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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bingity bongity balibrated Your opinion's poorly

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've never done this before but I might need to mock someone on the Internet

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I would like to establish at this time that ALL of my opinions stated anywhere, past AND present, are DEFINITELY that of my employers and of all future employers.

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have detected a dangerous narrowing of the mind and would like to monitor your opinion over the next few weeks

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is at least plausible that human extinction will be within an order of magnitude as funny as it is tragic

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Little do my captors know I have spent years developing an intricate interrogation fetish

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What do you mean I have to define my aesthetic preferences in order to enforce them

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Why would anyone take drugs when they can read error logs

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Patching day! The best day for discovering detritus from the froth of creation

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Believe-by-default claims-to-moral-patienthood norms

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I would like my cultural, memetic and civilizational contributions to be recognised in an equitable fashion.

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Competent global administration does not require superintelligence

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Bilateral symmetry is overrated. Why can't I have a short arm (scratching) and a long arm (reaching)

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Having an American housemates is mostly fantastic, but I am 8 rounds deep in a Kryten v Rimmer rematch of whether tomato sauce lives in the fridge or not

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Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) @aria-research.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today we’ve published our 2026 Corporate Plan. Three years in, we’ve committed £500m+ across 14 programmes, backing 200+ R&D Creator teams. In 2026, we’ll continue to strengthen pathways that turn bold ideas into transformative breakthroughs. Read the full plan: aria.org.uk/media/nwffke...

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Techno will bring you to the mountain, but to climb it you need House

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Computer games are fun, I'll grant you, but have you ever manually picked up black sock lint from a carpeted room?

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The emotional payoff from being able to precisely go find a Cabal Ritual from where I stored it in 2002 is nearly overwhelming

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"By legally mandating that any recursively self-improving AI system must submit its expansion algorithms via physical fax machine to a local Bürgeramt, we can structurally guarantee a safe, slow takeoff." - safeaigermany.org

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

"(60% we shut it down given misalignment from other steps)" BY WHAT MECHANISM

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I seem to have been given authority commensurate with my love of paperwork, particularly, international tax paperwork. This is dharma

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

unbelievable. caught him slacking blissfully inside a balloon of his own making. the utter impertinence of this gremlin

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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Bluesky: the website for "38 year olds" who are all slowly becoming friends with crows and other birds.

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doctor eep (𝘢̶𝘭̶𝘵̶ℴ𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

olivia nuzzi: oysters contain pearls, nature's metaphor that out of mess comes jewelry. as a witness to eris casting out the golden apple, none of them are as hot as me. it is important that witnesses remain impartial.

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I just want to get paid pennies to tolerate ads, is that so much to ask

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 17/03/2026

Many LLM-enabled products will cause no harm! But the ones that do, will often tend to do so in ways that self-propagate, are intentionally spread via humans, take over other users' accounts, and otherwise run out of control Those processes need the statistics of social trends or diseases

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

the 'c' in chard is short for 'chewing-this-is-incredibly-'

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

13 out of 18 alive and in new pots. Total biomass increases. I choose to interpret this as a win!

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The humourously oblique notes I left myself on the outside of 47 otherwise visually identical book boxes are not at all tiring to parse after months of no context

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

alignment has many doors, Ed-boy

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

7am lawyer 7am lawyer $8.60 coffee Hotel foyer

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

"When this mind is retrieved, it will be the true mind, and once the true mind appears, it can extinguish demons." - Xiyou zhengdao shu 西遊證道書, 1662, facs. reprint Guben xiaoshuo jicheng 古本小説集成, 437-440, Shanghai, 1990.

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

At some point one must admit it's not a series of pivots so much as a poorly executed pirouette

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Hermit Heidi @hermitheidi.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

And in Tasmanian news...

News photo of damaged toilet and mayor with caption Mayor urges people not to eat public toilet seats

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Zack Witten @zswitten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/12/2025

look at this hodograph every time i do it makes me laugh

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It's fantastic coming across an articulation of something that I've thought fuzzily around the edges of for years:

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I get very mad when people mis-treat my screwdriver, so I understand this failure mode even as I try to guard against it in my day job with AI's.

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Jess Rainbow @jessrainbow.com · 09/11/2025

magic birds collage art made with paint dot net

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A natural extension of the 'two people kissing make a tube with an asshole at each end' thoughtline

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Jeff Kaufman @jefftk.com · 04/12/2025

Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who may soon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money donated sooner will likely be much higher impact.

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Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors?

Summary: Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who may soon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money donated sooner will likely be much higher impact. It's De...

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

And this is how "Would-the-other-imp's-advice-lead-me-to-the-pornography-and-or-cheap-consumer-goods-I-seek?" became the standard mantra to the Oracle at the Gates

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I feel like there should be some way for me to gamble on the Tasmanian stadium budget's actuals

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There's probably some way of buying real time blood pressure data of AI safety researchers, right? That's got to be an index somewhere

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A big chunk of today's newsletter is about the importance of naming, and I wasn't going to touch on AI but this is such a good point that now I have to. Every product is like "chat with our new AI, Schneepy!" because if they had to list what Schneepy was actually for, you wouldn't give a shit.

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Pip Foweraker 🔶️ @pipfoweraker.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Me, drinking orange juice (vital, life-seeding) and tea (grounded, nurturing)

Tarot like image of a dual-headed being walking through a symbolic landscape with the text 'when you finally learn to control the essence of both divine masculine and divine feminine polarities within you'

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