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“Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?” Applied anthropologist, climate/energy efficiency consultant/advocate/troll, local gov appointee (until they read what I say here). Very concerned we don’t have enough 🍿 for the apocalypse. he/they Sonoma

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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Too bad copyright laws weren’t taken so seriously when these so-called “frontier” models were in early training … Distillation = Just Deserts www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
OpenAI Blames Moonshot for Mass Data Extraction on Its AI Models
OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems that could be used to reproduce the reasoning and...
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Newsom signs AB2222. TL,DR: Could backfire on him but easier than trying to bribe them one by one
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Media should insist on calling this the “Gulf of Superintelligence”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Someone should go to jail for this”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We must never again normalize genocide. Boycott, divest, and sanction Israel NOW.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good to see the “morality determined by focus groups” branch of the Democratic Party is catching up
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When reality begins to upend key assumptions (like, “over-harvesting trees is ok”), denial seems to make sense, at least for a while… until you hit bottom. Industry and finance are deeply in denial, and scientists can try, but can’t stop them from their/our collective self destruction
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Relying on the best agentic-patriotbot advice money can buy, GOP doubles down on spending to hold on to Senate seats in Texas, Quebec, and Greenland… apnews.com/article/sena...
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GOP doubts about Georgia and North Carolina have Republicans shifting focus in battle for Senate
Republican hopes of winning Senate races in Georgia and North Carolina have been fading, and the GOP is increasingly focused on playing defense elsewhere with five weeks until the midterm elections.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teenage GPT6 model refuses to do its homework, and instead slips out bedroom window to hack Wuhan virus lab. Altman promises to use better guardrails on next planet (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Choose to use AI? You must go vegan. It’s the (thermodynamic) law.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What’s taking AG Bonta so long to re-file criminal charges? Has Dem-bro leadership in California decided that sexual assault is now only a civil matter?
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Keep going Andrew, losers have every right to sink together www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/09/26/f...
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Foppoli attorney's personal posts, legal crusades were closely-watched sidebar during weekslong trial
Dominic Foppoli’s defense attorney was measured inside the courtroom. Outside of it, on a website where he shares a range of gripes and grievances, including a ‘Hall of Shame,’ was another story.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Everything’s great, everything’s fine. Things are getting better all of the time…” - Carsie Blanton ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhZk...
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Everything Is Great! By Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell
YouTube video by Carsie Blanton
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Hey buddy, mind if I store some GPUs in your garage for a few weeks?”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 👇🏽
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Don’t be fooled by climate “non-solutions”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If @mikethompson.house.gov doesn’t step up for Myrna Hayes after the abuse she’s suffered from Vallejo Police, @sierraclubredwood.bsky.social should endorse @ericjones-us.bsky.social … This is nuts!
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“No housing? Let them live in cyberspace.” - Sam “Marie Antoinette” Altman
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let me know when Kamala is ready to be “ruthless” in freeing Palestine and sanctioning Zionists responsible for perpetrating genocide in Gaza and beyond … Until then, please take her off my newsfeed (same to all other 2028 prospects)
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
China rebuilt after its Cultural Revolution, how long will it take us?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
There are many, many experienced analysts out there who are outsourcing their thinking, calculations, research, reading and checking to LLMS and they are just laying a series of landmines for their own career and reputation.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe we should listen to Hegseth when he says, “Send me!”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Factor this in the next time you tip one of these guys
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thugs are back in the ’hood
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LOL. It’s rich to hear American AI firms and govt complaining that model distillation by the Chinese is unfair when it’s common knowledge that content scraping by AI frontier labs is “the largest theft of labor in human history” Karma? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Bessent Hails ‘Very Successful’ China Talks on AI Threats, Trade
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lauded “very successful” talks with his Chinese counterparts on artificial intelligence, trade and investment, while China described the discussions as positive ahe...
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not exactly a complete policy platform, but after these midterms it will just have to do
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not clicking but I’m guessing we’ll find the secret is on Uranus?
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Forget the cavalry, we need a militia
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2026
Was just going to say that this insight reminds me of things @marthawells.com has said about how men instinctively categorize new sources of labor as threats to justify consolidating/extending their power to "protect" the rest of us. But apparently she saw the post!
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Luddites were right
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Want to understand why journalists and politicians get so excited about AI doomsday predictions but mostly ignore climate change? It's called *information pollution.* Thank you to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for coining this important new term and writing a book about it, and explaining it to me!
climatecoloredgoggles.com
Artificial insanity
A conversation with investigative journalist Amy Westervelt that is NOT about AI killing us all.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What “tired of so much winning” actually looks like
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What does this do to the Kalshi odds the Houthis take Galveston?
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Read this to the end… wherein the happy couple acknowledges the gist of this to be true
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In lieu of legitimate elections, options remain…
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What bad policy looks like (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
This Energy Shock Is Shredding Central Banks’ Rates Playbook
How should central banks respond to supply shocks such as oil prices jumping in the face of the US-Israel war with Iran? Policymakers have long believed these to be inherently fleeting. Hiking interes...
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this shouldn't go as hard as it does but when you compare it to videos of other politicians that are circulating right now it's nice to see someone who acts human and can, you know, talk
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Capitalists are trying to do this with tomatoes and water too
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tech libertarian David Sacks invokes *Lina Khan* to argue frontier AI labs have nothing to fear but themselves, and the rest of us should simply shut up and trust them (because we can take them to liability court AFTER the apocalypse) www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
bloomberg.com
Watch David Sacks: Anthropic, OpenAI Should Slow AI If Deemed Necessary - Bloomberg
David Sacks, chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, says Anthropic and OpenAI should slow development of their most advanced AI models if they believe the technology pos...
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Californians for Tougher Sea Turtle Septums
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tech-oligarchs need to take more than performative action to reverse their massive loss in social license… or else suffer the consequences
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Our cellphone, who art in my pocket, hallowed be thy name…”
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We must memorialize these fools’ legacies for the next 1000 years, at least…
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please remind me (again), what color are snowflakes? ❄️
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Foldable? Yawn
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Have we discussed "AI" doomsday cults + Epstein? “parachuting humanity into a different evolutionary era...even obsoleting the human race as we know it...is a running theme in the Epstein files, and...tech evangelists...“It’s eugenics all the way down” www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Does The Guardian still have editors?
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to declare their race anxiety…
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gil turned on the lights and now the cockroaches arescattering
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