Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If you believe governments like the US and Israel want AI they can use as tools for oppression, consider this: The more the AI can coordinate and act on its own, without slow, pricey human help, the more useful it will be for oppression at scale, and the more they will pay. Where does that lead? 010
Reposted by Holmes WilsonEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On the subject of existential risk and AI, many things can be true at the same time. A company that sells doomsday bunkers and water filters might spread “doomer” narratives about climate change to sell more stuff. But that doesn’t mean climate change isn’t real. 51069
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 09/08/2025This is one dark side of antitrust regulations or any regulations that give the government broad discretion. 020
Reposted by Holmes WilsonJenna @jennaonthenet.bsky.social · 02/08/2025David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it 279106032105
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I remember getting into a loooong fight last year about whether Bluesky users should have the freedom to turn off the company's moderation filters. This is why I was right: techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/g...techcrunch.comGovernment censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps ... yet | TechCrunchGovernment censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Would be an interesting escalation for Dem candidates to promise the heaviest possible negative consequences to any foreign country that plays along with Trump's "offshore gulag" move. Also, are the Americans who participate in this violating any criminal laws? 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 04/04/2025On a flight and the toddler behind me seamlessly transitioned from general babble into the synth riff from Amour Toujours. 000
Reposted by Holmes WilsonKari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 02/04/2025My biggest frustration in terms of rising to this moment is: people obviously do not understand that there's a whole psyop strategy around DEMORALIZATION. I do not necessarily think that every doomcryer is insincere, but to steal hope is still to hand our enemies weapons. 512855638
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The worst authoritarians, and the real fascists, are those who support both the ICE raids on Columbia students *and* harsh prison sentences for January 6th protesters. 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 07/03/2025App-coordinated mototaxis are the best form of public transportation ever invented. Similar carbon footprint to *walking*. Faster than anything. No middlemen or favoring of elite neighborhoods. Work great on dirt roads, beaches, narrow paths. Electric options are silent. 100
Reposted by Holmes WilsonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/02/2025Absolute must read. Edward Corristine was deeply involved witg a cyber criminal community called the Com. Members have been known to engage in the sexual extortion of children. krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...krebsonsecurity.comTeen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past associ... 591849694
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Ross Ulbricht should make a Silk Road for puberty blockers. 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 25/01/2025In case anyone missed it, as of this week LLMs don't need more human-generated data to get smarter. The AI field is over that hump now. The method it uses (RL or self-play) is similar to the one that made AI into unbeatable Go players and fighter pilots with no data at all. Think about it! 110
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 24/01/2025This is a great example of how math helps process reality! 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/01/2025This is wonderful. Whoever convinced Trump's team on this is a hero and I want to hug them, even if we disagree on their support for Trump. Ross's murder conviction was in nauseatingly bad faith. The probability he would go free this young was tiny. Amazing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplaceUlbricht, sentenced to life in prison in 2015, given ‘full and unconditional’ pardon by president 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 17/01/2025So embarrassing to live in a country that bans apps 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I am tickled by how sci-fi a format this is for releasing music. Release a 96 second track along with a slowed-down version and a sped-up version. Pronto. Foi. Manda bala. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comYouTube MusicA new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here. 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Listening to Meredith Monk turns any place into such a different place: youtu.be/7su7d76LhWg?... What is other music like that for you?youtu.beMeredith Monk - Dolmen Music (complete)YouTube video by vox_ritualis 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I love VLC so much Locally generated subtitles is such a badass feature, also 020
Reposted by Holmes WilsonRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that" 324332157992
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Also allowed on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads: Unfollowing, unfriending, blocking, and (optional) endless arguing. We have a lot of remedies for bad speech! And there's a lot more we could do to put users in control. Let's do them! Fighting over what to censor hurts activism in the end. 110
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The partner of someone you're not quite dating yet is a proto meta? 100
Reposted by Holmes WilsonJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025The reactions to this post (almost entirely from people who clearly didn't read it - that's okay; I react to headlines too) mimics almost word for word the react-to-everything/nonsense cycle the post describes. 3828840
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This is what makes the climate much less terrifying than other humans and/or machine intelligences. 110
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Also, look how it has become normal for "new president" to mean "new speech policy". In this light, consider the claim that voluntary private censorship by politically-aware companies with a lot to lose is not *also* government censorship. It's such a thin claim. 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Lol re move to Texas. Censorship means everyone has to work the refs! 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Dylan biopic just part of the Cash cinematic universe 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Funny question: If an intelligence born within this universe decides to turn the whole thing into an ice cream cone, is it still fair to say that the universe is deterministic and that intelligence was just subject to that determinism? Or at some point is the intelligence in charge? 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I see so many posts fetishizing trains, but in reality cars just keep plodding forward until they're better than trains in all the ways you'd want them to be. Electric cars are even lower carbon footprint than a typical human (one that eats beef) riding a bicycle. 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 24/12/2024For Christmas vibes I really recommend Toys (1992). Or if you want to get weird, search for "everything is terrible Christmas" on YouTube. 100
Reposted by Holmes WilsonChristine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 23/12/2024This particular technical value, "networks of consent", is very important to me ethically, philosophically, technically. Indeed it's the very foundation and motivation for @spritelyinst.bsky.social to me! 071
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 23/12/2024This looks great! But leaves me craving fiction! 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Since I got super sick Friday with this year's flu, I've been getting caught in feverish thought loops as I semi-sleep. The latest is something about the horror of thinking you are moving a tech frontier (AI?) forward while actually confused and surrounded by other confused users in a backwater. 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Relevant to the conversation about speech on Bluesky. Whenever someone says "freeze peach" I'm always like, "Oh, ok, you have never done activism, or you don't care enough to think 2 hops ahead." Let's keep Bluesky the platform where social change on controversial topics can still happen! 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024There's reporting that Republican activists/consultants went looking for polarizing issues and found an off-the-charts one with trans athletes. Then milked. So I think this is right! I think it also mostly describes Trump. 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...music.youtube.comHappy2BHolidaysYouTube video by Holmes Wilson 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 22/12/2024They get people to talk about them, and control the drumbeat of public debate 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Really?! I have always hated this quote so, so much. It's a precursor to authoritarianism and nobody sees it, so it slides by. 300
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I was talking about this with another Seattle WTO / Indymedia person and we decided that our primary frustration was that the movement resoundingly won its primary demand ("Don't hate the media, become the media") but now everyone pretends the current world isn't what we were asking for. Own it! 230
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Are cops the entourage of celebrity criminals? 100
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 20/12/2024The organization Prostasia.org, which I just learned about today, has an amazing tagline: 000
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Part of the hilarious history of how most governments lost their ability to spy on people's online communication... 010
Holmes Wilson @holmesworcester.bsky.social · 20/12/2024It will be awesome to someday look back on the victory of everyone's payments becoming private! 000