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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21h

In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit. —William S. Burroughs

William Burroughs sitting down in a suit with a shotgun on his lap

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 17h

West Wing revisionism as a concept is Orientalist, elitist, and misogynistic.

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Anhedaria Morgendharma @aesthetic.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wish ppl would stop invoking some kind of ASI boogeyman re: x-risk and acknowledge that the problem is human, and that it’s human systems of international oppression that create all cyber risks, from hospitals held ransom to water infra attacks to cargo ships seized by pirates.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 25/09/2026

It's kind of darkly funny that like 90% of my feeds that are clearly humans and not possibly bots are all talking about AI. "The algorithm" really drives home that old marketing adage about "no bad" press.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

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ghosty @ghostymost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This one’s my fave

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come at me bro. I’m in the Shire.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you think of it, revolution is patriarchal and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper conservative movement should seek to abolish it.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 24/09/2026

It's a tricky thing, believing in democracy in theory but also not trusting the US electorate to be able to make even the most basic choices, even in their own interests. Like, yes, self determination is great, but also, have you seen some of these guys?

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/09/2026

Sometimes the algorithm does know us. I signed into YouTube and it was immediately like "you must see this". Fair. youtu.be/eAOIpDUDGX4?...

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Queens of The Stone Age - "Where The Goth Girls At?" (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/09/2026

He answers more or less as one would expect if you've read his books. (I've read most of them). But I agree, for what that's worth. Do they? No. Could they? How the fuck should we know? nautil.us/could-ai-hav...

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Could AI Have Consciousness That Isn’t Human-Like? - Nautilus

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/09/2026

"Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism." I'm sorry, but this is incredibly funny.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/09/2026

Gozer the Gozerian said "choose the form of your destructor" and SOME dumb motherfucker couldn't keep from thinking of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have decided the only path forward is for philosophers to become as smug and elitist about non-philosophers as they imagine we are

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I say this as someone who for years got into ridiculous fights on the internet, sought out pointless conflict, and got into trouble for it: mass harassment only makes the target's behavior and health worse. It achieves literally nothing else.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 22/09/2026

aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading... It is always reassuring to find out all your baseline assumptions have parity with an expert's take. I'd beg the internet to stop being so credulous in obviously wrong ways, but we all know what that'd accomplish.

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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

I think Jev is a huge missing piece: we can now build intelligent agents out of fast cheap reflexes and slow expensive chain-of-thought cognition, instead of running everything on LLMs.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 21/09/2026

I need to work on editing the next modernmythology.net podcast episode (we've got like 8-9 backlogged at the moment), but as I'm getting married this weekend, It Is Not This Day. Our couple hundred listeners will have to wait. :p

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Modern Mythology | RPGs Story and System

How do stories and systems shape one another? At Modern Mythology, we explore the relationship between narrative and game design—especially through tabletop RPGs. Through conversations, essays, and on...

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 21/09/2026

A burned-out corporate infiltrator spends his days gaming the stock of the pharmaceutical giant that employs him, and his nights wondering why the world feels so deeply, structurally wrong. The answer arrives in a boardroom — and it’s stranger than he bargained for... fallencycle.com/podcast

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The Fallen Cycle Mythos | serialized fiction podcast — The Fallen Cycle

The Fallen Cycle Mythos Fiction Podcast is an audio adaptation of select Mythos stories, serialized along with an immersive Soundtrack. Forgotten, forgetful gods (of a sort) walk among us. Created by ...

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dave’s killer dread @dreadlines.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

dude just fucking hates moderators

My friend said they went to a Zizek talk and eventually the moderator
interrupted him saying "I think it's time for questions" and Zizek was like “Ok. I will ask the first one. 'Professor Zizek what would you say if you had more time?' and then he proceeded to continue the talk as if
nothing happened

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 19/09/2026

I get the sneaking suspicion if it happens sooner than later, we're going to find ourselves in a very "The Death of Stalin" moment. (At least if we're going by vibes rather than historical precedent).

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 18/09/2026

Wrapping up a major version update for the system I've been working on. Ran out the token budget until 9pm -- my brain feels exactly the same.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 16/09/2026

Some of those that work forces, are the same that fuck horses.

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 15/09/2026

and this is the harry potter fan fic that led to the writer leading a completely independent and not at all provoked by Russia revolt from Ukraine and consequent decade-long border clash ending in a full scale war

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Я могу, Я должен I can, I must Chapter 18: ASCENSION, a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. + Harry Potter Crossover fanfic | FanFiction

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Political interest and participation is the province of a small amount of people who are educated and often well-off

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 15/09/2026

One of those days you open the news website and no exaggeration 1.5 seconds later close it, not because it's horrific but simply because it's "oh come onnn..." This shit is getting goofy.

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on Aai at 'pro human' summit

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These are your friends, they fight for your freedom

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 14/09/2026

"Hurry on, madness. Hurry on, disease. Hurry on, insanity. Hurry on, please. Hurry on the bomb. Hurry on the plague. Hurry on the fury. Hurry on the rage..." ("Hooray!!", Snog) www.themirror.com/news/politic...

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EPA to announce US will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and the Trump Administration will announce the repeal of carbon emissions limits for power plants.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 12/09/2026

Hitting that point where you're working so much that whenever you're not working your brain is still working. Just holding all virtual models of all of it and continually running verification checks in the background asking what can be improved.

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Nick @nickyphorus117.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The AI industry has got to have the single worst PR reps in the history of technology. It should be a legendary productivity enhancer but every booster is like “it will destroy the livelyhood of 6.8 billion people and will be a god combination of Thor, Huitzilopochtli, and Abbadon”

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 08/09/2026

It’s incredibly weird that we taught sand how to talk and the talking sand is helping us learn to understand other things that talk.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 11/09/2026

When you get down to it, all forms of power are "solar power." Just a question of how close you are to the source. :takes a hit:

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd prefer to live in a world without any IP protections and massive public investment in the arts. I doubt that will happen either, but copyright is a bandaid at best for the question "how do you keep artists fed?", and it doesn't do a great job at that either

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 09/09/2026

I mean, no shit, right? But people still keep on about carbon capture like it's not basically "and then a dragon is going to come and eat all the carbon outta the sky". newrepublic.com/article/2151...

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Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon

A new U.N. climate report says that massive amounts of carbon capture and storage can keep a long-shot climate goal within reach. But nobody should be counting on it.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 09/09/2026

It's a lot of responsibility being right about everything, but I'll manage.

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 09/09/2026

"In the eyes of those who anxiously seek perfection, a work is never truly completed...but abandoned; and this abandonment, of the book to the fire or to the public, whether due to weariness or to a need to deliver it for publication, is a sort of accident--

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JC @jamescurcio.com · 04/09/2026

Season 6 Fallencycle.com/podcast off to a good start. I hadn't listened to ep1 since I produced it but just did... really pleased with how utterly unhinged the soundtrack is lol Note if you want to listen to Party at the World's End from the beginning and haven't already, start with Season 5.

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The Fallen Cycle Mythos | serialized fiction podcast — The Fallen Cycle

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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