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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 4h

Just a reminder: 163 articles were published on Jason Arday in the week after he resigned. Same outlets: 13 articles on Cambridge academic James Orr after allegations of misconduct & a broadcast showing him seemingly engaging in illegal activity. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine the FOMO, staying at home while the Hundred Days are happening

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

honestly the only way you could've got me to go on a pub crawl is giving me a hi vis jacket and a job title and exempting me from drinking

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These kind of look like some of the more abstract bathroom door signs

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dreamt I spotted new and elusive varieties of urban woodpigeon

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree it's quite a bad passage but they *do* acknowledge the term "antisemitism" was coined to euphemise jew-hatred in the preceding paragraph, as well as the fact that "Semitic" was coined for linguistics. Which does make it all the more baffling they would claim there is a "Semitic identity"

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's so good, I've started pushing it, only got one person to read it so far but thinking of buying a copy to coax my friends who won't read epub/pdf

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Necro-posting bc I wanted to see who else on bluesky was talking about Jukka Sarasti; it's an actual Finnish name! He was named after a fan who won a contest iirc. & in Finnish stress is always on the first syllable so I believe it *would* be pronounced SAH-rah-stee unfortunately.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

if it's all fake maybe we could all agree to take the day off at the same time. A General Take-the-day-off if you will.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To be honest I don't really think reading a book is in itself knowledge work. Maybe it's the intellectual equivalent of cardio?

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the more impressive given that he can't have sold many books outside of the UK, no? Like has anyone in North America ever heard of him?

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Anton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At least no mathematician has ever had an extreme reaction to the rapid development of technology.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[several flattened cities later] ouuugh that's it no more Mr Nice Guy

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the first pass, I did briefly wonder if maybe people had somehow started killing themselves/each other over Avengers Doomsday, which would justify the epithet

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I agree with you sorry! I'm saying it's even more unconvincing when the argument is "they don't work, but if they do work it's only for doing bad things", it comes off as completely motivated

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

from the screenshot, it sounds like he's trying to argue that the only thing they are good at is surveillance and slop, so even if they work it's still bad

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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

such a classic scene

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Listened to two Downstream videos (N*vara) the other day and my youtube recs were immediately flooded with clickbait junk 🥴

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ben Garrison was hospitalised with shingles. If only there was a vaccine...

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A name fit for neoliberalism's heroic age

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the hell?? He *said* this??

The screenshot of Brian Cox talking about what science is for where he compares it to the Parachute Regiment, which he is an outspoken supporter of. The authenticity of the screenshot is orthogonal to its expression of more fundamental truths (Brian Cox is a chud and his wife is a terf)

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To be fair, what are they going to do? Free Pinochet a second time?

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really hate NYT Games partly for this reason (that they fund a newspaper which I think has some pretty awful editorial positions); also because in the service of money-making they produce facile, superficial puzzles that flatter their users' intelligence in order to keep them subscribed

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Heard they're holding a your mum convention in London. Yeah, it's at the XL centre.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me and the NYT Games guy might have had our disagreements (namely, the existence of NYT Games) but political conflicts must never be resolved through random acts of violence

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Pope has an immaculate South American accent when he speaks French. Confirming that he is, indeed, the second Sudaca Pope.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's funny, and it definitely nailed superficial strains of AI boosterism, but people are using it any time an LLM does anything now

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"[...] un Tung Tung Tung Sahur ruggente, che sembra tuonare come la mitraglia, è più bello della Vittoria di Samotracia" - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One Of These 59 Top Cities and Capitals Doesn't Have a Triumphal Arch. The Answer Will Shock You!

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the things that fucks me up about this video is he looks exactly like a South Park character

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the only other thing I can think of Garrison explicitly disagreeing with Trump about, in recent memory, is literally the covid vaccine

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ben Garrison has joined the war on data centres grrrgraphics.com/you-will-be-...

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You will be Assimilated

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Is it the sound or the meaning or both?

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Tom Holland (the one who's not a historian), Tom Holland (actually, also not a historian), and Thomas Holland (jury still out)

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why the hell are Corsican nationalists interested in Napoleon III, the less successful and less Corsican Napoleon

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A real test now of the media's appetite for Cambridge professors and their ethics.

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A lot of new serfs had been slaves before!

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Psilopteros @psilopteros.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Making video essays perhaps...

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