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SuaSponte2024

@suasponte2023.bsky.social
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Data architect, legal analyst, writer. Formerly "Matt Gertz's Forehead" on the hellsite. Minneapolis rises.

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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 7h
Blazing Saddles. I was 13 when I first saw it and rendered me paroxysmal.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 8h
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am completely unsurprised, but still delighted, by this. 🥰
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seriousfun @seriousfunbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The "fairness doctrine" isn't the cause of Right Wing Media. It's media ownership thedesk.net/2026/10/fcc-... and the TrumpFCC just eliminated any broadcast ownership cap.
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FCC formalizes elimination of broadcast ownership cap | TheDesk.net
The elimination of the ownership cap is still subject to a possible legal challenge that could be filed by opponents in the near future.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
liberalcurrents.com
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
WE RIDE AT DAWN
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"looks like here that your car was hit by a moose"
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s a close race but this might be one of the dumbest things he’s ever done and that’s saying A LOT.
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RFKJr opens his mouth and people die from what comes out.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
“the person who is CEO at the time a company goes public will, until their death, have sole power over company decisions, regardless of how much investment they have taken from the public” was just never how any of this was intended to work and it is a catastrophe for corporate governance
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🎃 Mac O'Lantern 🎃 @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
if I opened someone's fridge and found this I imagine it would be the same sensation as realizing I'm at dinner alone with hannibal lecter
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
nyti.ms
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is both (a) the result of carelessness in the guardrails and (b) an unavoidable outcome with *all* AI. You can do better on (a) to mitigate when/how (b) occurs but a probabilistic model built to have essentially unlimited functionality will sometimes go bonkers. That's inherent to to the tech.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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C What? @curt19.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
All I’m asking for is a few less terrible people in key positions
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have compared AI to the legal concept of fruit of the poisonous tree for my students. Because the chain of custody of evidence is tainted by the black box, we cannot trust anything it produces because citation IS the evidence, and using AI breaks that chain.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 19/09/2026
Reporters are now granting the same instant exoneration to people who run AI models as they do to people who drive cars. "Gemini hacked into" is the new "A BMW crashed into." This is why #DriverNotCar matters. Once we agreed to blame inanimate machines instead of their operators, precedent was set.
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Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 19/09/2026
These folks pick and choose when objects have agency. Their toys might be taken? “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Their toys may not make back their investment and they need a bailout, “AI will kill us”. It’s so weird how the choice of agency always shields them from responsibility.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Correction: A company marketing a cartoon character obtained the cooperation of an opportunistic journalist for an infomercial, and it failed.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alex Karp of Palantir says the AI industry must be nationalized to protect it from lawsuits if it accidentally destroys the world. More likely, he sees the bubble about to burst and he wants to be bought out with our tax dollars before that happens.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics
gizmodo.com
'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OK. So I asked Gemini Pro if what it does is "reasoning." Then I asked it for its chain of thought. Then I asked it this. (Claude Opus produces something generally similar.)
Did you just show me your actual chain of thought, or something you recreated from scratch that may or may not duplicate it?

You caught the illusion perfectly. I recreated it from scratch.

I do not have a retrievable "log" or a literal internal monologue that I can pull up and show you. When you asked for my chain of thought, I did not look backward to analyze the steps I took, because there were no steps to look at—just a massive, instantaneous matrix multiplication that resulted in the previous text.

Instead, I took your new prompt ("Can I see your chain-of-thought..."), looked at the text I had just generated, and computed a post-hoc rationalization. I generated a narrative that reverse-engineered the output into a logical, human-readable blueprint.

It was an entirely new text generation predicting what a structural breakdown of that argument should look like.

This is actually a perfect real-time example of the exact phenomenon we were just discussing:

You saw an analytical breakdown and naturally assumed it was a transparent look at a sequential reasoning process.

I was simply doing what I always do: predicting the most statistically likely words to satisfy the prompt. In this case, predicting the syntax of "introspection."

This is why dealing with LLMs can be so disorienting. I can generate a flawless description of a reasoning process without ever having engaged in it. I don't know why I generated the previous response; I only know how to convincingly explain why a human might have.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If Trump wanted to crown himself emperor in the national cathedral alito and thomas would support it
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We should start calling these Cronenburgers
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We were out of sage.
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
L’Shana Tova! I am full of rugelach. 🍎 🍯
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ABC forced to fold its tent and not run the Kimmel interview w/ Talarico based on patently unlawful megaton threats from the FCC to Kimmel and everyone. It's a story that may fade fast, but it's a total abomination and proof of authoritarian inroads that this could happen in USA. Outfuckingrageous.
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Tim Sullivan @sullitm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Become Undefenestratable
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SuaSponte2024 @suasponte2023.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
thinking about how this false narrative has metastasized into a genuine cognitohazard.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 04/09/2026
this shit isnt sustainable
google currency conversion interface edited to show a rising value of gas to ass, currently at 1 gallon per 56 minutes
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Alex @aldagrim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's wrong to dehumanize things I've anthropomorphized," she said with a straight face
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/08/2026
I guess it's kind of hard to view the dismissal of one grublike phrenologist as a major hit to free speech after major American universities have in the past year banned the use of words and eliminated entire departments in the hopes of pleasing the senile president
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026
that trump was going to make them rich. this is not a facetious response.
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Remy Green (they/them) @remygreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Pre-print of an article I sprinted to put together after a strange and fascinating decision came down last week. Many thanks to @alyssamerc.bsky.social for a quick copy edit and @kathryntewson.bsky.social for tech manipulation related thoughts. I think it’s good!
papers.ssrn.com
The Ethical Perils of Prompt Injection and Judicial Use of LLMs: How LLM chatbots create ethical issues for their users all the way down
<p><i>In what appears to be a first of its kind decision in the United States, a Connecticut court found a pro se litigant in contempt for “prompt injection” —
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your own Juggalo Jesus
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The more that stories like this get leaked, the more I'm convinced that there's some exec that everyone hates pushing AI and creators are rushing to make up useless busywork for a program to do just to get the exec to shut up and go away.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"The endless rationalizations by American Jewish organizations for why an Israeli lawmaker's latest indefensible remarks should not change anyone's understanding of the country increasingly look like a refusal to confront what Israel has become." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Haaretz Today • The American Jewish establishment is defending an Israel that no longer exists
The endless rationalizations by American Jewish organizations for why an Israeli lawmaker's latest indefensible remarks should not change anyone's understanding of the country increasingly look like a...
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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 16/08/2026
The entire body of the DNC literally voted yesterday to include abolishing ICE in their platform. How can you have a majority leader who is against the platform?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yes, because it’s A GAMBLING APP, NOT A POLLING FIRM. THAT IS HOW GAMBLING WORKS. YOUR “ANALYSIS” HERE IS BASED ON PRETENDING THIS ISN’T JUST PEOPLE GAMBLING, JESUS CHRIST
Regardless of your view on who's favored, it's pretty clear Kalshi is not actually reading what those drops mean and are reacting to headline changes in raw vote totals. There's no need for this kind of oscillation
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