Reposted by Rorie GilliganBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats. 9326109
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I wonder how many people reading the Daily Mail will be aware of Avi's true stance on the issue. 000
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Revenge was part of the reason George W. Bush wanted Saddam Hussein dead. 060
Reposted by Rorie GilliganParkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is insane. 1763637904
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Two journalists I only know about from appearing in Chapo Trap House reading series and the Silicon Valley vampire with a peculiar fixation on the Antichrist. 110
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not sure what the logic is there. Maybe something to do with gas stabilising the electric grid? Which it's contributing less and less to now that we're building large-scale batteries. 110
Reposted by Rorie GilliganLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.” 1970192261
Reposted by Rorie GilliganDoctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026I believe it was @dsquareddigest.bsky.social who noted that the only way to survive an argument with Milton Friedman was that when he said “let us assume” to immediately interject “no, we will not assume that” and it’s an equally valid approach to discussing “AI risk”. 345291
Reposted by Rorie GilliganMonday's Manul @manulmonday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Happy Manul Monday! 15925
Reposted by Rorie GilliganDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Alright. Time to read the new Amodei essay.static.klipy.comAlonzo Mourning Reacts to Miami Heat LossALT: Alonzo Mourning Reacts to Miami Heat Loss 723943
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Whatever happened with his pivot to being a right wing podcaster anyway? This is the first thing I've heard of him since the widely criticised Robinson interview. 100
Reposted by Rorie GilliganBilly Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/20269/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!avclub.comRead This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11 7252122
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I remember when this guy wrote a whole column about some unknown university professor with maybe a hundred followers calling him a bedbug on twitter. 190
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026They didn't want to admit that it would be a bad bet 020
Reposted by Rorie GilliganBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you want a rational conversation about tradeoffs you should start by demanding honesty from the industry that has been lying about this technology since its inception, not to mention one of the common talking points being "You're getting this whether you like it or not" 272743399
Reposted by Rorie GilliganNick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.com‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliamentExclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources 9255168
Reposted by Rorie GilliganFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Them: We want to start a fume hood back up. Me: Okay, not really my thing unless it was a former rad lab. [starts pulling contact info of the correct person] Out of curiosity, which room? Them: Seaborg's former space. Me: [hands freeze] I can already tell you that you don't have enough money. 2539564
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I still listen to those soundtracks at work sometimes. 000
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Last I heard of Dawkins, he'd developed AI psychosis. 120
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Oh right, I watched it on patreon earlier in the week. 010
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I hadn't paid any attention to him since The Glass House ended 20 years ago, so I missed all the intermediate stages of decomposition. 011
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026What bizarre reasoning led to that connection? I would've thought the people who rabidly hate cyclists would be the same ones who cheer when foreigners are rounded up. 160
Reposted by Rorie GilliganRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 18/08/2026French troops require wine or else they won't fight. The problem with wine is that glass bottles break and steel cans leak when hit by shrapnel and fouled the flavor. So they invented Vinogel, a 3x solid wine concentrate made with pectin that could be reconstituted or eaten. 40929147
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It does indeed increase the likelihood of a fatal crash 020
Reposted by Rorie GilliganEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...theonion.comTranslator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ... 257239304576
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Coming from a country with high skin cancer rates, wtf? 010
Reposted by Rorie GilliganStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 08/08/2025When we talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we typically focus on August 6 and August 9. But August 8, 1945, is also one of the most important dates for understanding those unprecedented attacks. (This is an adaptation of a thread originally written by @wellerstein.bsky.social in 2020 on Twitter.) 39137
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I've been hearing about this one at conferences for years, I guess it's finally going ahead. Scandium forms durable and lightweight alloys with aluminium, with only small amounts of scandium needed. Hence the importance to aerospace. 000
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Iron rich asteroids contain elevated levels of platinum and platinum group metals (PGMs) owing to the solubility of PGMs in iron. Most of the PGMs on earth are in the core. Very rare in the crust. I highly doubt that mining asteroids for PGMs will be economically viable any time soon, though. 020
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The way they talked about those supposed resources convinced me that they think that mining works like harvesting tiberium in Command and Conquer. There are apparently some amazing quality lithium-bearing pegmatites in Afghanistan as well, but good luck actually mining and beneficiating them. 030
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026We can add mining and metallurgy to the list of topics he's completely clueless about. 070
Reposted by Rorie GilliganAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Australia’s media nepo babies 1116786
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026A great read on soulless AI generated writing. samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...samkriss.substack.comIf you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill youDid you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell. 000
Reposted by Rorie GilliganMonday's Manul @manulmonday.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Happy? :| Manul Monday 29529
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Lithium hexafluorophosphate is used as an electrolyte in batteries. Battery innards are among the least pleasant substances I've worked with over the years. 000
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Potential criticality incidents aside, the material is likely in the form of uranium hexafluoride, which is seriously nasty stuff. On contact with water it forms hydrofluoric acid which is capable of dissolving glass, sand, and bones. 130
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I'm sure there's a bunch of special forces people getting crash courses in chemical engineering and nuclear chemistry as we speak. Oh, the number of ways this can go horribly, catastrophically wrong. 120
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026People who brag about their education to win internet arguments are insufferable 040
Rorie Gilligan @roriegilligan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026theshovel.com.au/2026/07/20/l...theshovel.com.auLocal Fuckwit Makes It All About Him — The ShovelAn emotionally deficient, validation-obsessed, narcissistic arseclown has once again shown he is psychologically incapable of conceiving of a situation that does not revolve around himself. 010
Reposted by Rorie Gilligandonoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026now i'm a broken man on an ithaca pier the last of agamemnon's privateers 527363