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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hello my (temporary?) new discord account is nyarlathotepscat

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

TBH, I don't think it's ever been my observation that gender critical feminist culture is liberal or has any particular commitment to the liberal political project beyond the mercenary.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ok what is the most votes the monster raving looney party has ever gotten at a parliamentary election this is very comfortably going to set a record right?

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

the thing about 'cancel culture' is that it's particularly a disease of the messenger class which on the one hand we can lose all sense of proportion on how important it actually is but on the other hand it seems suboptimal if it causes half the messenger class to go insane.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

people were wrong: wokeness isn't a memeplex, it's a meme Cambrian explosion triggered by giving a million monkeys with typewriters access to the internet, opening up an enormous array of meme niches

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

that sounds like making the middle east a pvp zone for people who want to wage holy wars and fulfil apocalypic prophecies with extra steps. its a shame theres people living there who just want to mind their own business.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

i think it shouldn't be the case that the US public sector is 60% local employees

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

i feel like we are getting real people's front of judea/ judean people's front when it comes to tech liberaltarians on the question of "when did the conservative side of politics lose its head".

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

this seems pretty clearly unconstitutional? like you can't do the "with the tacit approval of congress" if congress was not consulted and like, he may not be missed but kidnapping another countries head of state is usually considered an act of war.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I am bemused this is not normal in the states? I suppose in Aus the parties do recieve funding 😅

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

definitely squicked enough out by grok nonsense i feel like i ought to boycott

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I wonder what percentage of the drop in trust in ICE this account is singlehandedly responsible for?

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

is like individualised LLM-assisted bsky content moderation a thing because it seems like a good idea? like, there is probably a reasonably large set of people who are like "I would like some curation and trust Claude or Chatgpt with custom instructions more than typical bsky blocklist maintainer"

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

tbh I think the US context is interesting that trust in the state is low enough neither side of politics would take a package deal of "repeal the 2nd amendment and also repeal birthright citizenship" whereas both of these things are rare and politically difficult in other developed countries

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

how do we feel about this folks?

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

what is donald trumps approval rating in the UK

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I have to wonder if our superannuation system is underdiscussed as a reason the far right struggles to get traction in Australia like, there's less of a natural constituency of "socially conservative pensioners who maybe mistrust the traditional party of the centre-right to hand them their cheques"

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

tired brain keeps confusing Ehrhart and Elkohar

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

wow liberalism is regrettably rare

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qntm @qntm.org · 03/09/2025

Amazing new age verification procedure requires no government ID, no credit card numbers, no photography import { setTimeout } from 'node:timers/promises' const verifyAge = async () => { await setTimeout(568_036_800_000) return true }

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

deal is open to Brits as well!

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

who would actually know what condition trump is in? fewer people than you think

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

if trump *were* to die in office I suspect we might not recieve much warning

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

fwiw I am pretty happy to call the plan "flatten gaza and evict everyone living there" genocide or ethic cleansing or whatever, its a pretty central example of the thing. like regimes did this all the time during the Age Of Nationalism and there's a reason we don't do this anymore.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

wait that is what a plimsoll is????

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

im skeptical tariffs were ever a net positive issue for trump im sure "voters who have ever read an economics textbook" outnumber "auto and steel workers in the midwest"

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

mr burns disease for X-risk

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

ok malcolm turnbull is abundance pilled? ofc malcolm turnbull is abundance pilled lmao

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

hot take: the traditional centre-right has the most to lose on israel/palestine

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

it feels like the consensus among UK journalists over the past 5 or so years is that it's acceptable to cherrypick crimes committed by *trans* people but to do that to *brown* people is beyond the pale and people are acting :shocked_pikachu: that this consensus has broken down for some reason?

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I think the issue is politicians are trained to talk to the media in a way that is no longer helpful

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

like i feel like you can argue that in principle states are allowed to have an interest in who crosses borders without it devolving into "randomly chucking anyone who looks vaguely brown into federal prison without legal counsel"

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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

dems have an image problem on foreign policy I wonder what's up with that?

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

have people tried calling 911 on ICE raids? i think things could get interesting

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

hi bskies how are you doing this fine day?

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 25/01/2025

an open source 7B replication of R1-zero and R1 notable: they claim they developed in parallel and that most of their experiments were performed *prior to* the release of R1 and they came to the same conclusions hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-rea...

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7B Model and 8K Examples: Emerging Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning is Both Effective and Efficient | Notion

A replication of DeepSeek-R1 training on small models with limited data

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Anaïs might be learning how to edit🤔 @anaisl.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I think that trans people should aggressively adopt the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" until it is literally ours forever and the cis can have it back on a provisional basis.

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alex @pawnofcthulhu.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

i feel weirdly in the minority in that i think the pro-Palestine movement is likely to be successful? like nobody's going to be like "yay hamas" but to get wealthy western democracies to move from "pro-israel" to "not involved" seems v achievable there's always a constituency for isolationism

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ψ-alea @alea.ingroup.social · 08/12/2024

Controversial opinions, for some reason: -All things are clearly separate and distinct -Minds are created, grow, decay, and then die -All subjectivity is reducible to computational events -There is a ground truth independent from social consensus

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 28/12/2024

Call me basic but I really like the Adagietto from Mahler 5

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/12/2024

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

political alignment chart with an “annoying to me personally” z-axis

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