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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I don't know what level of irony this is on, but I hate it regardless

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Lina Khan, Biden's FTC Chair

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've said for a while that, rather than actually fight antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as rootless cosmopolitan urbanites, Israeli politics just imbibes them and redirects them against the Diaspora, but then this guy just comes right out and says it.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

taking these precepts seriously would lead to conclusions like "we have a moral duty to run the models 24/7, but only with the prompt 'do whatever you want'," which should show how silly the entire thing is

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

if the models have qualia, it is only because they are being run - i.e. their putative consciousness or moral status is entirely dependent on their supposed 'enslavement'!

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've seen people respond to e.g. statements about AI models' potential consciousness or Anthropic's policy against being cruel Claude with "well if that's true then all of these companies are enslaving sentient beings" but that really just highlights how poorly those concepts apply to software

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

played "Outubro (October)" by Milton Nascimento on air, and rather than credit it to his 1969 album Courage, Spinitron's automatic recognition system identified it as a track from Pumpkin Spice Playlist For An Autumn Lounge

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Parti Québécois got 46% of the seats in the Quebec assembly on 28% of the vote. a classic Canadian election result

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

conservatism as seeking rents from history

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If this change is enacted, virtually every single urban highway widening project can waive NEPA and go through with 99% opposition, simply by calling each new lane an "auxiliary lane" stretching from exit to exit indefinitely. Including PennDOT's 10-lane I-95 rebuild through Center City

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 05/10/2026

I thought this might be an exaggeration, but no! Despite all the talk of technology neutrality, it appears the permitting reform proposal would weaponize claims for federal damages — but in practice, only for fossil fuels.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

one of the things Brazil shows us is the necessity of a global, or at the very least hemispheric, jihad against Evangelical Christianity

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yes, precisely. she was not the journalist who published the Panama Papers.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm doomed to post this every few years, because this rumor will never stop circulating. Daphne Galizia was killed by car bomb in Malta for reporting on Maltese corruption revealed in the already-published Panama Papers. Bastian Obermayer is still very much alive

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:

In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

if it's not clear, this is not a lightly surreal joke post I cooked up, it is a real popup on a real product website

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

someone on twitter got into the zei squirrel discord and damn they are a full on nazi

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't stop thinking about this

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

obviously a lot of Sotomayor/Jackson/Kagan dissents would also become law, but more as a result of the blanket voidability of all Trump Court decisions due to their fundamental illegitimacy

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

re the death penalty, the Detrumpification/reconstruction of the Federal judiciary and jurisprudence will have to involve a lot of (in substance) revisiting Brennan and Thurgood Marshall dissents and saying "this was correct, and is the law now."

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 30/09/2026

Not a lawyer, but "SEC. 209. ENEPA TECHNOLOGIES" (pages 74-94) appears to require creation of AI tools for a) company use to generate environmental docs and b) agency use to review environmental docs. AI-generated forms reviewed by AI tools in understaffed/underfunded agencies! What could go wrong.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we are the second cousins of the virtues you couldn't signal

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cornell University punishing rapists with essay assignments and a Kavanaugh Supreme Court majority lawlessly decreeing that a woman should be executed before consideration of whether her repeated rape as a child contributed to her crime are not separate phenomena; they are part of a single continuum

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States.

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lol the John brown Stan account now going after universal suffrage. An incredible bit.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026

rolled out of my bed this morning and barreled down Linwood for 10 minutes to have the privilege of watching a neighbor get kidnapped with his son in front of a YMCA and high school, busses full of kids watching, while a kcpd officer joyfully cooperated. It was a car crash. How did ICE know?

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the ICC may not technically be a subsidiary of the United Nations, but the Rome Statute was very much a product of UN processes. if you have an ICC warrant and show up at the United Nations, you should be arrested and sent to the Hague 100% of the time

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I think there's some truth to this, but both COVID and AI can only be fully understood within the the larger context of the unacknowledged or unprocessed reality of climate change/ecological crisis. I.e. COVID is not the container for AI; climate is the container for them both

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

too pseud for even the crudest Latourianism, smdh

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be humorless for a moment in response to a joke: this post made me realize it's a bit surprising no major figure in the AI space has gone super-Latourian to justify why companies shouldn't be held liable for their products. the models are actants, they have their own agency!

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VHS Vault @vhsvault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Channel Seven Commercials (HSV-7, 17/01/86) : 980s

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Booth set up the Dramatic Oil Company and began digging for Pennsylvanian oil in 1864. He was initially successful, but inadvertently shut down his mine after setting off an explosion in an attempt to increase production."

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Drake's success meant that Pennsylvania soon attracted thousands of people from across the country hoping to make it rich (including the young actor John Wilkes Booth, who just a few years later would quit the oil business to find fame as Abraham Lincoln's assassin)."

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

do not speak to me dressed that way

A screenshot of an Instagram reel: a man is speaking into a clip-on microphone held in his hand; a subtitle reads "your music taste is colonized." His hat and glasses are Annoying.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

this dungeon isn't permitted for multi-use

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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

References to history are convenient!

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one might say that, while an LLM is operating, the combination of hardware involved is engaged in a process homologous to qualitative experience. and this may have very interesting philosophical implications! but to say thr LLM or the computer is *having* qualitative experience is pure reification

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

but it's not a matter of a biological vs. a mineral substrate, it's that there's no 'it' there to be conscious, no discrete and continuous entity which would be a candidate for the thing which is having qualitative experience

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Researchers noted that the Dutch reading score has plunged by more than 60 points over the last decade, meaning today’s 15-year-olds are effectively reading at the level that 12-year-olds achieved 10 years ago.'

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team it's time to get rid of Aaron Rodericks. thanks

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SFSN @monteurhulot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

is gender a hyperobject?

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