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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 21h
Really enjoyed the talk at Black Squirrel last night.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh shit! Good call. I didn’t even think of the snowbird factor.
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Lynn Zero | PlayNeoNeuro.neocities.org @lynnlandra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Give 'em hell you glorious bastards
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 07/10/2026
now that’s a fucking MAYOR. king shit
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unsurprising that the northern border states are highly enthusiastic about joining Canada, although I’m a little surprised how much higher Maine came in on that than Washington. The real surprise is Florida though. Not sure how those 11% think the logistics of FL joining Canada would work.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know everything is bad, but check this out: Using miracle material for which its founder won the chemistry Nobel last year, a startup has built a working device that can harvest clean water from air using the heat emitted from a data center. @mollytaft.com and @blkahn.bsky.social have the scoop:
wired.com
A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.
Newspaper headline: Queen Elizabeth’s Final Diary Entry Contained Only Five Words.
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Chaos Coded Guest Party Member @chaos-hero.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh hey I took a whole-ass Ph.D. level course about this. This is right on the money. The hegemony of racial capitalist colonialism thrives on the destruction of place in favor of space, divorcing any cultural meaning and connection from the areas that we congregate, live, and occupy.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction
ALT: Veep: Nervous Laughter Reaction
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Midterms are about a month away. Early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home: uwcip.substack.com/p/use-rigged...
uwcip.substack.com
Use "Rigged Election" Bingo to Spot Familiar Election Rumors and Tropes
Election Day is a month away. Play along with your friends, students, and communities!
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 06/10/2026
the ideology exists because a bunch of guys wanted to find a way to organize other guys who shared their desire to beat on the people around them and then go annihilate people far away from them. the incoherence is therefore a feature, not a bug.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fair to say, I think this album arrived just in time to save my life a couple of times during a very dark and crazy time back in spring and summer of 90. I was a monk with a vow of silence, the universe was a clenched fist, and I only came and went through the window. The lifeline was appreciated.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
godddamn Tellin it like it is.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I shit on Schumer regularly but gotta give props to him for getting on top of this issue.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I find that when I’m feeling a little down, sometimes I can cheer myself up by signing in here, searching for “al Franken” and blocking the first 5 people I see who think he was unfairly railroaded out of office. I usually don’t have to scroll back very far.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4
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Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Ace Records
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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Our chimps have achieved collective consciousness and won’t stop writing slam poetry on the typewriters we gave them
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My feelings on this are mixed. On the one hand, it’s outrageous and flagrant. On the other, any dollar they waste on fraud and graft isn’t getting spent on abusing immigrants.
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a really outstanding album, though I have to admit I prefer the bootlegged original draft to the one that was officially released.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
nytimes.com
Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This isn’t fair but the difference is Biden is the kind of senile where he asks where his glasses are and u say on his head and he looks sheepish & apologizes and says oh yea, Trump is the kind of senile where that happens & he yells at your he’s never worn glasses. In fact glasses don’t exist. &…
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Do android falconers dream of being heard by electric falcons?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The diesel crisis is very January 2020 with COVID right now. People are aware of it. It's in the news. It probably should be the #1 story. It definitely will be in three months.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Chehalis tribe of Washington State just south of Olympia have retaken possession of land along the I-5 corridor. This is how they repurposed the billboard facing the freeway.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I could count on one finger the number of times I’ve used AI for anything other than my annual “let’s see if AI has improved enough yet to be able to write decent poetry” test.
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Dr Dr Dr Alfred PruneTORIUS, PhD, JD, TLA @drprunesquallor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I already get through my workday without AI, thank you very much.
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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.
Ann Pierce
@itsannpierce
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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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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I assume you’ve seen the thing about the new release of the devils (with extra footage added) in 2-3 weeks?
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I haven’t seen Local Hero in over 20 years. Does it hold up?
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm fucking off now. Watch Hamlet doesn't slip you one while I'm gone.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Welp, fuck them
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The sickest burn I’ve ever seen about Taylor was when Showgirl came out and someone said “these lyrics sound like she left her typewriter in someone’s apartment”.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whoops. There it is. But yeah, not at a good place in the list.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The absence of The Magicians and the Good Place from this list is ludicrous.
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Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"AI safety" is watching everybody get a pet tiger, and worrying that the tigers will become sentient and take over the world.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Typically, when cities are burning in the United States it’s been in response to policing not in the absence of it.
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Nick Carr @nickcarr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Something I wish I'd done back when I lived in NYC: my apartment was at 9th and Wythe in Brooklyn, and for whatever reason, that corner was prone to late night fights. And it was really annoying, because it was almost always two drunk guys yelling ridiculous threats --🧵
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
At the "No Kings of Carrot Flowers" protest inisting one not be Neutral Milk Hotel in times like these
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, the regime is much weaker than it was in 2025. Attempts to control cities largely failed/backfired, the public's more mobilized, it's hemorrhaging political support, Kirk became a laughingstock rather than venerated. Us supposedly doomed "stay and fight" trans folks are still very much here.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
didn‘t deeply affect me, but the short-lived Selfie came and went with very little impact. I mainly bring it up here because it ALSO featured John Cho being incredibly hot.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’d like to think so but it didn’t look to me like it ever really broke through to mainstream culture and press the way it deserved to.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Probably Sense8.
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Attn @ersatzmossback.bsky.social and @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wasnt Ayn Rand for a time part of a thrupple with a young Alan Greenspan?
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am going to become the Joker
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“We’re not about to do a free form jazz exploration in front of a festival crowd.”
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glaucon.bsky.social @glaucon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This bears a weird resemblance to Tolkien’s Sundering of the Elves guide.
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