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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 15/10/2026

That account is the poster child for AI Psychosis. She needs psychiatric help.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 09/10/2026

The definition of negative rizz.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 30/09/2026

It is maximally profitable right now to either sell panic *about* trans people, or sell panic *to* trans people. Both impulses feed the media consumer's desire to feel mastery over events. One is simple bigoted conspiracism, the other is a defensive crouch that offers a false sense of security.

Emily: I think about this as a journalist and a novelist: I cannot control how the reader takes what I write. Especially when reporting, I try to be as careful as I can, but somebody might read what I write and conclude, Well, we're all going to die. And there's such an incentive structure to walk right up to the edge of catastrophe or even stick a toe over the line, and even publications I think are terrific will get as close to that line as they can because they know that drives subscription dollars and clicks. That's not just true of trans media; it's true of the media writ large. How do you think about that incentive structure, especially as it relates to social media?

Me: There's two ways to generate clicks about trans issues. One is to sell panic about trans people; the other is to sell panic to trans people. The social media incentive structure there, as it is with so many issues, is the septic, perverted version of that old classic about local TV news: If it bleeds, it leads.

Selling people that sense of control is, as I noted, the same thing at the root of a lot of conspiracism: not to trust mainstream sources who tell you things aren't quite so bad or things could get better or don't panic. It's the cinematic logic of a disaster movie where the people who are saying, "Actually, you should panic!" are correct. Think about everything from the narrative structure of Independence Day or Mass Effect. The catastrophizer is actually correct against all the people saying, "I'll calm down. It won't be so bad." That story structure is very, very popular, and it gets you invested in the protagonist with a pleasing sense of dramatic irony for the audience. They know something many of the other characters don't or refuse to accept.

We are all reared on some version of this story, and it seeps into everyday life. There's an excellent piece from CBS News in 1967 by Eric Sevareid reporting on the findings of the Warren Commission [whi

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 26/09/2026

I will also add that “kids are driving toxic behavior online” is the same level of false belief. The most toxic people are in their 30s and up.

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Ramiel 🐇 comms full @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 26/09/2026

Yesterday. She should’ve done it last year.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 26/09/2026

The time to resign in protest was before the first grand jury. This is a woman trying to save a career she should be rightly ejected from.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 19/09/2026

They won’t get voted out for being shit people because their voters don’t think it’ll affect them. But when things do affect them, like gas prices, they suddenly care a lot.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 16/09/2026

There's an overlap of people who know AI well enough and also know the doomerism is bullshit. It's the same crowd that rejected AI because it adds nothing to anything. There is no invention brought about by AI that hasn't been done by some other tool that already existed.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 16/09/2026

rationalists bristle at having their ai doom thing analyzed as a religious phenomenon bc they seem to take "religion" to be an inherently degrading label. but i think the sociology of religion is genuinely analytically very useful for understanding that movement

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 14/09/2026

This is one of my favorite trivia questions because I used to have a pair of Siamese cats named Bruce and Bruno, then mention it was named after the same person. Nobody knows this album exists.

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Max Ackerman @ackermax.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve decided to spin something up to encourage myself to write a bit more regularly and about more things. Please give it a read and we can talk about it here!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the reason the ai companies claim they are on the verge of creating superintelligence is not to warn us of the risks. it's because it's a fun sf narrative that serves as a marketing tool. 1

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 11/09/2026

Section 2 creates exceptions of what is not covered by section 1. Since the text is not identifying a speaker and no audio archive is kept making identification by electronic means impossible, this might qualify as an anonymous recording. It would need a court to determine if it is.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 11/09/2026

Cursory read of 9.73.030 (2) (c) would likely grant exception for the Apple Watch since the recordings do not attempt to identify a speaker. Since it’s anonymous I believe this would grant an exception. app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default....

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 08/09/2026

Why? He’s costing the GOP a vote and his seat is up in November anyways. Governor can’t name a replacement and no Democrat can win the seat. Frankly, I’d love to see more GOP senators take long medical leaves. :)

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 04/09/2026

Nobody cares because his seat is up in November anyways. He’s costing the GOP a vote in the senate. He can stay away forever for all I care.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 30/08/2026

Alternate take: it’s always been this toxic, it’s just louder now because we’re all in the same spaces.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 29/08/2026

Software has been licensed for as long as I can remember, even back when you got games on 5 1/4 floppy discs. So this is nothing new, except now there’s no physical medium you’re buying. Sony’s lawyer is right, so this is something that needs to be fixed by updating laws on digital good ownership.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It would be nice to have people in charge who weren’t totally insane

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20/08/2026

There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I left Twitter in 2023, when I realized that Elon's changes had made the site useless for me. I had a half million followers, but his new algorithm drove my engagement numbers down to nothing. I wasn't actually reaching anyone. I was just providing cover for Nazis. So I left. You can too. Honest!

I haven’t been blind to the steady enshittification of Elon’s Twitter, but I’ve been telling myself that I still had a big platform — just under a half million followers — and the growing strength of misinformation on the platform meant I had a duty to stay and push back against it.
Except, as I slowly realized, I don’t have a big platform anymore. Engagement on all my posts is down dramatically under the new system, and a post that would’ve racked up a thousand RTs immediately is now lingering for days with a dozen or so.
I think my fellow (former) big accounts there need to realize that we’re experiencing a bit of a phantom limb syndrome. We still have a big number of followers, but they’re not actually seeing what we post and we’re not remotely having the impact that we once did (or at least thought we did).
Again, all we’re doing is giving our personal seal of approval and a sense of legitimacy to a place that’s rapidly becoming an alt-right hangout of grifters and grievance artists.

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Sam ICE.is.scary.enough🎃 Machkovech @samred.com · 29/07/2026

Palmer Luckey's retro gaming company uses the same components for its gaming products as it does its Trump-backed Anduril war profiteering. LCD panels, FPGA circuit boards. he's making these whitewashing toys because they're a rounding error for bulk drone parts purchases. avoid ModRetro.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 01/08/2026

We had power, but then the algorithm took away our chronological reverse feeds. That it happened with no pushback is when we lost power.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 28/07/2026

Google is still free. apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24rs/...

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24RS HB 622

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You actually can fight it. That is absolutely something you can do.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 21/07/2026

Alternative: this is all the money OpenAI will make because the market has broadly rejected not just LLMs but any AI generated goods, and those numbers represent the total available market.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 21/07/2026

Like you said…that’s what there is. I would’ve considered Ladybird if the lead dev wasn’t a nazi.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 21/07/2026

For now, Zen until a better alternative appears.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 21/07/2026

Glad I dropped them as my main browser.

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David Eve • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discokidnap.northsky.social · 17/07/2026

Going to watch The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended: on a Game Boy Color, spread across 30 cartridges, at 144p, in mono sound.

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Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com · 12/07/2026

We have canceled our sponsored stream with SNK. We have heard the concerns from our community regarding this partnership, specifically the company’s majority ownership by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and the human rights concerns tied to the Saudi government.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 08/07/2026

If you still post on X/Twitter, after this and every other shitty thing Elon has done, you’re basically complicit in it. You know full well how bad it is. Do the right thing and leave it.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 29/06/2026

Does that mean you have to send yours back?

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 24/06/2026

Getting DMs from a bunch of indie devs being suspended from X/Twitter. Just. Leave. It. You don’t need X. It’s terrible.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 23/06/2026

Most people complained about having to buy a PhysX card but everyone wanted that functionality. I remember seeing side by side HL2 demos with and without PhysX cards and everyone was drooling. AI is a solution to a problem nobody has.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 19/06/2026

This is why I set up a SearxNG site. Gets me google results (along with a bunch of others) without the useless AI.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Great movie until Spielberg cut the final line from the script. The final line written was a title card reading: The next year saw 163 murders in the District of Columbia. That line validates the whole script and forces a conversation. Disclosure Day doesn’t drop that ball.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 18/06/2026

I've argued that THAT one edit would've made an entertaining sci-fi action flick one of the most debated pieces of political fiction of all time. Watching people process the repercussions of that one line in real time is a treat each time.

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 03/06/2026

How many times do I need to say this - get off X/Twitter. Remaining on it makes you look shit.

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Wait wait wait, Platner is a creep who disrespects his wife? The slur guy? The mercenary? The guy who loved doing imperialist violence? Are you sure? The guy who pretends to be a working class common joe whose excuse for his nazi tattoo was that he's very stupid? That guy? No. Don't buy it.

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 28/05/2026

Just did. Saved to photos library as well. Although my Discord says “Save Image”. I wonder if you’re seeing a file mime miscategorization issue?

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Javier Heredia @javier.heredia.social · 28/05/2026

I just tried this and it saved it to my photos library, which is what I expected. Not sure what you’re seeing. Is this in a specific app?

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