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If putting a racist in power isn't an existential risk to you, then you're a white person who thinks only white people are worth saving from extinction.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 5h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 6h

Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?

The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 9h

Test and scenario practice details inside 🧵

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 12h

JCO for the win.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026

Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23h

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first explains why he terminated government workers. The second explains why he recruited the DOGE kids.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.

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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

Dangerous and creepy

This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

On the record, I DO think AI has the potential to be extremely dangerous in terrifying ways that we need to research and anticipate: I also want a truly diverse set of people who aren’t all part of the same millenarian Silicon Valley doom cult doing that research and safety work.

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the reasons I hate the “super genius who doesn’t have time for social conventions” archetype is that I recognize it’s a power fantasy for guys exactly like who I was when I was the shittiest person I’ve ever been.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

disproportionately annoyed by theoretically meritocratic absolutist movements that obviously fail on their own terms

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

i know it's old and "second wave" or whatever but i do not care i must repost [imagine this is a sick tumblr screenshot]: "men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Amazing how often the needs and vulnerabilities of neurodivergent women get completely ignored.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s kind of worse than this thread because Rationalists hold that monogamy is a now-illogical holdover from worrying about paternity. So, if you don’t want to participate you are providing evidence of your irrationality

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Autodidact due to a lack of funds/access to formal education: cool, that’s really great Autodidact because you think you’re smarter than the whole educational system and don’t need it: 🚨🚨🚨

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Gabrielle @gabbklein.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Bad: "We're like a big family", but you don't actually have any say in anything that happens here. But don't think about that! Come to our lunch and learn instead! Attendance is optional, but upbeat cheerfulness is mandatory! Worse: replace "lunch and learn" with "sex party" Nightmare fuel!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026

reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Second-hand embarrassment comes from being reminded of your old self.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

While I am no psychologist or psychiatrist, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s account of his own life does read exactly like the writing of every other reasonably articulate person with a severe personality disorder:

4.6: What's it like to be you?
I am sufficiently intelligent to have completely avoided most or all of the pitfalls of youth, and I've cleaned enough dirt out of my mind that the thought of living in a completely open telepathic society doesn't disturb me. And yet I still fall short of moral perfection, because I have far less mental energy than an ordinary human.
The human mind is scarily, unintuitively modular, as even a casual student of brain-damage cases knows.
Consider, for example, the phenomenon of anosognosia, in which a patient's left arm or leg is paralyzed and the patient doesn't know it. The patient will deny any paralysis, rationalize vis "decision" not to move the arm, become angry if the confrontation continues, and so on. This only happens with the left side of the body, never the right!
It's horrifying to contemplate the thought that your self-awareness, your rationality, is subject to that sort of selective damage. It makes you wonder whether there are other blatantly obvious facts that we're all incapable of perceiving.
I am a neurohack, every bit as alien as any denizen of The Modular Brain or The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. But that alienness expresses itself in an unintuitive, modular, dramatically inconsistent way. I have a painter's self-awareness, a clean mind, and tricks of self-alteration; things which, if they were transferred to someone else, would probably result in nearly total "self-control"; I have beliefs which, all else being equal, would create an intense, energetic fanatic. It doesn't work that way, for me, because I have a hardware deficit creating a lack of mental energy. Nothing trumps hardware. Period. I can be a fanatic Singularitarian, reorganize my mind, and it won't ever give me as much mental energy as an ordinary human. End of story.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026

I got to Copenhagen this morning and have been biking around all day and, y'all, I don't know if you've heard about this, but ... this place has pretty good bike infrastructure. You read about it but it's still just mind-blowing to see. Swarms of bikes, everywhere. Swarms!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one thing that i have realized is basically the vast majority of people don't understand how insurance works

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Will's Mum @willsmum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No one should come to the US for ANY reason. I've been shouting this for 18 months. Are people really naive enough to believe that ICE won't abduct them because they have a skill that makes them special? The proof of their tactics is all over social media. They do not care about your talents.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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Jonathan J. Chiarella @il-kwang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The bean soup example reminds me of the Amazon Q&A: “Is this waterproof?” “I don’t know.” You see this in high school sometimes where someone raises a hand or says, “I don’t know,” out loud. Yes, I know that Amazon Q&A emails solicit all purchasers, but it proves the point about reading for context.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jesus fucking christ

Ottawa has warned the Quebec government against the possibility of US interference in the current election campaign, which is aimed at favouring the election of a sovereignist government.

At the beginning of September, a senior official in the Fréchette government received a call from a counterpart in the Mark Carney government, we have learned.

He was offered the option of going to a "neutral location, where there were no cameras", and was forbidden from bringing his cell phone.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Multiple warnings to Quebec from the federal government about American efforts to influence the upcoming election in support of the separatist PQ.

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This article is very underrated and very important in understanding Effective Altruists in the ways that matter: how they impact us and what we can do.

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git remote @gitremote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What Effective Altruists and tankies have in common is an inability to see that the hierarchical power they create or defend can be hijacked by sociopaths who seek power and pretend to be altruists. True believers can't imagine their members can be selfish, but power seekers climb any hierarchy.

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