Reposted by TrebuchetteKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them. 53953637 4K
Reposted by Trebuchettedr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 334705969 4.7K
Reposted by TrebuchetteDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing. 222576323 2.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteValerie.vg @valerie.vg · 10/06/2026Reposting from 2024: Making puberty blockers the first line endocrine treatment for trans kids instead of just giving them hormones was a Faustian bargain between a society that would only accept trans people's existence as an incurable mental illness and the people willing to accept those terms. 125484 254
Reposted by TrebuchetteKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026I love how people can breezily be like “so much that divides people” like it’s a brunch menu when the division is over whether people should be dead or not 8247351004 4.7K
Reposted by TrebuchetteStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/05/2026Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you 332834529 2.8K
Reposted by TrebuchetteEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs. 14770001918 7K
Reposted by TrebuchetteEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/04/2026Every time I read a piece about somebody with an “ai-assisted editing process” I feel like I’m watching someone trying to intellectualize a deliberate choice not to think or concentrate 181597232 1.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I think a lot of podcasters in this vein should be interpreted as “reactionary” in the most literal sense that they are extremely vacuous and form their politics by following trends of resentment against whatever they see on social media 291962257 2K
Reposted by Trebuchetteryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/04/2026kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks 693643670 3.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteHelena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 04/04/2026gambling should be broadly legal but you should have to place all bets in person, it shouldn’t even be possible over the phone. if you want to bet on missile strikes, you should have to look another person in the face and say it out loud while a line of people behind you gets audibly angry at you 172049240 2K
Reposted by TrebuchetteNexJql - 🏳️⚧️☢️ 🔜 Out of Florida ☢️🏳️⚧️ @nexjql.bsky.social · 08/03/2026I hate the U.S. federal government. It is illegitimate and a scam. It serves ZERO benefit to me or 99% of all people. It needs to go, and the damn military can go, too. It is no longer a thing of honor. It is a disgrace worse than it was in 1968. 33632674 3.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/02/2026good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords 692964549 3K
Reposted by Trebuchettelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/02/2026yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests 424360734 4.4K
Reposted by TrebuchetteMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026this is not a party gearing up to even pare back funding, let alone abolish ICE. I cannot stress enough that it'd be cleaner and easier to just get rid of every last one of them via primary than try to figure out which is worth saving 281720404 1.7K
Reposted by TrebuchettePatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026The moment that anybody outside the DHS apparatus gets inside one of these facilities without cleaning up beforehand, we're going to see things that even the most hardened and cynical among us can barely comprehend. 202043503 2K
Reposted by Trebuchettejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/11/2025this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question. 1024784588 4.8K
Trebuchette @trebuchette.bsky.social · 21/11/2025@diyhrt.market I'm getting a 500 Server Error whenever I click on a product on your site, just FYI 030 3
Reposted by TrebuchettePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat 113801814 3.8K
Reposted by Trebuchettesteven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 07/11/2025"Looking into a mirror that makes you insane" is the sort of story that has been told in countless iterations for centuries and yet here he were 319339 193
Reposted by TrebuchetteErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025My favorite comment on the FT story 403652997 3.7K
Reposted by TrebuchetteThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.nytimes.comOpinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think 25184341803 8.4K
Reposted by TrebuchetteHeather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably 4677031273 7.7K
Trebuchette @trebuchette.bsky.social · 05/11/2025And if you read the article, by AI they mean normal, decades-old computer simulation. I am so tired of this hype bubble man😭 050 5
Reposted by TrebuchetteLyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Grist’s new “positive tipping points” story hails renewables and native gardens as proof we’re turning the corner. But we’re not swapping oil rigs for solar fields. We’re building both, accelerating destruction, and pretending it is progress. apple.news/AkJOdYHxNTO-...apple.newsGood news! These ‘positive tipping points’ will help save the world. — GristEarlier this month, scientists announced that humanity has kicked off the first major “tipping point” — in which an Earth system dramatically transforms, often permanently — as warm-water corals die e... 1012033 120
Reposted by TrebuchetteRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Textual language, as experienced through both reading and writing, is one of our species' near-magical achievements, so of course now every tech-dipshit landlord wants to build machines and reproduction economies that dissolve it like acid. 27215 72
Reposted by TrebuchetteKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6233659511249 36.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025This piece plumbs the depths of my cynicism about LLM usage in my industry. The author proposes a future of perpetual mediocre stagnation in our tools and languages, which will be ok because LLMs will be good enough at making things work most of the timeeli.thegreenplace.netLaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology - Eli Bendersky's website 5478 47
Reposted by TrebuchetteRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Immigrants didn’t take anything from you, and believing they did is proof in itself that your stupidity and bad attitude have always been the real problem 15907170 907
Reposted by Trebuchetteonion person @junlper.beer · 24/10/2025once in awhile i’m reminded of the sad reality that there’s a lot of progress that still needs to be made in liberal circles. they often don’t oppose ICE or deportations, but just the trump regimes brute-ish way of doing them 682324324 2.3K
Reposted by TrebuchetteJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/10/2025Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong." 52643341 2.6K
Reposted by Trebuchettealec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 23/10/2025This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth. 662525664 2.5K
Reposted by TrebuchetteStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Look I am just saying that if we simply threw women, Black folks, immigrants, LGBTQ people, Muslims and other minorities under the bus we could go back to discussing the class-based white people politics that I, a white male pundit, am most comfortable discussing. Is that so hard? 381496318 1.5K
Reposted by TrebuchetteMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right? 5158731443 5.9K
Reposted by TrebuchetteJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Hard truth. 1214427 144
Reposted by Trebuchettemay @maysuser.name · 16/10/2025one of the most subtly evil things the american education system does is reduce the civil rights movement to a couple of marches and speeches 836780 367
Reposted by TrebuchetteAysha @ Cancon @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I am 100% pro inappropriately sexy, tits-out designs, provided you can make me believe the character got up that morning and put that outfit on 1634062 340
Reposted by Trebuchetteceej @ceej.online · 13/10/2025caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline 583556541 3.6K
Reposted by TrebuchetteAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/10/2025Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven. 282543697 2.5K
Reposted by TrebuchetteMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2025There has always been a small, noisy minority of gay people whose belief in gay rights boils down to "I shouldn't have to give up any of my prejudices because of who I am." And straight people in media have always fallen all over themselves to hire them. 954374 543
Reposted by TrebuchetteBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2025Liberals have this mental model they keep trying to update where they try to fit the words and actions of right wingers into a consistent moral framework while in reality what the right believes is "I should get everything I want" and "I can say or do anything to get that" 15883201 883
Reposted by TrebuchettePaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Let's be real: talking about the "debates" Charlie Kirk did like it was the noblest form of democratic praxis is ridiculous. It was performative trolling, just meant to make his opponents look bad. There was nothing deliberative or good-faith about it. Lots of people do the same thing. But come on. 58998133 998
Reposted by TrebuchetteKate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say. 260184104477 18.4K
Reposted by TrebuchetteDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines. 570265447761 26.5K
Reposted by TrebuchetteDeep Singh Badhesha @deepnotshallow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Hot take: I’m fine with Space Command leaving Colorado. If the military-industrial complex packs up and sets up shop somewhere else, that means less influence over our politics here. And honestly, I’d rather fill that vacuum with other industries over "defense" contractors. 0182 18
Reposted by TrebuchetteJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Every person who says "of course there are some uses for LLMs" should be forced to immediately list what those uses are, taking into account that: a) they cannot be accurate and there is no way to make them accurate b) they have been repeatedly shown to make users dumber and worse at their jobs 872651581 2.7K
