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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, I got a question: If the bias they put into the llm costs tokens to run, should they bill you for them?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...

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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Magyar is currently enacting a Liberal Currents fantasy where he amends the constitution to ban anyone associated with the old regime from ever holding office again and is somehow polling at 68% (he won with 53%) and I’m not saying that’s possible anywhere else but Dems should like, ask him

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026

remarkably quick journey from "do I need WhatsApp so I can communicate safely" to "do I need to take WhatsApp off my phone and factory reset it so I can communicate safely"

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is an incredibly important piece. As dangerous as AI may prove to be, it's the human element we need to worry about. Honestly it's a good thing they're so weird bc it's probably the f'd up sex party angle that gets most people to pay attention to all this

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hi i'm Greydon Grey IV, chief marketing exec at Grey Uniforms Inc. Here's why we think your NFL team could use some grey uniforms: —gets away from your team's iconic color sets —does not look good —extremely forgettable —looks bad —could easily be confused with any other team —looks like crap

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me sticking a knife in a toaster: The silverware’s gone rogue again

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Racists, many of them, were at one or more points the lowest status individuals. They're looking for a 'you have to be nice to me' spell. Being above someone is materially better than being at the bottom. Never felt I understood this until now

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. Responsibility for injuries caused by an AI entirely rests with those who put the AI in a position to cause injury. This expressly includes those in a posiiton to have prevented it from being in that position. CEOs, I'm looking at you

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@adamconover.net just posted exactly what everybody needs to hear on this. youtu.be/pauBYSQ1K_c?...

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"AI Existential Risk" Was Invented to Distract Us

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A plant powering Elon Musk's data centers in the Memphis region is so loud, residents say they're losing sleep. This has caused their property values to plummet, so many of them can't afford to leave.

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This all makes sense when you remember he doesn't believe in paying for things. He wants money, he wants things, but in his mind the two have nothing to do with one another

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dear Democrats, You don't have to be perfectly fair and nuanced about the cost/benefits of data centers, or AI, or Flock cameras. You can just demagogue the ever-loving shit out of *all* of it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

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Democrats Should Demagogue AI. Seriously.

The politics of data centers, Flock cameras, and runaway tech could hardly be clearer.

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TLDR: AI didn’t go rogue on Hugging Face; it did what it was carefully programmed to do. The narrative that it is dangerous is another facet of anthropomorphism and exists to distract from unsustainable finances and malfeasance

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting down a marker (no research): Cast Drew Lynch in your production, weirdest f'er in it, and he will carry the whole thing. You're welcome

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 06/09/2026

The word "efficiency" is derived from the old English "e-fish in sea" Saxon fisherman used to put electronic fish into the deepest part of the ocean to rouse the spirits of giant cod. This was seen as pagan and the practice was banned under Aethelred II But the phrase yet signifies a job well done

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They're already trying to get the feds to ban Chinese open models that are approaching "doing on a single high end regular desktop" what they need a warehouse to accomplish!

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Graham J. @grahamj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Essential @maxread.info as always: LLMs "are programs for writing little science fiction stories in which the 'agent' or the 'chatbot' is a main character, and its main goal is writing a story that the human and automatic graders at the frontier labs who trained the AI think is cool."

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AI is all sci-fi stories all the way down | Read Max

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today's newsletter, a question: Is it fair to call the Hugging Face hack "three secret AI civilizations"? I t

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If Dems win a trifecta in 2028 and don't push forum-shopping reform (and related judicial reforms) as their first bill, they'll doom everything else they try to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...

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How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas (Gift Article)

For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district. Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fellow Texans: verify that your voter registration hasn't been suspended without your knowledge. I just double-checked mine following a link in the article; it took all of 1 minute. Make sure your voice can be heard in November.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“My parents died so fuck yours too,” is quite the argument against reasonable healthcare

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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Timmy Valenti @timmyvalenti.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I can’t believe they keep trying to make the Mod Squad happen. I found these two articles seven years apart. They even used the same photo lmao. Also how extremely lame is it that their self selected “cool” name is “the badass caucus” and slotkin thought that language was too harsh

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

when you put it that way it sounds pretty crazy

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some stuff, in places, over a period of time

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thing that really gets me is that none of these so-called geniuses, the oligarchs, titans of industry and wealth, have ever had an original thought in their lives. They glom onto some historical intellectual quackery to give purpose to their asshole impulses and expect people to go along with em

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Photo is giving "Ross, your mother and I looked on your computer, and we opened up a 250 GB folder named JUST HOMEWORK. First, do you have anything you'd like to say to us?"

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There's a famous quote from noted sexual predator Richard Feynman about "If you can't explain something to a kid, then you haven't really understood." It's obviously wrong, but there's lots of discourse on trying to dissect nuance in it, etc.

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a hotdog in amber @dyaseen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This link is so, so good. Perfection

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

People have studied this for decades, and the findings are pretty consistent: Immigration is unrelated or even negatively related to crime and cities w/lots of immigrants are likely safer than yours. From Robert Sampson, The Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012).

Among the public, policy makers, and many academics, a common expectation is that the concentration of immigrants and the influx of foreigners drive up disorder and crime because of the assumed propensities of these groups to commit crimes and settle in poor, presumably disorganized communities. This belief is so pervasive that, as shown in chapter 6, the neighborhood concentration of Latinos strongly predicts perceptions of disorder no matter what the actual amount of disorder or the rate of reported crimes. Yet increases in immigration are correlated with less crime, and immigrants appear to be less violent than those born in America, particularly when they live in neighborhoods with high numbers of other immigrants.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.

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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

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Asher Klein @asherklein.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Cyclospora Qu'est-ce que c'est

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