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fidelioscabinet

@fidelioscabinet.bsky.social
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Extremely cranky individual with more books than the structure of my dwelling can support. Why the hell are you following me? (At BalloonJuice sometimes)

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1h
Isotopes atoms molecules electrons
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 9h
Whoa. I mean, could be a coincidence. But, whoa. wtop.com/maryland/202...
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5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade? – WTOP News
Five people whose work supported missions at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 4h
It’s the Palantir product that’s been reported on extensively. 1/
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, memo says
Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve ​Feinberg’s order is a significant win for Palantir, which has landed a growing ​stream of contracts with the U.S. government.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 3h
This memo is incoherent. Curriculum at the service academies, as well as all the PME school houses, is dictated by congressional mandates, Service requirements, & the Officer Military Education Program (OPMEP) & enlisted equivalent. The schools have to regularly demonstrate they're in compliance.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h
A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.
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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 3h
Boosting.....
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 5h
If you ever needed a clearer proof that the "I would die to protect women but they won't make me a sandwich" script is utter bullshit... 50+ men were HANDED the PERFECT chance to be the Knight in Shining Armor with zero risk to themselves. And to a man, they failed. Catastrophically.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 4h
I want to take Chris's point 1 step further as there's an interaction effect that'll also be in play. At the same time that the decision to remove tenure for civilian faculty at the military schoolhouses, we've got a full on push to use AI for everything. These two together will be disastrous. 1/
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 5h
I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 6h
oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”
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America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, the precondition for regular AI agent use is changing your culture to speak in middle America white bureaucratic language to make it work. You can’t put “the good collards“ on an optimized shopping list, much less account for what some call familect: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/m...
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Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (Gift Article)
“Familects” emerge out of in-jokes and mispronunciations, but they reveal something about how all language evolves.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5h
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fidelioscabinet @fidelioscabinet.bsky.social · 5h
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h
TROY, Ohio (AP) — Caleb Flynn, a former Ohio music pastor who appeared on “American Idol,” has been convicted of murder in the killing of his wife.
A photo of Caleb Flynn in a suit
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 11h
we are living through several completely unethical experiments and I want God or whoever allowed this hauled up before the IRB and yelled at.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10h
ok but joe biden very much did this and everyone got mad and said he was stoking a new cold war
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10h
The assault on public lands is so disgusting to me. Once these are privatized, they are never coming back.
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The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News
Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 10h
Tbh, this actually explains a LOT about the 21st century BBC. Nothing good, but explains a lot.
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 10h
23% of Americans think it's somewhat or completely unacceptable for news organizations and journalists to publicly criticize politicians?
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 10h
Savage. (Also, should prompt some reflection on the part of Cornell administrators.)
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
50/450 received
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h
history has furnished us with a lot of characters who would've been incredible posters if they had lived in the Internet age. but I would put Jim Jones up against anybody you could name
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 10h
I expect at least one of the tech moguls will recreate Jonestown (“from the prestige-tv show, “Don’t Recreate Jonestown”)
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h
It's incredibly on brand how many of these tools are just running with the prescripted "gotcha!" as though Schmitt didn't just publicly soil himself.
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 13h
Chalmers and Skinner
First panel: Chalmers: You have evidence Jack Smith perjured himself?
Second panel: Skinner: Yes
Third panel: Chalmers: Can I see it?
Fourth panel: Skinner: No.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h
surprised by how much damage control is being expended in defense of a newbie senator from missouri with negative charisma who makes jd vance seem empathetic.
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 11h
boosting
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
They are in fact contemptuous of the idea that I would go out and talk to people about how they use a technology or observe them trying to use it. Just hostile to the very concept of there being an end user.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 12h
hellen keller denialism is very popular in the stupidest social media circles around
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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have an #UrgentNeed: i forgot my quarterly insurance payment was due this month and now it's past due for $450. #HelpSky to paypal.me/popelizbet or cashapp $popelizbet #MutualAid #MARequest
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 13h
"And a few of these newly acquainted with the work turned out to be critical to bringing it back from its state of suspended animation."
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A Prophetic Classic About the Dangers of Tech is Back in Print
Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set out…
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h
I'm sorry for sharing the horrible man's picture but I laughed and laughed at this. maybe he's like one of the aliens out of Men In Black
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 15h
Destroy them. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Kalshi loses again as judges rule prediction markets must obey gambling laws
Kalshi's defiance of state gambling laws may be headed to Supreme Court.
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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 14h
Uh, I don't use AI now? In fact, I have turned it off in everything I can
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 16h
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 15h
Fucking Schlichter. Of all the blocks I caught his blocking me after one, or two replies, is among the few which make me proud. www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 16h
So... worse than nothing; because what little they have done is to enable Trump's reckless behavior, and refused to limit (in any way) his blatant disregard for the law.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17h
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16h
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20h
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DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin defends ICE in Oklahoma shouting match
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin compared undocumented immigrants to child rapists before clashing with an Edmond man over ICE.
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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 19h
for real though, conversations with coworkers about AI are forcing me to consider that when it comes to the work we do, I might as well be working alongside p-zombies. just a weird and terrifying absence of a consciousness that there is meaning to what we’re doing
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even in the days of radio, you wouldn’t have heard a song like “Choosing Texas” on 97.1 The River, the classic rock station I listened to in northeast Georgia in the 1990s because I was Very Cool.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 29/09/2026
The current trend towards protein and return of hyperskinny aesthetics for women are inseparable both from each other and from the rise of fascism. They are a sign of strongman politics, where food is for men, and men are defined solely as muscularity. In this essay I will...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Choose. The. Bear. Seriously.
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