Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 56mThis is like those pictures of, like, a third grader holding bake sales to pay off their friends‘ lunch debt. Props to that kid, and to these college kids. But the need for the picture, or this mass march here, is sign of a real deep national failure. 19429 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 9hThe SI in Hamilton’s Commonwealth books 020 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 13/10/2026The most obvious fallacy in political analysis is concluding that every winning campaign did everything right and every losing campaign did everything wrong. So obviously wrong that no one defends it outright. But so many people fall into the trap anyway. All the time. 627249 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm not sure that's true. A mechanical llm would be a machine the size of a small country, emitting enough waste heat and noise that nothing living could get within a mile of it. And it talks? Yeah, I'm pretty sure people would have *ideas* about that going well beyond consciousness. 130 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yeah, data centers vulnerable to melee and spirit. 010 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialPMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Businesses are amoral entities that exist to make money. Complaining about rainbow capitalism is an admission that you don't like it when what is prosocial and what is profitable overlap, a sentiment that is genuinely too stupid for words. 38616 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Hi Mike Rogers. Here’s a message from me and 783 of my friends in R+32 Ionia County. Good luck out there, habibi. 191120812374 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.sociallastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent. 844569 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week. 5832 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 15/09/2026news.virginia.edu/content/gene...news.virginia.eduGeneration X Is in the Bullseye for Lead Exposure, Harms to Mental HealthA UVA researcher says 151 million cases of diagnosable mental disorders “can be attributed to lead.” 040 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/09/2026i don't think will stancil is transphobic 52137266 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 13/09/2026They used to hand out sainthoods like candy. Used to get canonized for being the first guy to see a horse or whatever. Nowadays if you want to be a saint you need to be a computer, or a lesbian 1762468 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter. 333587707 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here 282378299 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026unironically using “spreadsheet people” as an insult during a massive anti-intellectual demolition of government capacity to manage society is really a statement about your approval of it 11784124 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/08/2026One of my least favorite kind of posts is "Everyone is stupid except for me", where an outsider looks at something like GDP and assumes that thousands of experts haven't once had the brilliant thought they had, and this is its cousin "You Simply Lack Conviction". 519516 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 06/07/2026The Mexican soccer team is one of the most hateable teams in sport when your team is playing them, but utterly delightful chaos wolverines when it's anyone else 211615 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialAlice Schwarze @aliceschwarze.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I still don't understand how a nation can be the birthplace of eye of the tiger and not make it their national anthem 0243 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 14/06/2026Putting Bud Light out in front of the Trump White House is a funny statement about the durability of culture war complaints 44409647 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2026the chuds do not understand what makes this country great but this country is great and we cannot give up on it 132165351 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026i consider myself genuinely patriotic. i love our music and our movies and a lot about our culture and its achievements. new york is in fact the greatest city in the world. we have so many beautiful people here. our elites have declared war on it but it's still worth fighting for. to me at least 222278141 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 05/06/2026It remains incredibly ironic how gender studies was the go to "useless" degree to denigrate but it explains basically all contemporary politics while the "useful" degrees like computer engineering are eating shit 413526 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 04/06/2026some replies on this reveal the limits of the Engagement-Zero mode of AI criticism it's the dominant mode, rooted ultimately in an identity project more than anything rigorous so folks are just repeating catechisms they heard once, regardless of whether they apply to this case 2577 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Samuel L. Jackson and Clancy Brown are the MJ and Lebron of this question. 020 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialMat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad. 11112262316 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 02/06/2026So it's an illusion of intent. But why privilege that illusion (in terms of 'is it art') over the empathy-engine illusion of narrative art that you talk about downthread? Like, we don't talk about 'hallucinating' Romeo. 032 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Same. More the 1st one for me: everyone gets so wrapped up in the idea of it as Pocahontas that they ignore the (imo) more interesting reading that it's Aliens + Titanic. 020 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialeb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 31/05/2026One thing Eastwood and Lynch in particular have that almost all modern conservative (and a lot of liberal) artists lack is an understanding of and interest in the flaws/contradictions of their *own* ideologies 331516 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Part of the standard driving test in every state should involve simply taking you to a roundabout and making you use it correctly 1381 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialAsh Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please! 488136583321 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialQuebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party. 21677851475 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialFelipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Maybe I’m going against the grain here but I think the contemporary trend towards Puritanism is pretty bad for society and pretty clearly worse than porn is 29917 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 23/05/2026And if you are going to impute consciousness to an AI then before any discussion of ethics you have wrestle with the fundamental, structural difference between a machine consciousness and an organic one. 020 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Intelligence (or perhaps more accurately, the ability to produce intelligent outcomes) does not equal or imply consciousness or sentience. 170 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Sorry, I misread "a variable" in your post as a single variable relating the two. Carry on. 110 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 20/05/2026What is the unit of measurement for this variable? 100 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 20/05/2026OK? Take it up with Will. Point is that's explicitly his argument. Nobody is in this to "own the leftists". 100 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Honestly curious how you got to this conclusion. The whole relevance of vibecession is that Biden did a bunch of progressive social support things, they mostly worked as advertised, and everyone hated it. People who want to do those kinds of things in the future should want to know why. 120 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 18/05/2026"Information wants to be free." 010 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Nine times out of ten, "they didn't teach us this in school" is shorthand for "I didn't do the assigned reading". 81490216 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialkevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 09/05/2026would Jordan be the undisputed GOAT if he didn't chump out and Hakeem had spanked him twice in the finals as would have definitely happened 042 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialBrian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥 5682878711200 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Who denies that Eliza was real? It gets referenced all the time as the first chatbot. And people very definitely did make strong claims about it - it's literally called "the Eliza effect" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_e...en.wikipedia.orgELIZA effect - Wikipedia 1121 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialDove 🚬🥃 @dovegraveyard.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Im so fucking angry about the harassment artists get. I can’t string together anything coherent but if you’re an artist making call outs about OTHER artists because their fictional story is just a bit too icky in themes, the art you create will always be marred- 202329540 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 12/04/2026*real* wage growth, i.e. 0.6% above inflation. 040 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialBoyer @boyer-speaks.bsky.social · 11/04/2026"Trump's not conservative" Oh no you don't. No no no no no. I can tolerate Republicans moving on from Bush and the neocons, 9/11 and all that. But you fucking own Trump from now until the end of time. He told you exactly who he was from day 1 and you voted for him 3 times. That's on YOU. 416125682364 0
null-reference.bsky.social @null-reference.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Wild to me that everyone always talks about BP and ignores Ragnarok which came out around the same time and had a much more interesting and radical political viewpoint. 020 0
Reposted by @null-reference.bsky.socialZach Pickens @zepickens.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Horse titties are censored 021 0
