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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's over debated whether or not AI is conscious and it's under debated why we should be allowing people to attempt to create non human consciousness. It seems incredibly immoral to create consciousness by profit driven corporations where the likely result would be a new form of slavery
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pope Leo holding a baseball bat, smiling
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Headline news this week touted how more oil is flowing out of the Middle East. If those reports mentioned that it's much less than before the Iran war, and costing a lot to get it—including US Navy escort—it was low down. Anyway, I still don't think the regional war is over and everything's okay.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI usage has really taken a dramatic hit on my motivation. it feels like the agency I had in work has slowly been drained away over the last year or so since AI got actually good. more and more I'm pushed to basically use it for everything and I feel like a meat glue
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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 18/09/2026
more people gotta lay it out like this: these people are immoral, incompetent, and corrupt self-dealers. tech will be better if we keep their violent and dehumanizing brand of politics out of it
stopomarchy.org
STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers (Accessible Version)
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source. Accessible, high-legibility version.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
when you're yelling at claude, this who you're yelling at
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHH is a Musk in mini. A tech guy who once maybe was interesting but mostly rode his charisma to drum up business, but now has become an out and out white supremacist calling for ethnic cleansing and saving the white race. What a bore who's only new endeavors are derivative of other people's work
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now imagine what the information environment would look like if the Dems still had the scandal plagued Platner running. The choices would be a corrupt incumbent against a credibly accused rapist and racist to represent your state for the next 6 years. I think turnout would be bad
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/09/2026
Another story about institutions deciding they can build on open models rather than pay premium to a frontier lab. h/t @ver.ooo
bloomberg.com
OpenAI, Anthropic Costs Push More Startups to Build Off Cheaper Open Models
The $15.6 billion legal startup Harvey built its business around training AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to do specialized work for lawyers. Recently, however, soaring artificial intelligence costs hav...
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It really feels like the Middle East is on the brink of an all out war. Syria is in the terrible position of not wanting to be involved but is being targeted by what would likely have been its ally given Iran‘s support for bashar al asad‘s regime
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Living abroad in an area that had no washing machines. It took hours and was much more physically demanding than I ever expected. I did it exactly one time. After that I gladly paid a local woman to do it for me. It was a big deal when a guy bought one for his house people came to gawk at it
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K @kerry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models with RL a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough".” Before Jev there was Laya laya.convaiinnovations.com (via @dherman.dev)
laya.convaiinnovations.com
Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine
Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
wondering if jev will be the death of LLM speak. like if it can be used to cheaply detect LLM vs human writing, will models going forward be tuned by cheap classifers into writing well? Imagine if claude could actually write concisely consistently out of the box
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the war with Iran spiral into a full blown regional war is surreal. This defensive pact also includes Turkey. Oh and the preexisting conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan is still escalating. Can we somehow avoid a catastrophe? Good thing we have competent leadership to guide us through
theguardian.com
Pact with Saudi Arabia threatens to draw Pakistan into Middle East conflict
Activation of mutual defence agreement by Riyadh as fighting with Houthis escalates would have wide-reaching repercussions for Islamabad
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.
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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Drawing from our new book Supremacy, @nikobowie.bsky.social and I argue in @slate.com that limiting judicial supremacy is the only way to bind the president with law. slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com
John Roberts’ New Role Model Demonstrates Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
If the court is curling up anywhere, it is at the feet of a presidency increasingly unchecked by law.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you look at the price of diesel spiking, remember that heating oil *is* diesel.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is something that frustrates me a lot about AI as someone seeing it revolutionize and completely change their field of work. It is a technology with unbelievable utility, but most non tech ppl’s exposure is slop and increasingly propaganda
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since I'm not in the US, I'm blocked, but whoops, Next.js serialized the entire site's localization bundle, so I can still analyze the site. My favourites: the site lies about having to have been a citizen for 29 days to vote, & wants you to grant access to push content to your phone's lock screen.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is the real threat to water supplies from datacenters
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this has gotta be trump's rejected playlist from WFMU
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a little bitch. Blocked everyone who pointed out his intentional misreading
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and Klan regalia. And the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Collins's house ... a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof can't be trusted with our national affairs."
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12/09/2026
I also think the incentives here are perverse. Anthropic and OAI fail at safety => moral panic => Anthropic and OAI get to lecture everyone about need for government to regulate their market and forestall foreign competition => if they're not persuasive, then => it's back to failing at safety ...
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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 12/09/2026
There's no slowing down frontier models by regulation that wouldn't lead to regulatory capture. But we could simply force all AI model companies to release their model weights openly. It's the world's data after all and nothing would slow their funding/progress more effectively and universally.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
playing fire red for the first time and wow is it a step above the originals. when I was a kid my strategy was to just grind one pokemon and plow through battles. now I have to actually think what types to use. still an easy game but way more enjoyable. also running who'd have thunk it!
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
we’re going to put boots on the ground and it’s not even going to be in Iran
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
a guy on fb marketplace is selling multiple folk art 9/11 memorial rugs #neverforget
A folk art rug showing planes flying into the trade center and an aircraft carrier and various jets and missiles. a dove holding an olive branch flies over the american flag
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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ok, this seems to be lining up with what makes sense. 1. It’s been hit in one place - it’s on fire and billowing black smoke 2. The other fires are from venting gases - when the pipeline is shut down - hydrocarbon gases are trapped in there and to prevent pressure build up you need to burn them off
x.com
Ali (@MerruX) on X
I have looked at all the data, and it appears the Houthis have struck this pumping station on the Saudi East-West Pipeline. The pumping station at 23.95909, 40.05338 is still on fire—it's the only pum...
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
some of the worst people in the world are the vanguard of the green energy transition
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I will only vote for a candidate who talks about punishing Steven Miller and the rest of this admin for their illegal and traitorous actions. Nuremberg 2.0 now
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the context of the Trump regime’s assaults on academic freedom and free speech, this means official U.S. policy is that race science is one of the very few things it’s acceptable to do at a university, and must be promoted by the state, while most other pursuits should be crushed by the state.
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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
it's wild that trump is actively destroying the american empire and government in real time and all the media and dems can do is shrug and focus on bullshit like this
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you hate Nazi trash, you can donate to his opponent, Josh Riley's campaign here
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
nytimes.com
ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They want to break the union. The federal government can invade a blue state and murder its citizens. But if you want the murderer extradited from a red state? That’s a states’ rights issue!
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wonder why people don't trust big tech and AI? Could it be due to the company championing UBI as a way to replace income lost to it's own product saying another form of basic income is fraud and should be abolished?
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 24/08/2026
This dynamic is going to play out repeatedly as the climate crisis worsens. Rightwing climate-denying political forces will make capital out of lack of adaptation planning. We have to get ahead of this and propose resilient climate policies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Air conditioning push favoured over emissions cuts in six European nations, survey finds
Poll also finds sizeable majorities who believe it should be easier to install air con in homes
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jefe @jefe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Charlamagne Warns It’s ‘a Wrap for America’ Unless Every Trump Admin Official Is Locked Up Within 5 Years www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
mediaite.com
Charlamagne Warns It’s ‘a Wrap for America’ Unless Every Trump Admin Official Is Locked Up Within 5 Years
'The Breakfast Club' host Charlamagne Tha God insisted news that the Trump family will have a bank means that it's "a wrap for America."
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A true populist through and through
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feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social @feathers-mc-graw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I want to hear every democrat treat this as destruction of evidence and any official involved should be prosecuted when they take power
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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