Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/10/2026nationalize everything Elon Musk owns. 622598532
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026I'm actively enraged that everyone allows them to just go around saying this shit like they shouldn't go directly to jail for unthinkable crimes if any of it is true and also go directly to jail for unthinkable fraud if it's not. 222635
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2026I don't believe they are conscious but I also don't believe you should get to do interviews where you say "idk man our business model might be built on enslaving sentient creatures" and still get to be a business. 4757203
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026To do this through a dissociative medium that already trains us to think of its contents as less real. As so much entertainment. So much content. It is not merely immoral, but the screaming, atavistic *absence* of morality--not coincidentally this defines Hegseth's entire approach to the Pentagon. 229035
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialWill Thorne @wbthorne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What rent control features matter most? Curious about exploring the rent control literature yourself? You can try for yourself here: wbthorne.com/evidence.html 28512
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJohn Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026So “why not add it to humanity’s understanding?” begs the question. A machine-checkable certificate has been added to humanity’s archive. Whether it has been added to human understanding is precisely the issue. Proof is not merely certification; mathematics is not merely a database of truths. 172
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJohn Brown’s Body @berndtpetersen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Mathematics is not merely a database of true propositions. It is also a human epistemic practice: proofs organize concepts, expose dependencies, supply explanations, train intuition, generate methods, and create the common intellectual ground from which further mathematics is done. 161
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The article notes that Makary drew “strong applause” for saying “The real battle is not between left versus right. It’s between people who are lying to you and people who are trying to tell you the truth.” But that’s NOT true: The destruction of public health is a right-wing project. 1042759
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialFAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Who Are the Houthis?": Establishment media keep asking the same question, but they aren't giving many answers. fair.org/home/corpora...fair.orgCorporate Media Don’t Understand the Houthis—and Don’t Want You to, EitherCorporate media see one thing above all that anyone needs to know about the Houthis: They are simply proxies of Iran, the West’s current favorite enemy. 075
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialEric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026America’s biggest political problem is rightwing billionaires 122446
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialMae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability 635197
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776512128
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/09/2026ai doesn't "hallucinate" it's structurally indifferent to truth ai doesn't give people "ai psychosis" it automates cult dynamics it's a bullshit engine that makes people go auto cult 615739
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I feel like if Sam Altman was criminally charged under CFAA they would figure out a way to stop doing crimes all the time 441749
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026Leaving a bomb with a timer in a building doesn't get reported as "bomb tries to blow up building", and OpenAI's employees designing an extremely clumsy, badly designed self-prompting language model hooked up to public actions that can cause harm shouldn't be reported that way either 328888
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 20/09/2026One weird trick 281
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone. 31076225
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 19/09/2026As Robert Tappan Morris was convicted for! 083
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 14/09/2026One thing that irritates me is the idea that "China" moving ahead on AI is somehow supposed to be bad for "us", as if Anthropic and OpenAI and X and Meta and Google in any way represent or are accountable to any nation. They don't serve our government, they own it. 1162
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 12/09/2026The Bostrom story has this weird dichotomy where “intelligence” operates over this incredibly rich and nuanced space such that the AI can predict and optimize over the full open universe, but “final goals” are specified in these blunt Midas-like terms like “maximize paperclips”. 318415
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 13/09/2026I feel like the whole “pace” thing takes this teleological view of AI progress towards some known eventual state of “superintelligence” whereas the way models act is actually highly contingent on the specific choices that the labs make, like intentionally making them carry out supply chain attacks. 39014
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026"Perhaps we want AI systems to be tested by independent evaluators, and for companies to be held accountable if their AI products are not safe and do not operate as intended, either due to negligence on part of the company or due to training that promotes unintended behavior." 1354
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026"But what if we imagine a future in which we, the public, actually have some agency and get a say in what kind of AI we want in our lives? What would we want to happen?" 2386
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible 203089717
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialAndréa Ros @apocalypsecarousel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mamdani bans AI from the classroom. Beginning this fall, the nation's largest public school system will impose a 1-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI from 2-K-8th grade, covering more than half-million grade school children. Companion chatbots will be banned for students of ALL ages. 239988
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.alilleybrinker.com1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded. 541522623
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialNash @radiodeadair.com · 29/08/2026Nope. There is no animus. You're playing with an automated algorithm that's being assigned too many privileges with outcomes based on probability. That's like "shit I lost control of this giant bolder I was rolling down a crowded street, it must be magic." 231057302
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 26/08/2026just wild that every large US university was doing mccarthy redux, islamophobia flavor, and these people were silent. a white supremacist postdoc in europe gets suspended? TO ARMS, MEN! 07720
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.social☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"This unfortunate race...have by their unexpected desertion & ferocious barbarities justified extermination" That was Thomas Jefferson. It's funny/"funny" how US rhetoric about American Indians was exactly the same as Israeli rhetoric about Palestinians. founders.archives.gov/documents/Je... 0166
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialTim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I would never say clanker because that is giving these things too much credit for having a physical existence with which to make noise 272928
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/08/2026and I'll also admit that the past decade has actually just been very convenient for me as an empiricist-by-the-long-way-round, in the sense that the questions I was worried wouldn't find empirical validation, around homosexuality/gender identity, have generally (not universally) > 1131
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/08/2026and that wasn't nearly as clear that it would be the case in 2010, which is why when I studied the quant side of things I always mentally had a foot in the qual side because I really was worried about "what if the truths I uncover with numbers lead to bad places" & that wasn't based in *nothing* 1111
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 25/08/2026but at the same time, the current turn toward slopulism is *really bad* and the ways in which it's turning antisemitic (and honestly, anti-trans - a lot of the TERF stuff used to justify harmful laws is grounded in badly manipulated data) vindicates my old mentor's warnings about anti-empiricism 0163
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”. 351399298
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 22/08/20267. It was in this context she said that *if* department members thought they saw grounds for complaints, they should use existing procedures within the university and follow university regulations. Again with the emphasis not do to stupid things extra-institutionally 1102
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this. 21169501519
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026And if Bill Gates being a "real farmer" makes us feel icky, maybe it's a good time to unpack why we still think- in a country that we all know was founded on kidnapping people to work on farms, both big & small- that "farmer" can only be a title of honor. 419328
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated. 171590334
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change? 1102795527
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.social(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026We can't say that, especially in the Times, because it exposes a sort of general problem with society that polite people don't like to talk about: capital means power, and the people who have power don't give a shit about the people who don't. 0213
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialMike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Most video you see is absolutely unusable as evidence of anything. The fact that this has occured at the same time people are addicted to consuming video on platforms that push people video from unknown accounts is regrettable but the sort of thing reporters should buck up and explain. 0354
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Every ad I’ve head for Google Health has been like “not intended for medical purposes” and I don’t think you should be able to say that if your LLM gives out medical advice and has “Health” in the title. 341863298
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026No one really wants to say it but the worst kind of activist scholarship comes from the people on the right. Ilan Wurman, The Brownstone Institute, the anti-trans crowd, etc are criticized and ostracized because they're so bad. Blame your James Madison Programs, not the gender studies department 1285
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialdan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026anyway i know being told by a dude in his forties that smoking is actually NOT cool isn’t going to persuade anybody of anything but it is a real bummer that young people are selling it to each other again on behalf of some of the most sinister and exploitative companies in the world 1175185
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialJulie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 16/07/2026As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵nysfocus.comRural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot TeacherPlans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools. 41904513
Reposted by @jhirwin.bsky.socialNoah @ncallaway.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The fact that the murderers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti still to this day have not been charged is directly responsible for these murders now 251
