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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is both bad, as it was in 2016, & also it's the only way to get to a grand bargain on SCOTUS reform. Fire with fire. The GOP could've made other choices, & Neil Gorsuch should never have accepted an illegitimate seat. But he did, so here we are. The norms & duct tape have already been shredded.

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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 02/10/2026

Well, well, well.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm using all my available wishes on Senate races, but Ramaswamy losing would also be pretty sweet.

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Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's why lions have so many humans in their zoos.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility.

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Honcho Junky 🦁 @honchojunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just don’t tell anyone I also define the “strike zone”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're all looking for the guy who killed civility in American life.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 01/10/2026

My financial advisor is going to be so proud of me when he sees how I took his advice and plowed all my money into used copies of Pearl Jam

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Prediction markets are to 2026 what candidate endorsements were to 2012. When only a few people understood they were useful signals, they were predictive; but once everyone realized they were useful signals, they stopped being useful. Once everyone is behind the curtain, there is no more magic.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

4 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You seem to be saying that training data which is clearly adjacent to a present task has zero or a trivial impact on how an LLM approaches that task. Is that what you’re saying?

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I say this as someone who wants to use the phone less! I do think there’s something to the deteriorating effects of these technologies! Like when I go out I leave this ish home half the time. But Lorenz isn’t lying when she says “Phone addiction” isn’t real, because it isn’t!

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Like if researchers can’t find a diagnosis for “phone addiction” and teen rates of depression seem to be mostly an anglophone phenomenon that doesn’t replicate in other countries with ubiquitous smart phone use, well then we kinda have to be honest about that imo.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he quoted Limp Bizkit in his wedding vows one time

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he's comparing stabbing tecniques with Patrick Bateman

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like a one-episode character who tries to give Tori Spelling amphetamines on 90210

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he's wondering when women started covering their drinks everywhere

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like in-house legal counsel for Cobra Commander

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like his ex-wives have a group chat

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like his Tinder bio is simply "Alpha Male, Free Thinker, American"

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Alex Arjad @mistermorden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just pretend everything is Gaussian so it doesn’t matter. *ducks*

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2026

the fed: so the idiot in the white house started a war that reignited inflation, and we're gonna have to raise rates to deal with that stocks: what? when did that happen?? mods???

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 16/09/2026

I'd say "outwardly resembles" and that "resembles" is doing a lot of work here. Yes, a lot of reasoning is about seeing connections of the kind that might lead one to find a "novel" exploit. But there's a lot more to reasoning. What LLMs are is intelligence without consciousness.

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

4 - Large bipartisan majorities back immediate government action on AI even when primed about risk from China

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Not that proud @notthatproud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If a lawyer or a doctor or an insurance agent gives you bad advice, misrepresents something to you, and you are harmed, you can sue them. Using this service, inherently, cannot save you time for important things. You have to do the work yourself.

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Not that proud @notthatproud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

AI is being used to solve a problem the tech companies created. Search is crappy, so just use our AI answers. It literally gives you the same results as old search, but it's being treated as if some massive shift has occurred when it hasn't.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Putting it off until post-election could produce the funniest possible thing if Dems had the fortitude to all vote for it (they won't), because then you've got a bunch of lame ducks Rs in DGAF mode, of whom you only need to flip another two. If Jeffries wanted (he doesn't), an attempt could be made.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minimum population size for local government in general would solve literally hundreds of problems. Lots of cities should be annexed or disincorporated.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Stop looking to score token DC bipartisanship points." Yep.

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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Certainly true in terms of the number of closed rules, and it would be the most productive if not for that one Congress where they allowed suspension of the rules by a simple majority.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Barry Goldwater got 39% of the vote ...

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 14/09/2026

In my view, this is bad. Authors share a common budget with their readers. You either work to make your writing clear or you shift the burden onto the reader to work out what the hell you meant. I think most would agree that you do your reader a disservice by expecting them to do most of the work.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 14/09/2026

There are ten members of the "Blue Dog Coalition" in the current House. Any significant expansion of the map will likely make that caucus larger.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 14/09/2026

So "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk is threatening to sue basically everyone connected to Alex Gibney's documentary. But Alex Spiro's blustery threat letter appears to admit the key part: that Musk told his girlfriend that he has access to space lasers.

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 14/09/2026

Me: sure, new words are fine, the language evolves and that’s OK Also me: whoever coined “eventized” should be sentenced to death by stoning, except instead of stones we will use dictionaries

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

there is genuinely no point in debating federal policy since we've spent the last 20 years living in a world where we can no longer make it without 9 guys in robes rewriting it behind us

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 14/09/2026

A close not-Latino friend who was in polling asked me about Judis and Teixera when it came out, and I sighed in Cuban-American. I wish I’d been wrong :(

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1) an amazing reply to see out of context 2) the context made it better

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026

Probably some bystanders/onlookers too

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026

Needs "you" for the trolley passengers too

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 14/09/2026

Yup, that’s why they did very careful work to insulate their boards from (taps ear) hold on, I’m being told that their elaborate game theory about their boards folded on first contact with even the slightest challenge from commercial lawyers

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/09/2026

This looks amazing. And, again, reconfirms the thing I keep telling people: the Atmosphere isn't about rebuilding Twitter. It's about rebuilding a better web overall.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

if donald trump stole the constitution from the national archives and torched it on the white house lawn those two would say that clearly the president has the authority to do so

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