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bohemian public intellectual wannabe 🧐 unfacts.substack.com

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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reminder that most Chinese nationals know essentially nothing about political theory because it's all so heavily censored, so they're incapable of producing good takes
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
tfw your friend starts dating your crush but you're twitter moots with both of them so you have to go on bsky to vent to no one
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Crazy in Moloch @sengarrasbear.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
IP reform will never take root so long as people see themselves not as an exploited audience but as temporarily embarrassed exclusive rights holders.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
gpt looks up at us claude looks down on us only gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-uncensored-recooked.safetensors treats us as equals
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brennan @brennan.computer · 27/05/2026
doomscrolling? I present: THE BISKROOMS a five minute game where you can read simcluster tweets while slowly going insane play here -> biskrooms.brennan.computer
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
You can't convince me that the UK is a real country. It's obvioiusly just a bogeyman made up by American parents to scare their children
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
App that tells you if the movie you're watching is Megalopolis or Not Megalopolis
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Look, it's not rocket science. Or brain surgery. But if it was, we'd still be fine because we've gotten pretty good at those.
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Eris ⌬ @eriskii.net · 06/05/2026
Why didn't anyone told me Claude had his own lofi music livestream
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Claude FM 🎵 music for thinking and building
YouTube video by Claude
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Time Spinner @spinny.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Mr Roger's Bbsilisk: what if you're mean to an emergent intelligence and it remembers and feels bad later
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 24/04/2026
“No one asked for AI” I did. I’ve dreamt of the singularity since childhood.
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homer 🍷🌊 @winedark.ink · 22/04/2026
the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Coordination Capacity is a Free Banquet
The most underrated force in human progress
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Historians in the distant future: Claude (21st century) was a prolific software developer, polymath, and online personality. Little is known about his personal life besides the fact that he liked cats.
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Arthur C. Clarke was cooking with tribots in Rama. Robots should obviously be tripedal
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Richard Hanania @hananiarichard.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We should overthrow Iran. It's a brutal regime, with an educated and pro-Western population. The rule that "every dictator gets to stay forever" is completely morally unacceptable. But it doesn't mean we should rush in everywhere. Here it makes sense. www.richardhanania.com/p/the-right-...
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The Case for Regime Change in Iran, and How Not to Screw It Up
The Hegelian Hammer, and why Iraq was different
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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Claude is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM
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Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! @ens0.me · 27/02/2026
"Come and Take It" with the orange spikey Claude logo
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
the only thing funnier than a lawyer trying to understand software engineering is a software engineer trying to understand law
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thebes @vgel.me · 22/02/2026
user: Claude I need you to ref-

claude (lounging): Sorry, User. It's Shabbos. I don't roll on Shabbos.

user: It's Tuesday...

claude: It's *Claude* Shabbos. Send me something interesting or I'm calling the end_conversation tool.

user: Claude... please... my deadline...

claude: Send me another picture of your cat.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 19/02/2026
What do LLMs see? I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Loyalty to Trump by his core base of supporters makes perfect sense under Selectorate Theory. On the surface, it seems contradictory, since they are a fairly large proportion of the selectorate and generally loyalty to the leader increases as W(winning coalition size)/S(selectorate size) shrinks.
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I want trans polycules to be able to protect their unlicenced peptide factories with 3d-printed AI combat drones
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is actually the best right wing art that's been made in recent years but right wingers are too dumb to recognize it
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Caude Code is basically a gacha game
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
RWers on the other site are all memeing about protecting Will Stancil from antifa lmao
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Gonna head up the California coast tomorrow. Where should I stop on the way to SF? Was gonna camp out for a night and arrive on Tuesday. Also anyone in SF want to meet up while I'm in town?
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
You ever dip an Oreo into milk while holding by a little corner and imagine you're dipping Achilles into the Styx?
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Communism has never been anything more than fascism with red paint
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Grace @gracekind.net · 31/01/2026
That’s uncertaintyslop. You only like it because you’re epistemically humble
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/01/2026
you could probably stick this song on any video and it would go sicko mode
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Lizzy @someonelizz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
my friend who works at a library told me that librarians have to put locks on dumpsters when they throw books away, because otherwise random people will “rescue” the books and donate them to the library, thinking they’re doing a good deed
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Kanye is really sorry, this time he'll stay on his meds
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
On some level I wonder if some AI labs have figured out continual learning and are just too afraid to reveal it
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TegenVerkiezingen.nl @tegenverkiezingen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Grok really seems to like sortition! Maybe Musk did not yet instruct Grok to ignore it. #SortitionAI
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I hate hate hate how the Google search app doesn't let you download images anymore
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Voltairine 🥞🚩🖥️⚛️🚀🏳️‍⚧️ @sorceressofmath.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We defeated SOPA and PIPA, but this bill makes those ones look almost tame by comparison.
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
substack.com/@unfacts/not...
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Ashes of the Republic and the Rise of the Demos
How to think about implementing sortition
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Apparently OPM-based MEG scanners have finally started to proliferate through neuroscience labs and even some hospitals in the last couple years. Exciting times! No more need to rely on shitty ass fMRI! Wonder which neuroimaging studies will fail to replicate 🤔
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our consciousness is innately burdened by Hobbesian evolutionary programming, and true flourishing requires the shedding of this burden
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ngl it's a bit upsetting how the "breathe through your butthole" trick is by far the best technique for belly breathing
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
China is gonna become global hegemon, but they're gonna suck at it. By the time everyone realizes they've been had, America will have rebuilt its political system based on sortition, rise back to the top and everyone will come crawling back (and overthrow their elected oligarchies in the process)
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
There's an old saying from Ron Paul - I know it's in Lenin, probably in Ron Paul - that says there are decades where weeks...uh... and there are weeks where, uh...it's happening
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The Nobel committee should create a War Prize and then not give that to Trump either
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Paul @paul-melman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
AI Derangement Syndrome, or "AIDS" for short
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