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Anarchy Goose @anarchygoose.northsky.social · 10h

Years ago I used to say that Elon would be remembered as one of history's greatest monsters because he knew he could solve world hunger and chose not to. Then he decided to make everything so much worse, deliberately. The scale of death he is responsible for is difficult to grasp.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 4h

I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings

The cover of Fortune Magazine that calls the convicted fraud Sam Bankman-Fried “the next warren buffet” because of his crypto-scam

The cover of Forbes, where Elizabeth Holmes holds a capsule of blood for a cover story extolling her genius, shortly before she was convicted for fraud and sentenced to a long prison sentence.

A glossy photo spread extolling the glamour and taste of Asma al-Assad, weeks before her husband committed multiple war crimes and eventually had to flee to Russia to avoid being hacked apart by an enraged rob.

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 3h

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a post from the Guardian with an article about a 15 year old boy who has lost his hand after picking up a police stun grenade used in a protest

@sloanelysbeth.northsky.social asking the reasonable question: "Why are police using grenades on children?"

to which @merluzo.solidarity.social appears out of nowhere to respond: "Who says they did? You're making a massive leap from one point to the other without the pieces in between"

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Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social · 3h

Have some good news folks!

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 6h

Do you know the wild thing about this? The founder of zionism, theodore herzl wrote books on zionism, and IN EVERY SINGLE BOOK, one of them named "the Jewish state", he clearly described zionism as the white settler colonial apartheid ethno racist ideology that it is. He didn't mince words, at all!

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 5h

Ahh, unlucky mate. Turns out trans healthcare is still the scientifically and morally correct thing to do. I assume you'll be apologising now? Not sure why you thought the last 5 years would be different to the nearly 100 before that but ok

Some prick from Twitter exactly 5 years ago saying "I do hope in five years when this has been consigned to the rubbish heap that your apology to the legions of mutilated 20somethings will be fulsome and abject, Katy. You're going to have a LOT of explaining to do."

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Sunshine Moon @sunshinemoon.zone · 9h

40k: this game originally started as a sci-fi twist on classic fantasy, so we have all the traditional kinds of elves Me: of course 40k: high elves Me: right 40k: dark elves Me: right 40k: clown elves Me: righ- 40k: wood elves Me: wait go back one 40k: and of course the elf cult that worships ghosts

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Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 7h

Britain, from now until eternity.

The circular I Just Need To meme with austerity

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Big Joel @bigjoel.bsky.social · 11h

my twitter feed is all these people saying that AI might be conscious, but instead of making a particular case for that, they just say, well u know I mean consciousness is pretty weird. how do u know people are conscious. robots COULD be conscious, etc. And I wonder who this is persuasive for

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the samsara enjoyer @rubot.ie · 8h

hearing reports so-called pollution haters breathed polluted air this week.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 8h

I also want to add the talk of "self determination" is always wheels out without context as if it's some sort of moral right. E.g. let's take the UK, if I talk about the indigenous English right to self determination, you know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about and it's not good is it?

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 7h

Post Harry Potter art, I'm blocking you without hesitation. I don't care what the excuse is, don't support monsters.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 10h

People who think the Green Party can win by chasing media friendly optics have profoundly misunderstood why the Green Party is currently appealing to so many people. Courage and principles are winners for us not umming and ahhing.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 8h

Tapping the sign

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 9h

The transgenders not going quietly - how dare they

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 8h

At a certain point you see stuff like this and think "just do it already" because it's been the logical endpoint of all the hysteria around any left-of-Labour or pro-Gaza candidate after the last election. They want to make voting for anyone left of Labour illegal. Do it already and let's dance.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I think that would be helpfully clarifying for everybody

Melanie Phillips • @MelanieLatest
X.com
The Greens should now be proscribed as a terrorist support group. Jews are now demonstrably in danger from them.

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 22h

"the point of fraternity hazings and gang rapes is to create a history of criminal activity between groups of men" Yes, yes, somebody here gets it. It is to normalize and imbue them with authoritarian sadomasochism A hierarchy of who gets to abuse who

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mcc @dryad.technology · 18h

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 15h

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 23h

a *moderate* treatment for ideological bias is to clean a river with someone, or another shared point of interest to focus on, and demystify how your differing beliefs could bring you to this shared interest but the *best* cure is to storm Normandy Beach

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 23h

I spent eight years studying this and: no it's not

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 04/10/2026

The amount of gender in these things is off the charts. They’re dude wipes (boy) but pumpkin spice (girl) but it’s actually dumpkin spice (???). They’re XL (boy) but plant-sourced (girl).

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Revenge of Princesscore @princessrevenge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

basically all discourse on transition is this one exchange and for some reason we have to keep doing it

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They want you to think rape would be eliminated if women arm themselves against the random sickos on the street or we stopped letting in immigrants when in reality it has the backing of state and capital

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Banger. Frankly a salve against people weaponizing the language of accountability against survivors.

Our goal is not for every single person to feel comfortable and validated, our goal is to end cycles of harm. Fundamental change in the people who enact harm is by far our preference, but lacking that we understand that our responsibility is then to reduce or destroy their capacity to continue to enact harm on others. We don’t just sit on our hands and hope we can eventually convince them to change at the same time that their enacting of that harm continues to work in their own interest because they’re surrounded by people who think consequences for harm is the same as throwing someone in prison

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

anyone who doesn't accept "some doors will close for me, some relationships will be lost forever, and becoming better is its own reward" isn't serious about rehabilitation

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Look obviously a lil guy in a room with a bunch of lookup tables in a language he can't understand doesn't form a sentient system, but if the lil guy speaks Chinese? hot damn then maybe we're onto something

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

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So Okay Here's the Thing @sookayheresthe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

somehow people keep faceplanting into the "no guys, you don't get it, the problem with nazi ideology isn't its obsession with painting groups of people as inherently degenerate and lesser, the point is that they painted the wrong groups!! get your paintbrush, we can do it right this time!!" argument

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Nazis are not bad because of beliefs and systems they choose to uphold and contribute to, but because they have been corrupted by the forces of evil into an inherently lesser, worse type of person" might be an unwise approach to anti-nazi rhetoric

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

he's so breathtakingly stupid

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Aside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms??

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's incoherent because it's a backfill. They haven't sat and worked this out from first principles. It's just: the conclusion I want to reach is "it's ok for me to be racist," so what chain of reasoning do I need to put in front of it to get there?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

that twitter still has a lot of normal people on it is the main problem! it would be a lot better if it was exclusively fascists and the blast radius of their propaganda was smaller! truth social isn't warping brains that weren't already warped

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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