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Dr Nick @nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Right, so what is the counter? And what should be the consequences? Can't imagine the US Republic has very long to save itself

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

Women Are Bourgeois theory holds true

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026

There's a sort of meta-point here, which is that, to be recognized as an "expert" in most institutional/social contexts, you have to adhere to an orthodoxy controlled by extremists. The industry is absolutely captured by people with no attachment to reality. That's a relatively new phenomenon.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026

The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OMG can you imagine if extremists were in charge of America, it doesn’t bear thinking about

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The man is a relentless self parody of the stupidest kind

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right, exactly. i am adjacent to rationalists because i have worked alongside rationalists for a decade. some are very earnest EA monks who more or less give away the huge amount of money they make. some are neoreactionaries with essentially Satanic values. the monks and neoreactionaries get along.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok if everyone could just say this when they read my papers that would be great thanks

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At the very least, since the OpenAI Navier Stokes controversy, a suggestive pattern is emerging. Writers remember: they took our work without thinking twice. The commercial and reputational rewards of stealing science may be too tempting www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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They should. But I bet you 50p they will not

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was. And they did it anyway. What should that tell us?

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This keeps happening. Public debate on tax is increasingly driven by reports from consultancies commissioned by lobbyists. These reports rarely disclose their methodology. They never disclose the terms under which they were written.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As a scientist, if I convince myself of an 'alternative fact' and then enthusiastically disseminate a false (positive) version of my result which over-writes the actual (negative) result ...what would you call that in terms of QRPs etc?

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The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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I used to think the lefties were being a bit histrionic when they said much of the right would prefer fascism to even moderately left wing social policy, but turns out

Watching most of the US press desperately euphemise the moronically evil acts of their mad and stupid President, I can completely see most of the UK press doing much the same thing

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Years of working the Israeli population - not to mention much of 'the West' - to situate the Overton window between extermination/expulsion vs permanent subjugation of the pesky Palestinians seems to have worked

The gross irony here is that Labour's cowardice and fecklessness make the rw framing true. They genuinely seem to feel apologetic about their ostensible mission, like they have to beg permission to act from their opponents. You won! Act like it!

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Cool looking paper. Hot take (laudatory): *attention* shapes decision making. Covert and overt are mostly observational categories. We should be comfortable with the concept of the sensory array extending to neural 'virtual sensors' - and with using such selective sampling as a cognitive resource

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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“Instead of respecting the law, those in power invoke it when it serves their interests and disregard it when it restrains them, treating even justice itself as though it were a commodity to be bought and sold.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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We cannot afford for our leaders to be terrified of basic issues

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Like the very same politicians who believe you cannot say Brexit was stupid and wrong, nor say 'these are terrorists' about a blackshort militia performing domestic terrorism - are the very same people locking up grannies and vicars for Palestine as terrorists. So maybe we are being bullshat?

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Was it because it was not, in fact, on their side?

Let's remove citizenship on the basis of fascism