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Comrade Cat. Punch up, never down! 🍉✊ He/him or any

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Amber @myfreecats.com · 3h
But I know what I have! No lowballs, no tyre kickers!
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11h
The PHONy road tour comes to Geelong tomorrow.
PAULINE HANSON NOT WELCOME IN GEELONG
Join the community protest against Pauline Hanson's visit to Corio
Sunday 4th Oct 8.30am
Location TBA
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h
I took this picture of Adonis but I didn't know if you'd want to see it ....
orange cat asleep on his side with his little paws curled up
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 17h
Do you reckon it’s smart to publicly be pals with a guy whose company doesn’t pay tax in Australia and is always out to bring your party down no matter what you do? #auspol
Lachlan Murdoch and Anthony Albanese
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h
1. Tonight at Gillette Stadium, Zach Bryan, one of the biggest country music artists in the world, wore a Free Palestine shirt onstage. Gillette Stadium is owned by Robert Kraft, who pushed Ed Sheeran and his promoter to drop Macklemore from his tour. Bryan isn’t just a major country artist.
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 4h
...little 😬
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 4h
I'm sure everyone is glad vcrs are gone. I mean the 00:00 blinky machine 😆
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 4h
It always takes me until a week before the clocks change again before I realise my car clock is out by...well not an hour because it's not very accurate 😅 But I drive so little I don't notice at all
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 5h
'The entire land is ours': Ben Gvir escalates calls for annexation of occupied West Bank - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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'The entire land is ours': Ben Gvir escalates calls for annexation of occupied West Bank
<article data-history-node-id="448750" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/entire-land-ours-ben-gvir-escalates-calls-annexation-occupied-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/entire-land-ours-ben-gvir-escalates-calls-annexation-occupied-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">'The entire land is ours': Ben Gvir escalates calls for annexation of occupied West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-minister-says-entire-west-bank-belongs-to-israel-threatens-to-dismantle-palestinian-authority/4076645" target="_blank">claimed&nbsp;</a>that the entire occupied West Bank “belongs to Israel” and has vowed to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and pursue the displacement of Palestinians if he becomes defence minister, Israeli media have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hakolhayehudi.co.il/item/Land_Israel/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%98%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95__%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%97%D7%99_a_%D7%95-b" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p> <p>Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14, Ben Gvir said that, if appointed defence minister, he would work to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and&nbsp;<a href="https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2106283588547473591" target="_blank">push&nbsp;</a>for Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank and Gaza.</p> <p>The minister said that 60 percent of Palestinians want to “emigrate”.</p> <p>“I will dedicate time to this, and I will manage the process continuously. Every week, I will hold a discussion involving all relevant parties,” he said. “There is no difference between Areas A, B and C. The entire land is ours."</p> <p>Under the territorial framework established in the Oslo agreement&nbsp;between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in 1995, Areas A and B were placed under varying degrees of Palestinian jurisdiction, while Israel retained control over Area C.&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/entire-land-ours-ben-gvir-escalates-calls-annexation-occupied-west-bank">Read more:&nbsp;'The entire land is ours': Ben Gvir escalates calls for annexation of occupied West Bank</a></h3> <div alt="Ben-Gvir" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="fa3a5c52-2f9c-4697-96fb-acd4e7921f92" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/Israel%E2%80%99s%20far-right%20National%20Security%20Minister%20Itamar%20Ben%20Gvir%20arrives%20at%20the%20site%20of%20a%20suspected%20shooting%20attack%20in%20Tzur%20Yitzhak%2C%20central%20Israel%2C%207%20June%202026%20%28Jack%20Guez%20AFP%29.jpg" width="1800" height="1013" alt="Ben-Gvir" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 4h
I need to say if anyone seriously believes that "effective altruism" junk, you're a bad person and should feel bad. Take your rockos basilisk and realise you've just stuck libertarian words into pascals wager
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 6h
Turns out if you copy-and-paste someone's "effective altruism" thread from another site so it's archived here too results in a fair number of garbage cult bots finding and liking specific parts The block button will be getting a workout
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 6h
Ugh, I couldn't imagine how these conferences consider asking such a hollow husk of a person to present anything 😡 Not to say everyone there is bad, just that one sounds like a bad choice
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 6h
If I ever become the leader of a country, running a "news" piece with such pieces of shit gets you sent to the gulag They're both shitheads
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Bin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 8h
I was talking to someone who was working in a Disability Enterprise job. She was living with an ageing parent who was still paying off a mortgage. She still got the DSP & contributed what she could from her pitiful income to her mother's expenses.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 15h
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
It's literally "well they can't be assimilated, they're still brown!". Gotta love how quickly white supremecists show their full arse
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
I haven't watched that show in years, but damn some bits were timeless
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
I guess there's the part where because of the atrophy, they no longer care. Causing them to use the atrophy machine even more... Fuck me that's an awful circle
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
Unfortunately as we keep seeing, there's a lot of people that leave their thinking on these subjects to the msm 😔 It makes me rather tired. Sorry for missing that part of your take
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
The only thing he won't have to suffer like corbyn is his party won't end up with 90% of the party falling for the bullshit and then voting for the fascist that gave them brexit Which is to say, most (let's be honest, there's always tree tories somewhere) of the party supports him
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
Or in my case, jetlagged until the end of daylight saving, at which point I've just about adjusted and have another case of jetlag when they end I swear, I suffer less jetlag with going into different actual timezones than this shit
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
I need to make a note to try and get there the next time I'm in Melbourne. You've made me want to go so many places, and I always only get so much time
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
Well now I know not to respect any of them
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
Especially when the ICJ has classified one as "potential genocide" Using their terms there because lawyer types always wait for the final judgement before removing the potential, despite it being a genocide as soon as it starts (78 or more years ago, depending on which event you consider starting)
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 10h
If he were brown, or driving anything but a car from a company that literally supplied the nazis...
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
I tried my best to get it into the post limits without screenshots blacksky.community/profile/did:...
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
Shamelessly borrowed from x.com/banteg/statu... found via blacksky.community/profile/did:... I did my best to cut it in spots where it'd fit into post limits, but not sure if it's quite the same. No I'm not the original author, nor do I claim to be
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>10^50 people staring back >none of them exist >none of them can tell me >none of them can falsify my assumptions >realize I have invented the perfect constituency >infinitely important >completely silent >and always represented by me
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>open spreadsheet >increase column width >add confidence interval >assistant asks again >"no, I mean how do you know the sign is positive?" >stare into cosmic light cone
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>tell myself this is impartial altruism >one day assistant asks obvious question >"how do you know your intervention actually improves the far future?" >silence
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>human beings slowly become instrumental variables in their own moral philosophy >see starving child >feel compassion >check spreadsheet >child's direct welfare contribution negligible >but perhaps childhood nutrition improves national institutional quality >compassion restored
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>eventually notice uncomfortable implication >if future value dominates everything >then helping people today mostly matters through effects on future >education matters because future institutions >health matters because future productivity >democracy matters because future trajectory
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>return to "future people matter" >motte has entered the chat >critic: of course future people matter >me: glad we agree >critic: I don't agree that your institute knows how to help them >me: why do you hate our grandchildren
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>journalist asks what longtermism means >say "future people matter" >everyone agrees >great >journalist asks what follows from that >well technically we should redirect enormous resources toward low-probability interventions affecting astronomical futures >journalist raises eyebrow
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>okay maybe don't phrase it that way publicly >PR team says "future generations deserve a voice" >much better
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>those intuitions survived peer review >someone donates $5k to local homeless shelter >inefficient >could have funded 0.0000000000003% of an AI governance researcher >think of all the simulated people you just killed
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>explain that moral intuition cannot be trusted >except intuition that future digital people count >and intuition that extinction is uniquely bad >and intuition that our probability estimates are sane >and intuition that our institutional choices improve the future
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>meanwhile actual humans keep doing annoying things >voting wrong >having parochial attachments >loving family more than strangers >caring about local community >getting upset when told their suffering is cosmically negligible >evolutionary biases everywhere
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>begin with impartial morality >end with small group of people deciding what quadrillions of hypothetical beings would want >beautiful arc
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>develop concept of value lock-in >terrifying possibility that one ideology controls civilization forever >therefore extremely important that civilization adopts correct values before lock-in >whose values >let's circle back
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>someone objects that this seems politically convenient >explain we're representing future generations >future generations unavailable for comment
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>need to influence government >future is at stake >normal democratic process too slow >politicians don't understand exponential curves >public doesn't understand x-risk >experts must guide them >who counts as expert >people who understand x-risk >who understands x-risk >our friends
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>company releases stronger model >very concerned >company begins training even stronger model >extremely concerned >company raises $14 billion >concern reaches unprecedented levels
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>we must build the thing quickly because building the thing quickly is dangerous >outsider asks why the people most worried about AI apocalypse all work at AI companies >complicated field
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>we must understand capabilities to understand safety >we must scale models to study alignment >we must race ahead so less responsible actors don't get there first >we must deploy systems to learn how deployment can go wrong
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>finally a problem with numbers big enough for me >start AI safety nonprofit >mission: prevent dangerous AI >hire smartest people available >smartest people immediately start building better AI to understand dangerous AI >interesting
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>make probability smaller again >critic begins rubbing temples >discover AI safety >perfect longtermist cause >AI might kill everyone >or create utopia >or seize galaxy >or tile universe with paperclips >or create billions of conscious software minds
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>critic says you're multiplying enormous hypothetical stakes by extremely uncertain probabilities >yes >that's literally why it's important >critic says the uncertainty might be structural rather than numerical >make probability smaller >critic says no, I mean maybe your model is wrong
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>maybe project makes problem worse >assign 5% chance >still astronomical >why 5 >because 30 felt pessimistic >publish 46-page report >contains seventeen sensitivity analyses >every sensitivity analysis begins after assuming intervention has positive sign
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Amber @myfreecats.com · 11h
>reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative >still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude >epistemic robustness achieved >someone says maybe project doesn't work >assign 20% chance >still astronomical
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