malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 3hsoon the pope will be putting out a statement about how AI cannot contain the human spark of *real* sycophants and yes-men 000
Reposted by malatestingThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 11hI don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something. 152666534
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026me sowing: haha fuck yes! im king of the world!! me reaping: {shivering as i face my inevitable fate of sinking into the abyssal depths} 010
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this just opens up the hard currency problem of consciousness 110
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026a) are they trying to claim that only conscious things have moral standing? seems wildly implausible. b) i'm not sure granting AIs personhood is compatible with AI companies existing. "hello, yes, our business model is owning infinite slaves and renting them out." 000
Reposted by malatestingSimkaye 🌈 @simkaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2026anyone else feel like this 5463461937
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026hero. tell everybody you know: you have a duty to get onto juries and a duty to find any such people not guilty 041
Reposted by malatestingJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026USFS has announced a forest closure in southern Arizona in what is clearly a direct response to people attempting to protest the destruction of that forest land for the border wall. www.fs.usda.gov/r03/coronado...fs.usda.govCoronado National Forest : Alert - Border Barrier Construction ClosureGoing into or being upon the Described Area. 07623
Reposted by malatestingDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story. 210749
Reposted by malatestingSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 392474545
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026just saw a 2016 revivalist trying to cancel the song jingle bells because they believe it is secretly about catching escaped slaves 000
Reposted by malatestingc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847531597
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026as much as i think philosophy is valuable, people gotta remember that both peter thiel and matt yglesias studied philosophy at top tier schools 000
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it will always remain bonkers that it took the pandemic stimulus and biden boom to finally get back on trend 120
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026think they’ll try the elon method and make this thing start calling itself mecha-hitler to get around this? 000
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(also, nobody mentions this but looking at paleoclimate data, the last time we had CO2 levels where they are today, the sea levels got about 15 meters higher than today's. so the people of 500 years from now have that to look forward to already, under the optimistic scenario.) 110
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026yeah, but those aren't stabilization numbers. they're just what has a 50% chance of hitting around 2100. all scenarios other than the 'optimistic' one don't level off at all until future people adopt zero emission policies. 220
Reposted by malatestingJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL 732612635
Reposted by malatestingMatt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...mattweiner.net 27123
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i mean, i had claude miscount the number of i's in 'indivisibility' like two weeks ago and that same day chatgpt drew me a food web where the grass eats the rabbits. turns out that being able to solve weird math problems is somehow distinct from the much more 'basic' skills it routinely still fails 000
Reposted by malatestingQueer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The only one arrested is the one attacked with a Karambit by Nazis. The Nazis got a free pass from the cops - because the police aren't here to do good and they aren't going to protect you when the nightmares start. They are not on your side and they are not your allies. 06319
Reposted by malatestingDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire. 7401174
Reposted by malatestingDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When it comes to climate change, the amount of money going to effective solutions matters. After all, we are talking about rebuilding the world. Sadly, money going into climate is way down from a few years ago. In government funding, investing, corporate spending, etc. We need to turn that around. 210525
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026me [looking at Muenchhusia moscheutos]: "hmm, looks like some sort of an aster" 110
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026perhaps our street signs explaining the rules could be twice as detailed? 040
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026mini-van, you have to stop. your ride too comfortable. your cargo capacity too generous. your rear seating too accessible. they’ll kill you 000
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026except in very specific and rare circumstances, if you need a vehicle to haul either people or stuff (beyond what a station wagon can provide), what you need is a van. americans are just too pathetically conformist & insecure to admit it to themselves 100
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 27/09/2026you found out about ‘choosin texas’ because some website claimed it was popular. i found out about ‘choosin texas’ because some illiterate zoomer was trying to analyze the lyrics and couldn’t understand the use of “by the way” in a manner other than a sentence-ending “btw”. we are not the same. 000
Reposted by malatestingJW 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... 3234021268
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026stop adding "make no mistwinks" at the end of your prompts 050
Reposted by malatestingben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026remember its an open secret that conservatives condone rape as a disciplinary mechanism to punish recalcitrant, promiscuous, or gender nonconforming women, and endorse rape as a male proving ground or coming-of-age ritual for conservatives every rape reinscribes patriarchy and suppresses feminism 23513
Reposted by malatestinglastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The old line that analytic philosophy is answering questions that come naturally to toddlers via methods that come naturally to lawyers remains undefeated. 7557104
Reposted by malatestingnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026[telling people what I work on] Wow that’s so interesting Not if I keep talking about it it’s not 823621
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026maybe you can't. but i'm built different. better. maybe even better than AI god. 010
Reposted by malatestingAlex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Office of Remigration” and “Office of Ethnic Cleansing” are synonyms. That’s not a rhetorical point, it’s a fact that everyone who used that word before this year would agree with. 426289
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026eh, its the very young and the very old that are most likely to crash. the young because they are young, dumb, and just learning to drive. the old because they have less awareness and slower reactions. 010
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the ones who walk away from omelettes; send skeet 010
malatesting @malatesting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026*our* important-but-concerning (please give us more money) ‘cyber incident’ vs *your* felony violation of the 1986 computer fraud and abuse act punishable by 20 years in prison 000
Reposted by malatestingKavita @brittexkavi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When I 1st read of plans for an Office of “Remigration” I thought about how most people I know would viscerally react to an Office of “Ethnic Cleansing.” Remigration was a rebranding by the EU Far Right who knew a platform of pro-ethnic cleansing would too clearly identify them as the villains. 17227
