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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah, a real called shot, that one.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lots of people have long rejected these arguments. A minority? Sure. But a strong and well-reasoned minority. As it happens: LLMs have convinced me they were/are right

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There have always been people who disagreed, vehemently, with this logic. Just because Turing wrote one paper and got a lot of attention for it from the cognitive revolutionaries (who were, on the whole, wrong about most things anyway) doesn’t mean this was some settled deal.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Whereas I mean right thing. Which is, it turns out, the correct thing

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They should let the market handle it.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think he was actually disturbed and had the personal moral feeling that he didn’t want to be responsible for killing people—especially since they might be innocent.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah, Ryan really deserves credit for cracking the whole thing open. Bad Governor, bad person. But that was a pretty brave and important action.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean… if The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is horror, but Solaris isn’t, well… then I’m confused.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m confused about why no one has mentioned Tarkovsky. Does he not count somehow?

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Trial is a great pull. And I’d fight anyone who says it’s not horror.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, like three of them weren’t. But once they got sidelined and Grant took over…

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, possibly. What elements are vital to embodiment and whether/how they can be simulated or constructed is a Bluesky argument that we won’t be able to engage with annoyingly enough until several more breakthroughs have occurred.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But, as far as AI is concerned, the argument goes that the reason they haven’t (can’t?) achieve consciousness is because they don’t live in the world.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The gist of embodiment is that the self isn’t contained only in the brain—that it is not just passively receiving sensory signals from the body and the world, but that they are a part of the self. There are many different degrees of this idea—are your surroundings part of your self? Your culture?

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well, if embodiment—worldliness—is a prerequisite for consciousness, then it might be tough for a soul to maintain its character sans corporeality.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Emergence is definitely distinct from ensoulment, too!

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Friends, there are at least several possible explanations for the distinction that don’t deploy souls. Embodied cognition, integrated information theory, etc.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My hottest take is that all of the misplaced concern—from Skynet to data center water usage—stems from our inability to imagine and articulate our true fear: that humanity is tinkering with its own obsolescence.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a big part of the problem with “AI safety”. A bunch of people are afraid of technology killing them when they should be worried about technology moving on without them.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think that the chances of this aren’t that low. Frankly, some degree of ceding digital space and activity over to AI is an unavoidable ramification of these agents. Think of the degree to which email, phone lines and texts have already become semi-non-human concerns with very little AI involvement

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time I think I’ve come to grips with how stupid things are, the bottom drops out once more

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

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The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Breaking: Trump signs executive order mandating mandatory radium minimums in watch faces, infant formula.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the happiness/misery quotient is basically thermostatic. Having a toddler is so utterly miserable but the utterly joyful parts make you have to suffer through the rest. Just dastardly.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ve been told the problem is insurers. That Aetna would be happy to have unified coding, as long as it’s Aetna’s. The same as BCBS, Kaiser, etc. would unify, but under their systems.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’d be offended if I understood German

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just contrast their nicknames: “Uncle Joe,” vs. “that fucking asshole.”

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hubbard must also have been at least facially charming, given his friend circle—Del Close didn’t often suffer boers. Er… bores. Bores. I meant.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Loeb was a dumb sociopath. Leopold was… more interesting, but mostly for what he did in prison.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rahm should be shunned from polite society, not given even an eye roll for his misconceived political ambitions.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Beginning to think there was a dark side to this Hitler fellow

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But wetter wheat means more witch trials!

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m really looking forward to Round 2 of philosophy vs AI: Aesthetics. Dozens of Stancil posts like “THAT URINAL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE ONE I POSTED LIKE COME ON!!!”

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think what’s really meant is “the last time a war wasn’t hopeless but for continued American presence stemming the bleeding”?

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, this isn’t a very clear framing. If you’re not concerned with outcomes, any war can be ended by one set of belligerents withdrawing.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Phones have been smart for like 20 years

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the plus side: Sam Neill is back!

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ever wonder about the difference between coroners and medical examiners, and where they came from? Up until today, no one could’ve told you. But now I can!

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Turning a Coroner

Podcast Episode · The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong · September 22 · 1h 9m

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m not endorsing anything, but I do feel that being more comfortable with military junta than lone gunman signals a certain ethical deficit akin to not pulling the trolley lever.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Heidegger’s grave must be spinning along with him.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ARG a notoriously shitty pollster though

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

(Pretty good movie, unfortunately)

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing I think needs to be said more often is that D.W. Griffith was so upset with the pushback on Birth of a Nation that his next movie was called “Intolerance” and tacitly compared his travails to those of JESUS CHRIST

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know exactly what you mean. In the exact same way you know and mean it.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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The Constant @constantpodcast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s a lot going on in this thread, but I want you specifically to know you did good here

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