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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not sure how a fully decentralized economy would be expected to provide highly specialized inputs like that ANYWHERE, nevermind everywhere. Something is usually better than nothing.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

I was wondering what, after returns to bare-metal performance focus like Vulkan and WebAssembly, would be the next thing to make brand new computers run like shit and by jove I think you've cracked the case

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

States run elections! The parliamentarian will stop any nonsense during certification! These don't mean shit when his plan is to stay in power by force just like he did on J6. Only this time he has an army of pardoned psychos with badges and MRAPs and ARs and no fear of consequences.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

Only if the left doesn't put forward a singular, credible candidate. If the centrist lane splits its vote between Harris, Newsom, Ossoff, plus whoever else (not counting Emmanuel, his campaign would go nowhere fast), then maybe we could actually get someone decent.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

Where costs of benefiting from global markets are low, so are deaths due to famine. Chicken and egg problem? Maybe. But I like the odds of sticking with it. tl;dr - Globalized supply chains are a good thing, change my mind.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

Disease, insects, and climate change are inevitably coming for locally grown crops, too, and plenty of people worldwide still die of famine or malnutrition because of poor local yields and high costs of accessing globally sourced goods.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 2h

We're very much getting into the weeds here but define "centralized". At global scale, even if ~80% of a resource comes from just one country, that's still usually spread over thousands if not millions of hectares. Argued the other way, how many people have literally died due to a global shortage?

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

The fact that you CAN raze a local forest to make enough geopolymer for a local town doesn't make that desirable. Farmability, economies of scale, and yield maths will still rule the day, even if the economy stops being a global one.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

Depends on if you think decarbonization entails and/or requires the end of global travel and shipping, which I personally do not. If I'm wrong, then finding fast-growing and hardy tree-or other-plant-species that produce ash suitable for geopolymer would still matter.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

Hello, Mr. Beat! Please remember to add alt text to your images. Some folks (like me) try to only reshare images that have it. It not only helps people with low or no vision, it also makes sure that the next time Bluesky's image CDN goes down everyone will still be able to understand your posts!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"

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Slug 🐛 VTuber @vtuberloveslug.bsky.social · 5h

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THIS IS REAL I THOUGHT IT WAS AN EDIT

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

But are they orcs? Still waiting for the ents to get back to me on that one.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

When you attach the 32x to the MegaSG, the video has to come out of the 32x (just like when you attach it to a regular Genesis). Until the 32x has an HDMI mod, DAC is needed to play og hardware 32x on HDMI displays.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 3h

I do not read women because women are (usually, barring avant-garde art) not books. Have you tried picking one up and turning her pages? People tend to look at you funny.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

OK, looks like bamboo IS structurally a suitable replacement for rebar, IF (big asterisk) you extrude its fibers and press them into a composite first. So, not as simple as just heat-treating the whole thing and calling it good, and it obviously can't be bent like rebar, but still, very promising!

research-collection.ethz.ch

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

Bamboo stood out to me as odd in the article but after searching a little bit I think people are using it as a filler material inside of concrete pours to reduce cracking, not as a cement replacement. Would want to read studies on its strength to see if that could replace rebar, if I can find them.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

I assume the reason that ingredient isn't mentioned in any of the RHA stories/articles I'm finding on Google is because sodium silicate itself isn't compatible for some reason...

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

IMO replacing the sector is what we should aim for. "Shoot for the moon, land among the stars" type deal. I wonder if there are any carbon-neutral plasticizers that could speed up the hardening of RHA-crete the way sodium silicate speeds up the hardening of wood ash geopolymer.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

4/2 Hmm, that's 150M tons of the husks, but I'm not quickly finding any straightforward conversion numbers on how many of those tons convert to recoverable ash after burning.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 4h

3/2 The article says about 150 million tonnes worldwide annually. I'll need to look up the figure needed to replace concrete again, and do some napkin math on if this can finally make geopolymer a practical replacement for concrete.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 5h

2/2 ...the combined supply of both wasn't enough to replace concrete. Are there estimates for how many kg of rice ash is produced annually?

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 5h

1/2 News I like to see, but I still need to see more. The last time I looked into geopolymer the two popular carbon-negative agents were wood ash and the slag left over from steel production. Ignoring the carbon intensiveness of current methods of steel production, ...

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Doug Savage, Rebel Alliance Attorney @realdougsavage.bsky.social · 6h

For ALT text purposes

A message from Danny Trejo’s son about his father’s situation in Ben Shapiro’s pro-ICE movie.

“For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...
He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace"
He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.
About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.
My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.
My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.
It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.
Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.”

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11h

I would have begged my parents to take me and my allowance to a foreign exchange desk and then kept that note FOREVER

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11h

Do you have any idea how fucking STOKED my seven year old self would have been if you'd told me that someone was putting (the wildlife namesake of) SONIC THE HEDGEHOG onto REAL MONEY?

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11h

*chorus of strangers popping in from off-screen* "They're 30 now!"

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Costélinha (Não sei quando vou abrir encomendas de novo kskkks) @costelinhadougref.bsky.social · 21h

So if we lose, don't say "Brazilians are stupid" instead, remember how hard we fought, and remember how hard the game was rigged against us, and who is responsible for this! Remember how we are doing everything, even things I thought were impossible for the left to do a week ago, to protect our

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Given AI's command of language, I think there probably IS a mechanistic way to achieve most of the same result without creating a fully sapient being, but transformer networks and LLMs don't seem like they do it well or at all.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And, let's be real here: If someone claims they don't believe there's a real difference between predicting good...morning...stephen vs recognizing hey, this is Stephenn and it's morning... or claim we can't ackshually prove we perceive Stephen and morningness... It's game-playing. AKA LYING.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Juxtaposing and synthesizing multiple things it "knows" is apparently outside of its architectural capacity

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Apropos of my point, if you prompted every frontier AI "make up a new insult for people who overuse AI. Make it witty, catchy, and succinct", none of them would come up with anything as good as "sloperator". I think it's because it can't.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Desire can be restated as goals, though, and it's clearly capable of having those, including ones outside of what humans intentionally program them with. The lack of interiority is what distinguishes an AI's goal-seeking behavior from what we would recognize as meaningful yearning, IMO.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My nitpick is I would replace "desire" with "creativity". I still have never been convinced that AI "art" is truly capable of making something new the way that a human can. It's purely pattern matching partial regurgitations of what it's already seen. It can't remix like we can.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When I have conversations with these pro-AI people and push them about consciousness or intelligence it seems like they converge on consciousness/intelligence without perspective, intent, desire, or interiority. Wow! If you simply refefine your words you can claim anything!

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The moderates have not improved as a cohort since Dr. King wrote about them

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did you get Pfizer? My Moderna shot did basically nothing to me. I felt fine. First time that's ever happened to me after an mRNA-based Covid booster.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Are there... are there stereotypes about Black-owned ice cream shops? Racists will make up anything, good Lord.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vibecoding destroys this shared culture of hackers, producing people who legitimately can no longer perceive that Enterprise Hello World is a joke, who no longer have the mental skills to map out a JAPH to figure out what it does, or to catch an underhanded exploit.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I knew exactly diddly squat about Means TV before Michael Burns plugged it, so I am going to hope you're correct but continue knowing nothing about them.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Unfortunately the mention was positive. Didn't like seeing that from him.)

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In a Michael Burns video he also mentioned WIH being on something called "Means TV"

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And, nitpick, but the only Latin LESS fancy than "causus belli" is "lorem ipsum". It is an incredibly normal thing to say in English, on par with "raison d'etre". What a loser thing to complain about.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The first mobilization caused a huge exodus from the country and was very unpopular, thus the need for a pretext if he wants to repeat it!

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Literally the only thing you disagreed on in your own thread was the range on the number of troops bsky.app/profile/volb...

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Do you think I think Putin wants 500,000 troops mobilized to invade Finland? Because that's not what I said. I said he wants causus belli for the mobilization. Almost all the mobilized troops would find themselves in Ukraine.

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