working in a field doesn't just magically confer an ability to divine information. an AI worker saying they're worried still needs evidence beyond, "if this happens and this happens, then this bad thing will happen, and I just think it's pretty likely that it will"
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I write 200 words of creative writing a day these days. and so many days I just open up a tab and write gibberish until I get to 200 words and think. well 😀 that was productive 😀 job well done 🤠
Boy Genius

Boy Genius goes to a normal school and all the students mock him for his manifestos. Boy Genius is a total charmer: the teachers love him because they know he doesn’t need them. Boy Genius is a sophomore in high school. Boy Genius is good at chess and his parents talk to him about going to real tournaments but he doesn’t know. Boy Genius incorporates Claude Code into his workflow. Boy Genius might enter politics one day, for all we know. Boy Genius is NOT interested in drugs or alcohol. Boy Genius is NOT interested in cynicism. Boy Genius wears straight cut jeans and graphic tee shirts. Boy Genius laughed when he learned what 9/11 was for the first time. Boy Genius Mother had him at 43 and feels self conscious around the more nubile mothers. Boy Genius considers name change: Man Genius. Boy Genius Adventure Time. Boy Genius Rick and Morty. Boy Genius is tired of learning Spanish already. Boy Genius sulks in bedroom and thinks about actually killing himself, over the stupidest things, over nothing. Boy Genius is tired all the time because he goes to bed each night at 3am and then wakes up at 7am.
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I know I’ve been tweeting a lot about AI doom lately, and dismissing it a bit. But just to be fair and balanced I want to say. If you’re working at an AI company and you say “I’m really worried that the thing I’m building will extinct humanity” and you keep building it, you should surely go to jail
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Concern for climate change is so cooked
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I see the popularity of like AI dictation tools and, can people dictate serious writing? I understand writing an email or something but how are you going to write paragraphs and papers and proposals and stuff with dictation
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The fact that the most prominent AI alarmists sometimes write like this is such a big problem. All the more if he’s right lol
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just trying to get a pulse -- would you describe AI as a bubble at this point? Has your opinion about AI changed over the last year or so?
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
someone commented on this video saying (very paraphrased) "Don't you think it's a problem that people can't participate in social life anymore without being surveilled by the panopticon of social media" and I really feel like we have to go back to basics and stop saying words
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I understand why there’s lots of nostalgia for everything in the past, but when I see stuff like this I just want there to be some reckoning with the fact that pewdiepie, an undeniably very shrill and annoying online presence, was the most popular YouTuber for so long lol
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I made a little joel video where I get mad at a guy youtu.be/lmznWmKn-vE?...
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Could we relax please
YouTube video by Little Joel
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I love Joyce Carol Oates so much. I have always loved her. I loved her when she wrote the sensational short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” And I loved her when she said Halloween skeletons were in poor taste
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
my main piece of advice to aspiring video essay type youtubers is: Make less ambitious claims. You don't NEED to tell me about the direction of society as a whole. You don't even need to tell me a big story about how some person or text is all one way or all another way. just tell me what u see
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the problem with having your video be in copyright jail for 3 weeks is that when it goes back online, you no longer care if it gets views. like you still care as much as you would about a month old video, very little
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Milo’s gotta have the longest L streak known to man
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Look at this photo of Lilly and some sort of painted Lilly
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
can i be on that youtube show where they give you your last meal. I could be cheap for them, it could be a just hotdogs dinner if that's what it takes
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think I might like the youtube change to view counts. like for one thing, I'm tired of the shorts people and the tiktok people mogging. also, imagine if youtube did it in the opposite direction, halved everyone's views, the people would riot lol
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My avatar video is back!!!
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
as it turns out, the view increases were not smaller than some creators were thinking. Today was the first day views were tabulated differently and I released a Little Joel vid. It has 94k views (shocking, very high) and 54k "engaged" views (views counted the way they were before the change)
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
please tell me if i am seeing ghosts thank you youtu.be/WeEKIbOoKK0?...
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The Tech YouTubers Have Come for Israel
YouTube video by Little Joel
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many live viewers do Hasan PIker's streams normally get?
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
when I haven't made little joel videos for a while, making a video in like an hour and getting all those comments and stuff feels like a beautiful drug
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i loved Tim Curry :-(
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I don't think it's fair that loveable people have an advantage in this world. Like Gotham Chess is such a loveable guy, perhaps even despite himself. He is loveable in a way that's hard to describe and so he stays winning
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was one of those people where it’s just fun that they were alive at the same time you are
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
made a little joel vid woo youtu.be/3zRjzZ3QHjs?...
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A Country for Guys Like Me
YouTube video by Little Joel
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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
not even disagreeing but it's a "just eat the bugs" ass opinion
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