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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dave Colon outfits stay winning

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you're really excited about improving learning efficiency I don't think you understand what Learning means, my guy. This goes double for learning during childhood.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kirby, my man. I know you're just a circle but I'm gonna need you to break into Heaven and kill God.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh man, Cardiff’s throwback jersey is so good

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

B-52's cover of Daft Punk Is Playing at My House

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

No street should be called Water Street. Streets shouldn't be watery.

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am once again pointing out that even if Waymo cars are individually "safer than a human driver," what they will do to the transportation landscape will prolong the unsafety of our streets, leading to more harm in the long run than if we went all-in on traffic calming with no robotaxis at all.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't have sourcing for this but I recently learned that the US imports cheap ground beef and exports the good cuts.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One great thing is they're a template that all the different mutant powers can act on. Freeze em, slice em up, throw a train at em. And they look great on the page.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I lived in W'burg for 20 years and there has never been LESS cool stuff to do than now. My theory is that it's an Instagram influencer ouroboros. Also a lot of Long Islanders go there to brunch/drink/shop cause it's easier than driving into Manhattan.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The people opposed to safe streets are so prone post hoc reasoning that after five years in the safe streets movement I now spend most of my time trying to understand the interiority of cranks with no moral system who actively work to make the world worse.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

There's nothing false about the article's evaluation but I think it overlooks one really salient factor. NYC is FULL of river crossings and bottlenecks. NYPD could have a huge chilling effect by doing checkpoint enforcement at the bridges. The focus on vehicle IDs "at speed" is misplaced.

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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today is PUBLICATION DAY! You can now get your copy of *The Great Driving Right Show* Special thanks to everyone who accompanied us on this journey. And to @triofrancos.bsky.social @leninology.bsky.social and @alfatau.bsky.social for their kind blurbs!

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I will second this and add that, as a parent, watching my child have joyful summer days stripped away is particularly excruciating.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In so far as sitcoms are about anything, "That 70's Show" is about deindustrialization.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don't disagree with what I take to be your core claim but 1) free housing/land markets without thoughtfully unwinding other conditions and policies can make the problem worse and 2) Mamdani's a leftist so - yeah there's some kooks out there but they don't seem ascendant on the left to me.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

More to the point, your argument addresses a problem no one has. We're trying to make affordable and de-auto existing cities in a country that has policies like the mortgage interest tax deduction. We're not trying to grow a new European city in a jar.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The current walkable European city is also the result of concerted centralized planning working for decades to DE-automobile them. Under current conditions the free market will only produce auto-first development and low-density homes-as-retirement-accounts.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Owning a large pickup truck is how suburban men deal with their gender insecurities. This is also what owning a large dog does for white dudes in Brooklyn.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For the people calling the shots, money goes in and content comes out, and those folks are only too happy to get that product without annoying problems like paying humans or providing the working conditions that create good ideas.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is a great point. I think another way to say this is that culture work was already becoming a commodified paste distributed digitally on corporate-owned platforms in an industrialized system.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Street Fights are ALWAYS about "Who is in charge here." No one actually hates bikes. They hate sharing power. They see reasonable requests for cooperation as a threat because cooperation means this part of the world isn't their sovereign exclusive domain.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

There's much talk these days about what's required for "real" intelligence, such as world models and the like. One thing we know about the human evolution of it: it required/requires emotion. That may have been better appreciated in 1938 than today. archive.org/details/in.e...

Subtract the emotional element from religion, literature, and art and there would be left the merest dross, an utterly meaningless mass of symbols and responses. Emotionless, man could not produce poetry, music, the graphic arts, or any of the splendid products of a refined culture. The generous sweeps of the imagination that have brought forth romantic movements in the world^s history, the noble aspirations of the intellect that have led whole peoples to seek a higher life, the tremendous activities of organized groups which have spread the best tokens of their civilizations to other lands, the splendid achievements of individual pioneers, adventurers, craftsmen, artisans, composers, inventors, scientists, and spiritual leaders, would never have come to pass in an emotionless world.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Street fights are always really about "who is in charge here". And for some people the idea that they are in charge here is as fundamental and unquestioned as a fact can be. We know this because only an insanely privileged person could mistake this modest cooperation for oppression.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It is funny to be in the middle of an energy and medicine revolution while the part of the tech industry that draws attention to itself is entirely devoted to scams and exploding rockets.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I've been a lot of places and I believe no one despises the population of their city more than the people who run Los Angeles.

10 LAPD officers in tactical helmets form a cordon between the public seating and council seating inside LA's city hall on August 8th, 2022. The officers are ostensibly protecting the council members from citizens advocating on behalf of homeless Angelinos.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don't totally know, but I think she always had faith in tech and tech inevitability. That's why she was right to think that social media matters when most outlets were ignoring it. Correct conclusion built on a false premise. That's why all her other conclusions are wrong.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If Connacht had lost today it would have been them doing in season form what they did in game after game at the beginning of the year, being competitive and impressive but snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and that would have been pretty funny. I'm glad they won though.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The reason AI people think AI will be popular is because they have no idea what normal humans like.

X.com tweet from Austin lau, aka @helloitsaustin
"I got married this past weekend so I did what any rational @AnthopicAI employee would do and had Claud Code analyze 12 years of iMessages with my wife, then Claud Design used that data to whip up a website for our guests in just minutes." Then there's some charts and stuff.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

After enough street fights you start to see that a big part of the anti-redesign team just wants to assert that they're in charge here (usually by virtue of having been here first, whether that's true or not). The content of the plan is irrelevant. What matters is that their in-group dominates.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have to semi-retract this. It seems that DoT did turn these paint islands into concrete at some point, maybe very recently. The crosswalks were missing so I wonder if they had just done the curb work and were waiting for paint. This is from yesterday early afternoon.

Aerial image of the same intersection showing new blacktop, concrete islands where there had been road paint, and no crosswalk paint.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The intersection itself is a crime (among many in the neighborhood) and on top of it there was no road paint at all after recent repaving. Why are these paint islands not curbs at the very least? This was a timebomb. (Taking nothing away from the driver's responsibility as well, of course.)

Google street maps image of the intersection of Lee and Lorimer showing chaotic motor vehicle traffic and areas that should be curbs represented only with road paint, which motor vehicles are parked in.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I haven't been able to afford Vaselka's prices for half a decade. It's weird that these places keep their "neighborhood classic" status when only rich people can afford to eat there.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It's great, right?! Definitely install crosspoint if you haven't. I also didn't think I'd ever go for landscape reading but it actually makes sense with the smaller screen, for me.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It's an income chart. Since the 70's the rich have made their money from asset appreciation, which Income mostly misses. It's deliberately misleading. Read Melinda Cooper, *Counterrevolution".

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This isn't earth shattering or anything, but keep an ear out for when liberals fail to grasp an individual's sovereignty and you'll never stop hearing it.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Esoteric Ebb is great. Everyone go play it. [screengrab from very early in the game (like 10mins)]

This is a tough one guys. Isometric video game screengrab. A medieval knight in a blue tunic, chainmail and helmet stands before a short green kobold who holds a crossbow and sits atop a pillow which is atop two wooden crates.

The user interface indicates that the player has just won a DC 7 Charisma check, allowing the following interaction.

"You: You smirk. A confident laugh escaping your lips. You then turn towards the ceiling, smiling.

[you say] "I also don't like milk."

"CHARISMA: [the charisma part of your personality] Your comment has made a dent upon the world."

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I agree this guy is bad news. My takeaways: - I don't understand why some people with not much at stake are opting to endorse him. It's ok to STFU sometimes. - If (🤞) there's a strong leftist groundswell in the making there are way more seats to win than there are good vetted experienced candidates.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Imagine if she'd been right about eating grass though. What a great day. There's so much.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It wasn't until 20 years after I graduated that I learned a ton of my college classes had taken place in the Triangle Shirtwaist building. Memory is an active practice. Forgetting happens all by itself.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This is just like the red herring of inter-generational antagonism. Boomers aren't *inherently* selfish dicks. Power tilted to the asset-holding class in the 70's, so the asset-holding Boomers got rich and stayed rich. We can't win by fighting Boomers. We win by fighting asset-holders as a class.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The issue isn't that the rulers are old. It's that the institutions are broken and unaccountable. Under those conditions the people with power stay in power and the rich find their champions and keep them in their seats. That's show bad leaders stick around long enough to GET old.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Don't just read that and feel good about yourself. Game out how that happened and what needs to happen to fix it.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We really gotta reckon with the high percentage of people whose moral system is just Capitalism, or who have no moral system at all. There are a TON of people running around sincerely incapable of telling right from wrong. Like . . . so many.

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phyzique @thephyzique.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Harris gave every indication she'd send Americans to die for Israel's interests. The fact that it's Trump who actually got the chance to follow through does nothing to diminish that. Tyler's a dick and a waste of air, but you're also still wrong.

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