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Dumbstash @dnlmsstch.bsky.social · 1h
Japanese and European pension fund are impossibly more important to that project than the entirety of OPEC
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1h
Saudi Arabia is not, in fact, necessary to keep the US solvent.
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NeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social · 1h
Which, cold comfort if your life is one of the things they destroy. But it is what it is.
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NeoTiamat @neotiamat99.bsky.social · 1h
I've long since figured that this admin was doomed, though it would do massive damage on the way down. None of these idiots know how to *build* institutions, which you kinda need to if you want a lasting autocracy. They can only tear down and destroy.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h
I do think part of the vibecession is the fact that a LOT of businesses don't currently run as well as they should because the cost of labor is too high for instance, I spent almost an hour in line at the pharmacy tonight, after being unable to get them on the phone.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3h
Of all the dumbfuck FP decisions Israel has made, letting its occupation force goons kill US citizens is possibly the dumbest. We should, by the way, extract some extraditions for this shit. We can--a lot more than 9 additional Israelis will be taken by the war if the US cuts them off from trade.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 4h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 5h
After lucking out with Maduro you could tell Trump expected all of his adventures to turn out like that. If he had also gotten lucky with Iran, he would have moved on to the next thing - Greenland, Cuba, etc. The only way this was ever going to end was with him fucking up, which he did pretty fast
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h
Thiel, of all people, noticed this
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 6h
Right, they had paths to victory but they were constitutionally incapable of walking them
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 6h
Yup! There's a reason I've reposted this graph repeatedly since January of 2025. It was not a particularly difficult call
How Will This Go!

A meter with "Trump Autocracy" on the left side and "Big Pile Of Shit" on the right side. The dial slightly but surely ticks right, toward "Big Pile Of Shit"
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h
I mean we saw this in the first term where people were doing “oh he would have won if not for COVID” - COVID was good for incumbents everywhere else! The issue wasn’t COVID, it was the admin response to COVID, which was the entirely natural result of how Trump operates
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6h
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7h
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 9h
holy shit lmfao
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 7h
It is amazing, and sobering, to realize that had Trump not chosen to start this war for no good reason and against the advice of many of his senior ppl, Trump and the GOP would probably be doing... Ok. Not awesome, maybe losing the house, but ok.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 9h
This is something I've been reading extensively about for a class in the context of energy and power optimization. Using old optimal solutions to interpolate new solutions in different but not entirely dissimilar contexts--with deep neural networks, of course.
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Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 11h
Sometimes it really is that case that a lot of work already happened and we are given big complex objects that shorten the operational paths to a lot of outcomes by embedding a ton of history, though
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
they did not want Biden to criticize or restrain Bibi they didn't even want to stop weapons sales they wanted Biden to say "all Jews must vacate the Levant as their blood is tainted," and since he was never going to say that, their allegiance was never winnable
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 28/09/2026
a lot of ppl discussing the new Biden-Israel article who are engaging sincerely with the belief that the US pro-Palestine movement wanted Biden to do anything even directionally aligned with what we now know he did who are about to learn what I've known for years about that movement's actual goals
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a common and normal tech industry practice, and it should be forbidden by law. This gives founders a near-unlimited license to screw investors in pursuit of self-serving or insane goals.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, all corporate stock should be voting, and the only exception should be foreign investors in highly sensitive defense companies.
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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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Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This "founder LLC" setup seems particularly corrosive. In ordinary supervoting share structures, a split between supervoters can at least lead to the common stockholders getting a say on contentious issues — but here they're always voting their shares as a bloc, so ordinary votes become irrelevant.
Under this arrangement, a majority vote of the seven co-founders ​will direct a single share of Class F stock that amounts to 50.1% of the total voting power over key corporate matters, including the election of some board directors and other matters ​submitted to investors.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
this simply should not be legal
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
answering to no one means you’re accountable to no one and all of these fucking wannabe philosophers fucking know that and they know what the consequences of that are, which is what they want to avoid
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 29/09/2026
it *is* corrosive, and despite all of amodei’s overwrought pleas and fears and warnings about the future of humanity, this is corrosive *to him personally* in addition to *the company generally* and also to *the shareholders helping to pay for it*, no one benefits from this
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social if I recall correctly, the Romans would interpret this as a divine attempt to ward off some unspecified evil threatening the United States and possibly Canada as well?
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
according to noaa, rain is stored in the southwest
NWS Weather Prediction Center @NWSWPC
A MODERATE risk is in effect in our Day 3 Excessive Rainfall Outlook. More details:
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/qpf/excessive_..

Map of the US with a definite phallicular rain shape across the middle

4:15 PM • Sep 28, 2026
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🐜 🍯 Anthony @anthonybecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No no you see, it’s a singularity, like from a black hole. After you reach the event horizon, there’s no knowing what might happen! For example, an intelligence at that horizon might be able to see and manipulate all time and space everywhere, and make it so I was loved as a baby,
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francisco varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
book covers: a thread
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
abc you got me all wrong
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
rationalists are like cybernetic socialists who think supercomputers can trivially solve the calculation problem even if true there are still other knowledge as well as logistical problems with central planning that supercomputing cant magically solve, just as agi will still face real constraints
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hailey @hailey.at · 29/09/2026
im distilling right now in my home office! we're definitely getting to a really interesting place
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Brosemite Sam @brosemitesam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think AI can be good and useful, and can be profitable. My long term thinking is we're still gonna end up with a lot of good enough distillation and cheap compute for all kinds of bespoke shit that isn't necessarily in the big co's wheelhouse. Basically what Esri does with OAI and Anthropic x1000
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hailey @hailey.at · 29/09/2026
if you want to see some wild shit just look at the quotes on that post. zero consideration that the screenshot he shared says 2024 and 2025 lol
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I could make a version of this that I could explain to at least 5 US Senators, if they bothered to listen. Just make a table of n vs n^3 and explain that this is the *easy* mode for computing basic operations management problems (convex optimization). Then talk about little everyday frictions.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing about EZ is that he's some mix of self-deluded and a liar. Same with van Rooij. Same with the other AI deniers.
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hailey @hailey.at · 29/09/2026
the year is 2026 and we are still reporting on 2025 numbers
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hailey @hailey.at · 29/09/2026
ed conveniently forgetting this part. lol.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is the fridge of a person who doesn’t prepare a single meal
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Kulotissima @kulotissima.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The issue we're always facing with botulism discussions is it can kill you,” says Waite-Cusic. “It’s not ‘I’m gonna vomit for a few hours and get better.’ It’s ‘No, if you don’t get to a hospital and get the antidote, you’re dead.’”
scientificamerican.com
TikTok influencers are promoting a home remedy to boost the immune system that could cause botulism
No, fermenting garlic in honey is not a replacement for antibiotic or antiviral meds
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Their definition of “open” is that the U.S. can escort limited groups of vessels out at great expense. That is very different from what “open” meant before they started this war.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you're trying to update your priors in an infinite hypothesis space where everything is maximally distinguishable, and you have a whole bunch of distributions over distributions which stand for things you have not observed about the world. you observe something. by definition it was not informative.
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Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13.mumak.app · 29/09/2026
And here’s the thing if a superintelligence somehow solves P=NP and the polynomial hierarchy collapses then … anyone else can now do that too?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This comes to mind. Got the base game on a huge sale because of how wonderful the soundtrack is and it's borderline unplayable.
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King Arthur II - The Role-Playing Wargame Soundtrack (2012) MP3 - Download Soundtracks for FREE!
Download King Arthur II - The Role-Playing Wargame Soundtrack (2012) album to your PC for free as MP3. Free King Arthur II - The Role-Playing Wargame Soundtrack (2012) soundtracks, King Arthur II - Th...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Silly gaming question: examples of games with way better soundtracks than they deserve. Not, like, a good soundtrack on a game yo bounced off of that was a big success - a game that was mid or bad, by consensus, with a solid musical score. My offer: Planetary Annihilation. youtu.be/uwtNikzjKik?...
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03 What We Built - Planetary Annihilation Original Soundtrack [44100Hz]
YouTube video by GamingOST
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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 29/09/2026
look, it's going to find the quantum cheat codes, invent time travel and then PSPACE = P relative to a retrocausal oracle
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