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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I joined Amanpour & Company to talk about why "working homeless"—a term that should be a scandal—has become an ordinary fact of American life. 40% of officially-counted homeless people have jobs. And that's before we get to the millions who are rendered invisible, who are never counted at all.

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Working and Homeless: The Invisible Population Growing Every Year | Amanpour and Company

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Good to know they're leaning Dem by such a large margin though.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Alberta sepratism is a dead end, by all accounts. There is simply no way this goes forward in any way that Alberta will itself accept (losing internal market, passport, pensions, land, etc). Maybe this is a "unlikely like Brexit" issue, where despite the odds, it still happens.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm only familiar with Ostrom's work in the context of re-evaluating the "tragedy of the commons", but that issue is mostly related to how we use existing resources, not create new ones. Curious if there is some reading out there that addresses co-ordination and social "teleology"

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As someone who is now going to be taking anxiety meds because of what AI is doing to the tech industry, I think the precarity thing in tech is just starting to ramp up, but it's going all the way to where the many other industries are sitting: short term contracts, constant nearshoring, abuse, etc.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I would say this applies to DS9 as well, which did have maybe a greater emphasis on personal trauma, but as part of the greater trauma of occupation, resistance and socities trying to find a way past that. Characters' inner lives were deeply enmeshed in the larger events that surrounded them.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

There are a number of valid critiques of automation from the left (and additional ones about LLMs specifically), but the only one that has any real immediacy is "automation under which social conditions?" Without a Jobs Giarantee and/or UBI, we are sprinting towards a worse future.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I would add that anarchism is still struggling to produce a coherent theory to deal with the co-ordination problems required of modern society, instead assuming either that an anarchist society will be "simpler" or falling back on the imo inadequate contractualism.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I wonder if the FOSS AI people have thought about how this intersects with their general idea that models can just be run locally to avoid lock-in.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

There's a reason we have at least three separate and broad categories of propaganda, one of which is just "telling the truth". It would be great if anyone could read.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/03/2026

tbqh I'm not even sure what people mean when they say "indie will save us". save who. save what. do you just mean "well interesting indie games will continue to come out"? sure. do you mean "indie games can absorb the tens of thousands of workers laid off from AAA studios"? that's insane

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is the situation we find ourselves in

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Each university, acting independently and rationally to maximise its own market position, makes decisions that seem optimal when viewed in isolation. Close the underperforming philosophy department. Expand the business school. Withdraw from modern languages. Double down on computer science
But when every university follows the same market-share playbook, the collective result risks the sector becoming a monoculture, with some subjects vanishing from entire regions or parts of the tariff tables - despite their broader societal value
The implications of coordination failure aren't just theoretical - they are reshaping the physical and intellectulal geography of education in real-time
Let's imagine three post-92 universities in the North East and Yorkshire each offered degrees in East Asian languages, all with madast onralmont Lanh inetitutian

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Bit symbolic to stick it on the corpse of a Ford plant.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It would just be 90 minutes of "and he was an ass to pretty much everyone around him".

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Really of a pair with how cop cars have turned into slate or black tanks.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/03/2026

"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...

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You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life

How gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My elderly dad got a scam from someone pretending to be me, but they used the wrong nickname.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The other neat thing about WH40K is that both in-universe record-keeping and communication are so incredibly janky that any story with any outcome can plausibly be spun as a tall tale from a quadrant over.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/03/2026

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

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Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season

The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Be the human in the loop! (Click yes when the targetting reticle turns green)

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sort of true, but the theory generally doesn't seem to apply to say Russia or Israel; countries with long histories of warfare on their own soil, happily carrying out years or decades of war.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/03/2026

An immigration judge has ordered the removal of Liam Consejo Ramos, a Minnesota toddler who was detained by ICE. The politics of citizenship might seem like the detail that distinguishes Liam’s story from the stories of our kids. But his innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable.

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They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil

Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Globally, this might be an inflection point for which countries can decouple from fossil capitalism, and which ones are going to end up being bound to it by the logic of austerity or elite capture.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Why? Nazi Germany didn't have a right to exist and even the question of whether post-war Germany was going to exist as anything but a set of fragmented protectorates was an open question for several years. It's only a pointless question if you have basically no historical memory.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Eventually every company is going to be every other company. If you can build at the speed of prompting*, what's to stop Salesforce from muscling in on the domain hosting business? *YMMV

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/03/2026

The fossil fuel industry has made "LOOK HOW OUR PRODUCTS PERMEATES EVERY SINGLE THING YOU USE IN YOUR LIFE" a core theme in their advertising for decades now It is probably a good time to pick it up and throw it back in their face. Yes it's true, and it's bad and we should change it

GAS & OIL INDUSTRY: WITHOUT US YOU'D MISS THIS...
COVID-19
Hand sanitiser, latex gloves, medical scrubs and computers.
FURNITURE
VEHICLES
Tyres and bumpers.
BBQ
Clothing
Nylon, polyester, acrylic and spandex.
Accessories
Handbags, sunglasses, phone cases and jewellery.
THINGS MADE FROM
Fuels for cooking
Heating, cooling and transport.
CONSTRUCTION
Paint, cauliking.
roofing shingles,
asphalt,
pipes, hardhats, safety goggles.
protective coatings and
waterproofing.
Entertaining
HYGIENE
Soap, toothbrushes and shampoo (oil).
OIL & GAS
INSIDE YOUR HOME
AGRICULTURE
Fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides (petroleum).
Baby items
Car seats and prams.
Cooking tools, domestic appliances and cleaning products.
Bid to head off the activist threat
SPORTEQUIPMENT
Surfboards, basketballs and skate wheels (petroleum).
TOYS
Lego, dolls, frisbees, crayons, markers and balloons (oil-based plastics).
Medical
Heart valves and artificial limbs; aspirins and other pharmaceuticals (petroleum).
BEAUTY
Nail polish, perfumes, some make-up and hair colourings (petroleum).
Making life liveable

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is one thing I've explicitly noticed in my work. Collaboration now consists of mostly throwing a PR over the wall and hoping someone does more than just rubber stamps it.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I think the full argument is closer to "a two-state solution is impossible given the current state of the Israeli gov't and society, which would immediately attempt to subjugate or destroy the Palestinian state", which is true, but also applies to a one-integrated state solution.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I too would like to stare at figma file so warped that math stops making sense and I'm transported to the twisted plains of leng.io

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This guy might be the first confirmation of the existence of the p-zombie.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

i would like to introduce Goldman Sachs to a man named Leontief

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I've heard some (apparently not well-supported) ideas against PR statehood rooted in its local unpopularity. I've never heard a good argument against DC statehood, at best its some handwave about the constitution.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I too would be far more sanguine about it if I thought I would still have a job in 12 months.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A former top Chevron executive was super tight with Delcy Rodriguez. He told the CIA to back her instead of Venezuela's democratic opposition,. The agency told Trump. Now Ali Moshiri is ready to cash in. He's raising $3 billion to get back in Venezuela's oil game. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

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He Was Chevron’s Man in Venezuela—and a CIA Informant

After retiring from Chevron, Ali Moshiri warned the Trump administration it would face a morass if it tried to install the democratic opposition.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The big difference, I think, between those games and modern LLMs is the ability to execute a complex series of actions instead of just one action at a time. So we're effectively losing discoverability in exchange for... not sure how to put it... expressiveness, leverage or inference.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's a fair point. With a UI, the capability map is pretty much always there for you to look at.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Presumably one answer would be... ask the interface a question about capability. I don't know if that kind "discoverability" leads to better or worse results in terms of users being able to understand the system.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I'm curious about your take on the idea that UI might have less of a role to play in website design because some of that mediation might be taken over by LLMs (in the form of user-facing MCP servers, etc). I.e. do you still need buttons and input fields if you can tell the site what to do directly?

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I feel like "number go up" is a bit healthier than trying track a subjective physique.

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Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Its probably kind of bad that this society-changing tech is in the hands of a small number of absolute scumbags, who fundamentaly either don't care about the fallout or are actively cheering for it.

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