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At some point leaders buying a castle, other lavish purchases sexually harassing women, pledging but not giving, saying Black people are stupider, then doing massive economic fraud and --after many years --not freeing money for use but holding it in funds raises doubts about the future reliability.

They don't relinquish control of the funds and utilitarians have no reason to be modest so it will help their credibilty if the books are more open and when more pledges become actual donations. And it's hard not to notice the other ones and the posh crypto/AI lifestyle.

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Maybe they say to do it now. You don't see them doing it so often--the prominent ones tend to buy castles. gad about, and juggle a bunch of girlfriends.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty sure I am not autistic but this might be why I got married --because I can't get to know anyone well enough, wouldn't go right or at least I prefer being alone so when I met someone I could --1 in a billion chance of it even happening once. I'd call it 'lonerism.' I like people though.

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I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City

On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 2h

Ow, laughed too hard --I am dying at this.

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 2h

one thing that makes it effevtive is the way just plain lack of cash at a specific time can push people to severe poverty when with cash their life would have been more stable.

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 2h

Another dumb --and scammy thing-- thing about effective altruism is that giving money to people directly is very effective. Pick one of the poorest countries gradually distribute your ill gotten gains to individuals of this country. (They will flap hands but their whole thing is weak.)

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They desperately need someone to persecute. In the face of successful mass repression they would try to pick on people for something trivial but they crave extreme suffering from a scapegoat.

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Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s say that the governments of the UK and US created a mass conformity law that would require every outlier to conform to whatever the persecutors tend to want so their target is invisible. I wonder how long it would take for the transphobes and other bigots to re-invent witch conspiracies.

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What does far-right protest do to democracy? Join us online October 8, 12:15–13:15 CET as I present ongoing research with @xromerovidal.bsky.social, @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & A. Klassens. Thanks to @anketresch.bsky.social, GRIEC & Uni Lausanne. Info & registration 👇 www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

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Contesting Democracy: Far-Right Protest and Public Satisfaction with Democratic Institutions

Caterina Froio de Sciences Po Paris présentera ses récentes recherches.

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epluribusfractum.bsky.social @epluribusfractum.bsky.social · 3h

They felt nervous for a minute and I guess that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to them?

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NYT: A medical expert explains in gruesome detail how phenobarbital kills. Worse is when the inmate survives badly debilitated. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...

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Opinion | I Consulted With Christa Pike’s Death Row Team. I Knew This Could Happen. (Gift Article)

Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.

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JeffBakerAuthor @jeffbakerauthor.bsky.social · 5h

For World Teacher's Day (October 5th) here's math teacher Tom Lehrer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3...

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Tom Lehrer - The Elements - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

These companies are publicly saying they think it is OK if their products do "bad things" to the public -- and Republicans are saying they'll let them "self-regulate." I hope people hear this before they vote.

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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 3h

Fascism killing the future and the past

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 4h

That billionaire class is accelerating the transfer upwards and the rate of acceleration is accelerating.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3h

Since at least the early 2010s, lobbyists from tech companies have been crawling all over govt and there is a revolving door for advisors and sr politicians between Westminster and tech companies. Right now, George Osborne is at OpenAI, Matt Clifford at Anthropic and that is latest in a long line

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stratvox @partialtomusic.bsky.social · 5h

White wing conservatives are the Philistines of the 21st century.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 6h

It continues to amaze me that we could have technology that works fine for 10 or 20 years that now works badly—that they could improve so much software over and over that itis now terrible software.

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Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 4h

I uhhhh… i don't like it that NPR is increasingly captured by effective altruists and "AI" hypemongers. It seems really bad and is also just damn disappointing. bsky.app/profile/benc...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 4h

The scarier part to me is how many people are fine with him and what he does.

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He's *already* murdered vastly more people than any serial killer could hope for. The most prolific serial killer, Pedro Lopez, only killed about 300 children. Elon has *already* killed over 300,000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_L...

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Pedro López (serial killer) - Wikipedia

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

He's committed crimes so huge the human mind can't really comprehend them, and not only is he the richest human in history but he's right now helping the US commit war crimes that can never be held accountable.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5h

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5h

Did you ever see ‘Beau is Afraid’? Maybe the paint scene is about this issue.

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Kudos to Babylon Berlin for perfectly capturing the vibe of trying to find happiness and meaning in a crumbling constitutional order

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Severija - Zu Asche, Zu Staub (Psycho Nikoros) – (Official Babylon Berlin O.S.T.)

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HE broke the town?

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My point is only most people probably don’t believe the AI CEOs have mental illness. But we don’t know what the heck they are doing or why. So to avoid their messed up actions being complicated or scary it’s also likely some might attempt to make such a claim.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

I wouldn’t but I interpret the word when used by others. It rarely means mentally ill or depends on a belief that the person has an illness or any discrete, specific condition. It usually refers to a type of behavior. Usually temporary condition like ‘dogs go crazy when they see squirrels.’

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It surprised me that the NYT story, which has five bylines, does not mention that Walters’ company, Salus Worldwide, has lost its $915M self-deportation contract. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-taps-r...

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DHS Taps ResponseAI, an ICE Skip-Tracing Contractor, to Run Self-Deportation Contract

The company, whose growing ICE portfolio includes locating people for deportation, will now run DHS’s contract for people leaving through the CBP Home app.

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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks @gillianbrockell.com! Give her a follow if you haven't yet. Her dogged, in-depth reporting on ICE flights, the people impacted, and the companies involved has been indispensable.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 5h

Del Taco and Jack in the Box.

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 5h

One problem is some people fall outside our ability to comprehend or reach them and it’s obviously not the same as mental illness —often it’s they don’t give a shit about others. But it’s hard to understand why and frightening so some will offer mental illness as an explanation. But this is wrong.

Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 5h

‘Crazy’ has so many connotations though. Calling someone crazy doesn’t always mean they are mentally ill. It can mean they are unreachable by reason or making themselves unintelligible (often by choice), are acting outside norms, they (or it) are intense, extreme, excessive, unpredictable.