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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They should give Obama another one

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

anyone tried training an llm on shakespeare and selling a new e-book "one billion sonnets" on amazon . co . uk?

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

love that the implied 0th law of politics here is "don't actually stand for anything resembling a principle"

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As an aside the millennium prizes are all fastidious mathematical irrelevancies from a physics perspective. E.g. no one working on QCD cares about proving the yang mills existence & mass gap. Experiments may have recently discovered glueballs. Would be funny if they “didn’t exist”.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

wild does not mean inexplicable in this case; i mean the taliban was meeting with oil companies in houston in the late 90s

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

having been a young adult in the late 90s and early 00s it's pretty wild that the republicans have basically adopted the symbology of al qaeda • white lettering on black background with ideological phrases • traditional clothing (t-shirt, jeans, baseball cap) • religious iconography • guns

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i thought it was weird as a kid in texas (checked and it's going to be 32 °C today where i grew up) so can only barely imagine how out of place the imagery of a nothern european autumn looks as you're heading into actual summer

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you considered a dynamic information equilibrium model?

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it is kind of funny because a lot of the people who voted for the current admin had no idea what they were voting for as evidenced by the fact that they've done exactly what everyone understood they'd do and current polling says people hate it

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"cultural production of a time and place"

two posts on bluesky, one after the other; the first talking about the lack of a sense in courses on greek myths that they are "cultural productions of a time and a place"; the second a repost by lilly wachowski of a "romantic ALF" painting that is currently available for purchase

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there are several elements of my life that make me relate more to millennials that gen x (being on the cusp) and this is one of them

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

like more than a decade ago lol switched over to chrome when i liked the google ecological unity and have remained stuck in that rut

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

used to use opera but ran into too many rendering issues; i'll check out vivaldi

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

at the very least the "new feature" could do a pop up note when you're trying to do something the feature helps improve "hey there's now a better way to do this if you want"

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is a completely valid point; i don't mean to imply ai doesn't the potential to kill people directly (or through abdication of responsibility of humans which is what those cases are) my bigger fear is that it will induce polycrisis by corroding the trust that civilization is based on

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

darkwing duck walked so batman TAS could run

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(again, don't mean "will kill us all" but will produce slop, engender distrust, and crowd out useful human creation)

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fire is "useful" but also has the potential to burn down our entire cognitive-intellectual space

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

remember that thought experiment thing you did in grade school trying to define life in a moore-method-esque way and the teachers would use fire as something that "metabolizes" and can "reproduce"? feel like there's a useful analogy here with ai

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the fire i built has "gone rogue" (burned down the neighborhood)

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

has anyone ever not immediately closed the "what's new in chrome" page that appears when it updates?

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

place where ai could actually be useful is detecting tax evasion and determining which audits would be most cost-effective but the billionaires tech lords will not advertise that because any such system would quickly discover the most efficient allocation of IRS resources is going after rich people

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Russia (vs Ukraine) and the US (vs Iran) provided their strategic rivals with the cheapest possible way (in money and/or equipment) to degrade their capacity and geopolitical power. Unlike the US, China isn’t so stupid as to waste the opportunity.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The prior major holiday firewall precedent *in the US* has already been saturated by xmas (literally the day after thanksgiving) so Halloween (xmas for goths) should technically be allowed the day after Labor Day if not the 5th of July.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look billionaires. None of y’all facing consequences is not long run sustainable. I’m pragmatic enough to realize seizing all y’all’s assets could cause issues. The clear compromise is some of y’all face consequences so best you get together to decide who that is and why it’s Elon Musk.

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

leave me alone

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i do feel like we’re all about to learn something new about the global diesel supply chain that like three people in commodity markets already know

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oil execs you played yourself

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Corrupt Whiny Evil Embarrassing Babies Or CWEEBs

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

like we found out over the past decade that the elite of the richest country on earth consists *entirely* of corrupt whiny evil embarrassing babies big story

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

feel like where the mainstream media is failing to speak to me is the lack of pointing out just how objectively embarrassing this all is

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“meme as commentary” yes i said it

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made the mistake of trying to find that meme where the guy outsources sex with his wife to AI as commentary about where this is inevitably heading; RIP my browser history.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The fact that I use these drugs in no way biases my arguments about how useful they are and no I do not have to do any ‘leaning over backward’ to mitigate that bias. In fact I am perfectly allowed to just cite my own personal lived experience as valid evidence as any good scientist does.”

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“You’re ignoring my lived experience of taking these drugs that help me do my job. You know—the drugs produced by fascist billionaires stealing the labor of others that studies show could be negatively impacting my own cognitive abilities over the long term.”

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21/09/2026

We need a War on White Collar Crime. We shall fight them in DC. We shall fight them in the states and towns. We shall fight them in the courts, in the agencies, on the web, and on the picket line. bsky.app/profile/kqed...

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Just don’t call it gender-affirming care”

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About to get a real-life remake of Dr. Strangelove with nuclear AI drones.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“When did you first become aware of these feelings of a loss of essence?”

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mercantilism 2.0 “Don’t let claims on your gold leave your country”

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OP deleted but here’s someone referencing the same thing bsky.app/profile/will...

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

America at 250: Bringing back Mercantilism

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FOIA the prompts

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don’t think my personal experience helps guide me here—last couple long road trips were either in winter or along the east coast megalopolis with little rural exposure. Just seems like a 30-60% reduction doesn’t lead to “no need to clean” but simply less often. Some other factor seems necessary.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once encountered a Pol Pot apologist even before the days of social media. If there’s a view someone could have, someone will have it—no matter how repugnant.

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