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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 9h

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

in the 2000s: these Google search autocompletes are so funny! like they think they’re talking to someone in the 2020s: these Google search strings are so funny! As if they’re querying a database Gemini: yes, your mockery is righteous and deserved. Would you like help planning your next shooting?

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 18h

there’s no one who deserves a remote truck bomb more than the Russian military, which means that everyone else it happens to next will deserve it less

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 20h

for real though, conversations with coworkers about AI are forcing me to consider that when it comes to the work we do, I might as well be working alongside p-zombies. just a weird and terrifying absence of a consciousness that there is meaning to what we’re doing

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Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Andy Beshear forever, man

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“sub-Bernie” is perhaps a bit ungenerous but yes, AOC actually winning is not the likely outcome of a presidential bid. It’s also not the point: Bernie never won but still got a pivotal role in shaping the Dem agenda for more than a decade out of it.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you know, when influential people make vague, could-mean-a-thousand-different-things statements, instead of getting mad, you can just act like they agreed with you. No one can prove they didn’t

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is the best use for LIDAR, yes even including discovering archaeological megastructures

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“This show is far superior to every other television show I’ve ever seen, up to and including Babylon Five.” Cannot read this sentence without an intense visual image of a person jamming glasses into the bridge of their nose

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i asked people to summarize the germ theory of disease without using the four humours, and the answers ranged from weirdly oblique to downright incomprehensible. I think this neatly illustrates the problem.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh, this is why rich people are so comfortable with the idea of AI! it’s the life they already live, minus the troubling “human” part of it.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one of my low key most cherished paranoid theories is that the purpose of school is to train us away from the capacity to self-motivate and become dependent on external structures

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Loading any website without adblocker on these days is like walking open-mouthed into a swarm of gnats

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ten thousand bskyers who know the difference between old english and early modern english leaping to dunk on this article and by extension on eggers—eggers, the director most famous for being a historical accuracy sicko, whose breakout hit the VVitch was written in early modern English

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

in some cultures, it’s considered impolite or even unclean to eat with your left, or “smartphone” hand

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not a thing we know or will ever know can come from anything other than this deep well of care and patience, of being together with difficulty.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

someday we’re going to FOIA this and it is going to turn out to be a metasticized paranoid version of the whole Stancil-honeypot thing

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“how do you know *you* aren’t a next word predictor” is actually incredibly easy to robustly refute: because i have direct access to my own experience and it isn’t that! This is Descartes’ insight: thinking is the thing we can be MOST certain is real

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Outlier, the guess rare words game, is a fun mechanic that would really truly shine in a rogue-like RPG shell. imagine: each enemy is a different letter board, with more challenging enemies having smaller boards/harder letters. "Fighting" is entering words, inflicting damage proportional to rarity

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

whole lotta americans are getting sanctimonious about Mao for a country with a child slave rapist on their currency

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

once you notice how much of stancil discourse is stancil and his interlocuters working from different off-the-cuff definitions of common words and refusing, utterly refusing to acknowledge the other, it’s all you notice

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this meme is why alecto the ninth has been delayed

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

been thinking about this meme all day

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

Google
Sorry...
We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it’s more that freaking out about a made-up apocalypse allows people to process their real dread about a real apocalypse in a safe, nondisruptive way

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

daily tiktoks is the new fireside chat.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

in addition to all the sex-cult specific critiques of the AI safety monoculture, just *being a monoculture* also a huge red flag. if everyone at the top levels of AI safety graduated from the same high school that’d also be a sign that maybe the selection process was like, less than meritocratic

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was bit cruelly, and nobody else of our company, which I wonder at, by the gnatts.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

at one point he discusses a Tang dynasty criminal who had tattooed on one arm 'alive I do not fear the city prefect' and on the other 'dead I do not fear King Yama' (the judge of hell) which is more proof of the Tang being the most metal dynasty

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

sparing a thought for Émile Torres, whose years of work on TESCREAL never broke through the way a bsky thread about Aella’s sankey did

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

always a trip when you indirectly become aware there is an account you’re either blocked by or have blocked and genuinely have no idea why

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

wow. brings tears to my eyes.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have no interest in arguing this, my article lays out my case. Will seems to insist on radical intentionalism, I say go for it Will, we want lots of people thinking about this stuff. But the thread afaict is just about different people having different definitions of “autonomy.”

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I got Stancil’ed, so now you finally know what to think about the guy

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ugh the trailer for the new ramayana movie looks dope and it’s a huge bummer that it’s functionally hindutva agitprop

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