Reposted by SnibbmasterKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now. 6973673912628 36.7K
Reposted by SnibbmasterBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Sometimes I’ll replay a game and think “I’ll do an evil playthrough, that’ll be new and fun” and then I’ll do one evil thing and be like no…it’s wrong to do that to these pixels. 1323135358 3.1K
Reposted by SnibbmasterElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...theverge.comSome patriotic reflections on Independence DayLook at me. I’m the originalist, now. 8484139 484
Reposted by SnibbmasterDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 18/01/2025People raised the issue repeatedly since 2019 but up until midway through last year the official line, echoed by a billion libs, was that 1. it's ageist and ableist to mention it and 2. he's actually perfectly fine and you're just imagining things. It was a very stupid time. 2364479 644
Reposted by SnibbmasterWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/01/2025America voluntarily turned into a near fascist state within a decade. That's how quickly it happened. The pain will last for years. 1102262352 2.3K
Reposted by SnibbmasterSnibbmaster @snibbmaster.bsky.social · 09/12/2024It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact. 021 2
Snibbmaster @snibbmaster.bsky.social · 09/12/2024It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact. 021 2
Reposted by Snibbmasterjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win! 414126301307 12.6K
Reposted by SnibbmasterEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/12/2024AGI is going to prove a limited standard to think about because we will have Jagged AGI - superhuman at some tasks, weaker at others. Just because o3 is as good as the 175th best competitive coder on Earth (out of 600,000) doesn’t mean that it is as good as them at every task they do (for now) 712010 120
Snibbmaster @snibbmaster.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Winnie missed me and slept on my clothes while I was at the gym 040 4
Reposted by SnibbmasterPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate. 864986964 5K
Reposted by SnibbmasterMicah @rincewind.run · 27/02/2024so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed 933150650 3.2K
Reposted by SnibbmasterMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Imagine your neighbor yelled, “Jews will not replace us!” and your mailman replied, “You have said the actual truth!” You would think to yourself, “My mailman is an antisemite.” Why are we holding the richest man in the world to a lower standard than your mailman?thehandbasket.coThe cowardice of Jonathan GreenblattOn the ADL's influential CEO, and the intentional confusion regarding who really has power. 10488105 488
Reposted by Snibbmasterregular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 24/11/2023I am begging you (and Will) to see beyond formal academic notions, however enlightened, to appreciate that poor people's lives are not improving appreciably, and they suffer in ways that are dismissed or unimportant to policy, and it's not crazy to talk about that. 216314 163
Reposted by SnibbmasterParis Marx @parismarx.com · 18/11/2023When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care. arstechnica.com/health/2023/... 9948842359 4.9K
Reposted by SnibbmasterHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12/11/2023In the last four weeks no one has made me (an American Jew) feel unsafe, no one has talked about wanting me dead, no one has tried to dehumanize me, no one has sent me violent messages, no one has tried to threaten my livelihood and my family — except for American pro-Israel Jews 201322239 1.3K
Reposted by SnibbmasterSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 12/11/2023FINALLY A DISPATCH FROM REALITY "harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today." www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like.Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches. 19445127 445
Reposted by SnibbmasterThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/11/2023U.S. birthrates are at all-time lows. So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids?washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Millennials aren’t having kids. Here are the reasons why.U.S. birthrates are at all-time lows. So why aren’t there more only children? In our search for answers, we found clues to a bigger mystery: Why aren’t millennials having kids? 30411110 304
Reposted by SnibbmasterElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 03/11/2023This is horrifying. Framing Jews who are against a war and occupation as “pro-Hamas” is a sickening distortion that is being used to cut them away from the Jewish people. Ironically, this sort of attack is a version of Jewish antisemitism. It needs to be roundly rejected.jpost.comEditor's Notes: No longer part of usWhile they may still technically be Jewish due to their parentage or conversion, while they may lead superficially Jewish lives, we can no longer consider them part of Klal Yisrael. 27743203 743
Reposted by SnibbmasterJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 04/11/2023The pressure is working. Find a protest near you this weekend: CeasefireToday.com 2374126 374
Reposted by SnibbmasterEmily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 01/11/2023I wrote about American Jewish fear. slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comAmerican Jews Are Scared. We Also Have to Be More Than That.I have experienced antisemitism. But right now, we can’t be defined by our fears. 922476 224
Snibbmaster @snibbmaster.bsky.social · 01/11/2023I went away for a couple months and Threads is exactly like Twitter. When did that happen? 000 0
Reposted by SnibbmasterJosephine Robertson @josephinerobertson.com · 23/10/2023We must, as a society, reclaim nuance. We must be able to mourn the Jews killed, hold with compassion the trauma inflicted on Jews around the world, understand the history behind all this, mourn the death of Palestinian civilians, hold with compassion the trauma in Palestine, etc. MUST. 26015 60
Reposted by Snibbmasterit's almost shabbat @shabbosbride.bsky.social · 22/10/2023it costs nothing to say no one should ever die that way, especially children. 4672 67
Reposted by SnibbmasterTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/10/2023a shared country under equal rights may not exist now but if we fail even to imagine it it never will. south african apartheid ended in reconciliation. imperfect. but not mass slaughter. it ended in politics and elections. 215816 158
