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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Would love the "rationalists" to give one example of a rationally plausible mechanism through which AI destroys humanity
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This whole AI safety thing has genuinely gotten so weird that it's not even interesting to hear about anymore, it just feels gross and offputting to even think about it
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NIMBY final boss
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This guy has brain damage
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I feel like most gravitate towards California due to the dialect-flattening effect of entertainment media
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Vice President of the United States btw
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The racial subtext of this is jarring lol
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Even in absence of basically any other context, it is flatly inconceivable that a UM grad who grew up in Michigan would not know this. Not even baseline plausible that he got this wrong
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great example of sanewashing. He disputes the poll, sure, but the dispute is totally baseless! He never profeers any explanation for why the polls are supposedly wrong. I think that's very fair to include! And he "rejected" stories about allies' primary losses? What does that even mean
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Straight up fuck these people. They clearly understand exactly how women are harmed by their rhetoric because the second a shadow of it appears on the other side they know just what to say to pounce on it
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ok cool. The People have spoken and now our representatives in Congress are Real People, warts and all. Breaking the glass ceiling on individuals in active mental health crises serving in the House. Now what
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm afraid we are already in Woke 2 and it consists of centering the lived experiences of racist rural white ppl and tough on crime urban black voters. Meaning its woke but racistly and rightishly
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This has become a weird two-sides-of-the-same-coin kind of doomerist cope: Rich people saying "oh we don't have to care about climate, we'll just go inside, use air purifiers, go abroad" etc., and climate doomers are like "we can't get people to care about climate because rich ppl will just...
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Oleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is a position that has been articulated by some parts of the left for some time. A tendency to rely on doctrinaire statements and claims that diplomacy hasn't been seriously attempted. Beyond the obvious (Putin not seriously interested in negotiations), much diplomacy has been attempted (1/n)
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They literally have the same exact position Trump had. "We should just make them figure it out! It can't be that hard."
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yeah its definitely the "liberal elites" who are self-absorbed man. Not you at all
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
She's really caught up on this, lol
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The "Trump is a businessman" shit is so annoying in part because he never actually fucking talks shop about business at all. Just right wing nutjob nonsense. Fair to say there's something else going on (probably gender)
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Depressing when you realize she's probably talking about like LGBT rights and GMO crops and not the actual abomination of fossil fuel combustion
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Guy who is literally a politics reporter: Man it's tough deciding who to support politically. No one side gets everything right 😕
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's a good example of how deranged the politics-news media complex has become. Look at clips of Miller on e.g. CNN, any other individual saying the same thing on TV about their DV charges/allegations would be rightly tarred and feathered, but because he's running for office they let him say it
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's so funny to watch him slowly losing it, like this is such a slam dunk but he can't even stop himself from rriffing and starts going on about how "he could be the greatest communist" like dude what?? Lmao
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Didn't they already do this whole schtick? The fund was on, then it was off, then back on again, now we're supposed to believe it's off for good? Come on
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In a way, this is really just a story about a guy who kept compromising on his values and kept making more money as a result, all the while fighting to maintain the delusion that he was in control the whole time
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Lemme take a stab. Digital communications tech and widespread literacy has led to a heightened consciousness (qua ambient awareness) of how dynamic the modern world has become and brought people face to face with radical difference. The global right wing surge is a reaction to that
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hey, we're kinda cooking with seeing political extremism as the real driver here. No other country really rated that one either. Go us
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Holy shit thats a new low. She can hardly even sputter it out cause she knows its so vile
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Love how the "evil" Santana accuses his girlfriend of is basically inviting her friends over and keeping the lights off to conserve energy
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
That only makes me value that little, fleeting bit of autonomy even greater. Should be careful not to let the (valid) critique of childish individualism collapse into a (dangerous) critique of agency
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It's actually insane how left wing psychos will endlessly moralize about their chosen pet international affairs issues then a split second later just casually disclaim a universally accepted bedrock principle of fair conduct between nations like self-determination
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump is hilarious cause he's literally the biggest liar and bullshitter in the entire world but reckons guys like Putin and Xi don't do that kind of thing with him
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Would be cool to have politics that's not Oops! All shibboleth and symbolic economy sometime soon
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Funny how high it is among republicans
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I wonder if there's some social science research out there that sheds light on the co-consequent development of drastically different preferences in American cultural and economic life: One set of people who are moving to the exurbs, driving everywhere and shopping at big box stores, and (1/2)
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I would really like them to disclose how much money they're set to make on the sale before I'm asked to feel bad for them
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A lot of people seem really mad about MattY's post for ways they can only articulate with really complicated language. Typically not a signal of a coherent critique
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The townie left strikes again
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Read a WSJ article where they were like "can you believe these crazy lefties, working so hard to unseat a senator who voted AGAINST Trump multiple times?? Even that's not enough for them!" Talking about Susan Collins. As if its unfair or extreme to like, go after a gettable seat. Fuck off
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Macrons got that shit on, lookin like Joe Biden
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm a big social sciences and "things have multiple causes" guy but I actually think Dan Moraff basically fucked the Maine senate race for Democrats singlehandedly
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I feel awful for the women who practically begged us to take them seriously enough to make the necessary inferences from what incredibly private and personally jeopardizing information they were willing to share to the real, obvious conclusion that everyone should have drawn from the NYTimes story
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
California: If a mid-life crisis were a state
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
DAC is going to get chewed up and spat out like a piece of fucking gum in Congress
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Checking in on this one lol
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Doesn't this just come off as utterly desperate, like buddy knows at least at some level he has nothing to do with these wins and is trying to use them as evidence of his relevance post facto
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Harvard law prof. Adrian Vermeule: "We live in a society"
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We are all woke now
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I love how seriously wall street guys take Trump. On CNBC some guy is talking about "why the new administration feels it should take a more muscular approach to Latin America." Lol
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highorbit.bsky.social @highorbit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Don't care for Platner. Putting aside the pretty serious allegations against him, you at least have a cheeky, too-clever, moneyed New Englander who realized he could cash in on his vaguely provincial valence by performing everyman populism for DC political consultants trying to prove a point
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