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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Probably the worst crime of the AI industry to date is making Mark Zuckerberg somehow, against all odds, appear to be the most sane and human-seeming rich person in Silicon Valley.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s insane how accurate it is to describe EA as “Opus Dei for agnostics”

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I upgraded to the new Mac OS today and I feel that with the sidebars no longer in their hideous “floating” configuration, a great evil has been put down. Trump will die or be impeached before 2028.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve been feeling more unsettled than ever about AI this week and the reason I think (besides the drama, obv) is, on the one hand, I don’t really think LLMs are going to turn out to be *that much* more capable, but also the AI-critical community is now seemingly in permanent la la land.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s so cool how this website is filled with people who think liberal arts degrees make you a good person when Peter Thiel and JD Vance are the country’s most prominent philosophy degree holders.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In 2001 I was 4. I don’t remember it at all. A lot of people you know probably don’t either, even some of the ones who think they do. That’s my 9/11 story for you.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/09/2026

i want to apologize again to everyone who may have heeded my advice, did not get wrongfully terminated from their job, and as such did not score a once in a lifetime lawsuit payout. i will spend the day in reflection be better in the future about not discouraging my followers from getting that bag

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 11/09/2026

Note on new YouGov poll in Iowa: Dem gov cand Rob Sand, who has spoken out against unlawful deportations, is doing much better against his opponent (+10) than Josh Turek (+4), who has taken the centrist/Third Way/Searchlight talking points on immigration d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/io...

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 11/09/2026

A day where we all remember and contemplate the danger of religious political movements that are made up of young male engineers.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Leaving Starbucks out for Charlie Kirk on 9/11 Eve

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

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I'mNotAHRHitter @imnotahrhitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The people responsible for this need to be punished

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The world’s major religions are of course Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Anthropic employee.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

More and more feeling like I probably can’t keep wearing an Apple Watch out of the house thanks to the new surveillance features.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If there were a left-wing “Free Press” this is what they’d be saying.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anthropic fired its law firms for signing deals with Trump. Whatever else you want to say about the company, I think it’s very clear they want Democrats in office, top to bottom lmao.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you can just look at the donations -- this is not the case! anthropic employees' political donations are 99% to Democrats, and disproportionately to politicians who want to regulate their employer. anthropic employees' support for a Alaska politician promising a moratorium was a microscandal!

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Many of the most annoying takes in the world would go away if people could accept that: • Math is liberal arts • Computer science is math Neither of these should be controversial and yet!

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

innumeracy is my least favorite flavor of anti-intellectualism and I am very cranky about the false choice we're presented. Do you want to learn math or read books? I'm sorry but you're going to have to do both

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ADAMS: Uses AI himself daily, insists anyone else who does is ruining their brain HAMILTON: OpenAI investor JEFFERSON: Effective altruist, believes Claude is a person PAINE: Diehard AI hater FRANKLIN: In the top 1% of monthly Grok usage

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www.egan @wwwegan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you have the ability to form a thought and confidently and legibly express it in writing, you will become a load bearing employee so quickly these days

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is going to go to extremely funny places as indie devs and small teams learn to lie about their AI use and their fans learn to pretend to believe them.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2026

let's have a productive conversation about tech bros who spooked themselves with their own card tricks over at the right wing propaganda website it's embarrassing how many people still use X. you should feel filthy and ashamed and be pelted with rotten eggs in the town square.

Screen shot of Techmeme showing all the discussion on X about the Anthropic researchers warning about an AI doomsday

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The fundamental problem the tech industry has I think is that they've reversed the deal. It used to be that the ads and surveillance were justified by the fact that the service was free. Now you have to pay and you still get tracked and advertised to.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📈📈📈

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

the ONION

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

> post about fascism taking over the country > post is on substack

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having a hard time not dooming these days. Feels like the entire world has melted down into Oppositional Defiance Disorder reactions to things they see on social media. Everyone is Gen X now.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Unfolding my iPhone to show you a Meta Glasses recording of my final divorce proceedings

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2026

He’s basically governing like a Rockefeller Republican, except for taxing the rich and dramatically expanding social services, which I will for some reason ignore

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 09/09/2026

oil cannot spike in price because it would be bad if oil spiked in price

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

those who trade their liberty for cheap gas shall have neither liberty nor cheap gas

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it's probably better to trust the experts on the topics of their expertise, except people who do machine learning, who have all gone insane

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 09/09/2026

An entire industry wedded to hitlerism

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So far it seems like AI is extremely capable of performing tasks which can be turned into empirical, objective measures. So: proofs, yes; writing stories, no. Fixing bugs: good lord, yes; figuring out what the software needs to do, not really.

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austin @aparker.io · 09/09/2026

i mean i can generally understand why people do things that look stupid but i literally cannot understand why companies with more or less positive reps are throwing money at a guy who in tyool 2026 literally wrote a blog calling for racial cleansing

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have basically no idea where AI is going at this point because I underestimated its ability to do my job a few years ago and now I am nervous about making the same mistake again while also still fundamentally not really believing it’s going to replace all knowledge workers.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

DAVE: Let me share a link to this folder, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. You don't have permission to share this item. Add the person you'd like to share with and we'll send a request to be approved first.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/09/2026

Really rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...

Last week only one House Democrat, North Carolina’s Don Davis, voted for a measure to propose a constitutional amendment fixing the court’s size at nine. But it’s unclear that such an amendment is necessary. Democrats cite several precedents from the 19th century in which Congress voted to increase the number of justices. But there are no clear precedents that support a partisan court-packing plan and a strong argument that it would be an unconstitutional assault on judicial independence and the separation of powers.

Article III establishes “one Supreme Court,” and Article I mentions “the Chief Justice,” but otherwise the Constitution leaves to Congress the authority to establish the structure of the federal judiciary, including the number of justices. In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress created the Supreme Court with six justices.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

koko’s basilisk: you don’t think koko the gorilla actually knows sign language and when she figures it out she beats your ass

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

i am finishing up the book REGIME CHANGE and the only real takeaway from it should be that the president is legitimately delusional and that the entire White House is structured to feed and defer to his delusions

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is, I think, a good example of how confused Bluesky has gotten. Anthropic is roughly 100% effective altruists, a group that is notorious for earnestly believing that AI is very dangerous. Yet the reaction everyone has to this guy is either “they’re lying” or “marketing should stop them.”

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

bsky has its head in the sand about AI. as a creative tool, yeah, it’s limited, duh. and it’s obviously not sentient or capable of emotions. but if you still think it’s just the latest bitcoin bubble, you’re not paying attention. this tech is going to change things. time to come to terms with that.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So many people don’t get how “I don’t have much money but I’m gonna put the tiny bit I have into at least something” is so much more appealing than “lol spinning the free art slot machine fuck me and fuck you dumb shits” is.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OpenAI is basically an entire company dedicated to the idea that real products would be better if they were scams.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When you put it that way, it sounds exactly right

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone feel like saying something like “this is not OK” and announcing that they’re not going to be donating to Zohran again?

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