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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

he could literally send himself right now to go fight in the currently ongoing hot war against "islamists" that he started?

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 5h

This is also the case when social and political scientists use synthetic data purporting to stand in for real humans and real human social relations and behaviors; and the task they are also looking for an excuse not to do is research.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h

what does it take to get a job at SpaceX? -total loyalty to Musk, above any form of professional ethics or personal morality -cool with racism, sexism, transphobia, etc -enjoys building the future of generated CSAM and non-consensual nudes -willing to sacrifice family, hobbies, identity to work

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5h

I hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird.

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The failure to crack down on crimes but with computer has rotted a lot of society. PayPal should have been destroyed for not following AML laws not netted Thiel and Musk millions.

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 10h

ha! I’ve said this before, we already built the paperclip maximizer, its name is Capitalism

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 9h

Setting aside the fact that most of these people did not, in fact, break the law, what does this suggest about how the next administration should handle the members of this one, nearly all of whom have broken many laws?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Stu @rickybaker51.bsky.social · 14h

The comments are sending me

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11h

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 11h

I think it was @patrickwyman.bsky.social who defined a period of collapse as”everyone knows there are huge problems to fix but no one wants to fix them” or everyone knows that bridge needs repair but somehow it never gets done

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HollySci @hollysci.bsky.social · 11h

This particular bunch is so dumb that they have the level of confidence in their own intellect which only comes from never having had to realize that other people may be smarter. One of the most important parts of higher education is learning that you are not a singular genius who is always right.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 11h

It's funny because noted sex-cult leader Big Yuds' argument for the AI murdering us all is that it will be a ruthlessly "logical" machine, whereas current AI is a gaussian blur of the Collective Unconscious and if it nukes us all its because we wrote a lot of fiction where AI tries to kill humans.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12h

yes, i think this is a big factor in our current weirdness burst

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12h

you'd think that if Eliezer Yudkowsky really was the greatest genius of our era, he could have seen this coming

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 30/09/2026

"17-year-old boy" is non-gendered

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 18h

at best its “what if scientology had gulf arab oil wealth” and at worst it is “what if the freikorps was keyed into the 19th century railroad boom”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
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Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

I think a key issue here is that these guys have no idea what 'good' means

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026

The post-information world of the replacement of science, expertise, and institutional development with autonomized ignorance and participatory make-believe as the highest epistemic good proceeds apace. Caveat cognitor.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026

Is AI an existential threat to humanity? Well they sure fucking hope it will be in their hands.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

Yet more proof that “superintelligence” has always been a supremacist framing (aside from the eugenics origins and actual eugenicists pushing both this term and “artificial general intelligence” throughout their lifespans)

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root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that I'm fairly certain of is that yud is still writing. But it's for internal consumption only, secret dianetics chapters for people entering the inner circle of scientology type shit. And it's gonna be 100x worse content than his public writing.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no kind of reform of any sort is possible while this state of affairs persists. you have to allow companies to change over time, to be amenable to different perspectives, to have actual corporate oversight by something other than one man's will. sic semper tyrannis

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

does not want society to expect much out of him. In this world, "society" as a middle layer between the intimate world of the individual and the existential world of "serious" issues does not functionally exist

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

being afraid of surveillance and punishment by others while compulsively desiring to surveil and punish others themselves. This is a person who is an ideal subject for an authoritarian state, not because he makes a natural Sturmtruppen but rather because he does not expect much out of society and

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think the answer, after several decades, is fairly obvious. its a person who suffers from all of the defects neil postman ascribed to television without any of the benefits of mass media creating a shared psychological space

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the biggest point of leverage right now is to simply let capitalism work, as opposed to digital feudalism. people like Thiel have said over and over again that they do not like competition and see the founder-king as a heroic figure that should have maximum power to do as he sees fit

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yud wrote a story in which a minor plot point is that society has gotten over what's portrayed as a irrational taboo against rape.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A political social network has latched on to a handful of politically active academics whose views are the vast minority in their field, who keep making wrong predictions and denying verifiable facts, but retain a large following. Bluesky recognizes this pattern with climate denial, but not with AI

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

this is truly the fundamental problem we've all been talking about around AI, power, and regulation, IMO

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

“high de-coupling” seems like a nice way to say “extremely fucking gullible”

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Someone who doesn’t deserve it might get a good thing, therefore no one gets a good thing!

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Requiring scientists to be political neutral is to require scientists to shut up when the facts are inconvenient.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

im losing my fucking mind

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Optimization cannot be the goal for all aspects of life, and in some cases, seeking optimization destroys the underlying purpose of the experience. This is the story of education where the efficient transaction of credentialing has subsumed the experiences of learning.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Taking a walk outside entails a fair amount of effort, so I've decided to optimize my enjoyment of nature by dispatching a robot to walk for me and present me with a summary of the weather, the terrain, and a list of which flowers are in bloom

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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They're gonna put this in the medical textbooks for the consequences testosterone and HGH abuse without working out.

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Hellanal Boner-Farter @weedlordmegadoodoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dying laughing that republicans successfully campaigned on "Democrats will take your burgers away"

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve heard people say there isn’t much good media attempting to reckon with the pandemic (eddington, the answer is eddington) but buddy that’s a tall order when you consider that we still haven’t fully reckoned with the war on terror or the 2008 collapse

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