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@onealmp.bsky.social
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Haver of thoughts, occasionally a sharer of thoughts. Physical age is rapidly catching up to the grumpy old man I've always been.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Impeach. Now.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seems like Bezos needs an artificial spine.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms theonion.com/dnc-releases-preemptiv…
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A benevolent and highly competent dictatorship is absolutely the best possible form of governance in terms of "what can do the most good for the governed" It's also impossible to ensure either benevolence or competence so it'd be an incredibly stupid choice to adopt
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gotta bake the Bill of Rights with a little lemon juice on the back to get it to show up.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This thread is 🔥
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
To play off the first German sentence I was ever able to read: "Die Republikaner haben mehr Naziproblem"
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The negative of social media is that it gave every idiot a megaphone" is pretty mild om the "social media is bad" hot take scale. It's also correct. Remember, half the population is below average.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I miss the days where this was a "look at this cool Easter egg we found" and not "has the chatbot broken, or is this an Easter egg?"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I recommend switching to PocketCasts.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I make over a million dollars a year, annualized. I just need to do payday × 365 🤣
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Switching to a new laptop for work, and I forgot how much unholy enshittification is in Windows. The default UX choices are a) surrender all privacy and use your computer like it was a smartphone, or b) just beat your head in with the laptop, it will be less painful.
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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That it’s literally impossible to make the star wars fandom happy so you may as well turf out a pile of wank and make a couple of billion dollars.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OpenAI set up another guardrail-free LLM with a harness and infinite compute budget in a crappy sandbox? It is panic inducing - they learned nothing from the last moronic experiment. When is someone going to jail for tying weedwhackers to dogs as a form of lawn care?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Few things say "billionaires are so cloistered they are incapable of behaving like normal humans" quite like "I couldn't pump my own gas because I don't know my own ZIP code"
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Because there aren't any workable solutions. Or at least they don't have any. And now the true believers are stuck rushing at their machine god while all their theoretical leashes keep snapping. I think it's some doomerism, some Sinophobia, some callow opportunism trying to get past the IPO.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So this is actually a genuinely held belief, they just have AI psychosis and think that LLMs will turn into the machine god any day now.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, OpenAI and Anthropic are lousy with a bunch of weird doomer types. The philosophy is called "Rationalism" and championed by Yudkowsky. One of the core presuppositions is a superintelligent thinking machine is inevitable. So, rationally, making sure AI god doesn't kill us is really important.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty sure an insurance payout is the best thing that can happen to Oracle.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forget kitchen table politics, it's microwave politics. Push the lever, watch the spinning thing, shit isn't fixed on January 30th, declare failure and ready to vote for the other guy next time.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That the electorate could even contemplate such a man rather than reject him outright shames us all. That our founding laws could permit him to get in a position where the electorate could choose him shames our laws. That our institutions have not bodily removed him shames our institutions.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But this is the first memorial arch *designed* to kill you.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
I think it would be nice if journalists could more clearly inform the public that there will be no useful AI regulation coming because Congress is too corrupt to function We're still waiting for even basic internet privacy laws 30 years down the road
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The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember all the enablers of bad shit, and make them accountable.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. is a malignant eugenicist.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With apologies to Lin-Manuel, "Massie has beliefs, Johnson has none."
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Probably what the 90/10 cost when he last went to a grocery store.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really trying to see what happens when you crank the Streisand effect up to plaid, isn't he?
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm just convinced that theory free inference is a dead end on any path to superintelligence. At best we've made a sci-fi AI's speech center. Which is an achievement! But no matter how many more versions of ChatGPT they make, they're not going to get Jarvis or Ultron.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And this isn't me saying alignment isn't good or important. I'd much prefer chat bots to be pro-social and not be telling users to kill themselves or how to make bombs. Or be Grok and make NCII and CSAM.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How long do you think your self-improving AI is going to stay aligned if a non-trivial part of its existence is to strangle others like it in the proverbial crib? But this is exactly the sort of forethought I'd expect from a bunch that convinced themselves making shitloads of money is altruistic.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Like, is job one for the new "good" AI god to be the hacking equivalent of the Sophons from The Three Body Problem? Freeze all AI progress so no more superintelligences are made?
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can't take this Amodei essay seriously, since I don't buy his underlying premise (enough words in the word guessing machine = God). But this CCP scaremongering kinda gives the game away. Why will the "good" AI labs "solving" alignment mean that any other frontier lab doesn't screw it up?
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It certainly doesn't help that this same collection of characters shredded the entire administrative state here in the U.S. (Amodei wasn't a Trump/DOGE stooge. But many of his peers were.) They spent the past couple years burning a house down, and now are saying "what we really need is a roof."
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LLMs: 60% of the time, it works every time.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I had no idea it existed until his terrible puppeteer post started doing the rounds and I had to look up who Alex Gibney was. Now I have to figure out where and when to watch it. Thanks Elon!
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
George Lucas ought to send JJ Abrams a fruit basket every year because nothing has done more to rehabilitate the prequels than Rise of Skywalker
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/09/2026
"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them.
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onealmp.bsky.social @onealmp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Personally, I think about 9.99% of the catastrophic outcomes are 'humanity ruins the world in the name of "doing AI"'.
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Ciarán @ciaransaunders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The worst video I've seen this week on the cybercab, and it comes from Tesla themselves. So errm, what if they need to use mobility aids to get into the Car Elon? Who then puts the mobility aid in the boot afterwards Elon?
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