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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 25/09/2026

It has also caused a ton of people to drop out of community organizing and volunteering altogether, because no matter how rewarding, nothing can make up for having to deal with this shit

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 25/09/2026

"Chayefsky had a lot to say about television, and he said it with an unflattering, searing bite—and it’s all the more relevant in an age when we each carry a television studio in our pockets and all dream of becoming a hit." www.liberalcurrents.com/network-at-5...

“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell

Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 24/09/2026

Well they're not beating the allegations are they "His Hinge profile doesn’t mention his employer. And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill."

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 24/09/2026

A friend’s kid was doing this in the comments you can make at specific timestamps inside SoundCloud tracks

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 23/09/2026

Disappointed that “futarchy” is not rule by futa

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 16/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biquette

A picture of Biquette the goat watching a performance by Wormrot.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 14/09/2026

There's been some progress on NCII laws (deepfake and otherwise), but vastly more resources need to be spent on triage, investigation and consequences, approaching the levels spent on CSAM. Cases like these should not be a lazily investigated $1k fine because of a difference of a year or two.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 14/09/2026

There are so many parties here that need to be shot into the sun: all men involved of course, along with X, YikYak and the "Greek" system as a whole. But also outlets like ESPN and Barstool, that unfathomably post NCII victim names as "scandals" along with screenshots from illegal videos.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 14/09/2026

Somehow when I read this headline I thought "ah, so the network of anonymous men got to work to help the victim" And no, of course it's not that

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

Like put 10k Deepseek R1s in a room and it might be entertaining, but a single frontier model could do more damage, and will make better use of the finite compute.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

Is the implication that simply having a higher number of agents trying to do anything at all becomes inherently more destructive due to second-order effects? That's a slightly different proposal than "10k cooperating on a dangerous task", but still think there's probably a cap to it.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

More simply though, even with teams of humans, putting 10k of them on a single task does not necessarily make the task get done better or faster, and could quite plausibly make it a total mess or intolerably inefficient.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

1) not all tasks are highly decomposable 2) sharing state+context between agents becomes onerous and error-prone at some point and 3) increases the odds a single agent can go nuts and convince all the other agents of weird shit.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

Though it would be very funny if in the future "make sure no machines on your network have a significant amount of VRAM" becomes a standard security precaution

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

And that's before you get to "10,000 copies cooperating", which is not clearly more dangerous than a couple dozen

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

This is my experience as well. Many don't even know what a non-referral hiring process should even look like anymore.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

I mean it didn't kill our jobs, but talk to hiring managers and it's pretty clear that it's nuked entry-level engineering jobs. Much of the industry is assuming they can get along with a handful of greybeards for the near term, which is IMO terribly unwise

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/09/2026

If I had a pack of vicious dogs and just let them off leash to maul people, I would go to jail and the dogs would be confiscated. Do it with an LLM and you get showered with breathless press coverage and military contracts. Until there's criminal liability, we're incentivizing this behavior.

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fun fact: this is a prosecutable crime, and it was done by people.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 11/09/2026

Sounds like an almost exact repeat of what happened in 2023, i.e. some component of the PhotoDNA pipeline broke and went entirely unnoticed. Difference being now X helps generate the content and has made it as difficult as possible for external parties to flag problems. www.wsj.com/tech/twitter...

wsj.com

WSJ News Exclusive | Twitter Missed Dozens of Known Images of Child Sexual Abuse Material, Researchers Say

The researchers say the social-media platform told them it has now improved its detection system for child sexual abuse.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 01/09/2026

The degree of investment doesn't even make any technical sense: Omarchy is a setup script and a tiling window manager, neither of which are in short supply or expensive. There is nothing notable about it aside from being built by a nazi, and that is presumably the aspect that attracts these donors.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 01/09/2026

Fair to say that Cloudflare, Stripe, "Block" and Dropbox are just as enthusiastic if not more so. omarchy.org/patrons/

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 03/08/2026

And in particular overestimate their abilities outside of a dojo practicing the exact same martial art as you, who actively try not to harm you

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/07/2026

Eliminating the unbearable metanarrative is the only good move the franchise has made since the original Black Flag.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 07/07/2026

White-tailed ptarmigan? Or a very misplaced rock ptarmigan.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 20/06/2026

Also counterintuitively: unlike real names, stable pseudonyms *more identifying* and a more limited resource. There's plenty of people with a display name of "David Thiel" backed by an email, but if I act like a prick and lose my unique id, I can't just swap to a new one without a loss.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 12/06/2026

If you took this image back in time 3 years ago when we were writing the first paper on genAI CSAM and showed it to me, I think I would have just walked into the ocean

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 06/06/2026

True though part of me is curious how they're going to dub him for the Japanese audio

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 06/06/2026

Ken was literally slagging off FIRE just yesterday

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 03/06/2026

Honestly a dedicated 空気を読む button could come in handy for some of us

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 01/06/2026

Voicing this in my head as Max Schumacher from Network and it works perfectly

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 28/05/2026

That would be one of the better applications of ATProto IMO. CBS managed to squander every possible opportunity with Lastfm, but they should be able to do something cool as an independent company.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 27/05/2026

TIL Philip Glass used to make music with changing parts

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 25/05/2026

It is indeed better but not good

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 24/05/2026

Everyone even mildly politically literate at the time read the DHS to be a fascist project, fascists included. No one found it reassuring, and I honestly don't remember anyone even pretending to frame it as "unity". This is weird revisionism ala "everyone was in favor of the war in Iraq".

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 22/05/2026

"Although they pride themselves on open-mindedness" They do not, leftist memes are 90% about hating slightly different leftists

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 19/05/2026

Yeah part of why it’s such bizarre branding is that the name alone immediately makes me sad

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 19/05/2026

Laika brand cigarettes: for that “dying alone in the void of space” feeling

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 19/05/2026

Also notable that in my state at least, one of those two devices is illegal to sell

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 18/05/2026

It was, and fun to see Terrie and Paal so obviously having a blast

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 13/05/2026

People’s inability to vote with their feet—if it means they lose a couple parasocial relationships or can’t watch a comedy special or something—is one of the more deflating lessons of my adult life.

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 11/05/2026

"fifty-plus years into the Antidepressant Age, it’s still not clear that drugs are better than placebos" Yeah not worth reading past that bullshit

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David Thiel @grumplicio.us · 11/05/2026

Did they print the manual before they made the game, or

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