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@jmalyon.bsky.social
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Real person. Software developer. Novid. War is murder. No kings. No crypto. No AI slop. I love science, arts, health research, environmentalism, and commas.

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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 21h
I love these but it's too bad they have to give it one of the hideous colors always used for high-tech EVs
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These things will not work and CAN not work, from an economic or thermodynamic perspective. It's more a diagram of how far you're going to be separated from your money.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're just doing fake ones, how about Dear Slate: My wife got abducted by a North Korean dictator but now I've become attracted to her good looking mother who has this kind of screechy voice that you wouldn't think would be sexy but it is...
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They already did this bit on 30 Rock
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe more than a whiff of treason. Alberta separatists are flat-out traitors to the nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember he had influence over the use of Starlink by the Ukrainians war and actually used it to prevent certain missions
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Superintelligence is a pretty good movie BTW. I think it got a bad reception because people were put off by James Corden. But it does kind of capture the immaturity, arrogance, lack of empathy, unpredictability, unfathomability, and above all randomness of what a true AI encounter would look like.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The old name was terrible. I won't even say the name, that's how strongly I feel about it. That name was very unfair to the Unites States.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Right now White House aides are scrambling to draft an executive order formally changing the country's name to "The Unites States".
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I assume this is a mistake. But while you're fixing this, how about posting a link to a non-paywalled article once in a while?
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Envelope will be clearly marked PASSPORT INSIDE. DO NOT STEAL!
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
666 / 666 = 1, explain that conspiracy skeptics
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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Oh my god, AI is the anti-life equation.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New power stance just dropped
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is Trump trying to name AI after a movie where an AI decides to destroy all of humanity unless Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Cannavale get back together?
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not about money. Trump is addicted to the thrill of committing crimes in broad daylight while the whole country is forced to watch him get away with it scot free. That's why he does so many crimes that serve no purpose and even alienate his own followers. It's his "I drink your milkshake!"
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The risks in using AI without paying attention to what's going on under the hood are plainly foreseeable. But it feels like one of those dangers where every single person is going to have to learn it for themselves by getting burned.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
government, business and tech elites right now
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Maybe don't feed your unpublished research into the plagiarism nexus?
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not going to bother googling the others but my point stands. There's a droning of his voice in the background, but the single, intentional, message of the ad is: I'm a villain and you can't stop me.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He loves that it's illegal. The whole POINT of the ad is the kicker, that it's paid for by the US government. He thinks he's above all laws, He wants everyone to know that if he gets a mandate in the midterms, he'll govern like it.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At least the term "artificial intelligence" is half right. "Super intelligence" is zero for two.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's no rational basis for doing any of this, even to shake things up before the midterms. I think military intervention is inevitable, to cater to the psychological needs of Donald J. Trump and no other reason.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My unpopular opinion is Better Call Saul > Breaking Bad
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
House barely made the top 100 (95). That's almost a slap in the face. "True Detective (Season One)..." LOL That IS a slap in the face. Maybe we should do this with some other shows too.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is this actually superior to using old-school, er, washing machines that aren't reliant on AI? The traditional ones don't send your laundry back to head office to be saved, surveilled, analyzed, plagiarized, potentially subpoenaed.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They're trolling. They may be trolling you personally.
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mathewi @mathewingram.com · 24/09/2026
AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger The argument that repeated statements of concern about AI from multiple experts -- some of whom have quit their jobs over it -- is just marketing hype or regulatory capture appears increasingly deluded
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AI doomers may be wrong but the skeptics seem even wronger
The argument that repeated statements of concern about AI from multiple experts -- some of whom have quit their jobs over it -- is just marketing hype or regulatory capture appears increasingly deluded
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't understand where this backlash suddenly came from. Competing govts & technocrats are in a race to get AI technology to the point where they can hand over critical systems to it. Every day we see mistakes it makes & the dangerous consequences of actions that aren't sanity checked by a human.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He tried that idiotic potash gambit the other day and immediately fell on his face. This is just another way of putting on pressure. All he knows is making threats and doubling down on threats. Literally that's his only play.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Winding down their core business so they can focus on something different LOL. It's not a real company, and neither is Tesla.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's 2026!
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine staying exclusively on Twitter and just assuming that half the world had transformed into gleeful racist trolls, and this was now a normal way to think and behave
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
She showed up briefly in a 1970s rock documentary I saw recently. I think it was the Dylan "Rolling Thunder Revue" made by Martin Scorcese. She has cred.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I agree except that Trump and Hegseth have been giving illegal orders since day one, partly to identify anyone who will take a principled stand and sideline them. This is the road to dictatorship. Congress could have stopped it but declined to act.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He would do it. He'd enjoy doing it, except for the risk of unmanageable consequences, and I don't see how anyone can argue otherwise. But I'm not too worried because he doesn't seem to care very much. The only reason he's even thinking about Iran at this point is the midterms.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Super Intelligent Robots, humans are to address them as SIR for short
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has this sick fascination with snipers... Who are they gonna shoot at? The snipers on the roof of his ballroom?
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And now it's time for
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How do they think that's going to work out for them? Drive the “old mainstream media companies” out of business, and they'll have to train their AIs on AI-written articles. It'll be like an Ouroboros of hallucinated AI slop.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My point is there was a diverse, stable, and non-rotting social system for thousands of years until it came in contact with an unpredictable outside force. At that point, yes it was more or less inevitable that a catastrophe would occur due to disease, invasive species, and highly warlike invaders.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You lost me at always. How about the destruction of New World civilizations by Europeans? Was that inevitable or mundane? We have systems now where one mistake, if not sanity-checked & corrected, could end civilization. This has almost happened several times. Yet there's a race to put AI in charge.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This numbskull spouted this exact same theory in a Republican debate way back in 2015, and the two doctors onstage (Carson and Paul) backed up his belief.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I mean does anyone think Trump really CARES about the EU, or who rules Iran, or logging national forests, or data centers, or any of it? Only insofar as it affects him very personally, i.e. either glorifying or enriching him. Otherwise he's just trading favors with donors and cronies.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My personal take is Trump is angrily indulging his whims but ultimately doesn't care about anything but himself. If/when he eventually steps down, he'll be a lot more concerned about finding a successor who promises him blanket immunity than one who will follow ANY particular government policy.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I just noticed that event took place at the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I was just talking about it the other day, with a well-read friend who had never even heard of this angle. Ahmadinejad MUST had been in contact with intelligence agencies and was on board with the plan; Israel supposedly bombed his house to disrupt the soldiers watching him so he could escape.
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you're the government and you're spreading ding-a-ling conspiracy theories about what you yourself might be up to
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is it still called a cover-up when the whole plan is basically carried out in plain view and everyone in the country is fully aware of it?
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Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seems smart to take on crushing debt and then immediately try to reinvent your company a thousand miles from where virtually 100% of the industry is based because you're in a snit.
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