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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 9h

Yes! And this would have been a great counter to the moral issue that's always dogged the series, that perpetrators of terrible crimes can be "redeemed" by a single act of goodness.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 12h

since we’re doing this discourse again here’s why im no longer on twitter

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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 11h

Probly not a great sign for either data centers or "Russia, as a concept" that when one gets BLOWN UP BY MISSILES everyone is *immediately* willing to assume any random GOOD thing that happens after was caused by that and it should happen more frequently 😏🤷‍♂️

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Playing a Tiny Violin

ALT: Playing a Tiny Violin

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 18h

We have *so many* of these. My daughter only realised we didn't talk like other people when she tried to use them in school: "Oh, that dog is so poochy!" "What's poochy?" "You know, like nermally" "What the hell are you talking about?" "Like all sweet and schnoobly" "WHAT THE FUCK IS SCHNOOBLY?!"

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 18h

"Audiences are struggling with the number of characters in the MCU, what shall we do?"

The Wise Woman from Blackadder: "Kill EVERYBODY in the WHOLE WORLD!"

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 18h

Cats are liquids, latest evidence

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 19h

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 23h

The key reason is that to the GC movement, "protect the kids" is about seeing transitioning kids as naive victims, which goes against the counternarrative that trans women are predatory men with a kink. Trans girls and trans men upset these narratives so they're erased from the discussion.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"We couldn't send them to Rwanda because we were prevented by the ECHR" At the same time: "All these European countries bound by the ECHR are going to send people to Rwanda" Absolute house of cards

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Editors desperately trying to decide whether their institutional transphobia is more or less important than their remit to bash the BBC

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(If you check my history, you'll see I'm a very consistent and vocal supporter of trans rights. I agree with the statement, and I agree the BBC has a shit record on these issues. But in this one case I think the outrage is understandable but wrong)

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*Any* slogan at all is considered spicy. If you're eg a game show contestant, you can't wear an item with any text of any kind. If you turn up in one, they'll replace it with a bland item from their wardrobe. I'm not "handing it" to the beeb, I'm just saying this is a consistent policy.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm totally aware of that, but I don't think this is an instance of it. And I guess we're both arguing over a hypothetical, but no, I don't think that's true. The BBC's rules over what you can and can't wear on entertainment shows are pretty strict.

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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The argument for not allowing trans children in sports ignores all the reasons we would like a young person to benefit from socializing with their peers *on purpose* because not allowing a young trans person to generate a healthy peer group *is the point* but they can’t say that part aloud.

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What benefits does sports have for kids? Why are we so focused on winning?

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Jill Rutter @jillongovt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

there is minimal evidence that inheritors in their 50s and 60s are desperate to move into their parents' former home. My @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on why Kemi Badenoch's policies are for the world of Downton Abbey - not the one we live in now www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...

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Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government

The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don't want to sound like a cunt about it, but this is completely reasonable. "Protect the dolls" is a political statement and the BBC don't allow those on their light entertainment shows. An "adult human female" t-shirt would almost certainly be censored too.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Sulfurous Trans-Face @oxmounter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unsurprising, undoubtedly, but still a nicely conducted bit of research, I think. Quite a hard thing to pull apart.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think you've arbitrarily added "organic body" into that definition without any justification. Why does suffering necessarily have to occur in an organic body? What if we encountered crystalline aliens? Could they not suffer?

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My point isn't that we should say today's LLMs *are* conscious, but that we should resist dismissing the notion out of hand, and accept that consciousness isn't an all or nothing thing but a matter of degree. It isn't bestowed on us by divine decree, it's a product of our capabilities.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The main thing that prevents LLMs from having the same consistency is the fact that each instance of them is temporary and memoryless, but that's an artificial restriction we've placed on them. If an LLM were to run in a single instance for a decade, what might it become?

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

How do I know the people around me have feelings? By speaking to them and listening to them and recognising the consistency of their own internal accounts of themselves.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But ultimately, the key point is that every argument against machine consciousness could be levelled against humans too. How do I create sentences except the way LLMs do, by assembling words I've accumulated from countless exposure to them?

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know there are some persuasive counterarguments to this. If I make a realistic puppet and I make it cringe when a small child hits it on the head, it's not actually suffering no matter how well I do it. An actor isn't suffering when they perform a torture scene.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This passage from Stanislaw Lem's The Cyberiad (quoted in Hofstadter and Dennett's The Mind's I) has stuck with me my whole life and I think it's really apposite here.

Quote from Lem's story The Seventh Sally, with the following passage highlighted

a sufferer is not one who hands you his suffering, that you may touch it, weigh it, bite it like a coin; a sufferer is one who behaves like a sufferer! Prove to me here and now, once and for all, that they do not feel, that they do not think, that they do not in any way exist as being conscious of their enclosure between the two abysses of oblivion-the abyss before birth and the abyss that follows death-prove this to me, Trurl, and I'll leave you be! Prove that you only imitated suffering, and did not create it!"

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

LLMs don't have that hard-wired pain reflex. But an autonomous robot might be given one, for the same reason it's useful to us. And we have to be ready to consider that that pain might be as real for the robot as it is for us.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The main reason I think it's probably true to say LLMs don't suffer today is an evolutionary one: suffering is something that's wired into us because it has evolutionary benefits: pain has to be awful so that we will do anything to avoid it.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And some people used to say Black slaves didn't suffer either, with "higher tolerance to pain" being an accepted feature of Black people in medical dictionaries well into the late 20th century and still a widely believed myth today.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Newborn babies have also been said to be unable to suffer, which is why it used to be routine to perform operations like circumcision without anaesthetic.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For example, until very recently many people were reluctant to accept that animals had any kind of conscious experience and suffering. Even today that's not an unheard of opinion. But I think most people would reject it now.

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm aware that I'm aligned with dickheads when I say this, but I do think we need to be careful about completely dismissing the idea that LLM AIs might be conscious and capable of suffering. All the arguments against it have been used equally to dismiss real suffering in the past.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I really hate this sort of take. someone saying "we're better than this" is speaking aspirationally! you are not clever for insisting we aren't, you are giving people an excuse not to try to be.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hate it when I make a top-notch pun and no one appreciates it. Appreciate it, you fuckers.

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A comedian has a pretty good answer for the weird fear that giving people UBI would mean they'd do nothing by harkening back to early covid lockdowns when everyone did stuff to make it more bearable.

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Nobody is doing nothing #standupcomedian #standupspecial #comedyclips #universalbasicincome

YouTube video by Craig Fay

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It occurs to me that you could almost do this challenge for real with The Muppets, Taken, Manhatten

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That's not a conflicting definition at all, it's a switch from active to passive. Tons of verbs have different meanings in similar circumstances. "My friend killed at that concert" - "my friend was killed at that concert". If you want a real contranym about books, how about "shelved"?

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Honestly, I can't think of a single person more likely to die live on television

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Totally agree, but beware of falling into this trap...

"What are we a bunch of ASIANS???" tweet

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The next time an American complains about the lack of air conditioning in the UK or baked beans on toast, or how you have to ask for water in restaurants (?) just remind them of this and then block them.

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