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Steve T PhD

@thelasttheorist.bsky.social
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political theory, international relations, running Kansas, New School, Tufts storrente.com

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 3h
At Damascus International Airport in Syria, I am waiting to welcome a friend. As I stand here, I see mothers, elderly people, and entire families waiting to welcome their loved ones back to Syria after many long years away. 🧵
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 5h
They assembly should have impeached Polis for the Peters pardon.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh my god David, no one cares about your stupid made up corporation that's really just your dad's credit card. Warner Brothers is one of two or three media company names that people even recognize at all, so maybe stick with that.
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the current landscape of Responsible AI we're moving further away from the crucial ethical questions. Some thoughts from me on the occasion of the 2026 Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs Global Ethics Day www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclu...
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The Ethics of Responsibility in a World of Military AI
Responsibility in warfare remains a human affair. Rather than ask “what is required to make instruments of violence legally compliant?,” we should ask “is what we are doing right now likely to propel ...
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Obviously it's a mistake to think I could be funnier than the Onion, but in this case I would have said "DNC Suppresses Preemptive Autopsy . . . " etc. etc. instead.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
5/ big fleets will likely sit this out. interstate trucking means a patchwork of state rules and tax headaches, and most major truck stops don't sell dyed diesel. plus this adds zero gallons of supply and could squeeze farmers mid-harvest in some cases.
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026
Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws. Everyone at CU Student Government public comment has been fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust and societal impact. So energizing.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The reaper bangs his bony fist on the claw machine and curses spending a whole quarter on Jim Bakker.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If I ever became Pope I would expect the Lord to test me, but not all these low-wattage chumps who are actually testing Leo.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well then, we should totally runs some ads during Vance's impeachment too.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're not suffering a breakdown of the social fabric because we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements with each other; we've lost the ability to have reasonable disagreements because some people are trying to deliberately rend the social fabric.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's finally time for Colorado to argue for why it can sue for the harm of climate change. Kevin Russel is representing the city of Boulder. Good luck, buddy. Your battle is like walking uphill in the rockies.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ah so this is how the weekend's AI rights discourse got going (the article, not the post). Well we should put Eric Holder in the case and we'll see if anyone needs to suffer consequences.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kate Bush, Wilhelm Reich, and the Utah Saints: Something Good is Gonna Happen
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OpenAI: Some Bad Things Are Gonna Happen™️
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Probably The Day After.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lawrence of Arabia
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is at least humorous, in an unfunny way, that at long last Alito wants to be respected, and dare I say, liked. Good luck with that, bro.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not gonna stay tuned in to see if Douthat and Tillis can figure out how we got in this big ole pickle.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not sure anyone cares what Rahm thinks? Certainly not as much as Welker does.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"You must respect the rights of the AGI running on the data center powered by 120 unpermitted gas turbines!"
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess I don't see this as much of a problem, since the people who believe they're about to create AGI don't even think of other human beings in this way.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Constant sirens and engines revving since the game ended. Stay safe out there kids.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Software was a mistake. Computing peaked with the Commodore PET.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Never gonna get a home loan now.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
WTF are we even talking about anymore.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess I don't see this as much of a problem, since the people who believe they're about to create AGI don't even think of other human beings in this way.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is the transfer portal open during the season? Asking for Prime.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Colorado's only leading Texas Tech by 1 going into halftime but at least their classes aren't censored yet.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't think $90 covers one month of medigap. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump announces $90 payments for seniors on Medicare ahead of midterm elections for premium costs
President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will usually take NYRB bait, even on a Saturday. But not from that guy.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Granted they didn't have any other ideas, but the DUP and Orange Order (have gravely miscalculated with their "let's restart the Troubles" plan. They look ridiculous and people are not having it. The counter-mobilization is spinning way out of their control.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
The absolute disrespect with which even those of you who say you "have respect" for me teat my decades long expertise, receipts body of work and discourse based on that never ceases to amaze me.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meta has been doing this kind of thing for at least a decade. In 2016 they were trying to get all the contacts in my phone to connect via messenger, but I kept declining. Then one day they just did it anyway, and suddenly I was connected on FB and Messengeer to a lot of people I didn't want to be.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This seems fun. Colorado just mailed our ballots yesterday.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Settling in for another fantastic day of Jayhawk football . . .
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is bait of course, but my grandfather (my only grandparent born in the US) was an actual bricklayer in the Bronx. He wanted to be a lawyer, but didn't have the resources or opportunities. His immigrant father died young & he was the youngest of 5.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hello, I have upgraded (sincere, unironic) use of the phrase "anti-AI psychosis" to an instant block. Y'all remind me very much of the people who coined "anti-torture absolutist."
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm sure everyone's going to sign right up for Skydance+.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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