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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 1h

That’s the most geophysical sentence I’ve ever read

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 4h

Plus the tissue would have to dribble out the side

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 4h

I remember one of these guys sent a whole mob of people to kill the vice president and disrupt congress and no one prosecuted him

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wondering why no one else they know has to drink 4 liters of water a day

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lol if you are eating out every meal you are eating sooo much more salt than cook-at-home people

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And it may or may not just be a grocery store vegetable bag

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(it was a joke about commentless code/the how-do-LLMs-do-addition discourse)

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I can’t tell if the copious comments are a sign of intelligence or not. That’s the real “They didn’t get it from the training data” conundrum

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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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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Longtermism (n): the irrefutable moral postulate that the needs of the imaginary many outweigh the needs of the actual few.

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Uh but have you considered the moral worth of the happiness of infinite generations of artificial digital minds powered by a Dyson sphere?? How dare you privilege the well being of living people over some shit I came up with while smoking a fat blunt

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Jose @josendhelp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Have you seen Werner Herzog watching and discussing skate clips? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQLI...

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Discussing Skateboarding with Filmmaker Werner Herzog

YouTube video by jenkemmag

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026

AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They should always include “want to own the libs” to get a baseline

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But when those questions are motivated from the lens of "does THIS disprove stochstic parrots?" the reasoning goes off the rails, and it does so in a specific way connected to the role that theoretical math results have played in this summer of hype www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1... >>

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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/09/2026

Correct www.wired.com/story/the-bi... You don't need to "believe" this by the way; LLM don't have thoughts or reasoning. The output state is entirely deterministically derived as a straightforward strictly defined mathematical operation from the input state.

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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a statistician told me this joke, it goes like this three mathematicians bump into three economists on the train, they're on the way to a joint conference, and the economists are a little puzzled the mathematicians only have one ticket between them

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

Got it. Thank you. I ended up using “reader” mode

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case

Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy

"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)

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

Put some contrast on that text color! It’s an accessibility nightmare

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

We need a campaign of divestment of higher education administrators. The wave of 90’s “Universities should be run like a corporation” led to massive increases in the number of “administrators” paid at corporate levels and then increases in tuition to pay for them

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Anti-Substack Labeler: Substack Funds Nazis @labeler.antisubstack.fyi · 20/02/2025

Hi! This is a labeler account meant to identify Substack links. If you didn't know, Substack actively courts and platforms Nazis. If you quit X/Twitter because of the Nazi problem, well, what are you still doing on Substack? There are plenty of alternatives which may be more cost-effective for you.

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like Kronos is a low gravity planet. Like Klingons are vicious, especially in ships, but can barely stand toe to toe with a human in a fistfight

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You don’t need to call a guy a girl as an insult to the guy. They are both horrible on their own.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Only in America do they deny children free lunch while forcing them to read about Jesus feeding the hungry.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael Kotlikoff, President Ryan Lombardi, VP Student and Campus Life Brian White, VP Robert Harrington, Dean of Medicine And Chi Phi Fraternity.

Four white men who made rapists write essays.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wait until these dummies find out the percentage of people who buy life insurance and never use it during their entire lifetimes!

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They would have to all the functions that the government does plus make a profit for shareholders

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It means more expensive worse services. How else does privatization make sense

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just straight up volunteering to be tortured by Roko’s Basilisk

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 25/09/2026

Roughly, they think: AGI iff wants to kill all humans. The fact that LLMs don’t seem to want to do that means they’re not AGI and conversely if they can make an LLM that wants to do that then it’s AGI.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 25/09/2026

the idea they had for how AI "should" work--an idea that was deeply entwined with the broader rationalist/xrisk/EA view of the world--didn't pan out at all, and meanwhile something completely different randomly started being super effective and they had to do a lot of, basically, retconning.

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you put a baby in a high chair and give it a bowl of grapes, you didn’t “intend” for the grapes to hit the floor but it’s not a surprise. “Oh but we had a rim around the tray!”. Yes but then you walked away and didn’t pay attention. And you shouldn’t feed grapes to a baby anyway

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sassdroid.bsky.social @sassdroid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All we really want is to paste a bunch of comma separated numbers in and have it ask if we want it broken up into rows or columns and not just pasted all into one field

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

The problem is that learning about a new topic often requires 1) letting (maybe temporarily only) go of existing frames and 2) understanding another (learned) community's or (expert) person's way of seeing things.

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