Reposted by Gluon SpringPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11hMy greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion. 10541143
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 6hEasy. The past sucked, and people in the past were frequently evil. If you were alive in 1858 or 1930 or 1939 or even 1955 it might have been hard to imagine the social progress we now take for granted. There probably seemed no path out due to the wickedness of men. Yet, somehow, we improved. 26918
Reposted by Gluon SpringPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026so freaking inspiring this is why we fight 03310
Reposted by Gluon SpringMom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Republicans benefit and Dems suffer when projects get delayed until the next person is in office, lmfao 1213
Reposted by Gluon SpringMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...) 1038965
Reposted by Gluon SpringSuper Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh it's too late.gif www.texastribune.org/2026/09/28/t...texastribune.orgAbbott declares disaster over high diesel prices in TexasMonday marks seven months since the U.S.-Iran war began, which has restricted oil and gas exports from the Middle East, raising prices ahead of the Nov. 3 election. 4324
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That illogical human bias? It might be just an accidental quirk or a mental fossil from an earlier time. Or, it might be the thing preventing social collapse. I’m not saying don’t imagine a better more well thought out future, but don’t be a sucker, and don’t kid yourself about how much you know. 010
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A general problem with logical fallacies is that we do not live in a world where we possess many true statements. Logic fails because we are only 50% sure the input is true. 121
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There’s a Chesterton’s fence thing about completely ditching the ad hominem. The reason ad hominem arguments work on people is because who is making an argument often really does convey important information and humans are very attuned to this. 171
Reposted by Gluon SpringAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We could also just let them freely sell their water rights, which effectively isn't allowed. Same result: growing cheap alfalfa stops making sense when someone will pay several times more for the water. Let them have their windfall if that's what it takes. It's literally cheaper to buy them off. 313222
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why aren’t there third spaces now? Because nobody has been bored and isolated in two decades. Not the way we were in the 80s when you had to stand in the kitchen tethered to the wall to call a friend. YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE THE BOREDOM. Desperation made us leave the house seeking other humans. 110
Reposted by Gluon SpringDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So 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. 11141661434
Reposted by Gluon SpringMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 27/09/2026It's important for Democrats to go on shows like Rogan's. He has a lot of dumb ideas, but ultimately Rogan is a conservative and not a reactionary. Getting conservatives to feel safe with change is what progressives must do. Separate the uninformed normies from the deplorables. 5498
Reposted by Gluon SpringMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 27/09/2026A lot of these dudes need to stop worrying about AGI paper clipping all of humanity and start worrying about California employment law because this industry has the most obviously hostile work environment I have ever seen. 19757124
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Should ask him if he knows Claude’s p(doom) song. 020
Reposted by Gluon SpringAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Doing this but for radio playlists and music charts. 930038
Reposted by Gluon SpringCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet 8895167
Reposted by Gluon SpringHeranimos Swingle, Padded Gambeson Man @pashaspider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the issue is as ever that the people against random crazy idea [diesel export ban] have to be lucky every time, but president eat the seed corn only has to be lucky once to implement it 112720
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We really going to try to debate the nature of consciousness on the app where you can’t get people to accept the CPI is real? 050
Reposted by Gluon SpringGluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Past a certain age the tabloids at the checkout line read like dispatches from an alternate dimension. I’ve heard of none of these people. 011
Reposted by Gluon SpringΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Duane Keiser (American Artist, born 1966) "Water and Lemon", 2022. Oil on Board, 9" × 7.5". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 191978231
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You can still type it in today if you like.roug.orgSuper startrek - Retrocomputing 000
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026lol my nine games are too old for that website. Consider Super Star Trek. This is a thousand line BASIC program I typed in from the pages of an old book. 110
Reposted by Gluon SpringDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026PBS NOVA will have an episode on Space Wars Oct 7th including me as an expert. Final boss for a science kid short of hosting the third run of Cosmos. I didn't make the trailer but I'm much more boring than @vsamsondc.bsky.social or @planet4589.bsky.social video.nhpbs.org/video/space-...video.nhpbs.orgNOVA | Space Wars Preview | Season 53 | Episode 12Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on. 915735
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Social media lets us live in a world where everyone's unfiltered thoughts are public. It’s the curse of telepathy. We aren’t meant to know this much about our neighbors. 1278
Reposted by Gluon SpringTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Nobody knew. Highly classified failure of the Soviet warning system kept under wraps for years. Happy Almost Nuclear War Day, for those who celebrate 1628627
Reposted by Gluon SpringScience Magazine @science.org · 26/09/2026Researchers suggest our ancient relatives intentionally crafted these 1.4-million-year-old spheres, perhaps for the sheer joy of creating symmetry. Learn more: scim.ag/4y6xFMt #ScienceMagArchives 2413
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Pretty good summary of the Hugging Face incident. It's equal parts terrifying and fun. 110
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My estimates: p(doom) = completely unknowable other than not zero. p(some really bad things) = 1 p(some really good things) = 1 p(net good) = unknowable 120
Reposted by Gluon SpringThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The most important election of your life is always the next one 1031138
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Voters in 2030 will be like, “The Dem President must not be very good, you hardly ever see any of those government ads praising him”. 030
Reposted by Gluon SpringDavid Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member." 1154396
Reposted by Gluon SpringTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comTrump Should Stop Hosting SummitsHe’s turned them into a pointless ritual. 921090243
Reposted by Gluon SpringMatthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 25/09/2026The challenge advocates for democracy and progress face today and in every day in the modern era is how to make conservatives feel safe so that they don't enable the reactionary authoritarians. It's terribly hard to get right. But threading that needle is what intra-Democratic politics is about. 1513
Reposted by Gluon Springmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026even in states that dems *don't* fully control, dem governors in Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona have vetoed anti-trans legislation sent to them by Republican legislatures 847266
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It may be hard for young people to imagine, but before the internet the only people who would have to hear these kinds of things would be psychiatric professionals and family members of the afflicted. 010
Reposted by Gluon SpringJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution. 562272532
Reposted by Gluon Springdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world 531780342
Reposted by Gluon Springsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones 1112650634
Reposted by Gluon SpringGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026Anthropic threw Claude at a DNA database. 21 hours, 950 agents, and 210mm tokens later, it emerged with a novel reverse transcriptase (similar to CRISPR). They're running a non-pathogenic (BSL-1/2) research lab in the Bay Area.anthropic.comClaude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeatsAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 1414121
Reposted by Gluon Springae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we never should have hurt that gorilla 0476
Reposted by Gluon SpringMom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think that AI is going to end up destroying smaller stuff before it gets around to all of humanity. 612731
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's worse than that. They won't forget, they'll write in Parker Malloy to send a message to the Dem establishment. They will feel safe doing this because the polls say Dems are going to win. 020
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These days I'm involved in writing the software I produce in the same way that Captain Picard is involved in making a cup of Earl Grey tea. 020
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I tried to engage my molecular biology colleagues on the question of whether reverse transcriptase was a safe research topic for a fully automated AI wet lab to work on but they couldn't get past their Blue Sky-esque view that AI is all hype so I never got a straight answer. 140
Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Many rich biotech backers are motivated by the desire to personally cheat death and that puts them on a reckless research time horizon. I'm going to cure disease in 30 years = humanitarian I'm going to cure disease in 5 years = guy looking to make a Faustian bargain. 020