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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Egg Roll got to take off The Hated Cone and he is so happy

An orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing in an attitude of extravagant comfort.

An orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing, only now he's got one leg all stretched out and he's twisted his body at a new angle.

Yet again, an orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing, this time with a completely new orientation and both front legs all stretched out.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think about this essay all the time

It has also occluded something deeper. The philosopher Mark Wilson has observed that concepts often appear stable while the work they do shifts entirely as they move between domains. He calls this "wandering significance." "Decision" is wandering now. In the military context it means the system's output, a targeting nomination scored and forwarded. In journalism and tech criticism it means much the same, the thing the AI got wrong. In neither of these does it mean what it used to mean, which is a person choosing to do something for which they could be held accountable. People are still making decisions in that sense. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an "AI problem" gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yes—AND the truth about how that happened is actually way worse than “a chatbot told them to” and way scarier and extremely illustrative of my point about how this is ultimately about human beings artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

artificialbureaucracy.substack.com

Kill Chain

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s people. It’s people all the way down. It’s people who we need to start nailing to the fucking wall over this, especially the people who keep trying to get us to think it’s the ghosts in the machine

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Claude is not going to get so full of words that it wakes up and becomes god and kill us all, but a bunch of really cognitively lazy foolish humans listening to Claude’s hallucinated bullshit might get us into a war that does that!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think about this bit from @foldablehuman.bsky.social’s Line Goes Up video a lot

Cryptocurrency does nothing to address 99% of the problems with the banking industry, because those problems are patterns of human behavior. They're incentives, they're social structures, they're modalities. The problem is what people are doing to others, not that the building they're doing it in has the word "BANK" on the outside.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I bet an unhinged campaign of abuse against these documentary filmmakers will finally be what turns around the world's opinion of Israel.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Okay so Weird Persistent Itching/Skin Issues coupled with some psychological bullshit means I think I have to accept the fact that I may be in perimenopause which is GREAT, just absolutely fucking awesome I was hoping the PMOS would mean I’d hit it later but apparently maybe not

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not bad, but this one is my favorite:

@prettyliltakemachine

Welcome new students. My name is Charles Xavier. The world around you will judge people like us for our differences, but at this school we seek to teach you to harness - who thought that. I do not look like Mr. Clean's gay brother. Who thought that."

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New quartzite bracelets in my Etsy store! Everything (except tarot readings) is still 20% off and all proceeds go toward buying Egg Roll another brain cell so he doesn’t eat strings again www.etsy.com/shop/TarotDr...

Elastic bracelet made with tumbled multicolored quartzite and silver accent beads in the shape of a tree.

Elastic bracelet made with tumbled white quartzite and silver accent beads in the shape of a tree.

An orange cat wearing a blue cone rolled onto his back on a window perch; he has a shaved tummy and a healing surgical incision.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I hesitate to over-learn anything from a single example, but Ossoff is a good argument for theory that people want a liberal who fights and this often gets missed in the spineless centrists vs. unelectable leftists discourse.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THANK YOU SUNNY because everybody wants to create a new thing .. mostly because they don’t want to tell the rich guy they are using to manage everyone else NO! Just NO

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Likewise it’s easy to evade what Lena Khan has pointed out: we already have regulations for this stuff, which are the basic regulations that govern consumer products That’s what these guys have built. Bad, unsafe consumer products. Not machine gods ffs

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone at OpenAI should have to talk to the FBI—always assuming we lived in a world with a functioning FBI—but if you talk about all of this in terms of a scary killer machine god, it’s conveniently easy to evade considerations of real legal liability

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Among other things, a really important point gets brought up here, which is that it’s apparently easier for us to imagine killer robots taking over the world than a concrete system of laws that applies to someone like Sam fucking Altman

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I remember hearing about The Methods of Rationality like fifteen goddamn years ago and thinking “huh, that sounds kinda quirky and fun” and that could and should have been the full extent of any of these people’s impact on my life

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm old enough that I watched a healthy girl in my kindergarten class catch polio and was in a wheelchair by 1st grade and she died at 36. She cried all the time because she was in pain. When you die I'm gonna piss on your grave, Del.

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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The only thing rationalists/EA types are “specialists” at is providing poorly reasoned but plausible sounding rationalizations for bad people to keep doing the bad things they already wanted to do. Coxon may be a brilliant coder (for all I know), but he’s an idiot when it comes to Philosophy.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Incredible quote to start with “millions of Americans like me” and then to end with “on our normal vacation to Greece or the Vineyard”

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

we gotta sell like 50 more of these things to cover the printing costs for our initial order, so... here it is again! a shirt. for your body. it will make you look hot and weird.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/09/2026

if you think ed sheeran is a spineless shitheel (as you should) and have been celebrating the bands who've quat his tour, you can join them in an act of equally principled and much more direct action right here and now, by signing up to support the Sameer Project

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17/09/2026

holy shit they’re actually doing it

News Release - Manitoba
September 17, 2026
MANITOBA WILL MOVE TO
PERMANENT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
After listening to the views of Manitobans on seasonal time changes, the Manitoba government has decided to remain on daylight saving time (DST) permanently, Premier Wab Kinew announced today.
"We heard from Manitobans loud and clear - no more changing the clocks in Manitoba," said Kinew. "Permanent daylight saving time is good for our health, good for business and good for parents. For families, especially those with young kids, that one-hour shift can disrupt sleep and routines for days. This change means one less adjustment families have to deal with each spring and fall. That's why this November, your clocks won't be changing."
This change means Manitobans' clocks will not revert to standard time on Nov. 1. Manitoba joins several other provinces and territories that have adopted or are moving toward a permanent time including British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is true and any political party that pretends otherwise… I mean, you can’t claim to be able to fix people’s problems if you’re denying what the problems actually are. Yes, this country funds so much misery and war and death. The truth shouldn’t be looked at as an unwise political move, lol.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

😂 congrats to JPMorgan's commodities team for being merely six months behind the typical Bluesky poster

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

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Dan Flashes @dan-j-flashes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

After I read Michael Lewis's book about Sam Bankman-Fried I came to believe that "effective altruism" is just a "prosperity gospel" bill of goods sold to young directionless people as a means to justify criming.

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Verati @verati404.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reblog to save an author, lol.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026

After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...

prospect.org

Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect

Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wonder sometimes whether it’s wealth that makes these people so deranged by their horror of mortality, or if it’s just that people who are already deranged in this fashion are more likely to be super wealthy

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 17/09/2026

Baba Yaga, the plains of Wyoming, and the perils of growing up--RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHKVR3YR

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When a bunch of people profess a belief that sounds very scary and also vaguely incredible, before taking them at their word it’s worth blocking out some time to examine what *else* they believe

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A significant number of the people in AI who—I think—do sincerely think that they’re about to build the Annihilator God come out of this Again, we need to be applying more serious scrutiny to what these people actually believe

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026

Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.

At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

insofar as bigotry directly (and not just through its effects on, eg, who can live where) effects who has social power and influence it becomes a de facto reason one is less worthy of intervention on this view

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this portrayal, for understandable reasons, softpedals the point. but as far as I can tell, nothing about the rationale in this paragraph depends more than superficially on nationality as a point of comparison - you could make the same argument for preferring saving a life in a richer neighborhood

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also: "the leader is getting bad advice from his minions" is PRECISELY how you criticize a vengeful dictator, if you want to stay out of prison. That it's such a common trope in GOP criticism of Trump is one of those small clear tells that reveal so much.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've reached the "Republican House Members cutting anti-Trump campaign ads" stage of the GOP implosion.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026

Two notes here: 1. Hard to convey how unusual it is for an admin to be pitted against this many religious groups in *so many different ways* all at the same time in court. The Trump admin is an outlier here. 2. I’m a religion reporter, but unclear why this trend hasn’t gotten more attention.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

They *very much* want people to die.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can vouch for Archita, a fellow writer in Kolkata who's sick & struggling with costs to support her mother through cancer treatment. Chemo is degrading her mother's blood cells, & she urgently needs expensive transfusions, & might need them every time. Please share & donate, Archita's all alone:

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