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Narich Violetfathom

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I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 13/10/2026
The kids are having fun spotting the errors in an AI-generated image of the village provided by our village hall 🤭. I also don't miss the irony that it's an invitation to a public debate about installing renewable energy (solar panels) in the village.
Alt-universe churchReal life church
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cool how long we have been doing offshore wind in the UK. We're genuinely very good at it. "Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is celebrating 20 years of generating renewable, home-grown electricity for the UK...two decades of operation that have helped demonstrate the long-term potential of offshore wind."
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Barrow Offshore Wind Farm Marks 20 Years of Powering UK With Renewable Energy
Ørsted's Barrow Offshore Wind Farm is celebrating 20 years of generating renewable, home-grown electricity for the UK, marking two decades of operation that have helped demonstrat...
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 29/09/2026
"An artificial intelligence-generated episode of Doctor Who was “pretty good,” according to BBC Director General Matt Brittin." What a desirable future that is. Soon there will be shows created entirely by machines for machines, which will generate tons of content!! Hallelujah.
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'Doctor Who': BBC's Matt Brittin Says He Has Watched AI Episode
An artificial intelligence 'Doctor Who' was sent to the BBC's Matt Brittin and he said it was "pretty good"
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
work and other resources on the topic ✌🏽 Hinton's student was doing seances for artificial general intelligence at OpenAI but no its me who has to justify my self 🙄 dair-institute.org/projects/tes...
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The TESCREAL Bundle
The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 08/10/2026
getting weird out here
The White House considers anyone using the term "Artificial Intelligence" a traitor to our leader GENERAL KRULL. ALL HAIL KRULL AND OUR GLORIOUS NEW AGE
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James @nonzerosum.games · 10/10/2026
LAUNCH DAY! It's finally here, after over a decade of (admittedly on and off) development... NEUTROPIA is ready to launch. Play at: nonzerosum.games/neu... #GameDev #ScreenShotSaturday #LaunchDay #Devs #GameTheory #EducationalGames #GamesForChange #NonZero #NonZeroSumGames
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NEUTROPIA
An interactive non-zero-sum game exploring positive and negative balance through chain reactions.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.wral.com/news/investi...
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NC dog trainer defies court, posts video of a trooper killing her dogs
A Pitt County woman whose two trained dogs were fatally shot by a state trooper in 2024 has publicly released video of the incident despite a court order restricting its distribution, saying she is de...
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Malcolm & Baby Dog @malcolmandbabydog.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Friends! Having Teddy staying with us has illustrated how possible it is to train dogs not to chase cats! Teddy has come a long way from his first night here, when our house was like an episode of Tom & Jerry. Everyone has pitched in to help. Well done to the whole Team! We worked it out together! ❤️
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
But man it's amazing how short history is. For A City on Mars we had a chapter (later cut) on the use of the American West as a metaphor for space colonization. I think it was Patricia Limerick who pointed out that the time between Wounded Knee and the opening of Frontierland at Disney was 65 years.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should clarify - the primary component of lebensraum was territorial expansion. But clearing the territory of undesirables to create space for ethnic Germans was also a major element.
The concrete measures taken by the Nazis to secure their Lebensraum demonstrate the very real power of ideas. Again, in his second book, Hitler wrote that Germany should “[concentrate] all of its strength on marking out a way of life for our people through the allocation of adequate Lebensraum for the next one hundred years.” Naturally, the inferior races that occupied this region must be removed, both Slavs and Jews.The drive to clear the East of inferior populations in preparation for German colonization led to intensive planning for the mass starvation of over 30 million people there. Policy guidelines issued before the invasion of the Soviet Union stated unequivocally that “many tens of millions of people in this territory will become superfluous and will have to die or migrate to Siberia… With regard to this, absolute clarity must reign.” Known as the Generalplan Ost, this set of economic and demographic plans placed the necessity for Lebensraum and the colonization of the East at the center of the invasion. By blaming Jews and Bolshevists for the “backwardness” of the region, the plans also reinforced other forms of Nazi antisemitism demanding the removal of Jews from the territory and eventually their physical destruction.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This shows up occasionally in climate work, which is ironic since some strands of Doomerism are used to deprioritize environmental protection in favor of, say, space colonization fantasies.
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Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can't wait to play this, it looks so pretty!
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James @nonzerosum.games · 09/10/2026
Some “inspo” for NEUTROPIA’s weeds, right there on my house #NatureFindsAWay #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday (almost). The mads contribute by “fertilising” the map, when the greens plant there you get flowers :)
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whatever weird shit might be happening at like the commanding heights of effective altruism (and it does look like there’s weird shit), I do think it’s worth reiterating that the vast majority of folks who prescribe to EA are overall really good people, & the vulgar form of the argument is very true
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jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social @jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You have to separate effective altruism (mosquito nets are a better use of funds than "raising awareness") from effective altruism (the only thing that matters is ensuring that we have a galaxy-spanning civilization of a quadrillion quadrillion people in the year 5000).
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/10/2026
“The first step to doing good in an effective manner is to be honest about our cognitive limitations—and to take seriously the ever-present danger that even the most well-meaning and thoroughly “researched” interventions may prove to be counterproductive.”
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The Problem with Effective Altruism
A partial defense.
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Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beat the meat in this mech FPS game where a bioengineered pig culls its bioengineered meat brethren! PIG IRON has a FREE demo on Itch: posmnaut.itch.io/pig-iron Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos... 10 Min Gameplay Vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6kL... by indie dev @possmonaut.itch.io
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
But he went from being mad at the rest of us in the field for abandoning the concerns that animated it fifty years ago, to blaming non-western fields for the death of ours. He's got it backwards. Hiring is a zero-sum game, and our field failed to change in ways that might it easy to drop us.
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James @nonzerosum.games · 05/02/2026
New audio for "WHY?—can we have both fairness & progress?". Check it out on the site or on the podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/6nK6...
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FAIRNESS & PROGRESS
Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/04/2026
How do you encourage patient, pro-social, non-zero-sum cooperation or short-term sacrifices for long-term collective gain -- core values of progressivism -- in an information environment mostly composed of ungated, unregulated short-form vertical video? I really don't know. I have trouble seeing it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/06/2026
In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
you rotate the square piece when you play Tetris don't you
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tangentially, this is another example of how misogyny (like all bigotry) makes people's brains smooth. Calling this a "false binary" gives it too much credence, there's no substance here beyond the misogyny. If you think the AI pessimists are right, there are many other paths available, such as:
Renown AI scholar Sarah Connor, seen here in T2 preparing to ensure AI alignment.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't think anyone who thinks remotely seriously about "alignment" or LLM agents doing weird/bad shit thinks this is remotely serious. But wanting to avoid a slowdown of the AI boom make a guy say weird things.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 01/10/2026
"I personally absolutely do upgrade my assessment of someone's AI alignment qualifications if I find out they go to RMN," by which username John Wentworth appears to mean Red Means No, a "consensual non-consent event" which simulates sexual assault. This is weird stuff, man!
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the big questions of "what are LLMs" and "what is alignment" remain important but they are separable from the question of AI safety we can talk about safety as a systems process regardless of what the nature of the technology is, and AI companies are failing in those processes
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Apple is changing macOS permissions because AI agents make broad access more dangerous. This is a mundane security problem with familiar solutions; least privilege, explicit authorization and strong access controls. Don’t give an agent broad access then rely only on “alignment” to make it behave.
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Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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James @nonzerosum.games · 06/10/2026
Oh, and this is the first version... from 2014. Look at those auto-shadows... amazing. I actually did like making the dungeon tiles, they're all hand drawn (9 of them repeated and rotated) I'll surely use them for something one day. #GameDev #DevLog
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
effective altruism-nasir
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#OTD in 2009 biologist Dr. Carolyn Greider & biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn shared the #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (w/J. Szostak) for discovering of telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. Monumental implications for the #aging & #cancer research fields. #WomenInSTEM
A portrait-style photograph of American molecular biologist Dr. Carol W. Greider (born April 15, 1961) on the left, standing slightly ahead of Australian-American molecular biologist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn (born November 26, 1948) on the right. Both women are positioned from the chest up, smiling warmly and directly at the camera against a minimalist, seamless off-white background. Dr. Greider wears a vibrant, structured red coat over a cream-colored top, her shoulder-length blonde hair parted in the middle and framing her bright expression. Dr. Blackburn wears a heavy, charcoal-grey tweed coat over a black shirt, accessorized with a delicate gold chain necklace bearing a round pendant. She has light brown, shoulder-length hair and thin-rimmed oval glasses. The lighting is soft and even, highlighting their joyful expressions in a mood of shared triumph and deep professional camaraderie. Taken in March 2009, shortly before they jointly received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this image holds profound historical significance, representing a landmark celebration of their co-discovery of the enzyme telomerase and its role in chromosome protection.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When people think about humanitarianism, they usually think of the aftermath of a natural disaster and the relief and aid that follow. humanitarianism is too often thought of within the bounds of the NGO industrial complex. But those systems are being targeted and dismantled right now.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI brings genuine benefits. Medical research, better understanding of complex systems. Useful. Keep that. Making 25% of us permanently unemployed and rendering pics of Fat Johnny Depp is not useful. It harms the planet and society. If it costs users money, it will stop. So tax the compute.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron: “There is a crisis of effectiveness in our democracies. We have made our systems more sophisticated, but we have become extremely complex, less understandable and slower.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026
what i really regret is the bastardization of intersectionality. crenshaw's insight was that systems of oppression intersect in complex ways, rather than merely additive ones. as a result looking for a singular scale of oppression that delivers an ordinal ranking of all groups is a fool's errand
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
another day at the machine learning factory. everyone keeps asking me if the machine is intelligent. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it
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Joy Content 🏳️‍⚧️🐒 @joycontent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
we will not implement assets generated by ai into our games, we will only implement assets generated by ai into our games
"We will not implement assets generated by AI into our games." Capcom said in a March 2026 shareholders meeting. "However, we plan to proactively use it as a contributing technology to improve the efficiency and productivity of the game development process. To this end, we are currently exploring ways to implement it in various areas, including graphics, sound and programming."
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
UBI is a floor. It's a dividend. It's not about replacing jobs. It's about making sure everyone has a non-zero floor to stand on and never fall beneath, and it makes sure that everyone benefits from productivity growth. And it is about enabling everyone to *choose* what they work on, paid or not.
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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
[Notebook in a survival horror game about cock cages] Day 1 We just developed a device to rid people of their... base desires. Productivity is going to go thru the roof! Day 10 Test subjects acting accordingly, some seem a bit, ahem, eager, but still chaste. Day 25 They've sexualized the cage.
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Chris Kluwe, Candidate for Assembly District 72 @kluweoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you to the hardworking and dedicated members of UAW who knocked on doors last weekend in Aliso Viejo! Check out the link in our bio for upcoming canvassing opportunities! #canvass #volunteer #unionstrong #oc #ad72 @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Some of our fantastic canvassers from UAW holding up Kluwe literature in front of a tree.
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James @nonzerosum.games · 04/10/2026
NEUTROPIA is coming along nicely… release next week I reckon #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #nonzerosumgames #gametheory #cute #happiness #positivity
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh, and just to be clear, evolutionary psychology and evolutionary biology are very different things. No one is more critical of evo psych just-so stories than evolutionary biologists.
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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This sums up all of evolutionary psychology
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Mercy Grimm @mercygrimm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Speaking from experience: in Sociology school we talk a lot about how evolutionary psychology isn't real and doesn't meaningfully contribute in any way to our historical understandings of human systems or group dynamics and that IS the reason most schools don't have an EvPsy program: It's Fake.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026
Modern economic development is about maximizing complexity. To make things more complex, you need abstraction. Abstraction requires organization and communication.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/10/2026
All the merch in the Onion Store will be considered rare collectibles by the year 2067, so get started building your collection today. store.theonion.com/products/the-oni…
The Onion Newspaper: Sept-Oct 2026 w/ Special 9/11 Reprint
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