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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 07/10/2026

In all honestly, our present world desperately needs more welders.

A photo of some random welder found on the Internet

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 22/09/2026

The sky in this place is insane

The sun peeking from behind clouds over mountains. Impossible to describe, really

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 20/09/2026

Local mountain wildlife, or as @jtommins.bsky.social puts it: deities

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 19/09/2026

I’m telling you, it’s a very cool book

A screenshot of a sentence from a book called “Cultural Studies of Law” (in English this time):

"Look, for example, at the social dysfunction that backgrounds recent movie versions of Batman, or in V for Vendetta. By eschewing any structural solutions to social problems but instead resorting to some deus ex machina to swoop down and rescue us from them, Superman's legacy is a gesture of desperation against the mainstream world rather than either acceptance or reform of it”

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 19/09/2026

(translation in the alt text)

A screenshot of a sentence from a book called "Cultural studies of law" (in Russian, not the English one). Translation:

"The dogmatic approach, grounded in legal fictions such as "the will of the people," is intended precisely to veil the real alignment of political forces in the country, the hegemony of the social group that has monopolized the right of official nomination, classification and legal qualification of social situations as lawful / unlawful."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 16/09/2026

This is whom y'all have been reading this entire time btw

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 13/08/2026

I mean. It goes more like this, I guess. We've all been trading our privacy for other things for a while now, right

The Attribution Pyramid. Top to bottom: malice, stupidity, incentives.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 28/07/2026

Take care of yourselves and others. And don't be that www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Significance
Social relationships are fundamental to human health, yet research has focused primarily on their supportive dimensions. We investigate the role of “hasslers,” people in one’s close social networks who create problems or make life more difficult, finding that these negative ties are not rare, disproportionately experienced by individuals facing greater social and health vulnerabilities, and consequential for aging. Each additional hassler is associated with faster biological aging, with especially pronounced effects when the hassler is a family member. These findings identify negative social ties as chronic stressors that shape aging trajectories and underscore the need for interventions that reduce harmful social exposures to promote healthier aging.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 19/07/2026

I'd personally roll it back to "intelligence" instead of "consciousness", for reasons. And this is something that's been argued for for quite a bit not, e.g. here

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 03/05/2026

But it's not just that. It gets worse. Remember this chart? 47/

The infamous "productivity and average real earnings" graph that shows divergence between the two starting in mid-1970s, with the latter staying effectively flat ever since then

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 17/04/2026

Hey everyone, this shouldn't happen. This can still be prevented from happening.

"The largest of the new facilities, the so-called “hyperscale” sites where AI models are to be trained, come with names that reflect the pathologies of their founders. Sam Altman’s Stargate in Abilene, Texas, will be “roughly the size of New York’s Central Park,” according to Bloomberg—while OpenAI’s Project Jupiter site in New Mexico could be larger still."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 01/04/2026

Lowkey the most anticlimactic perfect score I've ever seen

A screenshot of a certificate from amiatechbro.com website, "with a score of 0% agreement with tech bro ideas"

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 26/03/2026

An important bit on activism too. Again, the fact that, within the current system, it is an essential tool (even empirically), and that in an ideal system it is not supposed to be needed in the first place, do not contradict each other.

"Even activism — often invoked as democracy’s corrective mechanism — is better understood here as a diagnostic signal. Historically, organized public pressure has produced real change, and that matters. But the fact that people must take to the streets to be heard at all is evidence of feedback failure, not evidence of a functioning system. A society that requires protest to route around broken input channels has not solved the problem — it has worked around it."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 26/03/2026

And this is why it's so important to read things to the very end.

"There is no detailed and executable plan to address the totality of the metacrisis within any meaningful timeframe. Nor could such a plan even exist, factoring the continuously changing state of the world and the unknowability of all relevant factors. The almost overdetermined nature and incredibly short timelines to imminent global catastrophes—as well as the lack of viable solutions—provided the motivation to make a deep assessment of the causes. Work is underway to outline the features of an ecosystem of projects that might approach sufficiency. While the progress in that endeavor is beyond the scope of this analysis, this document simply aims to lay the foundations of the critical shared assessment necessary to begin the real work of exploring the potential solution space, together."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 08/03/2026

Saddened to find out that we’ve completely lost Amanda Askell too

A screenshot of an article in Business Insider, with the following text:

Amanda Askell, who works on shaping
Claude's behavior, said in an episode of the
"Hard Fork" podcast published Saturday that the debate over AI consciousness remains difficult.

"Maybe you need a nervous system to be able to feel things, but maybe you don't," Askell said. "The problem of consciousness genuinely is hard," she added.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 02/03/2026

Speaking of Come And See and On The Beach: there's also Dead Man's Letters

A poster for the movie called Dead Man's Letters

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 02/03/2026

Surprised that nobody mentioned it: On The Beach. Both 1959 and 2000, but I've only seen the latter one. It did mess me up as a kid, especially the ending.

A poster for the On The Beach mini-series

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 15/11/2025

This handsome gentleman came up to me while I’m waiting, and decided to wait with me. He’s the embodiment of how good today is. It feels great to feel great.

A ginger cat relaxing near parking lot on a sunny day

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 04/11/2025

This idea keeps popping up, but y'all need to look at it from the opposite angle. Hungary is basically blackmailing both EU and NATO. If expelled, it will be driven towards Serbia - and Russia. Look at the map: you *really* don't want Hungary to become a full-blown Russian satellite.

A screenshot of a map with Hungary in its center, surrounded by (clockwise): Croatia (South-West), Slovenia (West), Austria (North-West), Slovakia (North), Ukraine (North-East), Romania (East, South-East), Serbia (South).

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 03/11/2025

It's alright, thank you, VPN was enough for this one 😇 It's just that, e.g. ActBlue doesn't work even with a US IP address, its just hangs indefinitely during payment. But they give an honest 503 without it, so probably intentional

A screenshot of an email titled "Your Donation Receipt" from GiveMN

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 22/10/2025

@jtommins.bsky.social take a look, looks like a promising way for screening for CFS is in the works translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

A screenshot of a small portion of the Results section of the article:

"Test performance evaluation and diagnostic accuracy analysis showed a remarkable sensitivity of 92% and specificity of 98% with overall accuracy of 96% (Table 2). This high diagnostic accuracy underscores the strength of the selected epigenetic markers and the utility of the whole-genome approach in distinguishing ME/CFS from healthy phenotypes."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 20/10/2025

AWS outage in a single picture

A piece of tan paper decorated using classic minimalist Japanese style, with a haiku:

"It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS
It was DNS"

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 16/10/2025

They knew where this is going

The infamous Hushme device advertisement

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 12/10/2025

Eventually you discover that all seemingly ever-enduring questions, such as "capitalism vs socialism" or "religion vs atheism", are not "unanswerable", they're just poorly framed because we're stupid. But that one specifically has been adopted as the prime "divide and conquer" of our times.

An excerpt from an article called "The Left Does Not Exist" by Peter Joseph:

"This is why capitalism thrives on polarization. The system depends on continual debate about how to distribute wealth, not why wealth takes the form it does; on who should govern, not what governance is for. By framing every question as a matter of degrees between “left and right,” the system ensures its own immunity."

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 22/09/2025

They knew. They saw through it, all of it, all the way back then.

We want health care that respects and understands our bodies. Physically challenged sisters must have access to gatherings, actions, happy events, and work. For this, ramps must be added to stairs and we must become readers, signers, and supporting arms. So close, so many, why have we allowed ourselves not to know them?
We want an education for children that tells the true story of our women's lives, which describes the earth as our home to be cherished, to be fed as well as harvested.
We want to be free from violence in our streets and in our houses. One in every three of us will be raped in her lifetime. The pervasive social power of the masculine ideal and the greed of the pornographer have come together to steal our freedom, so that whole neighborhoods and the life of the evening and night have been taken from us. For too many women, the dark country road and the city alley have concealed the rapist. We want the night returned: the light of the moon, special in the cycle of our female lives, the stars, and the gaiety of the city streets.
We want the right to have or not to have children — we do not want gangs of politicians and medical men to say we must be sterilized for the country's good. We know that this technique is the racists' method for controlling populations. Nor do we want to be prevented from having an abortion when we need one.

We think this freedom should be available to poor women as it always has been to the rich. We want to be free to love whomever we choose. We will live with women or with men or we will live alone. We will not allow the oppression of lesbians. One sex or one sexual preference must not dominate another.
We do not want to be drafted into the army. We do not want our young brothers drafted. We want them to be equal with us.
We want to see the pathology of racism ended in our time. It has been the imperial arrogance of white male power that has separated us from the suffering and wisdom of our sisters in Asia, Africa, South America, and in our own country. Many North American women look down on the minority nearest them: the Black, the Hispanic, the Jew, the Native American, the Asian, and the immigrant. Racism has offered them privilege and convenience; they often fail to see that they themselves have bent to the unnatural authority and violence of men in govern? ment, at work, at home. Privilege does not increase knowledge or spirit or understanding. There can be no peace while one race dominates another, one people, one nation, or where one sex despises another.
We must not forget the tens of thousands of American women who live much of their lives in cages, away from family, lovers, all the growing-up years of their children. Most of them were born at the intersection of

oppressions: people of color, female, poor. Women on the outside have been taught to fear those sisters. We refuse that separation. We need each other's knowledge and anger in our common struggle against the builders of jails and bombs.
We want the uranium to be left in the earth and the earth to be given back to the people who tilled it. We want a system of energy that is renewable, that does not take resources out of the earth without returning them. We want those systems to belong to the people and their communities, not to the giant corporations that invariably turn knowledge into weaponry. We want the sham of Atoms for Peace to end, all nuclear plants to be decommissioned, and the construction of new plants stopped. That is another war against the people and the child to be born in 50 years.
We want an end to the arms race. No more bombs. No more amazing inventions for death.
We understand all is connected. We know the life and work of animals and plants in seeding, reseeding, and simply inhabiting this planet. Their exploitation and the organized destruction of species never to be seen again threaten and bring us sorrow. The earth nourishes us as we with our bodies will eventually feed it. Through us, our mothers connected the human past to the human future.
With that sense, that ecological right, we oppose the financial connections between the Pentagon and the

multinational corporations and banks that the Pentagon serves. Those connections are made of gold and oil. We are made of blood and bone; we are made of the sweet and finite resource, water. We will not allow these violent games to continue. If we are here in our stubborn thousands today, we will certainly return in the hundreds of thousands in the months and years to come.
We know there is a healthy, sensible, loving way to live and we intend to live that way in our neighborhoods and on our farms in these United States, and among our sisters and brothers in all the countries of the world.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 22/09/2025

Stumbled upon Women's Pentagon Action's Unity Statement. November 16th 1980, twelve days after Reagan won the election. It is incredible, and I do urge you to read it.

Unity Statement
Women's Pentagon Action

We are gathering at the Pentagon on November 16 because we fear for our lives. We fear for the life of this planet, our Earth, and the life of the children who are our human future.
We are mostly women who come from the northeastern region of our United States. We are city women who know the wreckage and fear of city streets; we are country women who grieve the loss of the small farm and have lived on the poisoned earth. We are young and older, we are married, single, lesbian. We live in different kinds of households: in groups, families, alone, or as single parents.
We work at a variety of jobs. We are students, teachers, factory workers, office workers, lawyers, farmers, doctors, builders, waitresses, weavers, poets, engineers, home workers, electricians, artists, and blacksmiths. We are all daughters and sisters.
We have come here to mourn and rage and defy the Pentagon because it is the workplace of the imperial power that threatens us all. Every day while we work, study, and love, the colonels and generals who are planning our annihilation walk calmly in and out of the doors of its five sides. They have accumulated over 30,000 nuclear bombs, at the rate of three to six bombs every day. They are determined to produce the billion-

dollar MX missile. They are creating a technology called Stealth — the invisible, unperceivable arsenal. They have revised the cruel old killer, nerve gas. They have proclaimed Directive 59, which asks for "small nuclear wars, prolonged but limited." The Soviet Union has worked hard to keep up with U.S. initiatives. We can destroy each other's cities, towns, schools, and children many times over. The United States has sent "advisors," money, and arms to El Salvador and Guatemala to enable those juntas to massacre their own people.
The very same men, the same legislative committees that offer trillions of dollars to the Pentagon have brutally cut day care, children's lunches, and battered women's shelters. The same men have concocted the Family Protection Act, which will mandate the strictly patriarchal family and thrust federal authority into our home life. They have prevented passage of the Equal Rights Amendment's simple statement and supported the Human Life Amendment, which will deprive all women of choice and many women of life itself.
We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.
At the same time, our cities are in ruins, bankrupt; they suffer the devastation of war. Hospitals are closed, our schools deprived of books and teachers. Our Black and Latino youth are without decent work. They will

be forced, drafted to become the cannon fodder for the very power that oppresses them. Whatever help the poor receive is cut or withdrawn to feed the Pentagon, which needs about $500,000,000 a day for its murderous health. It extracted $157 billion dollars last year from our own tax money, $1,800 from a family of four.
With this wealth our scientists are corrupted; over 40% work in government and corporate laboratories that refine the methods for destroying or deforming life. The lands of the Native American people have been turned to radioactive rubble in order to enlarge the nuclear warehouse. The uranium of South Africa, necessary to the nuclear enterprise, enriches the white minority and encourages the vicious system of racist oppression and war.
The U.S. president has decided to produce the neutron bomb, which kills people but leaves property (buildings like this one) intact. There is fear among the people, and that fear, created by the industrial militarists, is used as an excuse to accelerate the arms race. "We will protect you...," they say, but we have never been so endangered, so close to the end of human time.
We women are gathering because life on the precipice is intolerable. We want to know what anger in these men, what fear, which can only be satisfied by destruction, what coldness of heart and ambition drives

their days. We want to know because we do not want that dominance, which is exploitative and murderous in international relations, and so dangerous to women and children at home — and we do not want that sickness transferred by the violent society through the fathers to the sons.
What is it that we women need for our ordinary lives, that we want for ourselves and also for our sisters in new nations and old colonies who suffer the white man's exploitation and too often the oppression of their own countrymen?
We want enough good food, decent housing, communities with clean air and water, and good care for our children while we work. We want work that is useful to a sensible society. There is a modest technology to minimize drudgery and restore joy to labor. We are determined to use skills and knowledge from which we have been excluded? like plumbing or engineering or physics or composing. We intend to form women's groups or unions that will demand safe workplaces that are free of sexual harassment, and equal pay for work of comparable value. We respect the work women have done in caring for the young, their own and others, in maintaining a physical and spiritual shelter against the greedy and militaristic society. In our old age we expect our experience, our skills, to be honored and used.

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glassbeads.dev @glassbeads.dev · 19/08/2025

Why does Trump do X, he’s so dumb! Why don’t Democrats do Y, they’re so useless! We need to stop doing this shit. Not taking into account the context the people we love to yap about are occupying day to day begets so much misplaced effort it’s even scarier than said context itself.

A diagram with a pyramid consisting of three layers, top to bottom: malice, stupidity, incentives.
Link to the original Twitter post: https://x.com/harmonylion1/status/1257353800001695744?s=46

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