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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is the Internet; I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or are genuinely unfamiliar with the governor of Colorado, who among other things, pardoned an unrepentant Tina Peters.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am apparently not the first person to notice this, but with Guilfoyle back in the news, I realized today that what Mar a Lago face reminds me of is the plastic surgeon in Escape from L.A.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I gather that finding new press secretaries using the iterative cloning process from Multiplicity is going well.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Isn't the traditional difference that the members of the firing squad don't know which gun has a live round? It's about the executioner's psychological wellbeing, not the target.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Alban Viard double-feature, and another personal best at 84, despite Godzilla making his debut appearance in Samll City. #boardgames

End state of my player board in Samll City, featuring Godzilla leaving a trail of radiation through the outskirts.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

65 HP in Tramways, a personal record. Also, Alban Viard's scale for evaluating solo play is trolling. #boardgames

End state of a solo play of the board game Tramways.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

i don't want a unifying Dem who promises to return to good government. i want an angel of death who promises the government the reconstruction amendments promise.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am definitely improving at Fights in Tight Spaces. #FiTS #videogames

Victory screen for a Fights in Tight Spaces run on Brutal difficulty (the highest, identified in the description as being unfair).

Run statistics and deck composition for the successful brutal-difficulty run of Fights in Tight Spaces.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think identifying someone other than Pushkin as the greatest writer in the Russian canon would come as a surprise to approximately every Russian.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think my plan of tipping the earth's axis to be perpendicular to the plane of its orbit would involve fewer steps.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kano developed Judo into something that could safely be taught to Japanese school children. (That being said, the 21st century US is not early 20th century Japan, and it would still probably not be a good idea here.)

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I cannot help but notice that leftist groups do not, for the most part, demand that all lefty Catholics only attend churches that dissent from the teachings of the Church hierarchy on abortion and queer rights. They broadly understand that sometimes one has a cultural link to people with bad views.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We don't know that she didn't get antibiotics. If the lab were working on weaponization, they might not work.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(Obviously not as evil as the Bolsonaros but) his Ukraine policy is also grossly immoral.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm pretty sure I was in double digits and Poltergeist still scared the shit out of me.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wonder if I read them *too* young as a precocious reader, because I remember them being suspenseful but not terror-inducing.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Disagree, because they're useful prototyping components.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now The AI, called Ataraxos, beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 games to one, with four draws. And it took just 16 GPUs and a few thousand dollars to train it.

arstechnica.com

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I rthink the expensive gas is a permission structure for non-MAGA Republicans to admit the tyranny and corruption bother them.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know at least 2 others already mentioned it, but the ignorance of Blindsight among other relevant works of speculative fiction is egregious enough to merit at least 3.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

failing as stewards of their children's interests, and one ought to be consistent about this. One does actually have additional obligations to ensure the well-being of people one forced into existence in this world than just those one owes to society in general.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two observations, neither specific to either the author you: 1. This falls under the broader category of "you don't solve structural issues through personal choices". 2. Everybody can see that when reactionaries try to impose patriarchal values on their children for the good of society, they are

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pol Pot defenders are particularly mystifying because it's a stretch to call the ideology of the Khmer Rouge Communism.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sorry, no. While many liberal Zionists often see the Israel they wish existed rather than the one that currently does, many Jewish anti-Zionists see the anti-Zionist movement they wish existed rather than the one that actually does.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

people who want to investigate the relationship between lead exposure and crime". We have been lucky that the line has been drawn in this case, but I am not confident that it has been/will be in every case.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If I can elaborate via example: It's not actually easy to draw a bright line between an SJW consensus - crime stems from poverty and expoitation -- saying "It's okay to browbeat people who want to investigate the relationship between racial demography and crime" and saying "It's okay to browbeat

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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 18/09/2026

I don't understand why some people think "acknowledging the historical fact that Eretz Yisrael is the ancestral homeland of the Jews" logically implies "Israel's actions are legitimate." It doesn't! You don't have to make ahistorical claims to oppose Israel's genocide!

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The effects in real life would be somewhat different, because people have the right of exit. (You will still see the group chats become more extreme, but that is partly because of shedding less orthodox members who leave the group and mutual reinforcement among those who remain.)

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I would be more inclined to be charitable about this if everything else about how the human society works weren't things that were being proposed as improvements to make to our society in the OvercomingBias/Lesswrong milieu at the time.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it is important because I (rat-adjacent EA not from California) think a lot of the bad parts of inner-ring aspiring rationalism came from Bay Area-poisoning, not from trying to do applied rationality, but EY personally seems to have had issues that I assume predate him moving there.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know what to tell you. It's a pretty good piece of speculative fiction that has this detail about human society inserted into it entirely gratuitously. The plot would stand up fine without it. www.lesswrong.com/s/qWoFR4ytMp...

lesswrong.com

Three Worlds Collide — LessWrong

> "The kind of classic fifties-era first-contact story that Jonathan Swift might have written, if Jonathan Swift had had a background in game theory." > -- (Hugo nominee) Peter Watts, "In Praise...

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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Dem trifecta appoints judges who commit to holding that Trump as an insurrectionist was ineligible for office in 2024 & was not lawfully president in his 2nd term, and therefore any pardons in that term are a nullity.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

of the ostensibly more enlightened future human society (governed by prediction markets, of course) that they have moved past the idea of seeing anything wrong with sexual coercion.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I found parts of @segyges.bsky.social thread to be a stretch, which made it puzzling that he left out something that I would say looks more damning: Before HPMOR, EY wrote "Three Worlds Collide", an otherwise interesting sci-fi story marred by making the distinguishing feature...

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a very tired effective altruist in the pays-attention-to-Givewell sense, thank you.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rothko's basilisk.

A Rothko painting with an angry face drawn on it.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I envy your ability to briefly forget that Donald Trump exists.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh, come on now, the core of MAGA is "hates Those People getting $5000 more than they like receiving $5000 themselves." There's nothing to see here.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also, once again, the modal EA is someone giving a large fraction of their income to Givewell charities, not SBF or the AI tech lords. EA has never been pro-Trump.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump managed to bankrupt a casino, and he both fakes charitable giving and thinks volunteering for military service makes you a sucker. He's fundamentally opposed to both effectiveness and altruism. This very much "dog bites man".

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My observation on Talarico discourse is that more people should familiarize themselves with Jimmy Carter's campaign for governor of Georgia (and the contrast btw campaign rhetoric in a red state and how he actually governed).

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I almost never buy anything I wasn't already looking for because of seeing an ad. However, "shirts with adorable anthropomorphic samurai" was too much my aesthetic to pass up.

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Ghost Palm Technique @ghostpalmtechnique.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

LOL, I got an achievement in FiTS I didn't even know was a thing, for hitting a guy standing in front of the dartboard with a stun dart. The view wss rotated such that I didn't even know there *was* a dartboard.

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