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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Breyer for example basically did this!

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 22h

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/... I genuinely think everyone is out of their minds reading this this way. What he said was that he would “stick around through this term.” He can announce an end-of-term resignation and have his successor confirmed conditionally.

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Supreme Court’s Alito Will Stay Even If Democrats Win Senate (1)

Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to remain on the Supreme Court even if Democrats capture the Senate in next month’s midterms, dismissing speculation that he might quickly retire to ensure Donald Tr...

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I said the inverse was happening I don’t mean I know someone who is being turned pro-Fox News because of chatbots, I mean I know someone who’s turning pro-chatbot because of Fox News rather than anti-Fox News because they’re *so* pro-chatbot.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you’re underrating the possibility that Americans dumb enough to be pro-Trump are also dumb enough to fall for it if someone moans about this vote being “illegitimate” but never does anything to make that matter

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t know if they actually use it! I know they’ve become very pro-AI due to Fox News coverage

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Erm, the way you’re talking about your iPhone as something you can “buy” and “sell” reminds me a lot of how some people used to talk about people of color...

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Right, and also “you should believe whatever ChatGPT says” may be a trick that works for as long as ChatGPT tells the truth but it’s not really a good way of thinking about the world and Sam Altman can make it be FoxGPT whenever he wants.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

—DEAD serious about doing pedophilia! [someone whispers in my ear] as well as in real life. Rest in piss.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For every person who asks ChatGPT whether vaccines work, gets told yes, and believes it because of the “AI is always correct” mind virus, there’s going to be a person who develops suspicion of vaccines because “big pharma” is using Claude.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is an empirical question that should be studied but my suspicion is it’s probably a wash.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Maybe. The most propagandized person in my life has had the opposite reaction—they went from a lifelong tech hater freaked out about AI and data centers to being a booster who believes they’re “curing cancer” after 2 weeks of Fox News saying so.

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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.

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

I mean realistically it is probably like. Steve Wozniak. But among the CEOs anyway yeah I guess Jensen is another contender.

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

SAM ALTMAN I am at most 2 months away from making god real DARIO AMODEI I am at most 1 month away from eliminating the human race by making god real MARK ZUCKERBERG I made a way you can just tell your phone to book a flight and it will do it

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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

Anyway I think this is a good article but I also feel deeply unwell now.

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

Also, a thought I had, possibly insane and conspiratorial, while reading this is that it’s very interesting that SBF (1) started a company that made him a lot of money by increasing the demand for GPUs right after GPT-1 was built and (2) then gave all the money he stole to Anthropic

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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

My intuition is that LLMs are going to probably get better at producing logic but are not going to prove to be well-suited to judgment and/or creativity. This seems like where the case the pro-LLM people make is weakest too basically “well, we think it will materialize if there’s more data.”

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

I might just be Bluesky-poisoned but at any rate I need better discourse. I need there to be a group blog about why “scaling laws” are bullshit, no more “Ed Zitron read a spreadsheet and he says it’s going to go away in two months”

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

There needs to be some kind of reckoning with the fact that the people who have been most outspokenly critical of this shit have been completely wrong at every turn about its capabilities and economics (though definitely not about some of the harms).

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

I don’t mean by this that there is no good reason to be doubtful of these machines but that it no longer feels like there is any meaningful number of people who doubt them and also can see how good they are at certain things. It’s all Ed Zitron BS that has turned out to be straightforwardly false.

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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

I am joking of course but I do think this website would be served well by shifting blame to business schools, which are in fact where most of the evil is lurking.

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

I’m going to start developing an argument that Dario Amodei is the only tech CEO who hates Trump because he has a STEM degree unlike the inherently fascist liberal arts (computer science) degree holders who run everything else.

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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

Are there still leftcaths on X dot com?

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

In a sense, Dario Amodei is the pope of Vatican II. Not going to elaborate on this.

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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

As usual most of the panic is about nefarious shadow forces but the thing that would concern me more is evil spouses

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

It’s done in a very Apple way where I don’t think there’s any risk at all that Apple or the government can access your conversations and they aren’t even meaningfully “recording” anything (arguably) but (a) people are paranoid and (b) even the summaries of conversations are pretty icky

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

www.theverge.com/tech/992919/... There’s two; one allows you to instantly transcribe the last 15 seconds of speech, the other generates summaries of your conversations throughout the day.

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Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

Will you be using Audio Intelligence?

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

We’ll see! People harass the Meta Ray-Bans users (rightly IMO)

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

In other words I don’t think having an old one will save you

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

I would never use the feature but it doesn’t matter, people are going to think Apple Watches are spying on them all the time.

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

It’s on the new one only, but the problem is not the feature, which is entirely secure and surveillance free (and can be turned off), but the obvious social stigma that will attach to it.

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