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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Nathaniel Borenstein, who played a key role in creation of the MIME data interchange protocol, has a new book out, The Spirit of a Cyborg. It's structured as memoir but a big part is about #philosophy, #ethics and #morality as it relates to #AI and humanity's future. ipubcloud.org/products/the...

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The Spirit of a Cyborg: From the Dawn of the Information Age to a Shar

The Spirit of a Cyborg explores AI ethics, human-technology convergence, digital spirituality, and the moral foundations of artificial intelligence.

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Chris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The M5.2 in Nepal wasn't an earthquake. USGS relabeled it "M 5.2 Landslide," depth 0.0 km. No quake trigger, no GLOF evidence, no rain reported below. A glacier snout appears to have failed on its own. Ice in rock joints loses up to 78% of its strength warming from −10°C to −0.5°C. Still frozen.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The people one wants to succceed are those who won't leave others behind. If society is going to tolerate any imbalance, that's the best kind. If someone gets ahead, best it be someone who knows they got ahead on the shoulders of those who didn't, and who's committed to the whole of society.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If privacy terms or terms of service are going to change out from underneath me on a phone I depend on for everything from communication to identity, tell me again what distinguishes that from ransomware. @sumsung.bsky.social @sammobile.com

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Conservatives gave in to Project2025 plan to end democracy for white nationalism, a technostate or a totalitarian empire, depending on who you ask. Progressives want actual democracy, serving all fairly as we try to survive climate change. What's extreme about seeing big problems need big solutions?

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hey, @firefox.com ... You seem to be offering me a choice with profiles of "start with an unwanted question" or "use the last profile I used". Neither is correct. I have a main profile I ALWAYS want to default to unless I use explicit command line option for another. You seem to have broken that.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Even among people who see a problem, the details of proposed solutions and their later effects matter a great deal. But having a conflict of interest makes it hard to trust the conversation because one can't be sure the person involved is seeing the problem clearly.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The GOP wants voters to think proposed law emerges out of nowhere for selfish reasons, with fictional rationales tacked on as mere sales tools. But Bernie, AOC and other progressives don't pick a proposal and work backward to a rationale. They start by seeing problems, working forward to a solution.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sure, yeah, Biden passed historically many things, stuff that had eluded others. But none of it matters because he was in denial about how vulnerable the Constitution itself was. He declined to fix the Constitution or SCOTUS. It had always worked for him, never mind it was only by lucky accidents.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is why Biden was the wrong guy to be anywhere near the presidency. He wanted to say "things really aren't that bad" because straight old christian white guys are not exactly the ones feeling the pain, and it was easier for him to be in denial than for people in other groups or situations.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Centrism, by contrast, at least in the world as I have reframed it, is again not about the political proposes one advances, and their moderate nature, but rather about denying that there ARE problems, that those problems are big, or that merely-proportional solutions to huge problems are proper.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Seeing "progressive" as an awareness of problems is a key mental shift to do. When someone says something to me like "you're too progressive" or "be more centrist", I translate to my own dialect, where it comes out as "see fewer problems" or "deny more problems" or "act on fewer problems you see".

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I've shifted my sense of "progressive" to be about the proposals they make but about the awareness and compassion they show for problems some seem willing to deny. Most progressive proposals are modest and proportional if you believe the problem description, which not all do.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If we're lucky enough to put a sane, freedom-loving President back in US office, our once-allies mustn't accept vacant rhetoric like Biden offered in 2020, when he declared we were back. We were never there, always one election from a 2024 event, which can & will recur until we fix our Constitution.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Does he cite a crime for which those people would go to jail or do we now skip the messy business of knowing what crimes are and having trials that consider if the crimes are actual, Constitutional, and actually committed?

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Can I explain why the Party of Machiavelli sees consistency here? Why, yes, I can. What is consistent is that in every moment they say what it takes to get what they want.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 26/03/2026

BREAKING A federal judge GRANTS a preliminary injunction protecting Anthropic from the Pentagon’s retaliation. Background www.allrisenews.com/p/anthropic-...

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

At least he's judged for things he's said & done personally, not things they fear or imagine. Other than that, it sounds like he's describing how racism must feel. (Too bad he can't see that, since he props up a party that might as well wear MARA hats. Judging him for that support seems legit.)

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@bsky.app It'd be hard to overstate how much HARDER you've made it than ex-Twitter to find a #recipient name to address a post to or to figure out what #keywords would be good to attach. Part of why I post iess here is that absence. Don't say #BlueSky is too new. #discovery #UX

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#Google #Android, STOP STOP STOP telling me for 50th time I have "unused apps". They're there for contingencies. Your OBSESSION with the falsehood that "not recent = not interesting" sinks your credibility. Ask about unreviewed apps maybe but don't make it MY job to protect each from your peskiness.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Other key players must be removed, too. They are violating oath to defend the Constitution, enabling a regime that's violating rights daily in ever more severe ways, plainly setting up to replace a republic with an empire. GOP Congress think silence keeps them safe, but Autocrats want no oversight.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Wow, I just spent 1.5 hrs on phone hold, waiting to talk to office of @hassan.senate.gov, only to be summarily dropped without connecting and without taking a message about how we seem on track for WWIII as pure narcissistic whim, distraction from criminal prosecution. #EpsteinFiles #25A #Impeach

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Also, @sumsung.bsky.social, how does a big company like you not have a BlueSky account that is just your own domain name??

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

@sumsung.bsky.social may instead be the proper addressee but really it doesn't matter because I'm not expecting a reply, I'm just making a public point about #Samsung forcing acceptance of terms so that I can refer back to it later. And also just to say shame on you.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

As a matter of public record, @samsungmobileus.bsky.social, you CAN tell me I must agree to your terms to continue to use the phone that holds essential data and apps, but you're making me 'sign' under duress. If a dispute does arise, expect me to cite the fact that I lacked meaningful free choice.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Also, @networksolutions.bsky.social wanted me to make up a security passcode that, among its other restrictions, says no duplicated digits and that has bounded size. Do they know or care that each of these needlessly reduces the search space for people trying to guess? Security theater.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Today's indignity from @networksolutions.bsky.social is that they've apparently put in a few shims to help me at least get far enough that I can be prompted to log in. But I have to agree to terms of service. Here they are:

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Web hosting from #IPower gets worse and worse. Bought by #IPage, who were bought by @networksolutions.bsky.social. NS is BY FAR worst managed transition I've seen. I'll jump ship soon. They don't believe in compatible transition, want me to instantly do things their way. I serve them, not they me.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A bit surprised they won't use them as-is. Their cruelty doesn't seem to require a proper facility. I sense a fetish for gadgets & pageantry of cruelty here. Locks, barbed wire,... Terrorism at scale. Also a self-image of powerful whim. With corporate greed atop: any moving money will be skimmed.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In the days of paper journalism, some articles reported, detailing the facts. Others had a "kicker" (a small extra heading) saying "Analysis", so readers knew that it was opinion/conclusion, not reporting. Today it's hard to combine info safely, accelerating drift in an already post-truth world.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"Jared Kushner has billions in foreign investments, while serving as a Trump admin negotiator with foreign countries, but is subject to *no* ethics rules or oversight." I bet WSJ didn't say "no ethics rules or oversight". It seems a strong & proper analysis by you. But I like to know who said what.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Nice to cite source, but many of us see only a few lines of article, then a paywall, rendering you salesfolk for WSJ. Their copyright is on text, not facts, so ask your lawyers, but I think a brief summary of WSJ report before your analysis should be routine, helping us sort their claims from yours.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Global society reveres wheeler-dealerism, mesmerized by spectacles of cash, gambling and cat videos. All as we offer less money and attention to teachers, artists, and caretakers of sick friends & relatives. Money is a distributed way to manage society's priorities. Is it working? Are these ours?

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Maybe, but feels off topic / ad hominem even so. His quote is weak, biased, unsupported and badly made. Ocham's & Hanlon's razors align to say Big Biz backed Trump expecting a short-term "sugar high" of deregulation was path to easy profit. Cognitive dissonance quelled fears he'd shred Constitution.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

A way to remind us they have NO post-birth commitment to ANYONE. "Get 'em born, then whine about 'em" would be an apt motto. The arrests are performative. The horror is clearly the point. Anyone not terrified by it is intended to at least be exhausted. Just summarizing what I'm sure we all know.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

In my fifty years in politics, I don’t think I’ve seen anything like this before. I haven't always agreed with Jerome Powell, but what Donald Trump is doing is out of the dictator’s playbook. Kudos to Powell for speaking out.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Sad & weird how bad #NH has done. Sure, some call it a red state, but those Democrats did not get elected on a platform of appeasement.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

Opinion | America Mourns Charlie Kirk

by the NY Times Editorial Board

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

For sure, but also it's hard for government to regulate all the necessary details. Taxation sort of compensates for that difficulty. If you tax companies that are making a profit when employees are ill-paid, you can have money for social programs that restore balance. Simpler administratively.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The problem isn't that the middle class or poor collectively work too little, it's all the subtle ways the rich set policy for all without always rewarding them for unitemized-yet-real&good deeds done. Taxes don't pilfer from the rich but restore balance from them intentionally squeezing the poor.

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Kent Pitman @kentpitman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Instead of saying the rich "dodges taxes", can we just say the mega-rich donor class dodges blame? Taxes sounds too detached. It fits their narrative that we are going after them because we have nowhere else to go, rather than because they are setting adverse policy and pinching employee paychecks.

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