Reposted by brasidasdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026case keenum sounds like a pokemon handler name 2347324
Reposted by brasidasDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026what people outside of demented gun nuts world haven't really caught up to is the extent to which firearms since then have experience "carcination," aka "literally everything is an ar-15 knockoff now" why get an smg when you can just get a really compact ar-15 this thing is legally a "pistol"! 2425622
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Who wants to join me for a "Neuromancer?" @greatdismal.bsky.social 3353
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Well the jungle is clearly adjacent to outer space, so..."taskandpurpose.comFirst Space Force guardians graduate from Army jungle school in PanamaTwo Space Force officers completed the jungle warfare and survival course, as the military increases its focus on Latin America. 201008
Reposted by brasidasrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026no, "rationalist" isn't ironic. they specifically contrast themselves with empiricism -- and they literally believe that they can derive everything in their light cone from first principles to the disappearance of the last neutron. 1843338
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anyone who uses the phrase “mind virus” unironically is someone I want as far from my children’s education as possible. 1484
Reposted by brasidasKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen 252831643
Reposted by brasidasex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anyway, completely normal website. 121069
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm glad getting compromised by a local wandering around isn't just something that happens to us:telegraph.co.uk 2200
Reposted by brasidasAaron Schatz @aaronschatz.com · 28/09/2026You have to accept officiating as essentially a random number generator. 1531633
Reposted by brasidasBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Terminator but it’s just cultists who believe they have to kill Sarah Connor to please the basilisk 37111
Reposted by brasidasNick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Aha! Sad for you, as I have no shame. 1331
Reposted by brasidasArc de Kaiser Don (derogatory) @potrzebiesystem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Important reminder: atop a long list of reasons why one shld not meet w/ Yudkowski for his advice on AI/AGI, or anything else, is: HE ISN’T A CODER! HE IS’NT A DEV! He literally just dropped out of 8th grade & later posted his Harry Potter fan fic & nonsense mental masturbation online. That’s it! 119756
Reposted by brasidasrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless. 3198291
Reposted by brasidasFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20643071103
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We're going to be pulling Woke 1.0 dead-enders out of the jungle for decades, aren't we... 3703
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The rationalists are a dumb sex cult, but there are actual interesting threat models to consider with AI. Like what if the problem is a non-AI virus that does nothing but propagate via prompt injection that makes AI act outside of it's boundaries? 4180
Reposted by brasidasDark Laughter @darklaughtertdb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Like if we wanted to end the million outrages of the AI companies, we probably wouldn't get as far with an actual explanation of all the weird involved stuff than with like "Alcibiades has defaced the herms!" 0111
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If I were pro AI and immoral, I'd invent the water use argument as a way to discredit being anti-AI. It's that dumb. 1503
Reposted by brasidasrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026why is the water thing the only thing anyone cares about when it's the only argument against this stuff which isn't real 67119688
Reposted by brasidasrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day 2559161
Reposted by brasidas"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It is not an unfortunate accident of history that 100% of revolutionary socialist regimes (again, as distinct from democratic or market socialism or whatever other 'mixed' form you like) slide almost instantly into totalitarian oppression, but a direct consequence of their ideology and structure. 0777
Reposted by brasidas"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As an aside, governing systems which assume an unlimited communal claim on the individual do not slide into authoritarianism and oppression by happenstance of accident, but because that is the unavoidable consequence of the structure, apparent from its first principles. 1779
Reposted by brasidasActive Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's only covert action if it's produced in the Title 50 region of Northern Virginia, otherwise it's merely sparkling sabotage 112424
Reposted by brasidasJLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So far none of y'all have topped an actual focus group participant I once spoke to who was adamantly against baby bonds unless they found a way to do it that wouldn't discriminate against people who don't want to have kids 1394
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is so obviously culturally defined to anyone who has deployed to Afghanistan or read the classics. 3434
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Social media pretends its a town square - a common ground for everyone to put up their soapbox and talk to the masses, but in reality it is a custom built town square for each person. 4200
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Everyone paying attention to Nate Silver's blog when it is just a bunch of low pass filters wearing a mask... 1121
Reposted by brasidasActive Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Who is putting these in a spreadsheet 4336
Reposted by brasidasJason Kikta @kikta.net · 24/09/2026BUT VICTIM NUMBER 220 IS FBI, SO NOW IT JUST GOT REAL, HUH? 391
Reposted by brasidasJason Kikta @kikta.net · 24/09/2026My issue with saying this is you’re implying/admitting that LE doesn’t really try until it affects them: “The ShinyHunters ransomware group appears to be actively trying to put a target on their back,” Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice president at Halcyon’s ransomware research center, told CyberScoop. 1122
Reposted by brasidasMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 23/09/2026"LLMs can't think, be creative, or understand things" "they solved 100+ unsolved math problems" This *always* results in "no they didn't" or "then solving math problems doesn't require thinking, creativity, or understanding." The former is absurd. The latter is unfathomable. 8395
Reposted by brasidas[Display Name Here] @whatusername.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Also, it turns out that “infinitely respawning heavy infantry” maybe needed to go through a few more balancing play-tests before being released on the Mediterranean server. 0622
Reposted by brasidasHupple’s Cat @hupplescat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Others will call me a nut-case for this statement, but William Fullam had greater vision about the future of the United States Marine Corps than any Marine Corps contemporary in the day. 4122
Reposted by brasidasNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026YIMBYism is simply an attempt to do to predatory landlords what the Pokémon Company is apparently doing to scalpers 131755
Reposted by brasidasSøren Sjøgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Eisenhower's matrix looks like time management advice. It isn't. It's about what an organisation is for. One general in our research put it more simply: do only what you alone can do. The rest should be delegated. The delegated work doesn't matter less. The point is that it isn't yours. 1434
Reposted by brasidas𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Ironically, one of the reasons I switched from French to Mandarin in college was I was sick of the conjugations. Chinese is - grammatically - so much easier. All the *other* parts of the language? Well... 11977
Reposted by brasidas"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We do not apply this reasoning - that you are responsible when your enemy in a war decides to kill civilians (which is not just some, but most of the deaths totaled here) - to any other war. People have agency and are responsible for their choices, including groups and countries other than the USA. 3073592
Reposted by brasidasJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Not only is this not what happened, this shows that Piker is tankie scum and an authoritarian at heart. 1452479
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026me and my friends would've killed Liberty Biberty with hammers i can tell you that much 1435
Reposted by brasidasWe Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I say it every time but it amazes me that The Tragedy of Great Power Politics is largely vindicated in how Russia’s war and the European response is playing out, and he goes ‘no, not like that’. His*own theory* says that the US should be helping Ukraine to prevent the emergence of a peer competitor 2134
Reposted by brasidasSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This legislation seems nonsensical because it is nonsensical and it is nonsensical because it is meant to prevent Yudkowsky's paperclip maximizer from killing you, and not to solve any real problem that actually exists. 1651286
Reposted by brasidasYen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I also find that people in the West are generally unaware of just how harshly the CCP's official historiography judges Mao's policies 530641
Reposted by brasidasIn My Defense @inmydefense.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It reminds me of how the Soviets straight up admitted to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in '89 and denounced it as wrong, but your average Western tankie still to this defends it as something "forced" on Stalin and justified. 013011
