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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 4h

All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.

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ceej @ceej.online · 4h

are AI coding tools capable of delivering useful work: verifiably yes is there actual real demand for AI coding tools: verifiably yes is that demand sufficient to support the economics: a lot of people would sure like to know!! is AI ontologically evil: to be determined by the RoboWars

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 3h

One of the side effects of which is that I'd expect QA and Ops to start coming back as distinct specialties with distinct roles over the next few years Assuming of course civilization doesn't collapse first, or whatever Interesting times we live in, eh?

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 3h

Meaning "professional" users will end up adopting "loosely structured natural language" prompts, aka "dialects" and special purpose models, rather than the free form usage that seems prevalent today (To be clear, I'm not talking about LLM use in other domains, or about GenAI use more broadly)

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 3h

My go to until a couple of conversations I had recently was the "painfully stupid but also incredibly productive (for better or worse) employee" analogy Now I increasingly suspect that after the dust settles the role of LLMs in software will be more like the role of compilers in the early days

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 4h

Just because it's trending: if your reaction to ICE targeting Ilhan Omar is to call for Elon Musk and/or Melania Trump to be denaturalized and deported, YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Very darkly funny that the entire neoliberal sales pitch was that competition yields better results than regulation, and then they removed all the competition *and* all the regulation and most of y'all still didn't even *start* paying attention until the "trickle down" part finally started drying up

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Oh well, who knows... "It Might Work For Us!" "Maybe This Time Will Be Different!" This is the kind of leadership you end up with when you spend decades promoting people based on their ability to soothe donors and perform loyalty instead of their ability to strategize, or *inspire* loyalty

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Really love knowing that the people officially in charge of impeding authoritarian consolidation not only don't bother to plan for stuff like this, but don't even think it's *necessary* to plan, because that would be too much like admitting all the stale "checks and balances" rhetoric is meaningless

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Come to think of it though, wasn't this one of Schumer's "red lines" at some point? It doesn't even seem worth going back to check anymore. That's how completely detached from political reality the "opposition" leadership are. It'd be as pointless as trying to attack Republicans for hypocrisy.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Which, let's face it, is going to happen eventually anyway It's just a question of whether they're removed under duress by smarter fascists or replaced by a new coalition within the Democratic electorate The latter option being *your* job as a voter, as all the moderates like to keep reminding you

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 6h

Worth asking yourself: if the moderate caucus (now includes Black people! yay for progress!) don't understand what's wrong with this attitude by now, what events do you imagine could possibly persuade them, without those events removing them from power altogether? jeffries.house.gov/2026/10/12/j...

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JOINT DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON THE RAID ON ILHAN OMAR’S HOME – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 8h

Once more tapping the "Ilhan Omar is the bravest public figure in the United States" sign

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h

They have to keep doing this song and dance so they can claim that the system held in some meaningful way once all this is done.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

not dragging @simonwdc.bsky.social here, but narcissists unravel all the time. The question is if the political press corps will continue to ignore his mental instability.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Pairs well with "why aren't young people having children?!?"

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The dirty secret is that rich people need to live in politically stable regimes in order to keep their wealth. They will piss and moan about taxes, but they will not flee en masse. They like paved roads and not being kidnapped too much.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

As always, I’d like to remind everyone that when you fight in public, you make it very easy for the feds to understand how to start and keep fights going within the movement So be thoughtful!!!!!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

Main thing I’ve gotten from this trip to Europe is that a lot of leftwing discourse — “content” — on social media is not a good use of people’s time A lot of “call out” and not enough of “being in community”

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

theyre-the-same-picture.gif (Which is a *little* unfair since the "AI" investors are mostly VCs and banks, plus various tech companies putting the same dollar in more than one account using accounting tricks, but all *those* people got rich by being shareholders, so close enough.)

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Latest comic: Machine out of control

Out of control

Woman drinking beer: It feels like there’s a weird robotic machine spinning out of control and no person or government is capable of fixing it.

It’s taking over everything, eating up precious land and water and spewing pollution like a rogue agent hell-bent on destruction.

If things keep going like this, there will be no humans left!

Woman 2: Yeah, the AI threat is pretty scary.

Woman 1: AI? I’m talking about our insane shareholder-first economy.

TV news announcer in background: stocks up again on deregulation… more drilling… next: record heat on the West Coast!

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Worth adding that the incentive for people in marginalized communities is to either be *hyper* competent so they can participate in the core economy, or completely refuse to participate in it Not that that happens in the Land of the Free. But it does happen in some of the shithole countries.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Most people are incentivized towards competence as a means of improving their material conditions, but the wealthy aren't. Their incentives are entirely emotional: status preservation, positional dominance, alleviating boredom, etc. It's no surprise they typically regress into spoiled children.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It is not safe to assume that officially delivered lies, or targeted propaganda, or the deliberate use of moral ambiguity to prevent marginalized people from working together and get them fighting each other instead, are modern inventions bsky.app/profile/bloo...

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm already spending "thousands of dollars" for a new shirt if you take the externalities into account. I'm just paying it in taxes instead of all of it going to the people who make the shirts. If you don't think that matters you don't think it matters. But that's how it works.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uhh, no. They were monopolists only in the same sense that artisans of any kind are monopolists. I'd encourage you to broaden your range of sources and read some more, and consider who was working the mills that were making the cheap clothes that the poor people so badly needed But it's up to you

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No, the modern equivalent would be more like opposition to data centers, or fighting for universal healthcare or public banking They were protecting their own livelihoods, absolutely. They were not doing it to prevent material progress. There is a difference, and that difference matters.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Luddites were not anti-technology and the only reason anyone thinks they were is that what they opposed was wage slavery Which is a position that has to be propagandized to be something else Listening to the Luddites would have saved a lot of lives and a lot of grief over the following century

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The funny thing is Axelrod later on emphasizes how disgusted voters are with Washington corruption. So why shouldn't Jackson attack Collins, whose corruption @propublica has blown up? My bet is Axelrod and Collins are friendly and he can't get past that relationship.

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Listening to David Axelrod tell @jonfavs that corruption arguments against Susan Collins are inadvisable demonstrates that a perpetual class of affluent consultants are ill-suited to a populist moment with widespread cynicism. Elites can't see each other's corruption!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

If elected officials don’t feel safe then how are professors in a Department studying sexuality and gender supposed to feel safe? How is a tenant organizer supposed to feel safe, student protesters etc all the people in political life who are targeted by the same reactionaries without any support.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

We live in a surveillance state which spends an order of magnitude more on policing than any other country, how is the most powerful people in the country still feel unprotected? Why do you think that it?

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John Breen @breen.tech · 11/10/2026

This is tangential to the point, but if the mayor can’t stop the police because they’re effectively a gang, then the only actual solution is to take their money away

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But you could also check with pretty much any US social worker, or the person who deals with insurance for your doctor about this as long as they trust you Social welfare programs in this country are designed to be difficult, but the people who administer them are generally highly motivated to help

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And yes, it does go the other way sometimes People rarely aim for systems of "bureaucratic cruelty" deliberately, but when they do they may find their goals subverted by gatekeepers who disapprove of the cruelty and use the process to undermine it "Schindler's Ark" came up in conversation recently

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

YMMV of course But my advice is to make sure you can keep both of these perspectives – "due process" and "bureaucratic cruelty" – in your head at the same time, because both views are indisputably legitimate. You cannot have one without at least the *possibility* that it suddenly becomes the other.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Gates and Gatekeepers are sometimes called Checks and Balances "Just one more check and balance, baby, I swear, this time there will be no more harm, this time will be different, we just need to..." But eventually you end up with Qualified Immunity for the President of the United States of America

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So the more kinds of harms you try to solve at once, the more you end up relying on gates. And when you have gates you need gatekeepers, because sometimes a decision about who gets to pass through the gate does not have an obvious answer It sucks, but that's just the way things are Morality != Law

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The reason this is so important is that the more globally you try to solve harm, the more you have to reach for procedural complexity Only the problem with that is that "procedural complexity" is just a fancy way to say "gates" and/or "gatekeepers" Authority. Bureaucracy. Delay. Bribes. Cheating.

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So whenever you, as an individual, want to minimize some harm, whether toward you or caused by you or caused by others toward others, it's critical to think carefully up front about *exactly* what harm you're trying to prevent or repair Because trying to solve harm *globally* is actually dangerous!

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When you dig deeply enough into harm reduction, you always end up, eventually, somehow, at "but that's just the way things are" Because it's true. You will always end up there because there is no perfect solution and there never will be. There is only that Eternal Vigilance the ancients talk about

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Here's a good example The LEO and prosecutorial approval layers a rape allegation has to go through demonstrate how "due process" and "bureaucratic cruelty" are equally reasonable *moral* assessments of the *exact same* protocols and sequences of events here: www.courthousenews.com/ny-governor-...

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NY governor slams response to Cornell gang rape report

Governor Kathy Hochul said Cornell University police and the local district attorney's office failed to properly investigate the 2024 report, so she's tapping Attorney General Letitia James as an inde...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"

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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

DOCTOR: have you been under any stress recently ME: come on

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To be fair, not *everyone* is dancing around it, but it's certainly instructive who is and who isn't (Or at least it *should* be instructive)

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is the question.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We have one simple question to ask and answer: when do we become ungovernable?

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think *everyone* needs to read theory but ffs if you're going to take the position, however deniably and indirectly, that Rule Of Law contains only exactly those ingredients which it lists on its label, what are some *other* positions that you believe distinguish you from authoritarians?

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lotta mfers on here seem to truly and sincerely believe that the Cossacks (LEOs) are going around betraying the commands of the Tsar (the Judiciary) and as soon as the Tsar finds out about it he'll put an end to it and JFC I just don't even know what to say to that anymore

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Fancy Peyote, Speaker Emerita @blooshky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mean, this is the same government that posts videos of military strikes on fishing boats It's too late for this shit. When the state sanctions political violence, the "legality" of that violence is irrelevant. It doesn't matter for politics *or* morals. Legality is a separate question from both

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