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GoodPlaceJames @goodplacejames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Last Temptation of Crust. -- With Apologies to Martin Scorsese.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 8h

First they manufactured a threat. Then they pointed the finger at their competition. This isn't complicated. All of the fear mongering about AI "going rogue" was to capture the regulatory system. They want a monopoly (or in this case, a cartel). They believe your eyeballs belong to them.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 9h

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Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
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by Steve Coe
on February 21, 2001

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.

Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.

As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 9h

Sometimes I think about the people who bought homes in the second half of 2022 using 5 year adjustable interest rates.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The bond market is telling you that inflation is gonna get a whole lot worse. Prices are going to go up, and the dollar will be worth less. If the fed and the gov conspire to borrow (print) money to hand out bailouts in the event of a market contraction, this will amplify inflation dramatically.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again, AI (and LLMs) are NOT dangerous because they "go rogue" or do "unintended things we don't understand." They are dangerous because they emit tons of pollution, atrophy your brain, steal human IP, etc. Anthropic and OpenAI want to control regulations and pump their stock. Don't be fooled.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Civilization is collapsing because burning man became corporate and a bunch of mediocre thinkers with incredibly fragile minds took mind-altering drugs. I often wonder what the world could have been if Larry Harvey weren’t secretly just a greedy corporate dude.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The damage done to these kids is tragic, the damage they will perpetuate will be horrid. Hitler Youth style indoctrination. It's a genocide.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone who has ever cooked in a cast iron pan on a warm summer night understands how this work. That tiny skillet adds noticeable heat to your entire kitchen and surrounding areas. A 100 acre AI data center will add heat to its surrounding area. Anyone who disagrees is a liar.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Translation: This “betrayal“ has nothing to do with Tish James. This “shameful monument to corruption” was made possible by the California dem establishment, Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom, and Xavier Becerra.” Fair enough.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ok, but you’re forgetting the best use-case for LLMs: quickly classifying people who believe it has “understanding” as pea-brains.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The people on bluesky who are upset that trump changed his mind and didn’t bomb Yemen today are showing their whole asses.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Time to download the top 10 open weight models from China. There is a non-zero chance they’ll be banned by our government while they attempt to keep pumping the markets.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Tom!!! Tommm! Are you running hot cuz you’re in danger or did they have you run super gnarly transforms on a large data set again?! Tom! Stay cool for .0317 ms if you’re in danger! Fuck! What am i doing?!! Tom can’t hear me!! I know, I’ll run super hot to communicate. Let me do some transforms.”

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Folks, the idea that an LLM (ai) will become conscious and wreak havoc on civilization is an absurd lie. They spread these lies to enrich themselves and to convince the government to regulate their competitors (open weight models, mostly from China). That said, your disgust around AI is 100% valid.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our tax dollars once again being used for ethnic cleansing and genocide. Can Ed Sheeran’s opening acts run for president? Finneas?

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if the dem campaign consultants who got paid millions of dollars to help Kamala Harris lose in 2024 see this news and think: “Ed Sheeran should have written more songs about unleashing abundance. That’s why those acts left.”

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yet most physicists agree that the sound that was made at the moment of the big bang was a mega powerful fart noise that lasted for nearly 800 years. Even today, with special microphones, you can hear remnants of that sound as background fart noises in space.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

lee stuart's rendition of Ed Sheeran's The A Team following Sheeran dropping Macklemore over Palestine via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn... sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is part of a solid thread on fascism and settler colonialism, but this bit about refusing "internal redistribution" and choosing to conquer/plunder to alleviate "class pressure," stood out. Unrepentant growth - that's what feeds fascism. It's also perhaps the mother of fascism. Growth.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No need. Just tell them it‘s a super exclusive burning man/longevity camp. Lure them with promises of fresh organs for transplants. Most are so k-holed or drugged out that they’ll be there for weeks before realizing what happened. The ones who decline the invite we can just tax properly.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here I thought that we're upset because the powerful are using their levers of power to censor someone and provide cover for a genocide. I thought WHO was getting censored was less important than the WHY and HOW. I guess not. I guess we're upset about this dude's racist costume from 12 years ago.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is. Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.

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UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event with 9/11 'mastermind' attorney; organizers push back

After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 Wasn't a single tragedy, but a cascading series of tragedies that continues today. Rather than mourn the loss of 2977 people and support the first responders who waded through poison to rescue folks, we leaned into racist bloodlust, started amoral wars, & began tearing up the US constitution.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dems should just offer $5001. Price is Right his ass.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Interesting. So are neera tanden and the neolib mafia of bluesky gonna lose their minds at this new batch of “undecideds?”

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you believe that LLMs are sentient or that we’re in “danger from AI itself,” you are mistaken. People who work in this field know that the real dangers are from its misuse by humans. Also, ChatGPT and Claude were built with stolen IP. Also, misuse atrophies and rewires parts of your brain.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The people screaming that we should reject MAHA moms are mostly the same ppl that demand the we remain open to Israel apologists. The former group clumsily spreads misinformation which makes people sick/dead. The latter group spreads misinformation that enables apartheid and death. Both suck. 🤷🏻

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have this crazy idea that if we simply crushed all the money launderers and took their assets, we’d solve like 1/3 of all the problems in the US. Millions of luxury apartments would become public housing. Crypto would die. No more ai or data center hype. Silicon Valley eats shit. Good stuff.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

this is such a tease that jarvis cocker is going to write a song about it

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 02/09/2026

you experience a lot more joy once you realize that actually a lot of people are just following elite signaling and if the party does ever actually become anti apartheid (doubtful but possible) then all the people who nuance posted for years will just switch immediately

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If prop 45 passes, these mega data centers will be all over California - El Segundo, San Juan Capistrano, SLO, Novato, etc. Backed by silicon valley, power companies, and data center builders like Prologis, prop 45 destroys environmental review for data centers. Vote NO on prop 45.

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Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's a shame genocidal intent is so hard to establish you would practically need government ministers to publicly and explicitly illustrate their intent to use government facilities and instruments to deprive massive undifferentiated populations of basic necessities of life. That would never happen!

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Good thing jon ossoff, hakeem jeffries, and the rest of the dem establishment condemned hassan piker. He’s the real problem. Not the american orgs funding these settlements. Not the american government supporting a violent apartheid state. Nope, the problem is a twitch streamer.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Again, this will be Inglewood, Ventura, SLO, Pittsburg, or Novato if prop 45 passes. Backed by PG&E, data center companies like Prologis, and Silicon Valley, prop 45 destroys environmental regulations for data centers. Data centers will be able to pollute unrestricted. Vote NO on prop 45.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The dems are obviously not condemning Hasan Piker hard enough. Booker, Slotkin, Ossoff, and Jeffries need to make sure to condemn Piker so hard that people forget that Israeli snipers are still casually shooting children in Gaza.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

they should make a horror movie where a guy accidentally gets into a machine with a fly, and the movie follows the fly as he slowly becomes human and is forced by the hand of capital to get a job, crying when he can't remember the last time he rubbed his hands together while standing on a windowsill

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If a politician is willing to "condemn" hasan piker before they're willing to condemn the state of Israel, they're probably not a good or principled person. One is a podcaster, the other is an apartheid state which is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reminder: if California‘s prop 45 passes, local communities can’t oppose data centers on environmental grounds. Prop 45 is backed by silicon valley, PG&E, repubs, corporate dems like buffy wicks, and data center companies like prologis. It eases environmental review for data centers. NO on prop 45.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don’t think people understand that many of these settlers and settlements are funded by American and European organizations. These people aren’t moving out there with their own money.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Well yeah, an entire legal system built to give cover to apartheid and genocide will easily give cover to the daily run-of-the-mill hate crimes.

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