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JC @jamescurcio.com · 27/09/2026

Seems a fair bet, too.

JC @jamescurcio.com · 26/09/2026

Yeah. I'm whatever type of "pro-AI" that this is.

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"21st century" is tough-- starting with The Wire and The Sopranos, it'd be a long list...

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Having known a few mobsters unfortunately, it's also very much a thing how influenced they are retroactively by the media. The Sopranos references this a lot, though of course it can't avoid participating in it because We Are A Society etc etc

To be fair I think the Sopranos ending was 100% perfect, no notes-- and it's still apparently making people mad to this day.

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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.

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

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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

lol as an artist, this is absolutely the right take.

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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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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?

You don't have to spin potatoes around really fast until they throw up to eat them.

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The narcissism of small differences can absolutely be a Thing in subcultures, but it's not really a national political concern, no. When lacking direct social power, some people go to moral posturing. Same as it ever was. Seeing it fragment communities firsthand can be a bit of a bummer, though.

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They also have a delusional belief that there's a massive voting block of principled Republicans they can bring over if they just hedge on a few "fringe" issues like certain people's rights. Morality aside, it's not even clear these people actually exist.

"Maybe they'll be nice to us if we were more/less--" Nah.

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I mean... as "a queer" who has spent too much time in somerville and cambridge, let's just say it was painfully on the nose. Rightwingers don't need an excuse to do what they do though, that's gonna happen regardless.

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

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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YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age

I don't think most of those models are going away anytime soon.

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

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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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith on AI consciousness and existential risk

"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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Trying to imagine how someone would figure out how to make the first honey

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

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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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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True. I was thinking of the early 2000s story game thing (the Forge, etc) but it's funny how far back some of these reoccurring discussions / debates go.

I'd like to believe that, though it's been 20 years now of "...you know there are other ways, right?" ;)

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Especially when they're someone you never met before, and are very unlikely to ever meet in person.

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

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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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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

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

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I see. I personally wouldn't necessarily mind conversation if they don't suck, but the urinal thing is really strange. I wasn't sure if it was like a friend who would always insist on facing the door so he's "ready" if someone has a gun. Like, you're a web dev not mossad settle down.

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

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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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What are you worried about them doing?

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What I'd love to see more on is how it comes to conclusions, how it was trained etc. This isn't on account of ideological crusading, but practically it'd be useful to know how / what magic-8 ball derives its % from before trusting it for business infrastructure.

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* on Bluesky That's a pretty critical caveat. Absolutely no one I know in the real world are even a fraction of up their own navel (or other parts) about this as the people I see in my feed on this site. I'm not sure exactly what that says, but it's definitely a thing.

There's always the time honored tradition of making a rigorous outline ... and then proceeding to ignore it in drafting after item I.

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Rules in Practice Part 2: Rulebooks and Roleplay, the Origins of RPGs — Modern Mythology

But what would be their motivation? Though it's funny about D&D/AD&D -- not sure if you've read this series already but I got into this a bit here. From the get go it was oddly self-contradictory. www.modernmythology.net/articles/rul...

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Part 2 of our history series unpacks the push-and-pull between published rules and table culture. From OD&D’s sparse mechanics and the all-important “Rule Zero” to house-rule creativity and the OSR re...