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Michael Honey

@michaelhoney.bsky.social
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Thinking about ecosystems, natural and cultural; scheming for a bright future. Lutruwita/Tasmania.

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 1h
There’s a parallel problem with governments only ever planning for endless growth, on the assumption there will always be more people to keep the wheels spinning
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The big questions about Super’n in Australia - so rarely asked - are its lack of any social purpose. Imagine if a % had to be invested in genuine public /affordable housing, rather than speculative office buildings, shopping malls, mining, roads. Imagine the benefits www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Is Australia saving too much for retirement?
With contributions set at 12 per cent, people will, on average, have more cash income per year in their retirement than they did during their working life.
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oort swarm strategy in shambles
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This doesn’t follow. Whether humans made it (or, perhaps more evocatively, planned then grew it) has nothing to do with whether it can feel pain.
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seems to me you have a sonic vandal in your neighbourhood and some community-minded speaker sabotage is in order
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I bought some of that cutlery. It looks cool but it is not great for earthly food
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Torres del Paine in Patagonia. The mountains are steeper than you thought possible
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think the sad truth is that the media environment is shrunken, depleted. This kind of reporting takes time and dedication, and it needs a readership who cares: far easier to report on gossip
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Concept: ablate that part of your memory so that you really _can_ experience it as if for the first time Then discover that it was a key node in your conceptual network, and the second-seen version maps differently, and you have subtly altered your mind in ways you can’t remember
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The current pope seems like a good guy but I would be hesitant to take advice about what’s real and what’s not from an organisation that believes in transubstantiation
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
when the AIs are performing all economic activity and we are given modest UBIs on which to live, a million Joe Mackens will be free to pursue their dreams
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is exactly the right kind of insanity
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
House prices going down are a good thing, you muppets
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Australia we have snow gums aka Eucalyptus pauciflora, a lovely tree with abundant flowers
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eyeglasses are actually a good example of the gap between the tech itself (incredibly useful, transformative) and the contemporary reality of extractive cartel behaviour (fuck you, optometrist-Luxottica complex)
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“do a breakthrough” works on yourself too if you believe it
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Now imagining Claude growing like sourdough Also you are right about Opus 5.5
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Philosophy postgrad, it has served me well, in life if not in career earnings
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I did this a few weeks back, so good! Could be sketchy in bad weather but on a great day like that it’s brilliant
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it’s because solving capitalism is genuinely hard, so it does feel more short-term effective to play whack-a-mole with its manifestations
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s the link: www.dea.org.au/open_letter_...
dea.org.au
Open letter: Fossil gas is a public health issue and Australia must act
Healthy Planet, Healthy People
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
^ @brennan.computer
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Earth’s core is hot because it’s a 2500km sphere of pure compute radiating heat into the mantle
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
being a big idiot is kinda relatable
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
you should be safe as long as you are not a buffalo buffalo
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this hack has been peddling bullshit for decades in the conservative press; why would anyone put him on TV as well?
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
who likes charts? me walls.michaelhoney.com/dataviz-scra...
walls.michaelhoney.com
Image Wall
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
prime numbers of things cannot all be true
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
yeah, they were a slog. In retrospect they seem like misery masquerading as profundity
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, I was thinking of someone like Stephen Donaldson, those chunky Thomas Covenant novels were everywhere for a while. I think to make a lot of money you need to break genre containment and get normies buying
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
meanwhile their own panda population becomes inexorably hornier
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s critical that we be allowed to get pissed and vicariously live out our teenage dreams
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hot damn that is a good looking bike
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“the body can do so much more than the factory settings” is excellent
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The current government could bring it back tomorrow, if they actually wanted to do something about emissions
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
men of culture
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Agree, that was the time I stopped coding directly. Claude, take the wheel
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it kind of is
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this is a lovely post
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I agree with you on all counts, but I’m not sure shrimp need AI to help with masturbation, they have so many little legs I reckon they’ve already got it covered
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Prose and Khans @temujin9.t9productions.com · 16/09/2026
i have lots of sympathy for llms because i too am reassembling a professional persona from old notes every time i wake up
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
love this series
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my p(doom) from misaligned ASI is pretty low much lower than my my p(fucked) from misaligned humans bad actors are the problem. they always have been
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I first read this as “scarcity of posts” and thought yes, that would indeed suck, if people were not posting
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Agree that free food makes a huge difference to household finances. The poorest I ever was I was working ~4 shifts a week at a vegetarian restaurant, I had no money for rent but I ate just fine on leftovers
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kinda added to the conspiracy theory angle
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The past is still here — it's just not very evenly distributed
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m keen for the Very North Atlantic fast train
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He’s also aggressively human-centric (dominion over AI) in a way which seems out of proportion
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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
especially since as I recall they think using the R word is free speech
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