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Morgan Malus

@morganmalus.bsky.social
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Small town transsexual. Cider maker. Orchardist. Tractor owner. Senior technical staff person or whatever. Progressive butt overload enthusiast

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jae @fubarchitect.com · 28/09/2026
everyone is high decoupling about racism, until you get racist about white people everyone is high decoupling about sexism, until you get sexist about men and there's a word for each of those things and it's not "high-decoupling" (yes i do mean among the rat-sphere, but also...)
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This made me think, what if we decentralized training/inference? Turns out people are working on this: pluralis.ai
pluralis.ai
Pluralis Research
Protocol Learning — decentralized, communication-efficient model-parallel training for foundation models.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
now that you mention it, yes i have this desire
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
pretty neat way to zoom out and see your discourse bubble is but an insignificant spec in the, uh, universe or whatever
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Came across 'high decoupler/high-contextualizer' discourse and went digging into that, the article below is a long-winded explainer. unconfusion.substack.com/p/decoupling...
unconfusion.substack.com
Decoupling decoupling from rationality
Within the nebulous online space connected to the rationalist community a concept for understanding disagreement seems to have emerged: The distinction between high-decouplers or low-decouplers (also ...
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Break up the ai polycule monopoly we need more competition between polycules. preferably to the death
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl4...
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Troye Sivan - Party (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO
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Jonny @jonnny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
love that early research into mRNA was done by the guy that sang Pretty Fly For A White Guy
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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
This is such a great thread because it tells you instantly how to answer the supposedly intractable regulation problem: liability, potentially joint liability, for the person who set up the AI system.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why do i feel like we're months away from an neurodivergent trans woman in an anthropic wet lab using AI to make Torrey Peters' virus from Infect Your Friends real?
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
have all the orgies you want, but i feel like, if you're fucking, and your conclusion is to upload your brain into a computer, you're not fucking right.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I agree with this, it might be too late anyway, but realize victory here means a massive stock market collapse, yield curve control, a step change forward in dollar devaluation and worse standard of living.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fed posting but not that kind, Fed posting where you side-eye folks praising Powell for standing up to Trump and ignoring the fact he kept interest rates low way way too long after covid and created a massive housing price spike, housing mobility lock in, and affordability crisis that's fucking us.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Mom, the proposed regulation to prevent Skynet is a sham, we've been over this? The people at the proposed regulator are in a polyamorous sex cult with several executives at the companies they propose to regulate" "Yes, really! Wait, let me show you this deannonymized Sankey diagram"
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
can i run jev on my lappy 486 tho
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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 16/09/2026
Holy banger.
How Did We Get Here

Why would anyone think that this should fly? If you said you had an independent auditor in a contract, and when I looked into it I found out that they got paid with the same money you did, lived in the same house you did, and one of their executives married your sister, you would go to prison. You would go to prison because if you don’t send people to prison for fudging the independence of their auditors and business connections, they tend to end up like Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried. AI is more important than the average business, and accountability should be more, and not less, important.

We live in a relatively high-trust society, where you can safely assume that a signed contract will be honored and your bank really does have your money, because we value impartiality and fair process, and we set high standards for what those are. Impartial application of the law is the absolute bedrock of modern civilization, and even the lowest criminal is entitled to a judge and a jury that does not know him. These rules and how we enforce them are what keeps our society honest and fair, and following them, as much as we do, has made us prosperous and safe.

Anthropic’s company culture is apparently not a part of this tradition and does not believe in it. Anthropic doesn’t think it should be regulated the way that banks, insurance companies or law firms would be, or that it should be required to seek impartial auditors to do security reviews of current practices or of past breaches. Close associations do not matter, because impartiality does not matter, and in fact, the more closely connected you are to Effective Altruism, Anthropic and Coefficient Giving, the more trust you deserve. This seems to be why Anthropic thinks that METR is, of course, very trustworthy, and why they have a recent history of giving other important security contracts to very incompetent, but very Effective Altruist, companies.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
driving me insane that the media is just accepting the frame presented in the whole 'ai ceo slowdown; thing. my mom called me freaked out about skynet; had to explain they are just trying to do a regulatory capture to protect their capex roi from china and open source competition
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jay Dragon is unstoppable @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my inner jock wants to stuff these ai ceos in a locker. i will charge a lot of money for this therapy
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
stupid timeline. my job became silicon demon whisperer to stay employable. meanwhile, Treasury fights bond vigilantes to buy time for capital pouring into the silicon demon in a race to be profitable before bonds blow up and before iran blows up oil which blows up bonds which blows up silicon demon
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
paid $8/gal to put diesel in the tractor. thanks obama
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The report HHS published does not prove that “gender ideology” radicalizes people; it demonstrates only that the administration is trying to make that case, and that’s why this is so chilling.”
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
hurriquake part 2 incoming
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They're manufacturing medical pretext to classify me as a threat to the state. NSPM-7 -> Bondi memo -> attempting to ban 2nd amendment rights -> this. But it's just a distraction, right?
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
damn. Double the tributes at gay karaoke this Friday. And the local Rocky crew using our space for rehearsals this weekend. 😞
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wait camp miasma is a trans movie? How did i miss that; need to calibrate my feed
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
claude the structural engineer, saying you can't do anything fun because it's load bearing. delete the wall claude, we need open concept living
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
deferred understanding is the newest form of tech debt
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My humble opinion is AI if fine for coding, it's a bubble, China is better resourced to 'win' than us, we're probably building more data centers than we need, and if the conditions described in this www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-second... doesn't crash the bubble first, data center activism will.
groundbrkr.com
The Second Derivative: Why No One Understands the AI Boom
The market misremembers 2008. That same blind spot sits at the center of the AI boom.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
i saw the phrase "over-the-diaper handjob" the other day and now i will leave it here in your mentions, with you
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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I will have no choice but to run up to every data center piece smashing pots and pans together asking why the author didn't print how big of a hole in the county budget this project's prop tax is supposed to fill until everyone is tired of me. If you want to keep them out, you need to know!!
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
See NYT asked me for an op-ed on the Colorado River water issue. So that's what I told them. And the editors panicked & cancelled the piece. In case we're wondering why "nobody can figure out how to solve this difficult issue." We absolutely can, a lot of our professional talkers are just cowards.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Maxed out your plates? Inflation, shipping cost on more rubber got you down? Switch to single leg work for the same exercise.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It’s comforting that everyone has bathroom anxiety dreams. Finding a bathroom when you have to pee, bathrooms full of tons of people with all the doors off facing inward like a panopticon, choosing between the panopticon bathroom or one overflowing with the most awful piles of shit and sewer…
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
love it when Fable's like, "ooowee this might be a security issue but i can't tellll you because 'safeguards', sowwwwie!"
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
literally easier to buy a gun than buy a decent hair color. we need a constitutional amendment for right to hair color
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The problem with getting busy on a rocky outcropping in the ocean under a full moon with crashing waves around like some epic sapphic mermaid fantasy shit is trying to even come close to that energy on the next date
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The Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
HAHAHAhaha! they're making the world's biggest synthetic scum pond!!! The coating is a polyurea used inside pipes. It gels in about 3 seconds, making it non self-leveling. The texture is like an orange peel, the perfect substrate for biofilms. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...
nytimes.com
Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Toto being added to an AI etf for it's expertise in toilet cleanliness was not on my bingo card.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/06/2026
Reading excerpts from yet another book discussing how transition positions "biomedical intervention as necessary" and makes trans people "cathect hope on a for-profit medical industry" and I am done. I am fucking done. This is fucking out of touch with reality and yet rife in trans scholarship.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
all you finished claude sessions greet you in heaven when you die
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
There aren’t enough ‘monger’ professions. Bud tenders really missed an opportunity to be weed mongers
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
caught the surfing bug, i have
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
GLP-1's are going to destroy the gonzo and picaresque fiction category. We're going to get inundated with smol bean stories about people living normal happy lives and accomplishing goals. Boring.
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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 20/05/2026
Phonopolis is out NOW on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store 📣 We hope you have fun playing with the cardboard city! All links here 👇 amanita-design.net/games/phonop...
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
if you are a trans reader of mine and you struggle to explain to cis family and friends why you hurt so much lately I wrote this so you can send it to them. I feel like we know this pain intimately but I want everyone to understand it, because we are going to need help if it’s ever going to stop.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Is there a vent straight to the core power room? And how should we think about the independent contractors working on the ballroom? Are they complicit or innocent? Did they know what they're getting into? Do they take contract work from Dominic Bambino?
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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Some words on the ATF's proposed rule changes and how it may impact trans firearm buyers.
transnews.network
The ATF takes aim at trans gun rights: what it means and how to fight it
The federal firearms agency has proposed new background check rules that will restrict trans people's constitutional right to legally purchase a gun.
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Morgan Malus @morganmalus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This is fucking me up
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