Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22hthis is more important than niche internet arguments make it seem: if LLMs don't work, who cares that Palantir is rolling it out for surveillance? Hell, maybe it's even good, if the state's machines start hallucinating the addresses of random Trump supporters when dispatching ICE. But they do work. 2127746
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's always funny to read these Bluesky takes where the administration is ruthlessly building a totalitarian state and then remember that Hegseth called every general officer together so he and Trump could yell at them about how they're too fat and their boats are ugly. 110
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal. 211478228
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You’re right to push back. That was a set of red balloons, not a Soviet first strike. Should I order some ambulances? 735454
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026rotating the extreme shitshow of Jim Jones going on Chapo to discuss the People's Temple and then the statements released two years later 51257
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Replacing the Republician staffer class with guys who think sportsball is racket ((they)) use to keep goys in line has it's downsides. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In her defense, when people are forming weird apocalypse cults around fan fiction for your silly wizard books, it's probably hard to not let that get to your head. 011
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OTD in 1939 USSR & its Nazi German allies signed "German-Soviet Boundary & Friendship Treaty" in Moscow just few days after our joint Victory Parade. Both nazis and USSR accused France and GB of trying to "prolong the war". 533093
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tito's actual ideology was Lassallism-Lennism. I will not elaborate further. 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialRoberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now 19930262
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At what degree of separation does a connection to Jeffery Epstien go from sus to impressive? Asking for friend, because there's got to be a crossover point. 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The interesting thing is that the alt-timeline version of Fuentes where he's doing meth and making bitchy comments in the back of some club in Miami is just a different kind of racist. 010
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026sometimes I'm like "who are all these people on bluesky" and then I read this and I'm like "oh, here they are" 71794
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that this is an equally good argument for blaming every one of those deaths on Osama Bin Laden should probably tell you how useful this sort of metric is. 2218
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Mamdani is the major of New York, and Trump has a bunch of business interests there. A lot of people have a model of him as first and foremost a fascist, and not a real estate griffter. Sure, to the extent that he has an ideology it's far right, but he really just doesn't care all that much. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The greatest revelation from Trump II is how many fundamentally competent people in Trump I were occupied full time putting out fires set by POTUS. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026George: "I't was amazing, Jerry. We were talking about Harry Potter.." Jerry: "So the years you've devoted to your love of literature finally payed off." George: "I'll have you know, she was very impressed with my take on Bayes." Jerry: "Who's Bayes?" 120
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“There’s an old saying in Schelling—I know it’s in Hayek, probably in Schelling—that people acting independently can produce outcomes that nobody intended. The first time as tragedy; the second time as… as… it’s funny if it happens again.” 319020
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"These billionaires’ total estimated wealth is $8.4 trillion...An enormous number, but it’s less than five percent of total U.S. household wealth. By comparison, households in the 90th to 99th percentile of wealth (from $2 million to $11.5 million) have total wealth of $63.2 trillion! " 2428459
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fuck, marry, kill: Gen Z boss in a mini, little bitty titties and a bob, fake tan hands and a hoop. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026No mater how much you fuck up, no matter how stupid you are, in the deepest depths of your humiliation you can take always solace in the fact that you are not the guy who thought of this. 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Schwarzenegger is Mark Kaminski, a county sheriff in rural North Carolina.." no, movie, no he's not. That isn't true. 021
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Other than Predator, where his character is given the blink and you'll miss it name of Allen "Dutch" Schafer, and is thus my implication a German or Austrian immigrant or mercenary, do any 80s Arnold movies acknowledge the obvious? 111
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A great summary of how weird an organization (at least the cold war era) CIA was: Gloria Steinam and Klaus Barbie were almost certainly getting money from them at the same time. @tim-weiner.bsky.social 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026After reading more about The Troubles, my contrarian take is that, at least starting from the late '40s or early '50s, we in the US handled the civil rights movement pretty well all things considered. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026youtu.be/aDlAeZcRkFI?... England is a very silly place.youtu.beCentral Weekend segment with Vampire Hunter Sean ManchesterYouTube video by Lost in Transmission 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026All I want for Christmas is for people to understand that “capital allocators engage in speculative capex financed by debt” is literally a description of how every advanced economy on the planet, including the USSR and China as well as capitalist countries, has created economic growth since 1800. 2986395
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The only thing that led to Arday’s death was his decision to take his own life. Cofnas is of course a different sort of fraud who would improve academia by following in his footsteps, but let's not get carried away here. 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Is it imposter syndrome if you actually are an imposter? Asking for a friend who heads an executive department. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In 1926 the Gotham chapter of the Ku Klux Klan passed a city ordinance granting immunity for crimes committed by anyone in a sufficiently silly costume. This had unforseen consequences. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Own it. LBJ was giving McNamara bombing targets while on the can. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Every four years, a bunch of these people's kids have the deciding vote on who governs us. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Every time I actually see Cofnas speak. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Again, why does any of this exist? The US has a second, under funded and dubiously competent military that is not subject to the UCMJ for no obvious reasons beyond it being easier for them to commit war crimes. 000
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2026when even Hugh Hefner is like “this guy is a predator” 341990457
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We should expect there to be more great athletes from Sub-Saharan Africa than Europe for the simple reason that there are more people of every sort and, to the extent that heredity influences such things, *more people of more different sorts*. 031
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026...and a wider observered standard variation in phenotype with more individuals represented at both the *high* and *low* ends of the distributions. 111
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Just because a bunch of people from a broad region of one continent share genes that code for (various shades of) dark skin and curly hair, that doesn't make them particularly similar to each other, and this applies even to within single cultural group in one part of West Africa. 111
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This has odd implications. I remember seeing study that found that a randomly selected Yoruba person shared on average more genetic variants with a French person than another Yoruba. 121
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026African populations have something like 1.2-1.3 times more within group genetic variation than European, and I think Asian, populations. 101
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialspherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I'll tag @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and @sashagusevposts.bsky.social into this to correct me if I'm wrong, but the starting point for any conversation about the population genetics of sub-saharan Africa ought to be noting that most human gentic variation is found in Africa. 111
Reposted by @spherical-cow.bsky.socialRico Charges @nochorus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026bsky.app/profile/plea... 242312549
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Get a load of John Yoo over here. 000
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Don Draper looking 60s CIA guy: "This country that by pure coincidence shares a name with the singular of 'lice' is the front line in war against communist subversion." *briefcase pops open, spilling kilos of heroin on the floor* 100
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I can't help but feel this is a less than convincing argument. 010
spherical-cow.bsky.social @spherical-cow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The Algerian military are iredeemable motherfuckers, but if they ever decide to use any the gear they've been accumulating to roll over the Moroccans in the Western Sahara, it will be ine of the funniest things to have ever happened. 000