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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If we want someone better, the time to support and elevate that candidate for 2028 is now. Otherwise this trash is what we'll get.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you accept dark money donations and publish unattributed and anonymous "opinion pieces", you are not doing journalism. If you are a politician planning to run for office, and you personally choose what gets published, it's just a propaganda vehicle. "CivicTide" is one for the dustbin.

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Former Seattle City Council president launches AI-powered site to track and report on City Hall

Former Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson has launched CivicTide, a website that tracks City Council legislation, publishes policy briefs and opinion pieces, and gives readers tools to contact...

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Jensen’s profitability is at odds with the “pacing” (and frontier lab driven self-regulation) that enables lab profitability. Who will win? Probably not the rest of us.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How was the trust established?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And of course in this position where they set their own regulation and establish their own regulatory bodies, the western labs can also lean heavily on western governments to intervene against Chinese development on their behalf without an expert govt agency to question the prudence or necessity.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pacing slows down advancement, eases the need for labs to outspend each other, reducing costs and stretching out the available time to extract profit. And it eliminates the major threat of competition by putting up significant barriers to newcomers.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

However, if your competitors are in the same boat then the logical thing to do is engage in collusion. This is what Dario means when he says it will require government support because it is “legally challenging”; collusion is illegal and for good reason.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

R&D is a cost, not revenue generating. Right now labs can’t afford to slow down because competitors will eat them. They can’t slow down the unsustainable and wildly expensive datacenter builds. They can’t avoid paying sky high prices for GPU and compute. It’s killing their profitability.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whether you believe that AI advancement is an existential risk and Anthropic Dario’s pacing plan addresses it or not, there is no denying that the plan is extremely good for the financial outcomes of the labs and their investors.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m all ears for the additional options

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We can apply pressure more effectively to somebody with a D next to their name. Do we have more options before November?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Take the better of two evils?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m not? Do you have me confused for somebody else?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You run better replacements?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Telling people to stop being hysterical or dramatic is famously persuasive.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Everything you write here will become training for future AI models. Your posts will become new knowledge. What are you teaching them?

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Doesn't look like 4 days!

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not interested in rando whataboutism

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Condescending comments like losing your minds and cooking your brains makes your opinion immediately not worth listening to.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You keep trying to drag more and more off topic nonsense in to hide the fact that you were just so incredibly confidently wrong. Bye.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do you always have this much trouble staying on topic?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“"The Experts" = Some guy who worked for the company for 6 weeks, also some other guy who still works for the company and stands to make bazillions off the IPO” This is the post I’m responding to. I know you’re looking for a quick anti-ai dopamine kick but you ain’t gonna get it here Jack.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Read the thread or GTFO. Your attention span can’t be that bad.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Your account is indistinguishable from AI bot propaganda warfare.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You don’t have to trust me. These are literal verifiable facts. Why would you engage in a topic that you aren’t familiar with?

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More appropriate would be “we were testing our car and it recruited other cars to form a gang which then drove all the occupants to a Michelin test facility to prove they can do obstacle training really well. Thats 50’s sci-fi horror, only appealing to maniacs and the insane.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ah yes, the old universal truth that people love to announce their failures because it makes them look good.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A lot of these communications you claim are “proud” are just you and others projecting that emotion. Don’t confuse thoroughness and detail for pride. Read it for what it is, not for what makes for good lambasting on social media.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s people who have worked for these companies for years and have left and abandoned millions of dollars so that they could warn you. It’s hard to be more wrong than the statement you just wrote.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“It’s just marketing”. Ironically these thought terminating clichés had no thought put into them whatsoever. Anti-AI reactionary rhetoric has outlived any usefulness it had.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“It’s just marketing”. Ironically these thought terminating clichés had no thought put into them whatsoever.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 13/09/2026

“When we put people in solitary confinement, we create mental illness and we exacerbate mental illness,” says an attorney with the ACLU of Colorado. “What is happening to folks in the jail right now is an acute emergency.”

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The Jail That Replaced Boulder’s Mental Health System - Bolts

Colorado’s dysfunctional system for restoring competency for defendants with serious mental illness leaves people cycling in and out of jail, where harsh conditions can further erode their mental health.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI script, AI talking head. Did they take shortcuts in their research too?

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For years we've been screaming from the mountain tops about how insanely dangerous mandatory ID verification is. Now that half the country is doxxed, it would be a good time to take note of the politicians who didn't listen.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’d be less annoyed if folks just admitted it up front.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey, I’m against Zionist genocide. Might not want to follow me.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Absolutely a result of stochastic terrorism

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They’re schizophrenic, but it seems nobody read the article.

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Kar @karishad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Amazon: your package was delayed because your drivers van was stolen, offloaded into an unmarked van and abandoned in a back parking lot of a office building. Friend in NV sent me these. He found out from security that the sheriff arrived around midnight and towed it after searching it.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I have such a temptation to correct misinformation about local activism things but at the same time I don’t want to get dragged into that kind of thing. Ug

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Jonathan Mertzig @mertzigzag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

He was developing a rather testy relationship with media in Madison (see for example tonemadison.com/articles/an-...) and there were also rumors—though less investigated at the time—of absenteeism in his tenure here too… so this feels like a pattern already brewing before his move to Seattle.

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An interview with Shon Barnes, annotated – Tone Madison

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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's not just weekends, it's a high-profile job that requires an on the ground presence, and he's repeatedly been hostile to Erica's reporting of facts about his schedules provided by his own office. Plus the really bad appointing of the anti-gay east pct capt. It's cumulative IMO.

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Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com · 30/07/2026

I'm so curious what went on behind the scenes this week. Look, people have bad days. I get that. I don't want a single bad interaction to always get someone fired. It's too reactive. But we don't know what else transpired after that.

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Blue (Ben) @blueben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There was also no toll before Trump’s war.

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