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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 2h

I have observed that with both socialism and zionism, the intensity and certainty of many people's views seems to be inversely correlated to their familiarity with Marx or Herzl, respectively. So as a White American, lemme explain Shintaoism...(1/ERR_MAX_INTEGER)

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 3h

I have a pretty dim view of men as a category, because *waves hands around at literally everything* but I am begging older men who aren’t fucking rapists to get involved young men make each other worse start fucking mentoring, coaching, ANYTHING, to counter what they’re teaching each other

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 5h

Amnesty International UK chair Sandy Ruthven has left the Green Party following the party's adoption of its 'Zionism is racism' motion at its conference over the weekend. (Sky News)

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Former Green mayoral candidate quits party

Sandy Ruthven has resigned his membership of the Green Party after its conference adopted a 'Zionism is racism' motion

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 5h

Given the Green Party of England and Wales* turns towards antisemitism (I would have had to leave my childhood synagogue under their new policy), we can set the 10-year timer for their turn to transphobia. Just like Labor before them. *Scotland was also not on board in 1290, not coincidentally.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h

this isn't some abstract argument either: all of our decades of experience with large, complex safety-critical systems shows that building a safety culture is the only way to manage and mitigate risk responsibly... and that's impossible to reconcile with a longtermist utilitarian perspective

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 7h

when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 7h

An underappreciated fact about far-right populists is that they are terrible at governing, especially in the longer run. Trump is a case in point every single day, but systematic studies shows that this is the case more generally. As this study shows, after 15 years they lower GDP per capita with

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

Which is all a long-winded way of saying: These debates about Zionism and anti-Zionism are mostly unhelpful right now, and I wish everyone could just drop these terms unless speaking historically and talk about their political vision for the future in other terms.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 22h

AI really doesn’t offer nearly the benefit it needs to to get people to pay for it, and I think there’s a lot of denial from people over-invested (financially and emotionally) in it.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 9h

Pffft, clearly if you haven't used a slot machine in the past month or two you have no business discussing slot machines! Pulling a lever is so last month, now it's so much easier, first you fire up a dozen agents for each of the three slot windows... (1/387)

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Sarah Følina | clikkiesky goes to ØH @subtlefire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

LRS: I can't believe I didn't put it together until now. we're not getting "left behind" in any professional or creative sense. we're going to miss the AI rapture and suffer the tribulation of... whatever they think people still capable of doing things themselves will suffer

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 15h

I just had an odd thought while drifting off to sleep: Can an LLM pass the Brown M&Ms Test? When I first read about it, I (Poli Sci/Theatre '05) thought it was absolutely brilliant. It also strikes me as the sort of detail that an LLM might or might not include in a summary.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The modern scientific method is about as old as the earliest internal combustion engines. Think of the many things (and philosophies) humanity invented before we were able to realize that "I think this is true" might not be the best way of understanding the world.

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Haydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What should you do if you pull up on a car crash before emergency services arrive? Let me walk you through what I did yesterday while driving with the family to the grocery store. Traffic backed up ahead of us and around a corner someone rear ended another car, there was airbag deployment.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Battle of Cable Street became the defining moment in the history of British antifascism. It also changed the law; Parliament passed the Public Order Act 1936, which included a ban on wearing political uniforms in public. We should remember, thank & salute every one of those early anti-fascists.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love how the NFL writes off the DC/Virginia TV markets. It's week 4, I have seen exactly one kickoff this year. The NFL wants me to pay another 7 bucks to watch todays game being played in London at 9:30am. Guess I'll be watching the F1 replay instead.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It actually gets worse. A lot of mycology texts are like "this ordinary brown mushroom is called 'Destroying Angel' and this other one is called 'Death Cap' and as you can see these edible ones over here look nearly identical if you're not fully up to date on modern phylogenetics".

Screenshot of a paragraph from the article:

"Roeske seemingly has no medical degree that Futurism could identify. Instead, his main gig appears to be selling capsules of mushroom powder to his more than 500,000 Instagram followers, while promoting woo-woo practices on his podcast, like staring at the Sun to strengthen your eyes."

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the most Russian thing I have seen since the video of a Russian SAM driven by a man in a track suit. No vodka was spilled during the production of this video...as far as I can see, at least.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russians tried hauling a helicopter across a field on a limousine and, unsurprisingly, it didn’t go to plan. Wonderland.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026

another commonality with the nolan odyssey and widows bay is that in both cases we have leaders doing things they know are wrong because they feel it’s necessary to protect their children. it’s odysseus’s justification for joining agamemnon; it’s warren and tom’s justification for human sacrifice.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So apparently there’s a company that runs events where profs (mostly STEM) do “fun” topical lectures in bars and it’s a way of enticing burnt out gen-Z folks who want to escape brainrot and I love this and feel like we humanists could significantly undercut them…

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The field of political science no longer does outreach, rallies, lectures, speeches, or events of any kind in beer halls. Besides, do you have any idea how much work it is hanging a Sword of Damocles in a public eating establishment?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and in turn making it a normal systems safety problem also means that existing law and regulatory frameworks are applied, and the entire alchemical-occultic frame and the political economy it is aligned with is dropped in favor of treating the industry as other countries across the world have

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interesting, and sort of tracks with my suspicions

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I lived in Oklahoma for a few years. Key points: Oil/gas is the biggest employer, people don't like losing jobs to save the climate. Everyone including man-bun-wearing hippies, lesbian feminists, etc owns guns, plural. It is not hard to win as a Republican in Oklahoma.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is a strange mind-blindness at work, where someone who finds a tool useful for a specific task has difficulty understanding when another person has said "I'm sorry, I don't see how this is useful to me". I know I've been like that when evangelizing for martial arts.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can understand why some things feel useful to people who don't read, write, or summarize information quickly and well, though! And there are legitimate research applications (and illegitimate ones).

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the closest thing i’ll ever have to sympathy for the mega rich is in acknowledging how crazymaking it must be to always, always suspect you’re being taken advantage of for your money

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the real problems in AI discourse right now is that one major use case seems to be a worse version of what Google used to do, but doesn't anymore. (Note: I AM NOT TRYING TO PUT OP ON BLAST! PLS BE COOL!)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For perspective, $1.4B is at the high end of what it costs to develop a new drug, so let's say new class instead of new-in-class. And that's over many years. Make a list of the new drugs you hoped for this decade. One of them, and it will be random, is Not Gonna Happen. Each year this continues.

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's fascinating is what the next lines of Psalm 33 say: It emphasizes that we are all created in the divine image, and reminds us that Kings are not defined by force, nor warriors by strength. It's a good set of books, and a shame few people bother reading.

Starting from Psalm 33, verse 13:

"G_d looks down from heaven
and sees all humankind.
From G_d's dwelling place the divine gaze touches
on all the inhabitants of the earth -
the One who fashions the hearts of them all,
who discerns their doings.
Kings are not delivered by a large force;
warriors are not saved by great strength;

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good luck fooling people who are hard of hearing and read lips. It's hard to communicate how wrong it is when you're "hearing" one thing from someone's lips and something different from the speakers. Good thing SV doesn't think we're human, it lets them ignore us when testing.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation. The Neiman Marcus Dallas store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would destroy his business this way.

A Black man protesting in front of a department store in San Diego, California. He's wearing a suit and holding a sign that says "We March Protesting the Indignity and Humility of Jim Crow." There are some people behind him.

Stanley Marcus smoking a pipe. He's wearing a striped suit.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Uncivil Servant @noahreday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry, they asked religious leaders to sign NDAs? Leaving aside the part where lobbying religious leaders is simply not a part of computer science, if you have to do this much persuading AND you make them sign NDAs, clearly you know it's at least bordering on haram.

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Metro Surge in MN made "social trust" stark. On the one hand, immigrant communities and progressive allies set up sweeping networks of activism and mutual aid and put their lives on the line for each other. On the other: armed, masked cops and a firehose of fear and slander against their neighbors.

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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chair Fight is common in retail and comes down to control. My first thought that it’s particularly discriminatory to pregnant women. The second is the extremely fuzzy definition of “fitness standards” and how those are measured.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

was discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid.

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Holly Thomas @holstat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We shouldn’t be surprised that no men in the Snapchat group interceded that night. To gain access to the chat in the first place, they had to pledge their allegiance to a brotherhood defined by its brutality, entry to which is gained via torture. www.thenewworld.co.uk/holly-thomas...

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The Cornell rape case is a direct consequence of the fraternity system

The Cornell rape case is a direct consequence of the fraternity system If you keep teaching young men that they’re exceptional and that women are playthings, then yes – this is how they will behave

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hegemon.substack.com/p/the-dictat...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

H1: Women are more likely to fill the many service & health care jobs left when you destroy immigration

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Akiva Weisinger @misfittorah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The fact that this idiocy got past an editor in a book on godamn punctuation shows how deep the ignorance of Judaism and Jewish history is in the wider culture and how that ignorance is being weaponized so as to create a better scapegoat for Western uses

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the Confederacy was the single greatest threat to the continued survival of the US in American history, by default. That's why it was called the "Civil War"

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tl;dr:

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