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JAMPH

@jamph.bsky.social
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A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him. @JGAMPHO on Twitter.

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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 5m
It's a consistent empirical finding that, while people say they don't like spoilers in film marketing, they are more likely to see a film and more likely to say they enjoyed it afterwards if they know the story beforehand.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It was Agent Smith, not The Architect.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He posts a lot on Substack and he has a Youtube channel.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Problem is, how do you enforce that? How can you tell when someone has sincerely adopted liberal values?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Like, the pioneer of all this was Scott Alexander and he's the poster boy for building a genteel liberal persona as cover for the rabid partisan for scientific racism underneath. We know what these poeple really are even if they don't know themselves.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sounds like they don't actually believe their professed principles to me.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You sure about that?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Should have had that scene in the HBO mini-series.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think you may be overthinking this.
Cover of the book "The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" by Benjamin M. Friedman.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm sure if you asked they'd be happy to host it themselves.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything has gotten too pinned down. There's no room for just inventing some crazy shit and rolling with it anymore. Even "soft sci-fi" these days is just Star Wars knock offs 99 times out of 100.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They're trying to pass off channel surfing as a worthwhile passtime, shut it down and send eveyone involved to jail.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They can be, but I'd ask whether the former is a line of inquiry that is either useful or can even conceptually have a single objective answer.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean, realisitically speaking the perfect partner for a tradwife is a casually misogynist trust fund baby who's abusive but not violently so and keeps his worst tendencies behind closed doors.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What if question 1 has no answer? What if question 1 assumes a meta-objective morality that doesn't exist?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So virtue ethics is your categorical imperative?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do you mean by it being philiosphical nonsense? Because as an anti-realist, I'd say that if it works to make humans more cooperative and act in broadly benevolent ways then virtue ethics makes all the sense it needs to.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Secret third thing: There is no fundamental distinction between Manga, Franco-Belgian and Anglo-American comics, it's all narrative sequential art and it's all good.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can you imagine a form of democracy, under your definition, that doesn't look like a modern parliamentary/presidential nation-state?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trust fund babies and blood boys, just the mix they're looking for.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These people are the reason James Talarico said what he said.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He posts full videos of his live shows on his Youtube channel, just look him up.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UP FUCKIN' S!!!
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hampshire College but "based", not woke and gay, you know?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So Hampshire College but dumb?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friendly reminder that, just after the 2024 election; as if in celebration of the result, a16z gave a cushy do-nothing job to that guy who choked out a homeless black man having a mental episode on the New York subway.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the woman who runs the a16z defence tech fund that finances all those MAGA hard tech chuds in "the Gundo", so we have a good idea of what her ideal son looks like and he's a sociopath who builds weapons to kill innocent people for a living.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're not the only ones who don't want to have to deal with other people if they don't have to.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An Eggers OP Shakespeare movie would be exactly my jam.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How about your costs plus a prevailing rate of return? That's been the basis for funding speculative projects since time immemorial. If you get paid decently for your work, what do you care what happens afterwards?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Use your brain, man, it's not that hard.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trying to force people to adhere to a business model designed for physical media and berating them for taking bread out of creators mouths when they won't go along is a losing game. All of a creator's leverage is in the initial creation of the work, that's when you need to get paid, not after.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's no getting around the fact that in the digital world the marginal cost to produce an additional "unit" of an existing work is 0, all the cost is front-loaded in the creation of new works in the first place. Consumers know this, that's why all-you-can-eat or piracy is all they'll tolerate.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Also, repetitive and drudge-like tasks can just be good for building capabilities. Lifting heavy things is good for building muscle but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who'd call it a fulfilling activity in itself!
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I forget if it was for writing or illustration but I recall someone noting that the going rates for magazine work today are similar, on a nominal basis rather than inflation-adjusted, to rates in the 1940s.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
...what a shepherd boy with a sling can do!".
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is why modern audiences always misread the David vs Goliath story. The intended message wasn't "with a pure heart and faith in god this widdle guy triumphed over an impossibly strong foe" it was "these idiots think you need to be a high-t alpha male warrior to win battles, lets show them...
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They are the personal works of some crazy rich lady who's a big Trump donor (and a big Scientology donor, apparently).
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Japanese approach, you start a small business to have a job doing something you love and that you control completely, not as the first step on some phantom path to riches.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No thank you.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess if they symbolise anything it is the way many marginalised people had to cultivate and live in ambiguity around themselves to have a successful public life, that for people to even hear the music at all they had to give them the freedom to think they were just "eccentric", not Other.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Queen are unusual in that in their own time they were very much considered a meathead macho rock group, if a showy, prog-inflected, proto-hair metal sort. The queer and subversive side of their music and stage performances only became clear after the fact with added context.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So what are you actually arguing here?
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Will, maybe you should actually grapple with the arguments of neuroscientists who are skeptical of AI consciousness like @anilseth.bsky.social or Erik Hoel before just dismissing tthe notion that a machine can be intelligent without being conscious.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If the education system had the resources to give struggling children the specialised support they need and parents didn't take the notion of their child needing specialised support as a personal attack then this sort of thinking wouldn't be nearly as appealing.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just not Communist enough, we need to Communist harder!
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
China is building just as many coal plants as solar farms, their greentech push is about industrial policy and national prestige, not the environment. And the kinds of things western colonialists did to indigenous peoples up until the 1960s? China does to its minorities today.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's not difficult, but it is "weird". It's not what normies are used to and if they're the type that doesn't want to think about their computer at all they'll resent having to adjust.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Easily recognised shorthand for a heavy object in silent film and vaudeville. Plus all the westerns that were popular at the time.
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JAMPH @jamph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Worse, he considers such things weak gay shit.
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