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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A single adult in Calif. must earn $126,797/year to cover basic expenses, discretionary spending, and retirement savings, according to smartasset.com/data-studies.... As someone who has lived plenty comfortably in an expensive California town for years on about ⅓ of that, I say BULLSHIT.
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How much do you need to ‘live comfortably’ in California? See 2026 income range
Housing, groceries and transportation costs are rising across the Golden State.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Best horror film of the year so far: OpenAI's Black Hat USA presentation on the HuggingFace Incident. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Dy...
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Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident
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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just in case anyone who follows me hasn't heard of Bobby Fingers, here's his latest masterpiece www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...
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Johnny Depp's Bed
YouTube video by Bobby Fingers
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Watching the Internet starting in the 90s has been like a multigenerational, 100 trillion dollar, galaxy-sized "this is why we can't have nice things."
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When big granters fund and professionalize local volunteer organizations, hoping to embiggen their good work, those organizations may find that their capabilities ironically hollow out, making them less effective, and leaving a vacuum that is hard to fill. www.astralcodexten.com/p/breakdown-...
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Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan
Finalist #3 in the Book Review Contest
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very interesting examples of LLMs engaging in (admit it, human-like) biased, motivated reasoning, subconsciously or at least outside of the usual CoT: www.reddit.com/r/AIDangers/...
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From the AIDangers community on Reddit: LLMs show hidden bias in favor of their creators (e.g. Claude favors Anthropic)
Explore this post and more from the AIDangers community
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#Google AI employee tries to convince execs to not be evil, fails, quits, tells his story. www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2Fh... #DeepMind
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Why I Left Google DeepMind — LessWrong
I fought against Google's Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I cannot get enough of Haley Heynderickx's "Drinking Song". www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsUW...
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Drinking Song ::: Haley Heynderickx
YouTube video by Lars Flottorp Ness
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Thoreau’'s “Civil Disobedience” as if it were a Bluesky thread: davgross.github.io/civil-disobe... #thoreau #CivilDisobedience
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Civil Disobedience · @hdthoreau
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird.
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I read a guy saying all cognitive tasks will be automated, so it's important to stay flexible, and all I can figure is he was imagining humans would make a good building material. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man is on the street wearing a sandwich sign that reads "AGI is HERE!" He is yelling, arms in the air, saying "the end is nigh! The end is nigh! Make sure to diversify your portfolio and be prepared to re-skill!" The caption reads "The Singularity is the most American of all apocalypses."
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tired of seeing over 1/2 of your income taxes going to war? Find out how to resist www.nwtrcc.org
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So exciting to get to play “epoch-defining atrocity or TACO Tuesday” with you all today.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A fresh look at the data shows that “obedient” subjects in The Milgram Experiment did *not* obey instructions—except the part that allowed them to give painful shocks. They weren’t meek people overwhelmed by authority, but cowardly sadists exploiting opportunity. www.lesswrong.com/posts/ogapPT...
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Anthropic's new "soul document" (what they're now calling a "constitution") that instructs Claude how to behave is "a virtue ethics manifesto that is Aristotelian to its core," says @alanrozenshtein.com at Lawfare www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... #VirtueEthics
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The Moral Education of an Alien Mind
What Claude's "Constitution" really is.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Thanks to @joanlynch.bsky.social of the SLO Tribune for helping get the word out in our community about the new VivaSLO app (vivaslo.org) that connects people experiencing homelessness or threatened with homelessness to the resources that can help them. www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
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New AI-powered guide links SLO County homeless residents to resources
The VivaSLO website was developed by Shower the People.
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
For anyone that needs to hear this. #demodex
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Eichmann in Jerusalem, explaining a prosecutor's exhibit of a photograph of smoke pouring from crematoria: "This is called the fog of war."
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Nicely produced commentary from @leejamiller.bsky.social on the relevance of tax resistance to the current American situation. youtu.be/5JA7PH_eUts?... #TaxStrike #TaxResistance
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Is It Time To Stop Paying Taxes?
YouTube video by Leeja Miller
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
NWTRCC was founded in 1982 to support and educate around war tax resistance. Learn more ow.ly/1Rtg30rUGre
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
You'll save yourself a lot of grief later if you just accept that eventually congressional Democrats will dissolve their kayfabe spines to betray you and everything good.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Rick Davies, R.I.P. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TOU...
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Supertramp - Another Man's Woman - Live on "BBC Sight & Sound In Concert" - 1977 (Remastered) HD
YouTube video by BrunoSamppa
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𝔅𝔲𝔱𝔱𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔒'𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔥𝔞𝔫 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
33 pages into @irismurdoch.bsky.social's "An Accidental Man" and she already wants me to keep track of Gracie, Clara, George, Patrick, Hester, Sebastian, Ralph, Ludwig, Geoffrey, Karen, Charlotte, Alison, Austin, Garth, Dorina, Mitzi, Mavis, Matthew, Penny, Charles, and Mollie. I need a map.
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abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I forget who - I think a libertarian - tweeted once "my most right wing take is we should have open borders to triple global GDP. my most left wing take is we should have open borders because the status quo is a massive human rights violation"
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I finally got around to trying an AI coding assistant, in this case Claude Code at the command-line. I'm stunned. My jaw wouldn't have dropped so far if you picked me up in a flying car and had dinner and drinks beamed in from the restaurant of my choice. I love love love it.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Philosophers wrestling with evil, as a social media feed www.lesswrong.com/posts/abKBpp...
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Philosophers wrestling with evil, as a social media feed — LessWrong
Susan Nieman’s Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2015), visualized as a social media feed: • Alfonso Ⅹ …
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Choose Democracy has launched a Tax Strike as a tactic to resist US authoritarianism. taxstrike.info
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Home - National Tax Strike
We’re fighting this constitutional crisis. Say NO to unchecked powers, NO to corrupt leadership, and NO to dismantling the federal government! What is the National Tax Strike? A movement to STOP payin...
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
#TaxStrike Tactics is a free book that demonstrates how tax strikes succeed. Learn how to support strikers, increase participation, frustrate government countermeasures, expand your arsenal of tactics, master education and public relations, and prepare for victory. sniggle.net/TPL/TaxStrik...
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Tax Strike Tactics
Learn how tax resistance campaigns (and tax resisters) succeed.
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hannah Arendt assesses how Hitler's "charisma" operated: sniggle.net/TPL/index5.p...
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Hannah Arendt Dissects the “Charisma” of Hitler • TPL
“Hitler’s real superiority consisted in the fact that under any and all circumstances he had an opinion and that his opinion always fit perfectly into his over-all ‘philosophy’.” Remind you of anyone?
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wartaxresister.bsky.social @wartaxresister.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Join us online today- March 27 at 7p Eastern for an introduction to war tax resistance (WTR 101) You can register here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Today it is 22 years since I stopped paying federal taxes. My decision to stop financially supporting the U.S. government has never seemed better than it does today. sniggle.net/TPL/index5.p... #TaxStrike #TaxResistance
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2025 Annual Report on My Tax Resistance • TPL
In my annual report I summarize my twenty-second year of tax resistance, flee Athens like Aristotle, and imagine the year ahead.
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 18/03/2025
WATCH: Cars set on fire at Tesla in Las Vegas, "resist" painted on the building. FBI investigating
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“How does it be­come a man to be­have to­ward this Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment to-day? I an­swer that he can­not with­out dis­grace be as­so­ci­a­ted with it.” ― #Thoreau sniggle.net/TPL/index5.p...
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“Resistance to Civil Government” by H.D. Thoreau (“Civil Disobedience”) • TPL
“Resistance to Civil Government” by H.D. Thoreau (“Civil Disobedience”)
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/03/2025
“This could only happen to me / Who has been through anything like this?”
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Morrissey or Trump?
1. “For a thing like that to happen is a disgrace / And frankly, it shouldn’t have happened / That I can tell you / It shouldn’t have happened.” 2....
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A huge amount of communication amongst men happens by micro expression and I presume the same is true about women. So I drive my wife to a gala for her charity. She's setting up and doing board member things so I go to a bookstore for a while then come back with time to kill. /1
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you're a U.S. taxpayer, and you'd like to know how to stop paying for this shit, you can learn from the war tax resisters, who have been refusing to pay taxes for decades. nwtrcc.org/programs-eve... #TaxResistance
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Gatherings and Events - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
NWTRCC meets twice a year at locations around the country. Here you will find reports from past meetings and announcements of future ones.
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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 25/02/2025
Saw a cybertruck and my son asked why Elon Musk would think that looked good and I said "remember that drug they gave you at the hospital when you broke your arm, and you got scared and said everyone had 4 eyes? he takes that all the time"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
cc: loners with rifles
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Moorlock @moorlock.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
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How to support undocumented immigrants in SLO County as Trump pushes deportation plan
“We should really use all of our voices and platforms to talk about what’s right,” a business owner said.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states. To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
Screenshot of a young person holding up a sign that says “BREAKING: ICE IN KENTUCKY”

The algorithm-facing comment says, “Had to share these cute winter boots I just got!”
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