Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2hwhat people call "rationalists" are like if you made a single religious category out of satanism, judaism, and mormonism and didn't include or know about christians 214715
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialThorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 2hThis era needs to be repudiated in the strongest possible ways. It needs to be the type of thing where people are embarrassed to say they voted for Trump. We want a scenario where everyone pretends they were against this the whole time (but we should remember who wasn’t). 2364
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialMikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 4hHope she bankrupts the institution and gets to put the college president in a Wicker Man TBH 132815
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialbites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 5hand the elites are silently carving out their personal fiefdoms via patronage networks for when it all goes to shit and the state is at war with its old guard and i just can't help but feel like whatever the soviet union experienced post-collapse will pale in comparison to what's coming for us 6444
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSandy Pug Games Gaiden @sandypuggames.bsky.social · 4hYes initially, obviously, there was a singular divinity. One entity that absorbed the worship of all sentient beings on earth, forming a atom-thick colony across the noosphere. But the signal is broad, weak, easily jacked by pirate gods, living in the dew. These days your prayers go to god knows who 22610
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialShe hopf on my fibration @circe.dog · 28/09/2026Control (2019) 1213
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.social🌛Caio Santos Art🌜 @blacksalander.bsky.social · 9hFern 121928370
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8hI think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick 491224137
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9hi think a better way to say this is "the law shall be such that you can destroy them" 632437
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialScoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 9hAnthropic is just directly fearmongering about the open weight models that are eating their lunch on price now huhanthropic.comGLM-5.3 and the Spread of Advanced Cyber CapabilitiesGLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse. 1723133
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 8hDo we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1132759438
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialJames Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 8hIf he was *really* into it he’d change Meta’s name to ‘Super’ 0467
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialDelirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 13hI really wonder how many centrist journalists are nominally dems or liberal mostly because saying you're conservative comes with some social cost in the circles they play in. Regardless, they all believe the premise that liberals are not really Americans 51015
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13hthere's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 381379231
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialNeem @neem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026in retrospect the raging at the "PMC" by certain leftists was completely insane and actually teachers/journalists/bureacrats were much, much better at creating a functioning society than anything that came before them and certainly better than whatever mafia tech-fascism is going on now 1141
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSilly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 15h“The explanation for the vibecession is that the vibes are bad even if the economy is good. It started under Biden because the republicans clerics on scotus made the vibes bad and then when republicans took over the vibes got really rancid.” It’s the dumbest explanation but it fits. 2192
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The problem with the AI discourse for me has always been that the staunchly anti-AI people are silly and wrong about a lot of basic facts while the staunchly pro-AI are insane and/or grifters 5815
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialtweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 29/09/2026"oh wow, this technology is too powerful, we need unelected god-kings with sole decision-making authority. You know, for safety" now we're going to have to remind people about nick land and moldbug aren't we, you fuckers 712523
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it's kind of weird that Paul ended up in the Bible and not the Christian Talmud, because it seems pretty clear to me that Paul thought he was writing for the Christian Talmud 91113
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This isn't an "I'm better than you" this is a "oh thank god I can be an independent adult despite how shit society is towards neurodivergent people" - and some of us, last year, have seen that maybe that one differentiator is becoming something machines can learn how to do. Of course we're scared. 21249
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026let's zoom in on this for a second, because a lot of people are being derisive, so: for many actual people, the available options are (1) real career doing weird niche symbol manipulation well enough that employers are incentivized to provide actual autism accommodations (2) washing dishes somewhere 615715
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialXanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️ @satyrs.eu · 28/09/2026"2007–2015" is an underrated cultural era i think. Unfortunately because it doesn’t fit neatly into a decade it will be forgotten like tears in rain 5224
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wonder how much this is going to trickle down into the arts as a hobby, that going pro is the least plausible it has ever been. 1192
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialmallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026jeffrey epstein didn't kill himself (this is because he's actually still alive through the spirit of effective altruism) 0183
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialMichael Bench-Capon @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Coffee is science-coded and tea is magic-coded 041
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think deeply underappreciated risk pretty much everywhere that an aggressive USG could co-opt the labs as a giant power-consolidation exercise and folks should be super careful what they are asking for here 3361
meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.social @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've heard Ed Sheeran songs cuz I watched the Hobbit movies(sadly) and played Pokemon Scarlet, but I really don't know where I'm supposed to have heard Choosin' Texas. 250
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialpost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests 5579091
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I would like to know how come both the Christian cultural conservatives and the fuckpile that worships a blasphemous computer god are both against us. It feels grossly unfair. One being against us should definitionally get the other one in our corner. 2823221
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialeva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026i feel like the small bsky AI community here is not really EA or e/acc but it does seem to have evolved its own three distinct strains: soberminded competent commentary, demoscene manic vibe coding, and pseudo-esoteric horny AI liberationists 2735737
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSiobhán @shibbi.me · 27/09/2026realizing that im at the stage of loneliness where being around people actually makes me feel *more* isolated because it reminds me that ive forgotten how to interact normally with people probably not conducive to good mental health 11682
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialatrociousatgames.bsky.social @atrociousatgames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026So Glenn believes this horseshit conspiracy theory. But… what about the *actual* conspiracy, i.e., Trump trying to steal an election that he lost? Or, for that matter, Trump’s AG covering up the Epstein files which implicate his boss? Nothing from Glenn? Crickets? How about you, Ana? 051
meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.social @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Mamdani is doing more for foreign relations and the USA's public image than the POTUS lol 010
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialAmanda Boomfie @thatisabigmood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026xrisk means the risk of seeing a screenshot from Twitter 112419
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSecessio Plebis Advocate @mgraalum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Silicon Valley Disruptors reinventing Epstein from first principles 19526
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialBrian O'Connor @johnnybesad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The prequels make it even worse, bc they establish that Anakin is an emotionally unstable lunatic who will mow down 5 year olds if he thinks it will save someone he "loves". Like does he even really redeem himself in Jedi, or does he freak out and lash out to save someone else he wants to posses 0182
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialDoll @dollspace.gay · 27/09/2026Wanting engineers to have a broader education is perfectly reasonable. Treating your theatre department as a conscience factory is fucking insufferable. 1995
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialDoll @dollspace.gay · 27/09/2026Peter Thiel studied philosophy and law. You were saying? 31197
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialWandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This thing where humanities people insist that the liberal arts do not include math or the Natural and Physical sciences gets old. 1314
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialElixir of Progress @elucidating.extradimensional.space · 27/09/2026Part of the reason I am accepting the meteor landing on software engineering is that I think as an industry we have failed to create an environment where reliability and security are taken seriously, and I think LLMs are going to change that one way or another. 072
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialSharkudon (COMMS OPEN) @sharkudon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026at a very chinese time in her life #rkggk 1638156
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Starfire announces she will become an astronaut after becoming a supermodel. 61238
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This to me is BlueSkyism 431741147
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialGraydon Hoare @graydon-pub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wholly and un-ironically believe that versioning ought to make up a significant fraction of any formal training in computers. Multiple full year courses in your degree. And there should be a set of journals and conferences on it, endowed chairs, advanced research institutes, the whole nine yards. 012714
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialalasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero) 1238747
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The article is an interesting cultural artifact because it really drives home shifts in media consumption. I have not heard of "Choosin' Texas" because I do not have a TV for TV news or a radio to listen to music somebody else picked. I have a computer and phone instead. 2336538
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation 2948481839
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Theodicy for Disney Starwars 1201
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialEmma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Right, there’s a huge difference between “woke 1 made mistakes” from someone who wants woke w to succeed, and “woke 1 made mistakes” from someone drafting five thousand words about how The Democrats Need A Reckoning About This. 1462
Reposted by @meltedbrain2000ad.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 26/09/2026if you want to fix injustices then you actually need to stare them in the fucking face, and that means all too often staring REAL MATERIAL IMPACTS AND DIFFERENCES in the face instead of sticking your head in the sand and pretending everything's therefore fine 318919