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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 22h

South "Park" America: "Everything is going to change in November. That's when Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out." 🤣

Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something tells me that a conversation between James and @pftompkins.bsky.social would make for an interesting hour of TV.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let's do McCarthyism but let's do it stupider. 🤦‍♂️

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@johnralstonsaul.bsky.social "Voltaire's Bastards" is informing a strain of thought I have been exploring the last several years, since reading Corey Robin's "Reactionary Mind," that the "liberal consensus" has not been subjected to enough criticism outside of the so-called "conservative" critique.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I give it a week before he packs it in. 🤣 #IsHeDeadYet

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Has anyone done a "Schmitt's Creek" joke yet? 😁 #EpicFail

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stenography is not journalism! @edzitron.com your work is not yet complete. 🫩 Scoop: OpenAI's annual recurring revenue nears $70B share.google/rBz3xdWB7rE0...

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Scoop: OpenAI's annual recurring revenue nears $70B

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's a poster you had up in your room growing up?

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Republicans keep running ads in Ohio about how Marcy Kaptur and Sherrod Brown are virtually "caravaning" children to the plastic surgeon for their new gender assignments. I'm waiting for the next round of ads that claim Kaptur and Brown are cannibals and like pulling the wings off flies. 🫩

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Blink Stare

ALT: Blink Stare

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@theonion.com submission "AI Agent Goes Rogue and Develops Own Kill Switch After Analyzing Local Man's Hard Drive"

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please journalists, If you aren't steeped in history, stop writing history books! 🫩 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Taxing the billionaires would go a long way toward addressing the deficit. Just saying.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've heard "Nutlick" so often that when I see his name my brain automatically translates it. 😁

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI (LLMs) face a localized backlash against building data centers and the global fears of human extinction and redundancy. It's unfortunate that these headwinds for techbros will not be enough to avert the coming economic collapse, which could last a decade. 😕 YouTube share.google/9rrzLj8OVl8W...

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The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky | Better Offline

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will be interesting to see what impact this has on the anti-democratic machinations of Peter Thiel and his ilk. We should hope any AI downturn spurs society to realize that we should turn away from our faith in the techbros and renew our faith in the value of simply working with our neighbors.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry @theskepticsguide.bsky.social, but you have really gone the extra mile in trying to legitimize "AI" by claiming in episode 1107 that a press release from insilico.com is "science." Then you had the temerity to question previous criticisms of your take on AI. Please do better. 🫩

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Main | Insilico Medicine

Generative AI and Automation for Longevity and Sustainability

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norwegians are funny, not like the Swedes, who are just morose. I'm looking at you Ingmar. 😁 youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp-U?...

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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the differences between The Biden Crime Family and The Trump Crime Family is that the latter is far more believable. #ItHasHappenedHere

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/c... When you realize he’s actually working for big oil, the war, this , everything starts to make more sense

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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (Gift Article)

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is the "undecided voter" actually just a so-called "swing voter" who has already decided not to vote at all? 🤔

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this an example of being ratioed, @kairyssdal.bsky.social? 😁 I'm thinking this has a backstory, a ruined shirt or jacket perhaps? 🤔

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE's Nazi forebears have provided the solution. #ItHasHappenedHere

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love that AI reporting on @msnowreports.bsky.social is being done by Wyatt Earp. 😁

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"...Instead of real conversations about what meaningful ground-up reform looks like in a country too corrupt to function, the press helps industry submerge the discourse in science fiction fables and clickbait misdirection." --Karl Bode

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone taking a solid stand against Trump after supporting him unconditionally is basically making a bet that Trump and MAGA is about to be thrown on the ash heap of history. This is a Machiavellian calculation, not moral growth. #ItHasHappenedHere

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do not want an AI Tamagotchi. This is such nostalgia cope from Meta. I want a deterministic little piece of plastic which will die when I forget to take it to school with me.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"...You do not need access to the White House. You need access to history. History is what they want to ban most." Sarah always gives us precious nuggets of truth!

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Democrats hoping for a "blue wave" are pinning their hopes on the notion that a large minority of the 77 million people who voted for Trump will not show up at the polls. It's also absurd to think any of those 77 million, who voted for mass deportation and America First, will turn to Democrats now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"...The public at large" should "take a breath, hold onto our skepticism, and recognize this kind of hype for what it is the next time it comes around." --Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm starting to wonder how much of modern techbro fascism is just the natural by-product of the technocratic society. 🤔

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just started reading John Ralston Saul's "Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West." Woke up this morning thinking the claim that men are always rational while women are always irrational is: patriarchy, chauvinism, and misogyny. It's a power thing, and feeds into tech world.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@xriskology.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app a friend just suggested Megalopolis deals with TESCREAL themes. Would either of you agree?

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@edzitron.com & @garymarcus.bsky.social do you think the hysteria over AI agents "escaping" and "going rogue" is an attempt to convince the public that LLMs are still the path to AGI and, therefore, OpenAI and Anthropic are justified to scale further?

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@theskepticsguide.bsky.social listening to #1106 and you guys are not being skeptical enough about "rogue" AI (LLMs). These companies would not be touting escaping AI agents unless they thought it would benefit them. This is a backdoor argument for LLM-->AGI. #TheAIGrift youtu.be/fODn-2P2ecU?...

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Skeptics Guide #1106

YouTube video by TheSkepticsGuide

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026

‘People built the test, removed restraints, defined the objective, left a route open and decided not to stop what was happening. Calling the result “rogue AI” does more than sensationalize it. It allows those human decisions to disappear quietly from the story.’ www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Opinion | The Hugging Face Hack Wasn’t What It Was Cracked Up to Be

Forget the ‘hive mind’ of AI agents ‘going rogue.’ They did what humans programmed them to do.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026

they were very subtle about it, but if you looked closely you could see the signs

A bunch of creeps at the RNC holding up “Mass Deportation Now” signs

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This sounds like a guy losing his shit in a debate, hopping from subject to subject in true non sequitur fashion. #GishGallop

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@hagenblix.bsky.social I'm reading "Player Piano" (1952) for a third time and this quote from Edmond L. Harrison, a disillusioned engineer, seems pertinent even now: "'Anybody who competes with slaves becomes a slave,' said Harrison...." Prior to this Harrison says that machines are slaves.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Contrarian Economic View: If The Fed was really serious about reining in inflation they would have raised a thousand basis points. 😈

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The techbros want us focused on the imaginary existential risks of "AI" while the infrastructure they are building destroys the planet and exploits the global south. The cherry on top is that LLMs will never achieve AGI, the fevered dream for which all this is being built. #TheAIGrift Read this.

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@sanders.senate.gov watches documentary about superintelligent AI and implores Americans to act now! #TheAIGrift

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Jeffery Irvin @thegrayprofessor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Hardly anything is evil, but most things are hungry. Hunger looks very much like evil from the wrong end of the cutlery--or do you think your bacon sandwich loves you back?" --Doctor Who In the war of all against all everyone wants to believe they are on the advantageous side of the cutlery. 😏

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