Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 1hThere’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 010
Reposted by Michael HoneyPhilip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The 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.auIs 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. 22612
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This 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. 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Seems to me you have a sonic vandal in your neighbourhood and some community-minded speaker sabotage is in order 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I bought some of that cutlery. It looks cool but it is not great for earthly food 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Torres del Paine in Patagonia. The mountains are steeper than you thought possible 050
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Concept: 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 141
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The 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 040
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026when 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 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026House prices going down are a good thing, you muppets 050
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In Australia we have snow gums aka Eucalyptus pauciflora, a lovely tree with abundant flowers 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Eyeglasses 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) 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“do a breakthrough” works on yourself too if you believe it 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Now imagining Claude growing like sourdough Also you are right about Opus 5.5 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Philosophy postgrad, it has served me well, in life if not in career earnings 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I did this a few weeks back, so good! Could be sketchy in bad weather but on a great day like that it’s brilliant 120
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I 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 001
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here’s the link: www.dea.org.au/open_letter_...dea.org.auOpen letter: Fossil gas is a public health issue and Australia must actHealthy Planet, Healthy People 020
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Earth’s core is hot because it’s a 2500km sphere of pure compute radiating heat into the mantle 210
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026you should be safe as long as you are not a buffalo buffalo 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026this hack has been peddling bullshit for decades in the conservative press; why would anyone put him on TV as well? 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026who likes charts? me walls.michaelhoney.com/dataviz-scra...walls.michaelhoney.comImage Wall 100
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026yeah, they were a slog. In retrospect they seem like misery masquerading as profundity 150
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yeah, 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 180
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026meanwhile their own panda population becomes inexorably hornier 011
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s critical that we be allowed to get pissed and vicariously live out our teenage dreams 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“the body can do so much more than the factory settings” is excellent 030
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The current government could bring it back tomorrow, if they actually wanted to do something about emissions 041
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Agree, that was the time I stopped coding directly. Claude, take the wheel 030
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I 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 100
Reposted by Michael HoneyProse and Khans @temujin9.t9productions.com · 16/09/2026i have lots of sympathy for llms because i too am reassembling a professional persona from old notes every time i wake up 0706
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026my 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 000
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I first read this as “scarcity of posts” and thought yes, that would indeed suck, if people were not posting 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Agree 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 010
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The past is still here — it's just not very evenly distributed 020
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m keen for the Very North Atlantic fast train 001
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026He’s also aggressively human-centric (dominion over AI) in a way which seems out of proportion 030
Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026especially since as I recall they think using the R word is free speech 020