iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The SF Bay Area is at the edge of the posthuman. We've gone from moving fast & breaking things with CRISPR germline edits made possible (& cautioned against) by Doudna's Lab to self-recursively accelerating AI created in SF labs, which Gates warns could cull a billion people.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On October 16th, both the Holmes and Musk documentaries will be released, it seems. So it won't be Barbenheimer but Mulmes or Holsk?

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Maybe they would have if his political career hadn’t been derailed by all that jail time for tax fraud, but we know who The Feds were harassing Lyndon LaRouche, aka Lynn Markus, on behalf of: the drug-running British Monarchy. 😜

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This thread reminds me of the need for any student to be aware that different disciplines need different approaches. Eg deduction from axioms is OK in maths, not the social sciences; creating clarity OK in engineering, less so in literature. Beware of professional deformation.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You need a vote of 85% of shareholders to press the kill switch on the public-minded Anthropic Board of Directors. Say Amodei is worried that the Board will keep Anthropic in the sandbox. He rushes to go public so he has the votes to neutralize the Board, not just to get rich.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Teach people to demand pay in stock options, and then they maximize the value of those options at the expense of everyone else at the firm. I'd guess that this is one reason for the rent-extracting ways of business school-educated CEO's.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yes, this social movement may emerge outside and against party politics. It may also birth a poet, a new Wm Blake decrying data centers not as dark Satanic mills but as Digital Mills of Urizen. That the Blake & other connections haven't yet been made suggests that this is only starting!

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Tony Jackson @jacksont0ny.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Please read and share; let’s focus on the truth Everything good about Professor Jason Arday leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...

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Everything Good About Jason Arday

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So if Greenland uses force to shut down an unauthorized Trump-aligned firm from drilling for oil and Trump sends the US military to protect the illegal US firm, does NATO then use force to protect Greenland's sovereignty? The petro Axis of US & RU => WW3?

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A couple of nice & not all that technical essays on AI in J Economic Perspectives, pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... & pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

On how Enron's Special Purpose Vehicles to hide debt worked, see attached also.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Province of Inner Mongolia is at the poster child of China's energy bet. Last year, it cut coal use in power by 4% -- more than any other province. It is also home to 20 GW of new coal power plants in pipeline -- more than any other province. Great deep dive! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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China’s Net Zero Strategy Relies on an Unlikely Tool: Lots of Coal

The central government sees coal as an essential bridge to a clean-energy future. Some regions are motivated to extend its use as long as possible.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As the summer burns again, a reminder that only last year a top executive at both McKinsey and one of the largest insurance companies in Germany matter-of-factly stated that entire regions were becoming unisurable and capitalism therefore unviable. www.commondreams.org/news/capital...

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Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist | Common Dreams

If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes compare how well Biden got along with Strom Thurmond

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Trillionaire exoneration day. One may not intend that 14 M people die by cutting aid, but the consequence of that action, as it was abruptly undertaken, was fully foreseeable and predictable. Clearly, this was man(mass)slaughter, a form of homicide.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People ceding their thinking this easily to LLMs may suggest they were already alienated from their thinking: thinking for them was already the alienated activity of apprehending the thoughts of the anyone or the agentic mouthpiecing of the principal in whose legal hold they already were

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Kill off higher ed to clear the way to accumulate power and money in the ways that the past and hard-won self-understanding would teach us not to and to prevent us from apprehending the genuinely new problems we should be solving and devising the tools to do so. Trump U forever

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The ‘29 stock market crash doesn’t give you the Great Depression, Shiller argues, because only 2% owned stocks. You needed doomaxxing narratives. 1/3

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Charles Hall emphasized that with fossil fuels the energy rate on investment was falling, i.e. it was taking more fossil fuel energy to extract fossil fuel energy. This may explain early interest in renewables until they developed fast & threatened to strand fossil fuel assets & tech connected to it

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"An electron can be sourced from coal, gas, sun, wind, or uranium; a combustion engine is married to a single fuel that must cross someone else’s chokepoint. Electrification is the purchase of optionality, and China bought more of it than any nation in history." www.ft.com/content/2f13...

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The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise

Electrification is the purchase of optionality and China bought more of it than any nation in history

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In 2012, 30 states allowed no-excuse mail-in voting. In 2016, 8 states saw more than a fourth of voters send in their ballots. Taibbi has either gotten a lot dumber, or he just doesn't give a shit anymore.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Why not Phillip Glass’s 4’33” then?

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

To meet the ravenous energy demands of AI data centers, coal is making a comeback due to the blockages to gas in Russia, Hormuz, etc. So: a 19th-century dirty-energy technology alongside 21st-century automation: a new cyberpunk will be the aesthetic for civilizational collapse

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Happy Birthday to us! 🥳 To mark our 25th anniversary, we asked 25 people to write up to 250 words on an idea that has been influential in their thinking. We hope you enjoy reading their contributions! Find them at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/25-ideas

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/05/2026

Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now: 🧵

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I wonder what we could instead pay energy companies to leave in the ground at a serious discount to their net present value at the moment.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I haven't yet read Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry of the Future. Does it tell us what happens next?

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Why do philosophers discuss a fictional Trolley Problem? Chernobyl invented a real one. Pilots could make the radioactive waste come down on Belarus, killing fewer, or let it move in the clouds, likely eventually raining down on a more populous Moscow. theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yes, Reader's Digest is undead, and apparently producing horror fiction, combining a critical sociology of AI as a mirror of the worst of us (shannonvallor@bsky.social) with a reboot of "The Stepford Wives".

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Conflicts already give Trump exceptional powers; full-scale war will give Trump emergency powers. He has run his party into the ground. He will need all the power he can concentrate in himself to get his party and himself through the next two years. There will be no peace.

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

His one idea is that due to an overwhelming force advantage the US can have its way as long as it does not inhibit itself with wokeness. Thus, the only thing he has to do is unwoke the military. He does not have to prepare for their counter-moves or use any intelligence whatsoever. Which suits him

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Any chance it was an Iranian state-backed party that traded on the inside information?

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

World's top energy executives are meeting in Houston for the annual CERAWeek conference this week. I hope this chart is the talk of town.

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Note that if 42.5% of people under 50 are GOP-leaning & 31% of them identify as racist, ≈ 87% under 50 don't. Yet 13% may be more than enough to cross a threshold that could bring new people in that could then get a new threshold crossed for more people to be brought it. Vigilance is required.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The rot revealed in the US military & diplomatic efforts, by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-rot-is... Deeply disturbing. BTW, Phillips—what is your take on the US sinking of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka?

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The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It

The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I will never not be angry at the way tech bros have told us that the danger is apocalyptic superintelligence when it was always obvious that the reason to worry is that we would put dumb AI in really stupid places.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

no quarter can or should be given to hold this evil to account

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

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Rakesh Bhandari @postdiscipline.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Thread makes sense but offered as only as plausible.

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