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Nonso Obikili @nonsoobikili.com · 5h

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"Gary Marcus, a prominent AI sceptic and professor emeritus at New York University, said Altman was “saying the quiet part out loud: suck it up, so you can make us rich and powerful”." Eish. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 6h

Every million he spends is a million reasons to pass the tax hike

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20h

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Um, so this is why it is important that USPS does not install cameras on its trucks because it creates a governmental tracking system without statutory authorization.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes because “he can’t do this” means he can’t LEGALLY do this and if there no consequences for illegally doing it because the apparatus has been captured then he can, in fact, do it.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Money is virtuous and noble. Stuff has been paid for by taxpayers (the in group). Don’t think about it too much But yes also / mostly intentional hypocrisy.

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calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Democrat leadership wants to reach out across the aisles to their colleagues in the spirit of bipartisanship with fascists who want to try to murder them again and are not shy about it. Guess insider-trading is really that great a perk or something.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is such a schoolyard bully bullshit OH NO DOES IT MAKE YOU PUSSIES CRY THAT WE FULFILLED THE LETTER OF THE LAW AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO AHAHAHAHAHALMAO nonsense.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026

Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m sorry, what’s that acronym again?

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...at least for some, for others it might be more of an elaborate marketing schtick, but let's not underestimate how much of the "AI safety" people are literally a doomsday cult.

These are people who, in short, believe Roko's Basilisk is a real danger to humanity. I'm reading this as GENUINE TERROR on their part that leads to them to pre-emptively appease the Machine God they're making.

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This does seem like an odd, far fetched notion. But if the answer to "who will buy your product if we all starve?" is "well, Claude will!" then we are indeed all of us in mortal danger.

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If CONSUMPTION can be automated at scale, if agentic AI can become digital consumers, there is no reason for the psychopaths in power to keep most people around still.

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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 02/10/2026

What I find terrifying in a weird way is that there are apparently AI agents out there that through some shenanigans are EARNING and SPENDING money. This, I think is a five alarm fire for society. Because that means we are getting close to CONSUMPTION being automated.

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guy who has only seen marvel movies: "this is one of the darkest movies ever made"

Avengers: Doomsday reportedly has at least 6 major deaths.

It's described as one of the darkest movies ever made.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Imagine caring one iota about deaths in the MCU. Infinity War's deaths would have had impact if it wasn't crystal clear that most of these characters would by contract return at some point, most sooner rather than later.

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Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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Harvey Smith @harvey1966.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this guy is so dumb, effectively so evil. yeah, let's set up a culture war religious crusade and bomb more kids. let's eliminate the 20% of the generals that might push back against a dictator. i hope we still have history in 10 years; if we do, people with loathe this toad.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is part of the regime's attempt to crush organized labor and replace unionized TSA workers with contractors. They tried to eliminate workers bargaining rights last year, then forced them to work through the shutdown w/o pay for more than a month, and now this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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And the people adjacent to this admin are like that too. Look at Musk, who doesn't know jack shit about the world but thinks that just means he's smarter ("Why don't the airplanes just fly in a straight line on the map, that's more efficient! I am so smart!")

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Like someone further down the thread says: this administration is shot through with people who SIMPLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THINGS ARE DONE THE WAY THEY ARE DONE. Perfect example. Passports are sent in nondescript envelopes so they're not obvious and get stolen all the time.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

White Cis men often naively ask “why don’t women report rape”, because it’s their lived in experience that when they report a crime, or make a fuss they expect to and are taken seriously by authorities. Women know better.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026

don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit

Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit

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The Funny Pages @thefunnypages.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

On Stage by Leonard Starr #comicstrip #comicstrips #onstage-strip

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Secret Life of Data, brain surveillance quackery edition

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 01/10/2026

That is true of almost all of sci-fi. Specifically ignorant MISREADINGS of sci-fi (and Trek).

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Entire generation of tech nerds never realized that talking to the computer on star trek was a narrative device and it is very rare that anyone wants to so this except necessary hands free situations

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Up there with job application sites that a) ask to upload a resume b) then auto-populate forms ENTIRELY WRONGLY with said resume, making you fill everything in by hand AND correct the mistakes, c) ask for those forms filled PLUS attached resume in the first place d) strict 5 min timeout deletes all

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Getting close to 24 months. But that’s the 751 game. Especially fun to see the phrasing change over time and then change back. “USCIS is actively reviewing your case” “USCIS is still processing, etc” there were some verbiage changes. And then there was the glitch saying I got approved 13 times…

My VERY tinfoil hat theory is that this will be used to circumvent posse comitatus by redesignating American units as Israeli, giving them IDF commanders, and then give them permission to operate inside the US. VERY VERY tinfoil hat theory. Bad videogame plot theory. But...

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Oh yeah, the "shoot into the body until it stops moving" stuff comes from the cross-training and was developed by the Israelis to ostensibly prevent a suicide bomber from detonating.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean, given how that particular set operates, with a COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE ABSENCE of ANY sort of media literacy or idea of what is fiction and what isn't? All signs point to yes.

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We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And we already know from Anthropic's own code release that they do absolutely *wildly* inefficient stupid shit like "download the entire database each time you need to do a search operation, in a dozen different places"

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/pook... Literally, Claude is a vibe coded fucking nightmare of stupid design decisions. They *would* download hundreds of terabytes of data multiple times instead of once, in a dozen random places in the code.

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Once Vance is behind the Resolute Desk, this guy is one of the five or so most powerful individuals alive...

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Where Wintersun always has a bit of a DIY sound to it, Atavistia's production quality is across the board a lot slicker. I guess haters could say that's bad? IDK. I think it works very well with this ludicrously maximalist style.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And yeah I mean, listen to Wintersun and Atavistia back to back and theyrrethesamepicture.jgg [highly, highly, holy fuck laudatory]. Wintersun REALLY isn't an easy act to copy. And they did it.

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I can't really speak to any of this, my headcanon for this COMPLETELY NUTS band is that they really liked Wintersun but were annoyed that Jari only releases new music every aeon, and just made their own, Canadian imitation. And now we have two Wintersuns.

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