iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

We don’t picture him as some regional Bavarian nazi leader because his picture isn’t in black and white and he’s not speaking German, but he is functionally that. He will gladly put us in camps.

That motherfucker is as much of a traitor to the constitution and democracy as any confederate. He absolutely has sold his allegiance and is committed to turning us into a fascist state. It’s a disgrace.

110

Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah I was surprised to learn she’s 54, and thus would have been 28.

000

Reposted by Uber Steve

All Trump's people have done is pick up Chekov's loaded gun and start firing it. 'Bush v Gore' placed it on the table, awaiting a character with no loyalty to the republic to enter the scene.

1478

Nah it’s like the Deep Purple tree, you ever seen that thing? Looks like it’s from some OG Mormon family.

030

Typing it with one hand no doubt

Every once in a while I remember that she really thought she was gonna be president some day and that everyone was behind her on her crazy bullshit, and my imposter syndrome dips down into the manageable range for a few days.

Sometimes I feel like I barely qualify as a Christian anymore, what with my sailor mouth and antipathy towards so many other believers, and then I see these assholes talking like they’re never gonna have to answer for anything, and I want to call down the wrath of God

2250

Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

I think there’s evidence of steroid and hormone abuse

100

Reposted by Uber Steve

Here is Eliezer Yudkowsky explaining (like a very normal person who absolutely does not have some kind of acute personality disorder) why, on the basis of his childhood test scores, he is a special genius uniquely qualified to change the world: web.archive.org/web/20010309...

5.2: Do you really think you can change the world?
Well, yes. After all, if I shouldn't believe that I can do it - or at least, that I have enough of a chance to make the effort worthwhile - who should?
That, at any rate, would be the argument I'd use if I were trying to set up a socially acceptable set of emotional bindings under which "I can change the world" sounds like a modest endeavor. "You can assign a suitably humble estimate to my chances of success as an individual, but if nobody tried, we'd be out of luck, wouldn't we?i
That's not what I tell myself.
Algernon's Law says that any simple (45) major intelligence enhancement will turn out to be a net evolutionary disadvantage. (46). The flip side of Algernon's Law is that there are some levels of performance that can't be achieved without the evolutionary disadvantage. If there were any way to duplicate the performance level of a Specialist without the downside, my SAT scores would be as common as mud; those performance levels would be part of the standard human neurology, like symbolic language or three-dimensional vision. I therefore expect that in any of my areas of Specialization - causal analysis, combinatorial design, reflectivity - I will have significantly more raw processing power than anyone except another Specialist.
Just because ten thousand dedicated researchers hit a problem and bounce, it is not a licensable conclusion that a Specialist will bounce off as well. A truly "impossible" problem often takes me a while to solve; I have to slog away at it steadily, whereas my usual rule is that I can see an answer instantly if I can see it at all. Conversely, if my level of processing power is enough to make slow but steady progress on a problem, then I would expect any non-Specialist to hit the problem and bounce. Which, to some extent, explains the travails suffered by Al.

The existence of Specialists expands the range of problems that humanity can solve. And because I don't know of any other Countersphexists operating in the fields of Al, transhumanism, or Singularitarianism (47), or of any other Countersphexists at all (48), then, for an important class of problems, I expand the range of problems that can be solved. In particular, I am referring to the problem of Al.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm sure AI would be solved eventually. In about 2020 CRNS (49), the weight of accumulated cognitive science and available computing power would disintegrate the ideological oversimplifications and create enough of a foothold in the problem to last humanity the rest of the way. It would be absurd to claim to represent the difference between a solvable and unsolvable problem in the long run, but one genius can easily spell the difference between cracking the problem of intelligence in five years and cracking it in twenty-five - or to put it another way, the difference between a seed Al created immediately after the invention of nanotechnology, and a seed Al created by the last dozen survivors of the human race huddled in a survival station, or some military installation, after Earth's surface has been reduced to a churning mass of goo.
That's why I matter, and that's why I think my efforts could spell the difference between life and death for most of humanity, or even the difference between a Singularity and a lifeless, sterilized planet. I don't mean to say, of course, that the entire causal load should be attributed to me; if I make it, then Ed Regis or Vernor Vinge, both of whom got me into this, would equally be able to say "My efforts made the difference between Singularity and destruction." The same goes for Brian Atkins, and Eric Drexler, and so on. History is a fragile thing. So are our causal intuitions, where linear chains of dependencies are concerned. Nonetheless, I think that I can save the world, not just because I'm the one who hap…

80109080

Reposted by Uber Steve

Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 30/09/2026

Right up there with this classic

@LPNational (the national Libertarian Party) asks, “In your words, what do Libertarians believe?”

@WAForeskins quotes with “My girlfriend shouldn’t have to sit in a car seat”

223835

Reposted by Uber Steve

Tommy Tatertown @senorgreygoose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the best takedowns of the "rationalists" and Libertarians is in Fargo, season 5: Roy: "I want freedom without arbitrary rules.” Lorraine: "So you want freedom without responsibility? Son, there's only one person on Earth who gets that deal." Roy: "The President?" Lorraine: "A baby.”

429156

In almost every way that matters beyond the monetary definition, most of the people you know are far wealthier than him. He will be remembered as a sociopathic villain, a curse by the gods, and a genuinely malevolent force. Vultures will be picking him apart in minutes.

Their are many indignities that come from living in this epoch, but one of the worst is having our collective fates bound on some level with the whims of the richest man in the world, who is objectively a fucking dork without a real friend in the world.

120

ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why tf do these guys do this weird shit to themselves? How do they not know that we’re all thinking “jeez he looks like he’s had a lot of weird surgeries and looks like an oddly sculpted puppet”? Literally no one is thinking “damn he looks young and in shape and has a reasonably good hairline”.

231

Reposted by Uber Steve

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

178125262683

Reposted by Uber Steve

Skeets McGee @emmreef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminds me of Kingpin

0164

Reposted by Uber Steve

Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fun thing about President Business is that he fucking sucks at business worse than anyone else ever has This is an explicit promise to blow up the national debt in a way that would make Hugo Chávez look like a tight-fisted number-crunching white-shirt fiscal conservative *for an election stunt*

2257985

Uber Steve @uber-steve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can’t believe I’m letting you mindfuck me out of impeachment, having Former President JDVannce hanging around American politics for the next 40 years sounds like a nightmare.

170

Uber Steve @uber-steve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I mean, I think that barring some insurmountable cheating/scotus rigging, the 2028 candidate is gonna be a hard sell for them regardless, and a lot of them are probably planning to position themselves for 2032.

100

Reposted by Uber Steve

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

8041921740

Reposted by Uber Steve

Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lauren Boebert and Clarisse Navarro had a knock-down-drag-out fight at the Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen, CO, the bar co-owned by the guy who felt up Boebert at that Beetlejuice show. That guy was flirting with Boebert and Navarro did not like that! This led to a physical fight.

241615156

Uber Steve @uber-steve.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It sucks because these bullshit laws trigger my hard-wired objection against a policy that boils down to “You know those 15 kid athletes who are already part of a small minority despised by like 40% of the country because they exist? The nation’s leaders say eff them specifically.”

0160

Reposted by Uber Steve

tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026

eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it

453182751

Uber Steve @uber-steve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God these people are endlessly hypocritical. I’m so tired of these fucking degenerates.

1182

Uber Steve @uber-steve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

These people are endlessly corrupt. Just recursive fractals of corruption with infinite variations.