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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As long as you title the book "What the fuck is wrong with Chad Bianco"

Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We get one night of 35 degree weather and you are already plotting to escape to the desert. (The book would slap though)

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This sounds excellent. I'm ordering it now!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even students who choose to retain distinctive religious or cultural elements (like dress), they're still talking about the football team (could be better), have a distinctly American understanding on politics and culture, listening to the standard range of American music, etc. They're Americans.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man, you have to be just...really racist...not to come away from spending basically any time at all at an American university with a nearly boundless faith in the power of American assimilation. All sorts of students whose ancestors came from all over, utterly and completely American, all the way.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The argument here is basically that AI is egalitarian because now everyone can experience the cognitive impairment of being kicked in the head by a horse a thousand times day that until now was limited to billionaires

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sure its just a coincidence that the military use-case; perpetual surveillance and target identification, is exactly what AI companies think should be pushed on everyone.

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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So my pitch here is also to department heads and deans: throwing a little bit of money at a book workshop for your juniors and associates is a really worthwhile investment. A workshopped book is more likely to get published well, and more likely to get a lot of positive attention, including awards.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes all of this. My workshop was super valuable and Albany including it as part of my package was really really great.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just regulatory capture all the way down

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If the law stated REAL DAMN CLEAR that a frontier lab is found liable for punitive damages if its model escapes its sandbox and hacks shit, and if that law was robustly enforced, then the frontier labs would figure out how to build better sandboxes. This really isn't rocket science.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dario is in some ways more dangerous because he sees the game as regulatory capture rather than fully escaping oversight. He’s learned the Facebook lesson.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“You guys know where you fucked up, right? You didn’t do this two years ago. Why didn’t you approach the community first?”

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You've heard of the Banking model of education, but how about the Matrix-Battery model?

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The idea that the customer is actually the company hiring graduates is the most cursed thing I think I've ever heard.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hair of the dog at the brewery in the mall?

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The correct number of slides, is an always has been, 0.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My child eats tomatoes like that dude in Lord of the Rings. I don’t know where I’ve gone wrong…

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Cool so someone is definitely gonna die.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You’ll know it’s me at APSA by the Pedroia jersey

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Real “Shot and Chaser” right there

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A reminder that: 1) Maps are always political. Everything on a map is a choice reflecting designed structures of power, state or otherwise. 2) Google always makes the most cowardly choice in an attempt to avoid #1. And always fails.

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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026

NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:

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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’

Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My favorite part of this is when he’s mad that they didn’t ask him, someone who is not involved in the process at all, what he thought.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If only there was some sort of theory that was critical about this…. Some way of thinking that let us think about AI and technology in a critical way…

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/08/2026

Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My favorite is how they think are rebels for being pro-ai. Oooh look at you, believing exactly what the richest people in history think is profitable for you to believe. Such a rebel, so punk.

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The culinary adventures of the two year old. Should we dip our tomatoes in yogurt? Put Parmesan in a PB&J? At least she’s not picky….

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Apparently everyone was ok and we learned about empathy

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And maybe one veggie Krabby for a certain toddler that may have kicked another toddler in the face while on the swings?

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This essay rocks. You should read it

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Stefan Kehlenbach @cogitoergodoom.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Real glad it took me 7 full hours on the phone to rebook my flights today. (that the airline canceled, of course) At least 4 of them were navigating the stupid AI chatbot/voice tree systems everyone insists on using.

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