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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'm less into Roko's Basilisk and more into Frankenstein's monster. We should not attempt to create yet another god to serve. We should play god and make the next generation of flawed humanoids, without perfection as the goal. This is existential: make co-equal symbionts, not apex predators.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This valentine's, we at *brand* want to remind you that the reason you're single is you haven't given us your money yet.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Even a well-intentioned Federal Government regularly fails in duty-of-care to citizens. They shot a teenage boy & his mom at Ruby Ridge. They escalated hostilities that derailed negotiations with a doomsday cult in Waco. They will continue to murder in Minneapolis and elsewhere. They will not stop.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is what AI is doing to your microscope images. You can trust your lasers but do you trust your pipeline?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 17/11/2025

The #SfN25 poster floor is buzzing with innovative studies and breakthrough discoveries. Get lost in the science and find inspiration at every turn! #neurosky #neuroskyence

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 16/11/2025

I assume this is the clip being subtweeted

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

You are embarrassing yourself by lauding this monster. Do you defend these views, which he held lifelong. Where is the "nuance in these words?" Shame! liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

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James Watson in his own words

“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23/10/2025

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Why do First Class tickets get their own shorter TSA lane? Doesn't this violate the equal protection clause? Isn't this clearly discrimination based on wealth? I can understand precheck because you pay to get cleared in advance. But that doesn't hold water for general security.

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Updating my LEGO White House

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you look up “heretic” in the OED, you’ll find the oldest use of the word recorded in English is the sentence “The kyng said & did crie the pope was heretike” (c. 1330, Mannyng’s Chronicle).

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is why it's a "targeted act of violence" and not "domestic terrorism": because it's only terrorism if you can blame the left, and when the right does it, it's an isolated lunatic that's obviously not represetative.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It's quite dark that holding the opinion that "workers should exert concerted market pressure to prevent employers from treating us like slaves" is now equivalent to "encouraging political violence" but what can you expect from an authoritarian regime that thinks only 30% of us are real Americans?

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Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info · 23/09/2025

!!ACETAMINOPHEN IS SAFE TO USE IN PREGNANCY AT APPROVED DOSES!! How embarrassing for HHS to endorse any other message. End of message. #FDT #FRFKJR #🍊💩🐒 #🪱🧠

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'm just going to be straightforward. Celebrating someone for polite but uncivil discourse as the model of ideal politics is wrong. The insistence on civil debate when one side wants to debate whether the other side should even exist is wrong. This is not to say that debate is not the ideal.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It is morally acceptable to be at least a little happy when bad people who actively pursue political violence die, even if the means of their death is abhorrent and denouncable. Sometimes, the universe provides just comeuppance, like a gun violence advocate being shot. "Prove me wrong."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2025

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I am with people that we might need to revive the phrase "Deep Learning" to encompass all this good science stuff, with the phrase "AI" coming to mean "heavily tweaked/massaged/manipulated massive parameter large language model". I don't doubt these things can be useful in narrow settings

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I would do this but my starting opinion would be that your personal morality shapes your interpersonal actions/reactions and thus every opinion is in some sense inherently political as it will invariably be closer to either manichaeism (with your opinion usually cast as "good-aligned") or pluralism.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

BEHOLD! One of Earth's greatest lineages of life: the lil wiggle arm guys, Meteora. These single-celled critters, originally found in deep-sea sediments, are SO DIFFERENT from other lifeforms on Earth that they're likely in their own kingdom (as in, the Animal Kingdom, the Plant Kingdom etc). 🧪🌿

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Christine Kray @christinekray.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKings in Henrietta, NY Awesome energy!

Woman at No Kings rally in Henrietta, NY. She is holding two handmade protest signs. One reads: How many gang members and drug traffickers did ICE get in their raid on Home Depot? The other reads: Prison without due process is a concentration camp.

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Joanne Michielsen @joanneluvsgh.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

There were tons of people lining the road from Hylan Drive to just before Wegmans and nearly constant supportive honks.

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Dr. Terry Bacon @baconterr.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKings #RochesterNY #Henrietta Calkins Road was lined all the way from Hylan Drive to Wegmans!

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKings protest, Henrietta, NY, lining the sidewalk for blocks.

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Willy Yonkers @wyonkers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

West Henrietta, Monroe county New York - No Kings anti-parade. 06/14/25 (Intentionally blurred video) #Iamnotafraid

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ThatBitch @erikak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Rochester NY area had several rallies, this one was in the suburb of Henrietta at 2pm. By 3pm there were twice as many people #NoKings

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aer16.bsky.social @aer16.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Henrietta NY video from a friend

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Juliebear @stratocumulusness.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Henrietta Sample:

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A few thousand people out here in Henrietta, NY for the "un-parade" by my estimation.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If they want to take away my speech, they'll have to take me away. As long as I have the ability, I will not shy against calling out injustice for what it is. I will not do their job for them and self-censor. Retaliation against speech without process is one of the main reasons we fought George III.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/04/2025

very struck by the fact that whenever i use this image people will show up to tell me that it is gross and immoral when they could just skeet "i am addicted to losing" and save us all some time

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Sarah Gilbert @sarahagilbert.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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From the changemyview community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Putting young children on trial without attorneys or guardians is horrific but unsurprising given the moral bankruptcy of the ongoing genocidal purge. And that's not exaggeration. Deporting unfavorable ethnicities/nationalities to attempt to shape the ethnic makeup of your population is genocide.

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Satire is allowed under the First Amendment. Nonsequitur, what horrifically obscene and nationalistic thing did JD Vance say to murder the Pope?

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