talon @talon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pretty sure you're making a category error here, as most of these Anthropic leaders are legitimate believers in machine consciousness rather than peddlers of profit maximizing rhetoric 000
talon @talon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The real tragedy here is forcibly subjecting America to Ross Tucker. FREE IAN EAGLE 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Probably because once again you have no idea what you're talking about and are clearly just making stuff up, where even a cursory search would have shown you METR's report: metr.org/hugging-face...metr.org 120
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026You may want to consider reading the lengthy and detailed writeups about what happened with HF instead of asking baffling and incorrect hypotheticals 2100
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This entire line of posts is pretty baffling, The linked page is a pretty comprehensive and compelling source indict on Zitron being a charlatan. Not sure why you think linking it makes anyone an "acolyte" of the author 020
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026danluu.com/zitron/danluu.comHow accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? 4360
Reposted by talonBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Imagining Michael Douglas pulling this out in an early 90’s erotic thriller where he’s a high powered corporate lawyer being blackmailed 251350264
talon @talon.bsky.social · 23/05/2026It is important to keep in mind that these opinion pieces and their associated nextdoor chum are a function of these people losing, repeatedly, and being very very mad about it. San Diego is slowly but surely making progress!! 0100
talon @talon.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Reply guys can go on strike, and this is how you get all your reply guys going on strike 010
Reposted by talonJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2026Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance. 211350352
Reposted by talonAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The means-testing thing is so pernicious man. Designed in a lab to sow resentment, degrade the public good, shrink services and transfer costs away from government coffers and to individuals’ post-tax income 211412287
talon @talon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025City Hall is TOTAL GARBAGE, I assume you're talking about the County Administration building pictured here. Those Balboa Park buildings were supposed to be torn down, that was a great use of historical preservation (as opposed to today's NIMBY jokers who abuse the rules to preserve random houses) 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Will the national media who breathlessly talked him up during preseason ever own up to it 100
talon @talon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025@bubbaprog.xyz the end of this has the cursed Football Night in San Diego crew who continues to broadcast years after the team abandoned the city 140
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Your football arguments are just factually incorrect though lol 000
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Yes, playing what's pretty widely considering the hardest and most lynchpin position in sports. Obviously you need a good team around you to be great, but go ahead and look at those same Colts rosters in those years where he got hurt. It's night and day!! 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025If this entire argument boils down to QB Winz you guys have all lost the thread entirely. Somehow the argument is being made with a five time MVP quarterback (the all time leader) was bad? That teams were better without him? None of you know ball apparently 😂 270
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Edgerrin James was on neither of his Super Bowl teams, and Marvin Harrison only played 5 games for the 2007 team, none after week 6, retiring the following year. You're so far off it's actually kind of crazy 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025It's okay man, stick to urban planning takes, those seem well thought through unlike this inanity 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Lmao incredible ratio of words to demonstration of extent to which you don't know ball here 1120
talon @talon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Every artist I have ever met is like this when it comes to any and all business activities related to their art 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Griffin's definition of fascism as "palingenetic ultranationalism" (which is obviously not uncontested) focuses on three required cores to constitute fascism, namely a myth of rebirth, ultra-nationalism, and a myth of decadence (quite literally, "Make America Great Again"). 000
talon @talon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Griffin was interested in the concept of "generic fascism", which is what you're getting after - what defines fascism generically? And among academics, that usually reduces to a "fascist minimum", or as Griffin describes it, those minimum conditions a group must meet to be considered fascist 100
talon @talon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Yes, when you earlier state missing items like "Mass party, hypercentralized government, complete control of all social movements, revolutionary and totalistic ideology", you are being mechanistic in your definition. I know you're an academic, and this is an academically contested definition 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Tom, I think you're being far too definitionally mechanistic here (and I say this as someone who reads you regularly and is often in accord) - having done some coursework on fascism, I think Roger Griffin's "palingenetic ultranationalism" definition was the most compelling, and it clearly fits here 110
talon @talon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025No it's a Peacock exclusive, although NBC 7 San Diego has their own weird (and very sad after the Chargers left) postgame show with former NFL guys to fill time until the nightly news x.com/footballnigh...x.comFootball Night in San Diego (@footballnightsd) / XFootball Night in San Diego (@footballnightsd) / X 020
talon @talon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025My "The Bends" take never fails to get people furious . . . BUT AS AN ALBUM BEING EVALUATED AS A WHOLE LISTENED THROUGH ALBUM IT'S HARD TO ARGUE OKAY 040
talon @talon.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I was completely unaware of this extension - thanks for sharing it! 000
