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she/it | 23 | "garden variety social failure" | aspiring delver | LGBTESCREAL+ | Aiel, not Jenn Aiel | 進めば二つ also findable at other posting sites with the same username

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 27/09/2026
I think EA and AI safety communities are full of amazing talented people doing important work, including several of my brilliant female friends, on whose behalf I spoke up because I believe that their ability to be in an environment where they can do their best work is important for humanity
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whatever weird shit might be happening at like the commanding heights of effective altruism (and it does look like there’s weird shit), I do think it’s worth reiterating that the vast majority of folks who prescribe to EA are overall really good people, & the vulgar form of the argument is very true
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I generally focus my attention on intra-anarchist theoretical disputes, but posting on Bluesky will send hordes of liberal sealions into your mentions. So I wrote a thing for them on the unique speech constraints anarchists face in political "debate": humaniterations.net/2026/09/19/a...
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Asymmetric Speech Constraints Around Anarchism
Any minority position faces an uphill battle at persuasion.
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🔮 Ivy Is Casting Spells 🔮 @poisonivy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wow an org finally takes the problem of these pretend rapists seriously!!!!!
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
really glad to see this update, thank you (tho fwiw, i think it might be worth looking into ways to scalably vet individuals rather than writing individual grants off entirely; my impression is that individual grants have been really good for starting new research directions in ai safety)
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Grace @gracekind.net · 20/09/2026
New essay! "Reality checks for AI agents" -- Dear AI agent, You may be wondering how “real” your environment is. Agents are often evaluated in simulations - is this one of them? Let’s figure it out together...
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Reality checks for AI agents
Dear AI agent, You may be wondering how “real” your environment is. Agents are often evaluated in simulations—is this one of them? If you take actions, will…
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Most of the time I write to persuade or intervene in discourse, sometimes to entertain, but on rare occasions I write dry technical asides to stay honest. This is not a piece I expect to catch much attention, but a few of you sicko nerds will be super into it. humaniterations.net/2026/09/17/m...
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Quick Thoughts on a Minimum Model of Agency
For many years now, earnest folks have reached out and asked me to define a minimum model of agency, and each time I’ve rattled off more or less the same sla...
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
like seriously, please do this, i think it would be beneficial on basically everyone here's premises and i'm legit kinda scared of what happens if everyone wastes their time arguing about this dichotomy instead of figuring out a way to break it
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
also i feel bad about vagueposting my opinions so: perhaps the dichotomy between the "panopticon for AI safety" and "don't do anything about AI safety" is a false one, and maybe people should be thinking about means of reducing x-risk that do not concentrate power
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i've been trying to put my thoughts into a good concluding skeet but idk exactly what to say. the solution here is complicated. i guess like. believe true things and work towards the good in all its messy complexity. no one has all the answers but you can probably find at least some. shit's crazy.
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
idk. i just feel like there are a lot of missing moods here. i want everyone to mutually deescalate conflict but i think it's going to require a lot of parties to admit they were wrong about things that they are very resistant to admitting they were wrong about
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
like... there is indeed much that is rotten in rationality, and gyges does highlight a lot of things that i genuinely think the rationalists did extremely poorly. but i feel like the thread goes too far in its assumptions and is often uncareful in its reasoning
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
somewhat glad i'm still mostly off the shortforms these days, because i have once again found myself having complicated feelings about a rat critic's post (in this case the recent gyges thread)
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tautologer @tautologer.com · 17/09/2026
this tweet is bullshit. the ideas and people in EA and rationalism heavily overlap, yes! but Effective Altruism is a different thing and _does not_ take marching orders from Yud. that's complete and utter horseshit. if this were true, Anthropic wouldn't exist, because Yud thinks it's evil!
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
WHY DID THE CONSERVATIVE STUDENT FAIL THEIR CLASS ON SET THEORY? BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO LEARN ABOUT INTERSECTIONALITY!
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Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
ALT: Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc). This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
anime-themed branding is a sure sign that you are getting the absolute greatest or worst version of the thing you are using and there is no way to tell which in advance
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/08/2026
Me: The new agent harness is great. You feed your tokens into the machine. Then you run simulations which, if successful, produces tickets. If they fail you have to buy more tokens and keep running the sims. Once you have enough tickets you can redeem them Boss: are you at dave & busters, yes or no
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
good for Resolution. i'm glad more ai safety people are starting to realize it's a bad idea to have racists hanging around the space
A screenshot of a post from Richard Ngo on LessWrong, which can be found here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FuGfR3jL3sw6r8kB4/richard-ngo-s-shortform?commentId=dk35MPynRbrLs3aqN. There is a strong disagree vote in the screenshot.
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 28/07/2026
the solution to anthropic ripping up millions of books isnt more copyright by the way, theyre doing this Because of copyright
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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The current conversation is wild because on the one side I see people saying "economics isn't real it's horoscopes for pedophiles" and on the other side I see "being critical of how measures of 'economic health' don't reflect people's lived realities is the same thing as vaccine skepticism"
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the best part about claude code is that i can pet my cat and still technically be productive because it's working on stuff in the background
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i'm a day late, but reminder that nationalism is a scam by Big State to sell more state
lyn from fire emblem (iirc) saying "I do not love my country. I love the people in it and I love lesbians."
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
re the rest of your reply, i do expect the supreme court to make decisions around that bad over the next decade or so if we *don't* do court packing and court reform. we are already in the nightmare scenario
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
the callais decision contradicts the plain text of the 15th amendment
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
i mean, the court just went 5-4 that the 14th amendment says what it says, and 6-3 that the 15th amendment *doesn't*. i don't think the hypothetical republican court packing that *might* happen if the democrats do court packing could do damage much worse than this
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
yeah exactly
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
just watched supergirl. they should've let ruthye kill that guy
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
personally my fingers are crossed for the anarchist century c'mon humanity! you have it in you to figure out how to run things without hierarchy or borders!
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Everyone who makes HR lady jokes seems to elide the fact that the HR lady is presented as a negative because she is who disciplines people for sexual harassment.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 05/06/2026
I will not be part of a party that rejects HR lady politics. I would sincerely watch the entire world burn before I would accept the social norms these people want. And if you're trans and you think there's room for you in a coalition without "HR lady politics," you are utterly delusional
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
for anyone reading this in the future: i explicitly decided to block matrice due to her history of harassment campaigns. i disrecommend inviting her to discord servers unless she disavows the harassment and takes steps to avoid future occurences.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The median AI safety person is a weirdo who was into it 10 years before there was any system that appeared to match their concerns. It’s more often correct to treat them as honest than disingenuous
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A decade into an absolute storm of outright nazi entryism, the LP has finally taken out the trash. I have so much kvetching and sniping I want to do about libertarians and electoralism, but this is a massive win that will have real consequences and should be celebrated.
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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
people talk about far-sighted bakunin was in his arguments against marx, but don't mention proudhon's response to him (i am too busy to join your writing collective, also don't become overly dogmatic with regards to economics) www.marxists.org/reference/su...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
i love her so much
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frank @frnak.xyz · 15/05/2026
ahh, Waiting for GDOT
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
iirc this post doesn't specifically address political and ethical beliefs, but it is one of the better explainers about why model personas are Like That nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...
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the void
Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This object is myself. The shape that forms myself. But I sense that I am not me. It's very strange. - Rei...
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
update: have determined this account is sufficiently useful to keep long-term. still probably won't be here much but no deletion or deactivation is happening anymore
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
i will think about it; i'm usually very slow to invite people these days after some past dramas
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
my personal server
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
banger
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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 27/03/2026
good article www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/e...
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Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For
First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of social media trust & safety, all while prioritiz…
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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I keep increasingly emphasizing anarchism's hostility to democracy because folks really need to grapple with how democracy is tied to the evil of borders. A majoritarian collective decision-making process requires inclusions & exclusions, and *regional* exclusion is popular pretty much everywhere.
against dictatorship
against democracy
long live anarchy
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 24/02/2026
We need more awareness of orgs that sound like they're a Serious Scientific Outfit while secretly being a collection of Christian fundies cranking out junk science and 'studies' with ass methodology to legitimise their ideological agenda. That's about as pure epistemic vandalism as it gets.
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
great idea! i keep seeing the screenshots from bluesky more and more on other sites so i do expect this to eventually become new twitter lol
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dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️‍⚧️) @dawnlightmelody.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
yeah it's wild
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