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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's a lot better than the star wars episode 2 Droid foundry scene. The stakes are more real in this one

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Droid Factory Battle Droid

ALT: Droid Factory Battle Droid

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The you make podcasting equipment illegal, only criminals will have podcasts!

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wait, how sure are we that teslas didn't become conscious and realised that a lot lot of Tesla drivers are horrible people, and the world would be better off without them? Maybe FSD isn't just buggy?

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also, if you could stop control your software if you or your boss wanted to, it's still not the machine god, you are are just LARPing Yudkowsky sci fi.

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long-time technologist who has built many software products: If your software does something you can’t control, you are a shitty software engineer. You have not birthed an alien intelligence.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, sorry about that. At first, I also thought it was just about Rationalists shedding religious morality, and getting freaky 'cause they felt like getting freaky... But yeah, I think it's just cult shit.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't think it has anything to do with anything except male pleasure and internal cult power wrangling. It's a way to: 1. Attract weird celibate nerds to the cult (social media posts) 2. Align ideology (that's why they were able to filter applicants based on email)

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's not a bug -- it's just plotting to kill the user! (laudatory)

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

James Cameron is clearly a much better sci-fi writer than Eliezer Yudkowsky, but Yudkowsky AI sci fi writing has the ability to make the reader feel like a very special and smart boy, and in the end that sort of glazing obviates the need to have good ideas or write good sci fi.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I imagine these people going: "Now THIS is a sex cult for me!" and immediately rereading the Harry Potter fanfic.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"our software is so buggy it might just kill you" "our software is so buggy it might just kill EVERYONE!"

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Or, as we say in the more normal other parts of the software industry "you're not going to _believe_ how fucking buggy our software is 🤯".

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am, apart from not living in California, the target demographic for getting sucked into that cult. I even read HPMOR as it was being written. Sometimes I lie awake and think how close I came to being a super weird nerd, or - god forbid - a statistic in a cursed Sankey diagram.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When was the last time faculty practised counter sniper tactics? What was the deans personal swat team doing?

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We're currently moving fast towards 2C. It would be good idea* to slow down. *World changing

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Living rent free in trumps head

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"know" in a biblical sense?

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Animals that look like they’re about to drop an album: #Timeline #Cleanser

A Llama, a sheep, a chicken, a bull and a goat, looking very stylish, in a autumn field:-)

Five very tough looking pigeons, looking directly at camera, definitely a hard core group:-)

Five(ish) Scottish highland cattle, aka Fluffy cows, on snowy hill, looking so sweet I got diabetes from this album cover

Three black and white puppies, might be Siberian huskies, I really don’t know, but their death metal album probably is as tough as them:-)

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You don't take a gamble like that if you think the status quo has a chance of winning the war. The fact that there is no way of winning on the current trajectory is something it takes time to come to terms with.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Isn't it just that attacking nato is a huge gamble? There's a chance that he succeeds in scaring the Europeans into stopping their support of Ukraine, winning the war. There's also a chance that it has the opposite effect, causing a decisive defeat of Russia, and ending his regime.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

By a pretty wide margin. The last freed slave, Peter Mills, died in 1972. Isn't the first London Underground trains actually old enough that slave owners could have used it while they still owned slaves back in America?

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was in doubt all the way to "no longer a sword. It's a question mark"

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm a little divided about this. On one hand, workers rights. On the other hand, these people chose to work for one of the most evil and privacy violating companies in they world.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Maybe he should build a wall around it, so the algae can't get in?

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Once the shares go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department says Wernher von Braun.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Yes, but if you could cut this... Yes, right along the diagonal, that'd be lovely thank you.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What do you mean it's not a full blown computer?

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is a PC. If they subsidised it, companies that needed desktop computers would buy this and install windows on it, and the subsidy would be money down the drain.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For @aftermath.site, I reviewed the Steam Machine. It costs $1049 base. It is beautifully designed. It might be one of the most important computers ever made, launched at the worst time imaginable. aftermath.site/steam-machin...

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The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times

Valve has released a tiny, silent, entry level PC that does important work bringing PCs gaming to the living room and desktop Linux to the masses. The timing could not be worse.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Nah, that nation founded on sin. Their founding principle was "slavery is good actually". They've tried to dodge that ever since but never completely succeeded. The gluttony is a side effect of being blessed with amazing geography, which is the reason we have to care about them.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think the only way for him to avoid that was if it happened before.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I think we should let them have it. It's what their country has been reduced to now.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shows he understands the United States tbh.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Even if you fall, the dog looks pretty soft.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Have you taken into account that AI is magic?

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Butlerian Jihaddists Unite!

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I think people dislike HR because of the inherent dishonesty of the function. They pretend to be there to help you, but when it comes down to brass tacks, HR is not there to help you with your sex pest abusive boss, they are there to make sure *you* go away and don't hurt the company in the process.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

That's a good idea. The democratic countries also need a pact that once certain tripwires for eg freedom of courts, etc. Trade and international relations are just cut off. Needs to be immediate consequences.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/06/2026

I would like to now scream until I shit myself to death and/or become the joker

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I guess it would be super convenient if they weren't forced to spend money on R&D, considering how expensive that is and how how unprofitable that is.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

That's a relief. I would hate for them to piss away their short lives.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So if you're a shrew, as a fraction of their lifespan, it would be as if we took half an hour to pee.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The US calling themselves a superpower feels like a stretch at this point.

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Idle games centered around numbers changing from 1000s, over, M, B, to trillions and *nothing* else changing seems to have a big audience 🤷

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Mads Madsen @drmadx.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'm pretty sure you can run faster without a sword than with one, so i think it might give you a bit of an edge.

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