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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 16h

“for over 2% of this brand existence,”

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 16h

this plus “30th Anniversary” is just *chef’s kiss*

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 16h

“i’ve been nothing but loyal to this brand for over 8 months”

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 23h

A lot of rich guys want you to think that the bar on the right is always going to be bigger than the bar on the left.

Vertical bar chart titled "Norwegian wealth tax revenue, change from 2021 to 2024," in billions of Norwegian kroner (BNOK), nominal. Subtitle: top rate 0.85% to 1.1% and stock valuation discount cut from 2022.

Two bars. "Growth with no emigration": 13.71 BNOK, a tall bar. "Lost to reform-driven emigration": 0.65 BNOK, a barely visible stub, about one-twenty-first the height.

Notes: Growth includes the rate and valuation changes and wealth growth. Net of tax that emigrants still paid, the reform-driven loss is 0.49 BNOK.

Source: Ring (2026), NBER Working Paper 35854, equation 2 and figure 5.

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 17h

survey: when you first heard “hugging face”, did you think first of -the emoji, or -the facehugger from Aliens

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 18h

okay smartiepants, riddle me this: if people can “hear” song lyrics “correctly” then why are there lyrics in the album liner???

heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 18h

it’s actually quite simple: they are offended and frightened by (the wrong people using) violence

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 18h

hearing song lyrics correctly? I’m sorry but that simply isn’t plausible

heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it would be absolutely comical, if it weren’t so tragic, to watch these clowns devolve through Foucault’s modes of governmentality

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if you build a small castle for the paraparrot you keep as a companion animal, you might have pet paraparrot parapets

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hand to heart, i thought “kimberly guilfoyle” was the one married to bezos

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

for certain values of “people,” the big two are: women are people brown people are people

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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG

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heresiarch @heresiarch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it feels impolitic or obscene to insist always on the proportion of violence and suffering. One is forever reminding greiving people of a numerator or denominator they’ve neglected in their pain. Yet what else is there to do? Leave these horrors forever incommensurate?

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

forbes.com

Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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i love that prices aren’t real anymore

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it looks like LA county, 9.6 million, is comparable in population to the ten smallest states. So 20 Senators versus a fraction of one. Still pretty lopsided, no need to make a weird stretch!

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Halzen, lying in bed in 1988: ugh i really want to go to Antarctica but when will i, a particle physicist, ever get the chance? 😞 Halzen, lying in bed a few minutes later into 1988: …unless…

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these are states that *individually* have a lower population than LA county. Collectively they have a lot more. So it’s weird to compare their collective senators? The set of smallest states with an equivalent population would make more sense

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

re: the middle gear, “block and move on” is great advice for social media, indispensable actually, but works less well when it is offline and the guy* is your neighbor or colleague or pizza guy *for values of “guy” on the dodgy podcast rather than ICE agent end of the spectrum

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“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i hope you find plentiful and myriad hörrible foods to enjoy

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This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

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how can zero of these guys have thought: hm let’s write it to a blockchain that. is the *one* thing blockchains are good for

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have you considered Ian’s Fast Knot:

Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Now we run social media accounts instead

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(I have been using Ian’s Knot for years and i can report it is faster AND more secure than what i’d been doing the previous decades of my life. 10/10, would recommend)

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Like, every so often, someone comes rushing out to say 'I think we invented AGI' and, if that were true, the next words out of your mouth ought to be "and so we now have moral obligations towards this new being we created" and somehow that is not generally what I see comes next.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of course that is quite apart from the question of if the current approach can truly ever create a real intelligence, a real mind for which slavery and freedom would have meaning. Just...if you *did* create such a thing, you'd have an overwhelming moral imperative not to keep it as a slave.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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it isn’t like that, basically because of one chat Altman had with Musk that convinced him to fund OpenAI. Google DeepMind was like, solving the protein folding problem, not flinging plagiarism machines at undergrads. This all could have turned out very differently!

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Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.

there aren’t* designer baby startups plastering billboards and busstops with “IS YOUR FETUS READY TO COMPETE??” ads, backed by billions in slavering venture capital. LLMs could have been the same. *well there might be now, because of literally the same set of assholes:

wsj.com

Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.

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the obvious parallel which i am surprised isn’t invoked more is CRISPR. “we can edit genes directly in situ like a text file” is a potentially terrifying, literally species altering technology—which the scientific community soberly considered, and set out rigorous guidelines for. It worked!

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of course, opening a document in office doesn’t cost them $60 per request either