Reposted by CK MacLeodA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That the electorate could even contemplate such a man rather than reject him outright shames us all. That our founding laws could permit him to get in a position where the electorate could choose him shames our laws. That our institutions have not bodily removed him shames our institutions. 352085
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This reasoning seems largely persuasive - but it’s not just removal from the narrative in the abstract: the more “authentic” we deem the sexual behavior, the more we are are confronted, in multiple ways, with an event in the life of the actor rather than merely in the fictional life of a character. 010
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“All the institutions” is rather broad, to say the least. May be more interesting to define and track types of “institution,” also changes over time of trust in different institutions. Many other facets of any overall decline in trust, increase in doubt or feelings of uncertainty, etc. 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hard to assess who has fallen further over the last year or so, Klein or Yglesias. Used to think of them as problematic but allies all the same. Each seems to have thought himself into his own opposite by degrees - unless the thinking is slave to personal socioeconomic circumstances. 020
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Makes sense given the prominence of diarrhea parasites in the Republican coalition. 000
Reposted by CK MacLeodChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it. 416035
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I listened to the sample/preview for one of them. It was clean, but nauseating. Could stand further research, but I don’t presently have the time or stomach for it. 011
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thanks. I’ll stand by my conjecture then, and will prefer not to believe until convinced by overwhelming evidence that consumers are as happy with AI slop as with human creative work in any genre. A few loud incels obsessed with their AI gfs don’t count. 100
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Where are you getting data on audiobooks specifically? Genuinely curious, esp regarding side by side comparisons. 100
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I’ve now seen some audiobooks with AI narration. Wouldn’t even consider buying one. My guess is that if you offered the same book with a choice of AI or human performance, the latter would outsell the former at any price multiple up to unsaleable. I expect and hope the idea will die quickly. 120
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026That would be a paradox, or perhaps a curse, since it would seem to imply an unvarying variety, which is either impossible or unobtainable or both, therefore further implying an invariably and eternal spicelessness. Yet we know there is or must have been some spice or idea of spice. Must we therefor 010
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My old pal. Wouldn’t want to be caught stealing from him. 010
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The problem was spelled out nicely by Adorno in theory that almost no one wants to understand or accept. Put simply, art is fun. Apocalypse Now is fun. Schindler’s List, Born in the USA, Billie Jean, and Guernica are fun. Our enjoyment is fundamental. Any negative message is secondary. 1170
Reposted by CK MacLeodAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/06/2026by request i'm going to share a quick thread of collections where people have pulled together articles / resources / arguments about ai harms and how to resist them this is by alphabetical order in my bookmarks, it's not comprehensive, feel free to add to the list of lists 6249117
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Harper was making up for Castle and Fox being MIA, but a lot to ask from a rookie, and he started missing everything, too 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 14/06/2026If he’d been anywhere near his old self, very different series, esp the 4th quarters 110
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Musk’s charitable contributions appear to be trivial relative to his wealth. 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Maybe: “If we weren’t so popular, they wouldn’t have had to rig it so hard.” Or something that amounts to that. 020
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Meanwhile Ohtani is having a pathetic and disastrous… no-hitter through 5 210
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Still scoping out Google search results changes, but it’s not yet “complete” at least not yet for me. Haven’t had time yet to see effects of different settings 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Yes - you are being irrational - but it’s sports so no big… 110
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Good candidate to be recompiled and posted to a certain blog or something 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Bluesky or Halnnnn doesn’t do a great job with long threads. I have to click to a last self-reply to get to a next section 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Fun thread. How many of these do you have ready to go? 100
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Didn’t see it. Out til 2027 or just a bit of caution? 110
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Agree with overall idea of both, but also with others that 1 may be stated too broadly: We don’t know that any left economics would be inadequate, only that what was offered, as it was offered and by whom, seems to have been. 000
Reposted by CK MacLeodMr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Gotta love how the tools are so bad AND the public opinion of them is getting so bad that they're already working harder and harder to hide the fact that you're using the tools. 031
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026The Ancient Greek version of the Sinclair is something like “all men come to love that by which they think they benefit” 000
CK MacLeod @ckmacleod.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Like www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810...goodreads.comA quote from I, Candidate for GovernorIt is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. 000
