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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 14h

I was, but then the Death Star blew it up.

a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 14h

Also, the dog’s leash doesn’t seem to be attached to anything, and one of the blurry signs in the background has nonsense written on it.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23h

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21h

I am back from Missouri and there is some really special organizing going on around trans rights issues there. I shadowed a canvasser knocking on doors to talk to voters about gender affirming youth care, and heard how PROMO wants to make their office "the living room of the movement" in MO.

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 01/10/2026

i need you all to promise me that you’ll be normal about what i am about to say: i saved a lot of tokens in my gemini seed rule by telling it to believe that we are both girls

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look, if a synagogue holds an event promoting real estate opportunities in the West Bank, and Jews who show up are confronted by angry protesters who call them genocidaires, they will OBVIOUSLY become convinced that Jewish ethnonationalism is a bad idea… 😐

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am very glad to see this idea gaining traction.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An antisemitic trope going back to the Church Fathers is that the people who call ourselves “Jews” today are frauds (“artificial”), and the *real* Jews, the legit descendants of the Israelites of the Bible, are some other group (e.g., Christians).

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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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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

“Too many of us—from college-aged sports betting addicts to journalists and political operatives to our richest and most powerful businessmen and politicians—have been deranged by these habits and enslaved to the distortive effects of trying to get our next hit.”

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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater

Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.

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KandorkoWitch 🧙‍♀️ @dangcoolgalaxy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

RE polarization and notwithstanding the mid-ness of his wit-ness, I actually thought Ezra Klein had a pretty reasonable explanation: the parties were less polarized when social issues were artificially suppressed by the apartheid regime of Jim Crow

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If Americans insist on keeping the death penalty, they should be willing to use the guillotine. It's quick, highly effective, reliable, and doesn't require expertise to operate. That using it makes some pro death penalty folks squeamish is telling.

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Brian Turner @brianturnernc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Speaking up for people isn't that hard. I gave a speech back in March... 10 years ago this month North Carolina passed HB2, the bathroom bill. I was in the second year of my first term in the state house, the election was just a few months away, I voted against HB2.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is a small, cold, dead-hearted social scientific part of me that thinks this sort of causal hypothesis (on why someone tried to crash an airplane full of Israeli civilians) is always legitimate and doesn't entail any normative apologia. But a larger part of me knows better than to be so naive.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

"The rise of the cheap precision strike is reshaping the fundamental strategic concepts we have inherited from the past two centuries." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-o...

The Return of the Cutting-Off Way

Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I was 18 I invented a shot, the "Tsushima:" sake poured over vodka to symbolize and commemorate Japanese naval superiority The next day my friends and I deeply regretted our decision, much like I imagine the Russian admiralty did

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I, uh, I can't help but notice you left out the slaver's rebellion or the Nazis on the list of people to go fight. Funny, that.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And that cognitive act is precisely what I *don’t* want outsourced to an AI, even one run by someone less shady than Zuck. There’s a whole category of grift that simply involves sending invoices to companies for work you never did and counting on inattentive clerks to send back checks.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have an FSA card. My dentist has a web site. When I get a bill, I go to the site, type in my card number, and click a button to pay it. The one substantial cognitive act I perform is looking at the bill and thinking “oh yes, my son did get a cavity filled six months ago, this is legit.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’re in the “guy wearing obscure paraphernalia comes back with his friends” stage of the Parable of the Nazi Bar.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is ironic that AI took off at the same time as Trump just because there's no shortage of screenshots like this floating around: USER: Can stupid thing happen? AI: No. Stupid thing cannot happen. That would be stupid. USER: Are you sure? Because it just happened. AI: Fuck.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you have to read the epstein files with the knowledge that this is not the only bubble of powerful men talking about how they abuse women and then in the next wmail whining about how they get unfairly accused of abusing women, it’s just the one that we can publicly read.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that was very clear at the time is that while it’s true that the United States has a lot of leverage, Israel is a sovereign nation with its own politics, and Netanyahu was, in addition to leading a coalition of aspiring genocidaires, literally going to go prison if the war stopped

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Biden literally did the mythical One Phone Call that would stop Israel in it's tracks, &... it didn't stop Israel in it's tracks.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is, hands down, the best thing to ever come out of the Trump Administration. 🫡

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

In my weekly newsletter, I recreated that terrific testosterone chart from @goodauth.bsky.social and tested some other possible correlates to Trump support. link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone who lives near the Atlantic coast I am offended whenever I read about the Navy spending more on its Pacific fleet.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

from this:

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4th year med student reporting in.
Had a rotation with a pediatrician where we ended up in the classic encounter with an anti-vaccination parent.

This lady was a conspiracy theory magnet. She casually mentioned everything from 9/11 to chemtrails. Of course she loved the idea of the vaccine conspiracy as well, opting to not protect her one year old to stick it to big pharma.
I relayed all of this to my attending after my exam (I would see the patient first, gather history and do my exam to present to my attending physician). He got this sort of lazy smirk on his face that screamed "watch this".

We go back into the exam room and we cover all of the important bits of a well-child encounter. Growth charts, behavioral milestones, nutrition, sleep...
And then we get to vaccines. She lists approximately 15 reasons why vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they protect against (lol) in addition to the various evils of the pharmaceutical industry.

My attending listens quietly until she's done with her soapbox (about one eternity later), and then interjects with:
"Have you considered the possibility that anti-vaccine propaganda could be an attempt by the Russians or the Chinese to weaken the health of the United States population?"

In a moment of catastrophic cognitive dissonance, I swear I heard a strange popping noise as her brain misfired. It actually broke her. The allure of the increasingly ridiculous conspiracy theory was just too strong.

She ended up agreeing to a modified vaccine schedule. I was flabbergasted. My attending just grinned at me in response. To this day I'm not sure the medical ethics of the situation are totally palatable, but goddamn the result was amazing.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fundamental problem with "superintelligence" in the "especially smart AI insta-conquers the world" sense is that there is no 'superintelligence' exception to computational complexity theory and even polynomial time is a colossal pain in the ass when n gets large enough.

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But … but … but … there’s a whole branch of mathematics that is specifically devoted to proving that certain things either can’t be computed at all, or would require insanely large quantities of time/memory to ever get practical results! How do the rationalists account for that?

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tired: use AI to write and review code for my day job wired: use AI to shop and make phone calls and manage finances on my behalf inspired: use AI to destroy my political enemies on the internet

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They know they’re in a bubble of privilege, and they’re embarrassed by it, and they go out looking for Real Americans to report on, and they become marks.

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.

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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing

Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a very cute clip, but I love it for reasons that the episode doesn't really explore: *All networked technology comes down to chat* Talking to each other is either the foundation of all new networked technology or becomes inexorably tied up with it-- since the early days of the Internet 1/

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a bowl of petunias @ohnonotagain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Followed by: “I considered putting all this in a footnote because of how unimportant Jeffrey Epstein’s appearance here is in the context of everything else. He is the Forrest Gump of evil shit. Of course he was here.” 👩‍🍳 😘

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026

"What astonishes me in the public treatment of Hanania is how little attention is paid to his inveterate male supremacism. On this front, he has not attempted even a quick costume change. Instead, Hanania is quite simply a rape apologist." www.liberalcurrents.com/richard-hana...

Richard Hanania Doesn't Even Try to Hide His Male Supremacism

Hanania is a reminder of the dangers of rehabilitating extremist intellectuals.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

a huge chunk of the top talent IN AMERICA is first- or second-generation and from china. the only reason china doesn't completely dominate us here is that american immigration policy is very good at stealing their best research staff. it's a good thing nobody's changing that!

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