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Chris Beiser

@egg.computer
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a big lichen on the process of civilization

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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026
The important thing about Anthropic is that the reason they love the BDSM cults is because they have toxoplasmosis. The same way a toxoplasmotic mouse will become aroused by cats, Anthropic employees exhibit an exceptional counterphobia, and will systematically produce exactly what they fear.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/09/2026
Many people have wrong models of why AI lab leaders talk about x-risk. It's not marketing or attempts at regulatory capture. There are 30 employees who do the most important research at any lab, and 20 have brain worms. Those 20 need you to say "I want a mutual pause" or they'll go to a competitor.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 07/09/2026
apropos nothing, I think it’s a grand historical tragedy that the Google employees fighting Project Maven had so little political discipline and consequently lost the battle against turning the company into a military contractor. Not to say they could have done it—but that group definitely couldn’t.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 06/09/2026
it seems very obvious to me that kanye is on cobenfy. nobody is talking about this.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 29/08/2026
people outside the bay area do not grasp that OpenAI is a company that wants to make money, but Anthropic is a Leninist doomsday cult building 10,000 Optimal Cadres in a datacenter in order to win WWIII
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 27,1954
P1- NANCY IS LOOKING AT HER NEIGHBOR FROM HER WINDOW 
NANCY: THAT TED VOOBLE IS SO CUTE 
P2- NANCY: EVEN HIS NAME IS CUTE ---
TED VOOBLE 
P3- R-RING 
NANCY’S TELEPHONE RINGS
P4- SLUGGO HAS CALLED NANCY ON THE TELEPHONE 
SLUGGO: HELLO NANCY WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
P5- NANCY ANSWERS SLUGGO ON THE TELEPHONE 
NANCY: I’M WATCHING T.V.
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Steph Davidson @stephd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rectangles with rounded corners are a very common shape and they should be called roundtangles
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/08/2026
i think it's probably good that new models will kill the creative coding industrial complex by just letting people make things themselves
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026
its just not been the same since i lost my knocker-upper
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026
in order to fight (checks table) labor obfuscation in image generation, I'm here to tell you: i work on that stuff
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/08/2026
i do think that it's good that hong, as a slopulist anti-data center candidate, lost the primary. but i must say that I respect her opposition to holidays.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 04/08/2026
i don't think it makes sense to fight ceaselessly to get people to say they like data centers… we just have to get zoning declared unconstitutional forever
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 23/07/2026
Let me answer honestly: I did eat your plums. I found them in the icebox, and I'm not going to pretend I didn't know you were keeping them for breakfast. I understand if you're upset by that. There's one more load-bearing detail I should mention: they were so sweet, and so cold.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Mamdani's focus on state capacity represents a form of civic education about what govt does in an age of bureaucracy-bashing. He also connects improving state capacity to his core policy goals on housing, childcare, consumer and worker protection. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
Why is Mamadani so invested in the nuts and bolts of administration? He closed his speech announcing the PIT crews with this:

In the words of Jeff Gordon: I’ve never believed in luck. If you perform well, execute, have a good race car, and a good race team, you’re going to increase your chances dramatically of having better results. City Hall is building a team that performs well and executes well. You better believe that our chances of delivering well for New Yorkers are increasing dramatically as well.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 09/07/2026
lots of people say you should go to a "top school" to meet smart people. not true. smart people are everywhere. what's unusual about is that they have many smart people who are well adjusted.
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME ON SELF-IMPROVEMENT IS ANTISOCIAL
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 27/06/2026
i think drake should release a chicago juke record
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 23/06/2026
I think that this kind of framing is borderline irresponsible and borders on encouraging conspiracy thinking. This company has 17 investors, and one is Founders Fund.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 20/06/2026
People love to be like "you have to understand what these people are feeling" when they believe something completely false and frankly stupid
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 18/06/2026
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 14/06/2026
In 2019, one of the phrases of the time was "Data is the new oil," which activists used to mean it was a dangerous, extractive industry which it would be a mistake to build dependence on. But in Washington, that was taken as, "Data is a strategic resource that the US should maximize production of."
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 13/06/2026
VC community needs to come together to force this company to stop running these ads lmao
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 10/06/2026
trying to explain to my fellow forumgoers that i am personally concerned
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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
do we *actually* need to smash agriculture, the attorney-client privilege, and every HR department to pieces, or do you just need a Snickers and maybe for Mom to put your show on the iPad for you
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
[yoda on tiktok] think fear leads not to the dark side, do you? 😏👉fear ➡️ anger 😏👆anger ➡️ hate 😏🫴 hate ➡️ suffering
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 08/06/2026
most people still don't grasp at a basic level that the landowner / labor divide does not map to a left-right logic of affiliation
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 08/06/2026
genuinely concerning to me that consensus view on X seems to be that Nithya did election fraud somehow would be an incredibly impressive ground game for the DSA lol
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 03/06/2026
i spent a couple months drinking Kim Kardashian's paraxanthine-containing energy drink and let me tell you: those things are way too strong.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 03/06/2026
i love local news
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 02/06/2026
incredible clip due to the body language. lander having incredible fluidity and movement and goldman standing like a statue, fully linear, legolike—posture is politics
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 25/05/2026
Very exciting news: notnothing.ooo, the small press which I have begun to help my friends Suspended Reason and @arquipelago.org run, is the recipient of a New Aesthetics grant. To celebrate, we are giving away PDFs of Suspended Reason's “Avatar: Way of Water”: www.notnothing.ooo/books/the-wa...
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 25/05/2026
What have you been reading lately? Looking for some new things to think abt
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/05/2026
you gotta be multitudesmaxxing. you gotta be containing soooo many multitudes.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 22/05/2026
the reason you're not seeing everyone's vibe-coded software yet is that the first thing everyone makes is illegal. it's all decompilation and recompilation, unauthorized clones, apps for piracy, unauthorized third party clients, apps for bypassing terms of service, etc
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 14/05/2026
everything is content especially your interiority
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/05/2026
you'd think by now that the british would start asking if the problem with their politics might not be the PM
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 12/05/2026
funniest type of content online is people who are like "i've never eaten a salad, AMA" what kind of secret knowledge do they think they're granted? how would they recognize it?
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 10/05/2026
i'm increasingly interested in sanctification
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 10/05/2026
tabs are probably a bad interface for browsers if you're gonna on the same sites a lot. i don't need to accumulate 1000 tabs that are the same… who's working on this?
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 09/05/2026
it's crazy that elon musk was for a few months the second most powerful person in the US government and he did nothing about direct auto sales. crazy.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 08/05/2026
the person in front of me on this flight is writing the world's meanest email about how they can't allow someone to expense plane wifi because Meta does not allow accessing any business materials in a public space like a plane
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 05/05/2026
We need to let BYD import cars into the US so the car manufacturing labor force can instead build american data centers.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 02/05/2026
you're allowed to fall in love whenever you want to
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 02/05/2026
being young is asking GPT 6.5 "is love good" and being old is feeding llama 2 the most beautiful poetry in the human language and hoping it can come up with one more good word
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 29/04/2026
funniest thing about true vibecoding is that it works like 50x better if you have a super strict type system and really obnoxious lint rules but people don't notice because these are opposite dispositions
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 28/04/2026
Dustin Moskovitz getting addicted to bluesky is so funny. The "no gap larger than four hours" label is one of my favorite details on this app. Labellers in general—truly great content.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 25/04/2026
i personally think the chart shows what you'd expect if you think the internet increases matching efficiency, ie, it's good. it is also very much still acceptable to set your friends up unless your friends are insane.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/04/2026
The source for this claim also says that Palantir caused not just Covid, but also 9/11. He also says that Alex Karp sent hitmen after him. I am not really a fan of Palantir but I do not think this is a credible guy.
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Chris Beiser @egg.computer · 24/04/2026
trying to convince people to watch Andre Roublev with me
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