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A neuroscience-first strategy for aligning advanced AI and the teams executing it

This is a really good articulation of what AI needs to be safe: the ability to think morally, empathetically, and cooperatively. Which is unfortunately absolutely not what profit-driven AI is aiming at. blog.amaranth.foundation/p/towards-ma...

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Towards Magnanimous AGI

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… and it stuck with me, so when Zeke was a toddler, I took him off pavement as much as I could in the NYC parks. Which maybe was the part that made me tell you about it? Anyway, I’m honored that I maybe inspired part of your poem. And I hope to see more of your poetic writing.

In my mind, there were a lot of rocks that provided firm footing in between the ice patches. But having grown up in an urban area, she didn’t think of rocks as easily navigable terrain, which really surprised me, especially since she was otherwise so athletic. …

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I love the poem. Is it possible I told you the story of hiking with my friend, who had already completed the Ironman triathlon, on a day when there was some ice on the trail? We later visited my parents and she said, it was treacherous, ice and rocks everywhere.

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Nope, not djt. W. A. Coupe writing about Kaiser Wilhelm II, King of Prussia.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

“His impetuosity and histrionic vanity caused him to let his rhetoric run away with him and say things that he afterwards regretted and which official spokesmen needed to ‘interpret’ or explain away.”

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“Artificial intelligence is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world.”

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"Everyone I know can sense armageddon. ... I will always love my troubled nation." The Indigo Girls

Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Jeff Bezos just gutted the @washingtonpost.com. I just cancelleld my subscription. With grief for another lost piece of the USA I thought I knew.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

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standing in the cold with “ICE OUT” signs and writing emails to elected officials seems like not much but at least it lets you know you’re not alone

Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

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Someone outside the US: So, let me get this straight. The groundhog... Me: Is clairvoyant, yes

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I’ve missed snow so much. Yeah, the cold is starting to feel like an endurance challenge, but sun on snow is so bright and beautiful.

a dammed river. background, winter trees behind snow-covered, frozen river, foreground, rocks covered by snow and ice, with a few shrubs and small trees poking up.

Rice Estes (no relation; @librarian.bsky.social clarifies in a follow-up post that he was white, not Black) published this in 1960.

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Squardle is a daily word game where you try to solve a 5x5 grid of 6 words! You get colored clues telling you if the guessed letters were in the square, row or column.

this game has grabbed me. wordle, but in two dimensions. anyone else playing? [if you’re using text to speech, what follows is a bunch of different colored squares] 🟥⬛🟧⬛🟥 ⬛🔳🟥🔳🟩 🟩🟧🟨🟨🟩 ⬛🔳🟥🔳🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Squardle

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local blogger @fergoe.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

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Sue Poncin @sueponcin.com · 25/01/2026

One infection = 5 yrs of brain damage Being dynamically disabled by Long Covid looks like……

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

14-year-old skates around behind the goal, lifts the puck on the end of her hockey stick, lobs it over the goalie’s shoulder. old news, but i just saw the video, and had to watch it five times. youtu.be/n2FEurga_No

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14-year-old Nela Lopusanova INSANE Michigan goal at U18 Women's Worlds #shorts #hockey #slovakia

YouTube video by Czech NHL

Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

time to start a rumor that djt is already dead and there's a stunt double

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“In federal court, a prosecutor not getting an indictment is like a chef burning cereal.… You have to work hard to lose a grand jury. But Trump’s Justice Department pulled it off twice.” drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/two-tries-...

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Two Tries. Zero Indictments.

I love how Letitia James lives rent-free, utilities included, inside Donald Trump’s head

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

okay so the answer to question 8 (short test) is A, but I put C because I can’t go to my doctor to go tested, and I have no idea when that might be possible.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Duolingo is teaching me about zombies, and there keep being bits that seem relevant to the current regime in the US.

duolingo cartoon person with a thought bubble saying, Si el cadáver camina, ¡es un zombi! If the corpse is walking, it’s a zombie!

Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

women are more likely to die of a heart attack than men. among the reasons: hardly any cpr training dummies have breasts, and if they do, they’re an optional overlay that trainers can choose to use, or not. result: women having a heart attack, in public or in a hospital, are less likely to get cpr.

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CPR training as a gender and rights-based healthcare issue

Abstract. It is not understood how cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, specifically the representation of sex in CPR manikins, contributes to ine

Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Representing, this Labor Day.

A woman holds a sign that says, no facists. In the background, a crowd of people carrying signs.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/08/2025

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Watch Valerie’s whole speech here: www.instagram.com/reel/DLrDU-_... Goodnight 💚 we hope you get some rest this weekend

What if this darkness
is not the darkness of the tomb,
But the darkness of the womb.
What if our America is not dead,
But a country that is waiting to be born.
What if the story of America is one long labor
What if all our grandfathers and grandmothers are standing behind us now,
Those who survived occupation and genocide,
Slavery and Jim Crow,
Detentions and political assault.
What if they are whispering in our ear tonight,
You. Are. Brave.

Valerie Kaur

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

politico.com

California reaches deal with Uber, Lyft to allow driver unions

The deal brings Uber and Lyft on board with a pathway to unionization for ride-hailing workers after the companies spent years fighting against the idea.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The Central Park coyote couple. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

Two coyotes in front of a bridge in central park.

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i don’t do an exercise “program” any more, i just try to mix it up and do a lot of different things. swim, weights, yoga, walk… before long covid, it was bike, hike, walk, run, yoga, capoeira, swim, kayak. just … get activity, most days, enjoy it, and enjoy feeling fit and strong.

are so big. i keep reminding myself of what rabbi tarfon said: "you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it" (pirkei avot 2:16). yet i keep thinking that i am not doing enough. and i keep wondering, is there *anything* i could do, that would be enough?

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you’re actually in the situation. and now i know what i’d have been doing in berlin in the 1930s: reading the news, trying not to freak out, and feeling completely helpless. yes, i can contact lawmakers, yes i can vote, yes i can use my voice as best i can. but it’s so little and the problems…

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wemeze @wemeze.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

back in, i dunno, fourth grade, we had “values clarification” indoctrination at school. we were supposed to consider morally difficult situations like, would you steal medicine if if was the only way to keep someone alive. i refused to play, and i said there’s no way to know what you’d do until…

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Schon bitter, wenn ein Ex-Actionheld mehr Rückgrat zeigt als ein Präsident. Während Arnie ganz klar ausspricht, was Sache ist – „Du standest da wie ein Lappen, wie ein Fanjunge. Ich habe mich die ganze Zeit gefragt, wann du um ein Autogramm bittest oder ein Selfie mit ihm machst…“

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Skipping rocks and thinking about oral transmission.

Ocean water, a cone where a rock now in midair bounced. Background: moored boat in front of shoreline with trees.

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Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

long covid: i don’t need it every day, but when i need the handicap tag, i NEED it. when i don’t need it, i park elsewhere. when i need it, i’m SO GLAD i have it.

Heide Estes @heide.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

i saw him in a political roundtable in 2015… he was doing that thing that students sometimes do on final exams where they rephrase the question, and then they talk about the question a little, and then they paraphrase the question again to conclude, but without actually articulating a single idea.