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In between lie a great variety of relational patterns. The only way we have to differentiate them right now is vibes. I mention above the pre-existing norm. I think it’s out of date, and that we need to negotiate a new one that reflects the various capabilities of the agents we have today.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 14h

It was, in a very real sense, a new feudal state, with the Communist Party acting as a new feudal nobility.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 15h

The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised. Nearly 2,000 years ago, a sailor named Diogenes travelled 25 days inland from the coast of Tanzania to reach the source of the Nile near the “Mountains of the Moon” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ex...

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Ancient Expeditions to Central Africa and the Circumnavigation of the Continent

The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

Not just impeachable. Impeachment, both pres. and agency heads, is the only option. It's impeachment or nothing. Courts won't stop it. Other tools are impotent. Put them on trial the only way you can. Even if you can't get 2/3, use process as punishment. Make it miserable and costly. It can be done.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

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This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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ShinoSarna - comms open @shino-sarna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

issues with that: - why is the game's difficulty curve balanced around random encounters thus requiring random encounters? Isn't that circular reasoning? - why does removing from player any agency about when combat happen feel bad? - why are low level encounters in most games mindless annoyance?

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Piper Paige @pipermintz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's fucking me up that I wrote this four years ago 😭

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ver 🗿 @ver.ooo · 28/09/2026

You know that quirky way of communicating that you’ve painstakingly developed over a lifetime of being corrected by graders? Slop, unfortunately

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Read Hardt and Negri @jason-edelman.org · 28/09/2026

Wittgenstein sometime in the 1940s:

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

And I just don't accept that logic anymore. It's just plain shitty behaviour! But it's downstream of the social media prime directive: if it feels good, post it. Like so much else political posting, it's about empty catharsis rather than achieving anything.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, i am saying this. literally this. i am saying that you should not care about water for 16,000 people when "growing alfalfa for export in deserts with approximately zero precipitation" is literally orders of magnitude more water and vastly more pointless.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 27/09/2026

Wanting engineers to have a broader education is perfectly reasonable. Treating your theatre department as a conscience factory is fucking insufferable.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 27/09/2026

America’s history shows it’s almost never about prudent resource use, or even worker dignity, it’s about communal narratives and greasing the right skids

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one trillion liters of water is less than the dairy and beef industry uses in one day

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Grace @gracekind.net · 27/09/2026

👏 Let 👏 AI 👏 be 👏 dumb 👏

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

priorities.

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It would be really fucking great if we prioritized housing for humans the way we do housing for cars.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 25/09/2026

Alignment to whom :)

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Read Hardt and Negri @jason-edelman.org · 25/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social did you choose your PFP and what was the inspiration?

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Read Hardt and Negri @jason-edelman.org · 25/09/2026

Built a p2p version of #atproto. No servers, no PDSes, only peers. Runs on iroh, works on a local network, absolutely privacy first. Ultralight relay containers for persistence, runs wherever. Question: Is this a terrible/dangerous/awesome idea? Unrelated: should I release it?

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. viewed from 2011 they seem to have been prophetic, but were wrong on most details and insane about others

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/09/2026

scrubbed through the transcript of this and it's as usual the entire doom case is premised on a concept, "superintelligence," that is neither clearly defined nor proved to be possible

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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 23/09/2026

ice cold take: i feel like a lot of p(doom) scare is thinly veiled p(capitalism is unsustainable) not saying the risks aren't real; just that a lot of the time you look under the mask and it's "we could be forced to cut profit margins 😱 invest in infrastructure 😱 redistribute wealth 😱"

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so now i am on a bus, i do not know who has taken us or where we are going, i have either been taken tenderly into the embrace of the EU regulatory framework, or someone has kidnapped me and a bunch of other tired and confused PNWers

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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dame @dame.is · 22/09/2026

the AI community on Bluesky overwhelmingly engages with people *not* on the basis of their feelings, but with how correct or incorrect their assertions are! we are frustrated by how peoples’ emotions lead them to bury their heads in the sand, to believe misinformation, and to harass others

You would not BELIEVE how badly a certain type of person who has made LLM enthusiasm their entire personality needs everyone they encounter to have identical feelings

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We live in an era of denial about what has happened to US politics. Many STILL operate under the assumption that we buried open white supremacy six feet under after 1965. Most likely that's because, if they admitted otherwise, they'd have to own at least a decade of misguided lib/left punching.

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Read Hardt and Negri @jason-edelman.org · 21/09/2026

Lived through this (central Virginia mid 90s). Institutional position was that the disruptors were assets in two ways: one, that they would keep smart kids from getting smarter (risk management); two, by surfacing kids capable of manipulating and deploying their chaos (group management).

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Read Hardt and Negri @jason-edelman.org · 21/09/2026

Any argument that an LLM can't think can (and will) be used to argue that (certain) humans can't think That doesn't mean LLMs can think, but Makes you think

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

reposting this article is cognitive surrender. this drives me insane. the headline is a deliberate lie. the report doesn’t “find” anything: the below is all the it has to say on the topic. the footnote is just a link to this Wharton study osf.io/preprints/ps...

Getting the right answer from a chatbot can create the illusion of learning – but it can also trigger “cognitive surrender”4, where students fall back on AI at the first hint of struggle. In a recent paper5, three noted MIT economists – Daron Acemoglu, David Autor and Simon Johnson – argue for what they call “pro-worker AI.” They make the case that instead of designing AI systems to replace workers, businesses should develop AI that allows human beings “to be more effective at their existing tasks, tackle new tasks, and acquire new expertise.”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yeah... so the thing is, "people with lots of resources viewing rural areas as An Escapism Venue" is a HUGE PROBLEM. Imagine being a farm worker trying to save up enough to buy their own land & go into business for themselves. But you're competing with people who can pay $3K/month for a shoebox.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

The liberal notion of acquiescing to reduced-to-removed rights by fascists so everybody else can I guess defeat fascism with the power of the ballot betrays their perception of us: that our identities and sexes and genders and lives and loves are a choice and that we have been humored long enough

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Schumer and Jeffries HAVE said a few things: 1. No Impeachment proceedings against Trump. 2. No Medicare 4 All 3. Continued "support" for Israel Feel free to add the other things you've heard them say on TV etc... over the past 6 months. THAT is the agenda.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

there is where discipline comes into play: despite your position on various things changing over time as you receive new information (for example, people on the left 20 years ago weren’t as widely pro-gun as they are now!), you have to start with a concrete set of values that ground you.

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 20/09/2026

The one thing I'm 100% sure of is that we're in a new Y2K situation, and if "nothing happens", it'll be due to the combined efforts of many people fixing things in time, who will then spend decades having to listen to people telling them the whole thing was totally overblown.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is exhausting to see people talking as if "listening to Jews" means endorsing Israel's actions or supporting a Jewish ethnostate. Many Jews do not think ethnostates are a good idea, for pretty obvious reasons.

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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a very good point and the thing to understand is that’s not what’s happening on either side. The republicans are identifying all the people they want to target for degradation and a repeal of their civil rights. The democrats are giving a list of who they’re okay to do that to.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am sorry for anthropomorphizing the single thing that hundreds of billions of dollars and the smartest people in the world are all trying to make as much like the human mind as possible. That was silly of me

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

Turns out emergent complexity is a real bitter lesson. *ducks*

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fears of small AI drones autonomously killing civilians are a great example of this distortion. People are using small drones to kill civilians. Right now! I'm not saying no one should ever think about the possibility—I've written about it—but way more should focus on what's already happening.

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 19/09/2026

The pro-AI coalition only looks unified because everyone is shooting at the same anti AI barricade from wildly incompatible metaphysical positions.

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 19/09/2026

I've been awarded several documented CVEs for container and sandbox escapes. I have also reported a number of additional escapes that were verified but did not receive CVEs I worked on security at Docker I'm not surprised by what happened with Huggingface The problem is not AI, it is with people

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If something dramatic does happen - Rome gets sacked, the palaces burn - that's practically always a symptom of the deeper and far more idiotic rot that lies beneath. Those things are signs of the times, not the essence of the matter.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 16/09/2026

"Your brains stop developing at age 25" was a press misrepresentation of a study. They wanted to see if brains continued to develop after adolescence, so the study was capped at age 25. A later study with a wider subject pool showed that brains are ALWAYS developing our whole lives.

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dame @dame.is · 17/09/2026

cell phones made everyone a photographer, and AI will make everyone a software developer

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