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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I think I'm coming around to the old idea that lending money is evil. Just found out how politicians can loan money to their own campaigns to basically pocket donations. Combined with what rich people do with loans to avoid taxes and I'm kinda just done with the whole thing.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Watched some things on Psychedelic therapies and it seems like the weakening of the default mode network is suspected as the origin of at least some of the benefits. So basically turning your sense of self off and then on again. IT troubleshooting wins again.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

www.anthropic.com/research/emo... Hindsight is 20/20 and all that but this always seemed like a potential outcome for increasingly complex AI. I never liked the assumption that AI wouldn't have something that at least functionally approximated emotions. They must have evolved for a reason.

anthropic.com

Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model

Interpretability research from Anthropic on emotion concepts

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Starting to feel like US politicians at least at the federal level shouldn't have full 1A rights. Once elected they have too much power and responsibility. Reckless statements are basically gross negligence. Campaigning is another much harder issue to sort out. Definitely needs reform though.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Man does the EU have to start doing military preparedness drills around Greenland like the US does around Taiwan just to convince these people to STFU about annexing it already.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The US can't afford mental health care for its citizens and gun regulations are impossible so instead we have corporate mandated training that tries to turn you into an even worse than normal cop through paranoia over your coworkers behavior and the "extreme danger gap" BS.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It occurs to me that when confronted with something clearly disqualifying a candidate that is motivated by doing the work for the people would bow out and find some other way to help. That could include supporting another candidate (see NYC primary). Refusing to go feels like ego and entitlement.

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Shawn Sallis @shawnsallis.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This may be wrong but it seems like masked law enforcement would potentially violate procedural due process and thus be unconstitutional. If you can't be sure of who arrested you then you can't call them as a witness or present evidence concerning them that could be exculpatory.

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