Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Man I love environmental storytelling 616633
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialRev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 21/09/2026in light of recent polling 231956
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453182751
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialtransylvan(ian) 🧛🏼 @illpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026imagine being 40 points underwater on "people wanting you to stay alive" 492949593
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialJacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this 191149344034
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026some middle rat history, w/clarifications: 1) I should have titled my previous "AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In Berkeley, California" so people would stop arguing with me about people who aren't in Berkeley, California. 2) The sex cult part of this is both predatory and integral to what they do. 16775113
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialmax power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026we now go live to Kyiv, 2205
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Some people don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because they have reactionary politics and are demonstrably ignorant of many things. I don't trust the rationalist AI cultists because I know they're smart sincere believers, and thus almost certainly in fractal spirals of lying and scheming. 5437
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This isn't to be an epistemic nihilist, but every single argument, proclamation, capabilities report, etc, just comes packaged in a bed of salt. 1141
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is part of why I'm just so radically uncertain on all this. It's transparently all just panicked desperation power games. Every argument is a soldier. Every P() statement or calculation is a messaging strategy. Anthropic could even already have achieved a superintelligence and be hiding it. 2162
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/02/2026All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter! 5917199
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/09/2026One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD. 21458219
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 10/09/2026AI sentiment is just "how much do you trust your elite class" tbh 411816
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.social👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"England's schools consistently outperform Finland's ones" is another one of those public policy things where people's priors are massively out of date, isn't it? 514219
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026oh shit the marching orders went out on slack 1030525
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Why would you ruin your career?" is such an insulting and sinister thing to say, he's non-specifically acting like he wants to deny it rn but I think we can call that someone got entirely too high on their SV social status 636833
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026ever since he was driven out of the Shire for being Saruman's third-in-command Milei has sought to sow discord 2636541
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"fellow travellers" is absolutely correct here, whether or not it was intended 1275
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Times has run a story this morning about how ‘polite’ the masked men in Dover were to three white ladies on a train. Propaganda in its clumsiest form. 1101633215
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026it computes once you understand that fascism is at core a power cult that rejects principles on principle in these cases fascists are exercising their prerogative to make arbitrary, self-serving exceptions to the rules that they impose on others 16021
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialconputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026cf. the now imminent risk of cyberattacks, perceived by many as alarmist marketing in Februaryopenai.comA call for collective action on cyber defenseIndustry, government, and AI leaders call for collective action to strengthen cyber defenses and protect the critical infrastructure we all depend on. 2645
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialonlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3729781280
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it 181057202
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialCoureur de Fembois [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 20/08/2026is this the "lib shit" in question? is this what we need to engage with? as a leftist trans woman I agree with Gabe. Hegseth's comments were transphobic. That's the right word to use for Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth and his language choices bsky.app/profile/cybe... 192
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialDr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Separating the MMR into separate vaccines was Wakefield’s grift when he authored his fraudulent paper that the MMR caused autism. #DrainTheSwamp www.theguardian.com/society/2010...theguardian.comAndrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scareDoctor's research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the country 32631202
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.sociallumpyprol @lumpyprol.bsky.social · 09/04/2026the "questionable levels of improvement" is such a funny thing to say about 4.6, the model that basically sold every skeptic i know into going "yeah okay, this stuff has the juice now" 2302
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/paracosm #smbc #comics 920629
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialDustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 06/08/2026META: so how do we fit the models better to the Evil Son 2.0 benchmark? 49012
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialponder @ponder.ooo · 08/08/2026august 2026... ai has now surpassed the intelligence of its makers i mean not surpassed humanity in general. just its makers. it's surpassed the ppl running ai companies 220229
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialHenry Snow @henrys.now · 12/08/2026the year is 2027. you wake up, sun looks weird again. in an encrypted messenger you discuss which liquids are best at shorting out the secret police's electric gloves. two rogue AIs are doing battle in your wi-fi enabled AC unit. treasury is doing something with the yen for the fourth time 1479104
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialpmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s 112336921
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I am pictured in this video and I don’t like it 820511
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/07/2026And what sucks the most is that the promise of this technology and the advances it can make are being squandered by a bunch of tech bros hyping it up into a bubble that is causing an absurd overbuilding of datacenters which wrecks the environment and all the negative externalities with it. 421715
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 01/08/2026Computer how to stop myself from emailing the bosses of the 700 people that laugh reacted to this 732527
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Growing up poor in the '90s means having a justifiably incandescent hatred for the Clintons. 219645
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 31/07/2026hello from Britain where I'm in the pub with a group of friends and I would say we're now on minute 20 of them sharing stories about the nonce teachers they had at school 22997866
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 30/07/2026It's not going to happen, it's not happening, it's happened now so there's nothing we can do. The three tenses of catastrophe in British English. 525563
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Every time I make the (correct) statement that social media use is not universally bad for teenagers, or state that the best consensus is that it's beneficial-to-neutral for many and any negative effects are a small subset of teenagers, people demand citations (and then refuse to believe them, sigh) 15585146
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/07/2026If you're a thoughtful left-leaning person, what happens on Bluesky is the opposite of echo-chamber reinforcement. Constant exposure to lazy versions of your own ideas can negatively polarize you against laziness and slopulism. Don't get me wrong, though — this is still a mental health problem. 6851
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Okay, but the whole problem is that the opportunities presented by regional job markets outside of a handful of major cities are fucking shit.theguardian.comBurnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needsPM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market 169720
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the last holdout bringing in his sword after the long war against the clankers 1825
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialColin @colin-fraser.net · 21/07/2026If a language model proves the Collatz Conjecture I will become a rationalist-style extremist doomer 5442
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 22/07/2026nobody has ever deadpanned dying to get out of a work event harder than this. i am just wondering how long it will take before the novelty wears off, for me, seeing it 41192
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026it takes longer than a month to make one of these that's just how it is if the market is competitive the investor thesis for openai and anthropic is trash and those firms are massively overvalued. insiders basically go into denial and/or start grifting every time there's a good chinese release 419811
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 28/07/2026yeah this effectively means godhood, otherwise it's nonsensical. everything coming out of anthropic is a stalking horse for something more rationalist that it is embarrassing to say in public. "bioweapons" is actually about grey goo and foom 1171
Reposted by @spacebearone.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/07/2026We're in the middle of a highly energy intensive tech boom and the things that would lead to UK workers with skills in chip design, RTL synthesis, and work on problems like reducing energy intensity of tech fabrication or improve our digital sovereignty are not at all supported by UK education 1383
