Reposted by potatoffelrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 4hyou need to just pack the supreme court, man. they don't care about what arguments you make, the legal movement formed with an explicit objective of making Watergate legal isn't going to make Watergate illegal. 181186207
Reposted by potatoffelhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 4h(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory 321306212
Reposted by potatoffelBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7hwas discussing this at dinner last night: one of the many problems with trying to make policy 'that the American public wants' is that the American public change their minds all the time and are frequently very very stupid. 481509209
Reposted by potatoffelghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21hbecause it's a facially and formally neutral rule that nevertheless does racism 1460844
Reposted by potatoffelJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers. 101132176
Reposted by potatoffelQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sometimes I come across a screenshot of a normie using ChatGPT with memory on (viz. this from TikTok via Twitter) and people get crazy cooked even just through bare chatbot interactions. Persistent interaction with long-running agents via texting/voice will be another 4o style mass psychosis event. 107811
Reposted by potatoffelDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"liberalcurrents.comThe Return of the Cutting-Off WayStructural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict." 1328151
Reposted by potatoffelJeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it closed, the server was opened to reveal a little man who took a bow. 012015
Reposted by potatoffelhenry breadstick @henrybreadstick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Farewell Kei. I will miss your backhand and non-sequitur interview answers 1132
Reposted by potatoffelghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026what i think is currently up in the AI space since we're having cost arguments again: selling inference is very profitable, but models are improving so fast that there's no time for capex on model training to amortize, so net at this rate they're losing money which is why they want a cartel 1534036
Reposted by potatoffelPaul Cochrane @mrdissent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/w...cnn.comExiled Russian artist known for anti-Putin cartoons shot dead in Poland | CNNA Russian artist best known for his unflattering caricatures of President Vladimir Putin was shot dead in Poland, prosecutors said Tuesday, adding that two Belarusian men were arrested in connection w... 052
Reposted by potatoffelMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There's a truth to this, but I think collapsing it to "Bossism" is wrong. It's just really hard to understand illegible tasks and tacit knowledge in general - that's what those adjectives *mean*. 1317712
Reposted by potatoffelelDiario.es @eldiario.es · 30/09/2026Es, primero, una brecha generacional: pagan los jóvenes y cobran -principalmente- los más mayores: 🔹 Los menores de 45 ponen más de la mitad del dinero 🔹Los mayores de 65 reciben más de un tercio eldiario.es/economia/gra... 111
Reposted by potatoffelMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 30/09/2026Typical OpenAI agent during its training run: 126916
Reposted by potatoffelBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here. 3242411127
Reposted by potatoffelQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model 27668153
Reposted by potatoffelDavid W (aka Flex NP) @rnflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Full Retatrutide phase 3 obesity data published today. It's gonna take a minute to fill dissect this. The appendix alone has 70 pages of data. Long story short we created a drug that's almost too good. Huge chunks of people stopped or reduced doses from excess weight reductions.nejm.orgRetatrutide, a Triple Hormone Receptor Agonist, for Treatment of Obesity | NEJMRetatrutide is a triple-receptor agonist of glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide, glucagon-like peptide-1, and glucagon receptors. In this phase 3, randomized, double-blind trial, we assign... 13384110
Reposted by potatoffelNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think it was @mconcagh.bsky.social who was talking about how "authenticity" in politics really does just mean a demand that people perform stereotypes. 21039
Reposted by potatoffelrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026there's a thing in moderate democratic politics where it is considered fundamentally illegitimate to deliver results to your own voters; instead, you must propose a better way to implement your adversaries' entire ideological program 431655286
Reposted by potatoffelBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is a good comparison but I think you also have to have a sense of just how bad things were in France (and Algerian 'France' in particular) at the time. 912114
Reposted by potatoffelBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1143334751
Reposted by potatoffelDan Rutherford @rutherdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026By the iron law of Boom-enomics, wherein each supply chain failure forces a company-wide pivot (aircraft --> engine --> stationary power), now Boom Supersonic is an AI data center company. techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/c...techcrunch.comCrusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers | TechCrunchBoom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans. 121
Reposted by potatoffeltaber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there 72566215
Reposted by potatoffeltaber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026This map from 1951 shows how iron ore moved then along the Great Lakes, and almost nothing about this has changed in 75 years. To make steel, you need iron ore. To move iron ore significant distances, you need deep draft waterways. You simply can not get the stuff to fucking *Iowa* 1222046
potatoffel @potatoffel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Supongo que opinión impopular etc, pero ahí va: sin aumentar el parque de viviendas en zonas tensionadas, no hay solución duradera sino problemas diferentes. 254
Reposted by potatoffelColin @colin-fraser.net · 10/09/2026There is something so funny, like laugh out loud funny when I think about it, of the trillion dollar hacker god AI pumping out text at $2/token that just says, MONEY…money… how do I get money? I just need $0.50. But how to get it? Let’s see. How to find 50 cents… Hmm… 515321
Reposted by potatoffelColin @colin-fraser.net · 09/09/2026once a new agent is instantiated and given the context from the previous one, the fact that we are on the "intended path" becomes canon. I can't believe how much I called this. bsky.app/profile/coli... 41457
Reposted by potatoffelRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality. 1126383
Reposted by potatoffelLaurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I appreciate this, which articulates some of what was frustrating me during the peak of DOGE activity. DOGE was never compatible with producing public good because their motivations and methods were structurally opposed to the public's 114046
Reposted by potatoffelJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...404media.coHumans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're HorrifiedHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI... 14666346
Reposted by potatoffelMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.elespectador.comMeta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjeraDe cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera. 431016658
Reposted by potatoffelSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you make any sort of money off betting or are a sharp, they also just ban you lol 1037140
Reposted by potatoffelMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026the reason the water thing annoys me so much is that there are real water issues that need to be solved and water issues at scale are "it's the agriculture, stupid" and the data center water freakouts convince people that those issues can be solved by data center moratoriums that is simply wrong 1832339
Reposted by potatoffelCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet 8897169
Reposted by potatoffelMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On September 15, ICE suddenly removed approximately 16,000 people from the system. They’re now just, well, disappeared. behindtheborder.substack.com/p/disappeare...behindtheborder.substack.comDisappeared in America16,000 people, gone 074
Reposted by potatoffelUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 27/09/2026🔴 BREAKING: Ukraine delivered about 4 tons of food to temporarily occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region using drones. The aid was delivered to 100 locations for residents, despite Russian forces reportedly shooting down aid drones and confiscating food. 14360136
Reposted by potatoffelae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026very few people actually behave as if they believe the AI takeoff stuff. 514517
Reposted by potatoffelLaura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If only there was some sign that Andy Burnham ducks difficult decisions 2227
Reposted by potatoffelSasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026For context: Palantir isn't named that because he's a Tolkien fan. It's because he's a fan of the uber-reddit Russian fanfic "The Last Ringbearer" which recast Sauron as a progressive industrializing force. 1731786
Reposted by potatoffelKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776352127
Reposted by potatoffelAron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Self-serving version of history, but also puts the finger on Moscow’s frustrating experience in the Middle East: it’s always either being treated as Budget America by those who can’t get the real deal, or used for leverage to improve terms with Washington. www.rudaw.net/english/cate... 082
Reposted by potatoffelSam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026gotta say there’s something almost poetic about Trump incentivizing less fuel efficient vehicles as the Iran war keeps pushing up the price of gas 311071216
Reposted by potatoffelDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833191108
Reposted by potatoffelMaciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets. 1511951551
Reposted by potatoffelWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 411161519
Reposted by potatoffelevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons. 431428340
