Liam @liamegan.com · 27/09/2026Everyone needs to Read More Literary Theory because there are two directions you can go from this — either you end up at Katherine Hayles, and computers are thinking beings (bad), or you go back to Derrida & Heidegger and you recognize that our condition is a unique one of responsibility 010
Reposted by Liamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 641105971962
Liam @liamegan.com · 26/09/2026This guy’s in the replies talking about coalitions. It’s *your fault* when you fuck up the coalition by doing something bad. You do not get to drag the coalition into something entirely avoidable and then demand they follow your moronic (and murderous) lead 0173
Reposted by LiamNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's worth saying that the actual definition of women being insisted upon by these people in relation to, for example, Caster Semenya or Imane Khelif is one that would have been completely unintelligible to the vast majority of people throughout history. 341501182
Reposted by LiamJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3233601239
Reposted by Liam"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans. 451425231
Reposted by LiamPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026all these people sound like this: 62261531
Reposted by LiamMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future. 179126762224
Reposted by LiamWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI geniunely democratizes the creation of art. This is mostly bad, because the average person has terrible taste. 3358864
Reposted by LiamWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103084362
Reposted by LiamDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460481059
Reposted by LiamBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it! 2788126990
Reposted by Liame.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026I am so excited for this movie I almost can't breathe youtu.be/HvW_N5p1q44youtu.beYou Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24YouTube video by A24 3687
Reposted by LiamEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026By the way, bad software engineering does regularly kill people, just not in an easily traceable way. 512215
Reposted by LiamFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026You know what, I’m getting the sense the US AI industry really shouldn’t be trusted. 317234
Reposted by Liame.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026the question "can computers drive?" is vastly superior to "can computers think?" because it disarms all the dorm room bullshit and reduces the question to its pragmatic implications, while also revealing that the underlying problem is one of vocabulary rather than anything metaphysical 1772685
Reposted by Liamg0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone 138149293427
Liam @liamegan.com · 18/09/2026And as we have proven many times over, humanities people are correct 020
Reposted by LiamColin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026LLMs won’t wipe out humanity because they just don’t have that dog in them. 825027
Reposted by LiamFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: 28860741588
Reposted by Liammerritt @merrittk.com · 15/09/2026people are still going to be complaining about Bernie Bros while being chased through the bombed-out streets of New York by Anthropic hunter-killer drones 10100277
Reposted by Liamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election 20278341894
Reposted by LiamJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 561998985
Liam @liamegan.com · 14/09/2026This is the community that Elon has cultivated on X the Sexual Harassment App 000
Reposted by LiamEj Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...wired.comA College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to WorkMaddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back. 7923261009
Reposted by Liammike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are 3438081138
Reposted by LiamGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom. 2546812219
Liam @liamegan.com · 14/09/2026This thread is full of people going “why would you use Dropbox when you can set up an FTP server.” The point is that marketing, just like it works for fascism, works for software! 010
Reposted by Liamthe abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/09/2026there's a lot of pain coming but if we can rent a handful of senate seats long enough to do reconstuction 2 it's going to be worth it 918619
Reposted by LiamJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. It can only good happen. othermeans.substack.com/p/the-wheels...othermeans.substack.comThe Wheels Are Coming OffIt Can Only Good Happen 41803149
Reposted by LiamSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13/09/2026it's a cold day in hell, i agree with David Sacks 1846253
Reposted by LiamSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026i don't doubt the sincerity of ai risk/safety people, i just think they're wrong, and also that they -- as a group -- tend to slide off of any remedy to the problem that doesn't also entrench incumbents as profitable monopolies or near-monopolies 3068161
Reposted by LiamBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It might seem that the existence of a Fetterman is an indictment of the senatorial system’s design but in fairness the Founders would have expected somebody who behaved like this to get killed in a duel by an irate constituent. 231356172
Reposted by LiamBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers 852435395
Reposted by Liamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions 1255077888
Reposted by LiamJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The leader’s favored concubine has taken the reins of the national security apparatus 361954280
Reposted by Liammolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026it was a generational fumble for the dems to pull back on letting coach tim, our gentle midwestern uncle, stand in front of a mic and express disgust and bewilderment at what an absolute grab bag of misfit freaks this admin is. this is weird! these people are fucking weirdos!!! it’s yucky! 15169961230
Reposted by LiamOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026as a political philosopher I find this interesting: Sagal's frame "but it appears to be true" gives the impression that truth is the focal issues here. but maybe not! my very first publication as a baby philosopher was on "Trojan horse propaganda": true statements that function as propaganda 40808126
Reposted by Liamryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/08/2026"Tesla, in a sense, has proven itself not just stronger than the union, and not just stronger than the Swedish labor movement, but stronger than the nation of Sweden itself." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-...hamiltonnolan.comCorporate Power Approaches Escape VelocityA failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light. 15281108
Reposted by Liampublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption 245109984414
Reposted by Liamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2026and also, isn't white supremacy such a profound intellectual error that you should immediately question the basic capacities of anyone who indulges it? 513345265
