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So now AI companies are all "We can regulate ourselves!" just like {checks notes}. I'll get back to you on that. Note how quickly they pivoted to self-regulation after bipartisan support for the real thing and called in their Idiot Emperor, the one they paid off with gold baubles, to back them up.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's telling that our idea of "intelligence" is based on "tasks" that capitalism finds useful, that selfhood is measured by what a being can do and not personhood as such, that the way to prove your personhood is a measure of your economic utility.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since buddying up to the tyrant won't save you from his arbitrary and capricious actions, when your status as friend or foe is a matter of the tyrant's mood and not a political calculus, you might as well do what you want.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not to state the obvious, but we're going to keep getting "rogue AI" incidents until the people in the companies that own these systems face real jail time. If you harbor a vicious dog, you're responsible when it bites someone, not the dog.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Trump regime assumed that unused ACA accounts were fraudulent, somehow not realizing that most people with high deductible accounts would only use them in catastrophic circumstances. But then, "I can't afford to use the coverage I have" doesn't compute in an administration full of billionaires.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just imagining the tell-all book written by the couch JD left to marry Usha: Hell hath No Fury Like a Davenport Scorned.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm noticing a greater gap with my students (high school students taking college classes) between what they think they know and what they actually know. It's not just lack of preparation for college material--nothing new about that--but more confidence in their ignorance and misinformation.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

GPS hasn't just prevented us from getting lost; it has allowed us to be lost all of the time. Social media has, likewise, enabled loneliness and disconnection, and now AI has come along not to enhance our thoughts but to supplant them. We don't own these technologies; we are owned by them.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tip for curious students: before you ask for advice on how to improve your essay, maybe you should look at the comments I left on it clearly communicating to you how you can improve your essay.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not seasonal, but neither is the weather: Green skies, black days—spring scolds the tallgrass, scours bare ground with hail: a cruel yes.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Overheard on the couch: His side: "It's a good-looking storm." Her side: "Yeah, it even makes _Topeka_ look interesting!"

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I imagine the Iranian leadership is all "Those American troops! They're so well-groomed! We must immediately capitulate!"

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Being pleasant because you've been taught to be pleasant isn't the same as being good. Some of the most cruel people alive are nice enough to be around. The devil is, no doubt, unerringly polite.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With AI company heads calling for regulation, we've moved the discussion from capability to culpability. They're trying to cover their asses; they know full well Congress won't act, and they're setting the stage to blame electeds when a rogue AI does real world damage.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not to engage in whataboutism, but more to explore our collective penchant for self-destruction, AI doom discussions remind me that every time we've had a choice to address climate change, we've picked candidates who openly pledged to make it worse. We've already opted for a fiery end.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We can't really discuss such things as intelligence without revealing our ideological and philosophical assumptions. That we're not openly talking about those right now also reveals a lot about why we can't solve our pressing problems with AI.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The hubris hasn't changed, only the ancient Greek assurance that the gods will actually do something about it.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just vagueposting here, but using your faith to justify your bigotry doesn't make you a hero.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

9/11 marks the point the rightwing stopped being coy about its imperial ambitions. Dick Cheney championing the "unitary executive" was a major piece--and we can now see how that has worked out.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In no viable moral system is "We have to do the bad thing because otherwise someone worse will" a good excuse. The right answer is to not do the bad thing and try our level best to make sure the other guy doesn't either.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The thing about college students is that they have an endless supply of grandparents to kill off to explain why they didn't get their work in on time.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The thing is, he was never a billionaire real estate developer. He was just a spoiled rich kid playing, hiring people to tell him he was the real deal. Thus all the bankruptcies. Thus burning through creditors until he finally had to go to the Russians.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Uh, Bombardier has a manufacturing plant in the US, only a few miles from where I sit, in the heart of Trump's "real" America.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The single most important skill in any democracy, especially one in the Age of AI, is how to distinguish shit from Shinola.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A new technology is just as likely to reveal existing problems as it is to solve them.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Would a charity dairy be supported by the United Whey? #AskingForMyself

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think we're in the "If I can't have you, nobody can have you" phase of the abusive relationship between MAGA and the nation.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In not too many years, we'll have to explain to young people what winter was.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What's going through my head on something of an endless loop is that every technology is a projection of the ideology of its creators.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Overheard on the couch: His side: "Tell us about it, Bert." Her side: "He's not Bert. He's Jay." His side: "He could be a Bert. Anybody could be a Bert if they just put their mind to it."

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I get why rural America doesn't want data centers in their back yards and largely agree. But rural landscapes have been industrialized for 100 years, ever since the advent of mechanized farming. The loud, dirty, destructive sprawl is already there. They're called farms.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

John Roberts, who has done more to promote the imperial presidency than anyone alive, should have his right to object to anything imperial a president does revoked.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The "thou shalt never say climate change" local meteorologists are all "temps over 100 for the foreseeable future," and it's September, and I'm, all, "Well, it's a good thing climate change is a hoax! Otherwise I might worry!"

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Amazing how Bessent still doesn't realize that he's been thrown under the bus even as its wheels roll right over him!

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

None of them are happy: Trump and Musk rage tweet late into the night; SCOTUS justices grunch; ICE delivers mass misery. Ridicule does not equal joy. Their "jokes" are extensions of their hate. And they lack the insight to understand that, no matter how much they "win," they never will feel joy.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The realization that those currently in power seem to understand kayfabe but not camp is something I'm having a hard time getting my head around.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dew: a hot, dark fog— smoked meat scent clings to my skin. The skunk drought goes on.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's almost like Trump is trying to nationalize Venezuela's oil. It's almost like socialism. National socialism. (If you know what I mean.)

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New rule: any restaurant offering a menu item with "bowl" in the name should serve that item in a bowl that can also be eaten.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Again the question looms: But if Trump was a Russian asset, would he act any differently?

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Judge the intentions of policies, initiatives, constitutional interpretations by their outcomes, the patterns of injustice they create. Reject the rhetoric. Resist the benefit of the doubt; we're far beyond that now. Look at what they do.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I guess I'd be more impressed with the mandatory anti-discrimination training I had to take for a place I used to work full time and still do some part time work for if I had any evidence they ever followed up on discrimination complaints. Way to shove your bigotry in our faces, guys.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Overheard on the couch: "You already got three cheese, kitty cat. You don't need a semi-truck."

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anybody else have "trade war" in their heads to the tune of CW McCall's "Convoy"? No? Just me?

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The one throughline of the right--from the openly fascistic MAGA movement to the center-right neoliberalism of Clinton and Blair--is that the government's job is to protect wealth and privilege and punish literally everyone else. Thus the rising wealth gap over the past 40 years.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

But, you know, we don't need to be part of the WHO or have a functioning HHS or, you know, believe in public health in general. All that's too "woke" and "DEI" or whatever.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Monsters are also made by what they have, not just what they've been deprived of. Some bullies are created because they're privileged and bored, and cruelty is stimulating.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some "woke" cities support reinstitutionalization as well (SF, NYC). But each of us is one car wreck, one stroke, one bad fall away from locked wards, seclusion, restraint, if these folks have their way. It's not about any "them"; it's about all of us. www.npr.org/2026/08/20/n...

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Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

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EW Wilder @ewwilder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Currently texting with Andy Burnham. Who should I tell him I am?

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