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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes. But it won't be simple. See page 2: melconway.com/resume.pdf

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That's not what it says. The companies need the humanists more than the humanists need the companies.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The horn of Africa is grieving because their -Their farms are no longer yielding -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our major rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also: bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I see a scenario in which, for whatever reasons, data-center usage goes way below projections, the Government picks up the unused capacity, and uses it for surveillance. Anybody with me? www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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Will Voters Punish Politicians for Data Centers? Ask Ohio and Michigan

Local anger over energy bills and lost farmland are reaching top-of-the-ticket battleground races.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm with the visionary. He might not make it to his goal, but he's setting a new direction. The skeptics contribute next to nothing.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Don't know how seriously to take this. Consider where the idea came from. "Artificial" says it's something different from human intelligence. "Super" says it's like human itelligence and better. How can that distinction be exploited in the future?

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can see more detail in part of a conversation I had with my research assistant, ChatGPT: melconway.com/Home/Transcr... If a counter-strategy exists, it is characterized on page 2. 4/4

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They might be scary, but in my view there is a larger and more systemic danger: the damage already done to Government function by this coalition. That’s what you see post-1960 in the Dallas Fed graphic I cite above. 3/4

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The discussion of the Presentation-Process pattern on page 2 of melconway.com/resume.pdf offers a framing of what is happening that you might consider. The broliarchs are latecomers to the half-century-old coalition described there. 2/4

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I do my own work on this, largely in isolation; I am retired and unaffiliated. Also, my work is multidisciplinary, which also reduces its availability. (See bsky.app/profile/conw... as an example.) 1/4

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look at that graphic, follow the embedded links on page 2, and think about that other, global, impulse caused by the industrial revolution. You’ll see that things are happening for which we’re very poorly prepared. 6/6

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We don’t study ourselves using the idea that a human aggregation can be a highly interconnected feedback system with time parameters measured in human generations. But here’s the evidence. 5/6

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NOTICE THE TIME SCALES. Where do you see political scholarship that takes into account such time spans? 4/6

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After 1960 you’re seeing the response of the system to an impulse. I assemble the evidence describing that impulse in the body of page 2 and in page 2’s “research” link at melconway.com/resume.pdf . 3/6

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Before ~1960 you see the effects of a gilded age, a terrible war, a depression, and another terrible war, and the correlation isn’t so obvious. After ~1960 the three variables track each other more closely. What’s going on after 1960? 2/6

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look at this graphic from the Dallas Fed. It plots three American societal metrics between 1913 and 2009: two measures of Congressional polarization, and a measure of income inequality. They seem correlated, but what is following what? www.dallasfed.org/~/media/docu... 1/6

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

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Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rebuilding government to something resembling status quo ante won't happen. See melconway.com/resume.pdf page 2. For details, see melconway.com/Home/Transcr.... The is part of conversations with Claude and ChatGPT I cite on page 2. For the whole set of questions see melconway.com/Home/Transcr... .

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All this talk about corruption is a way of avoiding the work it will take to learn what we have to do to make real change. Read page 2 of melconway.com/resume.pdf for a framework. Our thinking has to change and the work hasn’t begun yet. @rbreich.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to take seriously arguments about concepts with no generally agreed definitions.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a formalization of that (page 5 & following). It's not capital itself, but the law around capital. melconway.com/Home/pdf/Cou...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK, but the problem goes beyond language. Despite what some critics say, the things being built are creating outputs that are not predictable by the rules we are accustomed to. The people who are advocating "regulation" haven't the foggiest idea what effective regulation might look like.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See page 2 of melconway.com/resume.pdf. It might help to give you a new perspective.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He writes as if he's watching a horse race. Is that what he means by"optimism": the die is cast; now I just watch and cheer.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And that isn't limited by Miller's number.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another AI resignation—this one from Google DeepMind: “I definitely want my future work to be unambiguously pro-human.” “The existential risks many people are warning about deserve to be taken seriously…” (robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...)

Robert O'Callahan @rocallahan
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I resigned from Google today.
enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make Al much faster and cheaper, and I think Al is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My current research examines the underlying network structure, visible and invisible, that has developed since World War 2 in the American Conservative movement. I am using AI chatbots to collect public historical data. An index to these results is here: melconway.com/Home/Transcr...

The questions I asked my AI research assistants about the half-century-old American conservative movement are all here:
https://melconway.com/Home/Transcripts/QuestionsOnly.pdf
After each group of questions for which a single answer document exists, you will see a little bulleted line:
• Answers to above at
immediately followed by a link to the answer document. With only a few trivial exceptions in which I replaced the answer by a screenshot of the answer, the text of each answer is unedited; I copied/pasted it from the AI's web page to a Google doc, then to a Word doc, then saved as a pdf.

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The system took a big impulse at the end of Depression/W2, then the baby boom, and it's still ringing. Here is an annotated, but otherwise exact transcript of a conversation I had with Claude gathering data for this research. melconway.com/Home/Transcr... 3/3

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking at this more closely I'm seeing this as a systemic reaction to social/economic disruptions in the '60s and '70s. 2/3

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here are graphs from the Dallas Fed I found in my research. There's a lot of data like this showing a turnaround near the early '70s leading up to the present. 1/3

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am writing to propose a notation that will allow us to formalize statements about emergence (which is still interesting), but I’m putting it on hold now to prioritize my political writing. I believe it will be a contribution. More later, I hope. 2/2

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Mel Conway @conways-law.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

To everybody out there arguing about emergence: I have concluded that such argument reeks of category error. The word suggests action; there is no action. Nothing emerges. What we call emergence is a static relationship among a set of semantic categories. 1/2

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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💖 Birdhism Jen @birdhism.com · 02/09/2026

Paint them things please. #climate #windpower #birds

Scientists painted one wind turbine blade black, and bird deaths dropped by 70% in a long-term study in Norway.
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"Imagine the solution being this simple the whole time."

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