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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It is always wrong to seek or take pleasure in the pain of others. It is corrosive to the soul.

Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It would actually be far more interesting and surprising if there IS some ineffable quality that creates a hard limit in AI capabilities! As close to a natural experiment on materialist epistemology as I can think of.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Doesn't feel like we're prepared, economically or psychologically, for that hard reality.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

In principle, there's nothing that humans do that AI won't be able to do better, eventually, and in many cases soon. There's no reason to think some ineffable quality protects human ingenuity and capabilities from automation.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I hate it when someone says “that’s a great question” before a scripted answer because by definition that wasn’t a great question

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Lots of hedging from scientists quoted in the article but mostly of the "I want to see more confirmatory data" and less of the "ehh not sure I buy it" variety www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Feels like this should be a bigger deal?

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Send storytellers my way! More details and link to the application here: holy-bell-7fc.notion.site/Storytelling...

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Storytelling Associate Job Description | Notion

To apply, please submit an application here.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It's an exciting moment to help tell the @southparkcommons.bsky.social story. We have some very big content initiatives in the works that you'll play a crucial role in. I think SPC has PMF, but we need your help to show the world why and how.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This will be a writing-first but not writing-only role. I'm looking for someone comfortable across content format, style, and tone—essays to threads, technical to narrative. You have to be excited about technology and startups, but don't have to come from that world.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I'm hiring a Storytelling Associate at @southparkcommons.bsky.social! The SPC community is fully storytelling-pilled. It's the foundational skill of -1 to 0. But we have too many stories to tell. That's where you come in. ⬇️

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I want those people liking the more optimistic posts!!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's not super encouraging that whenever I post something more pessimistic sounding about humanity's chances with AGI, the people who consistently like the posts are from OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

To understand millennial men you must understand how formative just hanging around for hours playing Goldeneye and Halo was for shaping our idea of good quality time together

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Imagining the Helldivers 2 writers reading this and thinking "freedom seeds, goddamit that's good."

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You have to reduce the barriers to building parks if you want to avoid a society of walled gardens.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

It can be effective politics in the short term, but unless you pair it with an aggressive commitment to dismantling the vetocracy that makes it impossible to build anything, the doom loop will continue.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The left is stuck in the doom loop of asking taxpayers for more money for projects with decreasing returns, or, in the case of CA HSR, no returns at all. If you want an egalitarian society with strong public funding of common goods, you have to prove you can build and defend those goods!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trump's crypto stuff is pure graft but this framing, where our inability to build infrastructure is just a matter of funding, is a disaster for the left & America. The reason we don't have HSR in CA 15+ years after voting for it isn't because of tech investment.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The crypto stuff in Trump 2.0 is just pure graft. More corrupt in dollar terms than all other presidencies combined. If you’ve ever complained about corruption in politics, you should be more angry about this than you’ve ever been before.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Final Fantasy games always have a main villain character who does most of the villain stuff and then at the end you discover they’re not the main villain which is instead something like Death personified Anyway American politics is like that except the real big bad is NIMBYism

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It is a profound stain on the reputations of both the nation’s highest office and its most prominent entrepreneur to act this way

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My most closely held moral conviction is this: it is always wrong to take pleasure in the suffering of others. That is the surest path to hell.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm not avoiding microplastics. I'm doubling down. Chewing the wrapper. Cooking everything in 12 year old tupperware. Contrarian and right. This is how I win.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cancelling and banning research grants based on forbidden words is an insanely embarrassing move from the “free speech” crowd

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Celebrating merit doesn't require you to denigrate anyone else, and the fact those two often go together in Silicon Valley ("NPC") is one of its worst cultural ticks

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

That something has become more difficult does not mean it is not worth doing. In fact, it may then be more so.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

There SHOULD be a lot of overlap between the hardcore consumer protection types and the DOGE efficiency types, if this is really a good-faith attempt to make things better for Americans and not just wage partisan warfare

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

TurboTax is one of the clearest examples of industry capture rent seeking by the private sector imaginable, it is good to have a simple free government option and we should invest more in it, not less

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Getting rid of free e-file for taxes because you don't like Elizabeth Warren is a pretty clear sign you're being reflexively partisan and not thinking critically

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Though I do think this is another instructive example of how much damage Dem mismanagement at the municipal level has radicalized some very influential people (and voters generally) against government at all levels. Because the SF non-profit dynamic is bad!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Speaking from the inside, this is absolutely part of it, though a much higher (and less vocal) percentage than you think does in fact have more nuanced views than the loudest VCs on the tech right would have you believe

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hate to break it to everyone but liberals abandoning Twitter is a strategic mistake that cedes the public commons to the right You can try to build something new here but public conversation is still downstream of Twitter, not Bluesky

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I hate that movie trailers have trailers now

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Tesla and SpaceX are genuinely transformational companies. True achievements. The world is better because they exist. Which doesn't negate but in fact magnifies the bummer of Elon's turn.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It honestly really sucks how much Elon sucks now

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Could be as simple as “the Red Woman uses her arcane blood magic to give Arya even more power, including the ability to steal the dead’s faces” Fits right in with how the story was already written, you basically have to change nothing!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Easy enough to make it that way, the writers are in control of the rules!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Authoritarian recklessly going for autarky, that’s never failed right

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's such an obviously better payoff given how much time the show spends on her journey to being able to take faces that it still makes me angry the writers missed or decided against it in favor of something boring.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I remember watching that episode and the moment came when and the music was building and I was sure she was going to pull off the lieutenant's face in the background in the most satisfying payoff ever— And then they just didn't. She just runs past everyone.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The biggest writing miss in TV history was when Game of Thrones had Arya just run up to the Night King and stab him— Instead of having her steal the face of the top lieutenant the show had prominently featured since the very beginning so she could get close enough to stab him

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

~50 year old dude next to me in the airport lounge is about 30 min into video titled “How to Defeat the Fire Giant in Elden Ring” and he’s studying it like he’s got to perform surgery tomorrow Godspeed sir

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South Park Commons @southparkcommons.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Want to see the future? Check out what was revealed at our Winter 2025 Demo Faire! We're very strict with our live demos only rule—no slide shows here, just what the founders of SPC are building. blog.southparkcommons.com/demo-faire-w...

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Recapping SPC Winter 2025 Demo Faire

Check out the live demos SPC teams showcased during our Demo Faire in January!

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The most obnoxious and useless rhetorical redoubt is “I think this person is wrong, therefore they must also be stupid.” That is, ironically, one of the clearest signs of lazy thinking.

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We should ban reels too though, the algorithmic video format is bad for people and society

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Jonathan Brebner @jpbrebner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

1) massively influential media platform entirely outside of US regulatory control 2) good reason to believe it’s being used for influence ops (mainly by driving social tension) 3) potential for more aggressive ops in case of active hostility with China

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