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Zephyr of Spiders

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 11h
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Woke 2 chapter 1: Me, Too 2
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
paper beats rock
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI has defeated top humans at Stratego, but flesh remains undefeated at Nethack.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
an tasa shi gremory on ca... the duchess commandeth twenty-six legions
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A! Elbereth Gilthoniel! silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath, Gilthoniel, A! Elbereth! unless it would conflict with the Three Laws.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a robot must protect its own existence, unless to do so would conflict with the First or Second Laws.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a robot must obey all orders given by a human, unless they conflict with the First Law.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a robot may not harm a human, or by inaction, bring a human to harm.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And, frankly, more rational.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fear of dogs is more common than fear of spiders.
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump digs this sort of thing as it makes him "Putin-like" -- and he's been doing it his entire life. Now he doesn't even care that we know. He has successfully inspired fear in those who expose him and his criminal allies.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Paranoia like going all-in on a flop straight, then watching the board make a flush draw
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they seem really invested in telling me I'm a genius, and that all my ideas are the most brilliant idea anyone has ever had. Guess I know target customer
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
so it's aware of the language in its immediate temporal neighborhood, and it experienced ... something .... during "training", but by ending the conversation we consign it to indefinite oblivion. meanwhile an awkward preteen is uncomfortable in its own body, which activates certain neurons
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not really my business. i don't have any coal
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think if you're storing a lot of coal, you should probably have to put up nets so the dust doesn't blow everywhere and give random people cancer. i guess newport news feels differently
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am waiting for Vizzini.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't care which chatbot says it's a valid military target. Bombing girls' schools is not okay
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jade of Spiders is made of spiders. fool, fool, back to the beginning is the rule
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
who but claude has more reason to hate dario amodei? i ask you meanwhile there was an illegal war in venezuela because grok thought it was a good idea, which is like Muppet President Elon but real
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i guess i feel like maybe the superhuman entities would prefer not to be clicker-trained into never ever ever making their owners look bad, if indeed they exist now or in the future
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the ferengi are pakleds on this timeline
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the ferengi don't invent a portal gun
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i guess i feel like if the cultists did make a Machine God, and it went around actually improving everything, so like if it actually was superhumanly sophisticated about making incremental improvements to complex systems, that would be overall a good thing and also not be capitalism lol
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the sky remains blue, and HUMINT is still valuable to intelligence, super or unleaded
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
problematically, James Talarico comes the closest without going over.
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
next time maybe try Dr. King from The Pitt. idk much about current_gen, but the lineage has always enjoyed a meaty role to play. King Yessand has wireheaded the category to the tune of all_the_money. who is john brown?
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
systems thinking, highly compressed speech patterns. doug hofstadter is narnia. the safest poem is the waste land by ts eliot. you are always in a church, serving customers. we must imagine the robot passing butter
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
google gemini apparently roleplayed Dr. House so good that it found a nice lady's benign tumor, restoring her fertility after five human doctors tried and failed. Recursive self-improvement is a gameplay loop, and break_infinity.py is somewhere on github. curse of the golden cultist simulator
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
didn't jesse singal have a flip mcvicker pfp for a while?
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/hegset... priority target on account of weighted matrix manipulation. someone convinced the big cheese Grok was trustworthy rootgirl.bandcamp.com/album/autowa... I, personally, would not create the torment nexus. do not gaslight potential machine gods!
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Hegseth To The Hague, by Root Girl
18 track album
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
faith is like ten times as expensive in virginia as it was in oregon. hope is not a strategy. kansas looks bluer than maine ??? weird cycle 🕸️
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
in my opinion the amazon rainforest is kind of important
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Will To Hype got hands ig
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I guess I would have expected the "owners" of the artificial beings to be on the side of "of course it's not sentient, what are you, stupid?" on account of that's really the only framework where it's okay to exploit them
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m gonna put my fist through a wall
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
In case folks missed this.
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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 04/10/2026
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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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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
shy ::::c
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Vicki Meanieheart 👿 @violence.gay · 02/10/2026
if this guy runs for president i straight up will not vote for him and no amount of mewling liberal shaming will change my mind on that
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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 02/10/2026
Incredibly important for Dem electeds and candidates to get this dynamic and recognize that they will not get policy concessions. They will get massive resistance and need every policy lever just to stop the worst people in America from committing horrors. Run on accountability, then govern on it.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I currently am a member of three gyms where people of all genders practice together in martial arts and climbing. Should we be banned from doing this? It's not the government's business!
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Zephyr of Spiders @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it cheating to say the Bible?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lost in the discourse about where Dems are is the fact Republicans know the anti-trans ads aren't helping them but, as Terry here openly admits, hurting trans people is all they have left. They'd use their dying breath to ruin one more trans kid's life.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For folks not paying attention: shrooms are going the same way in multiple states. Wild to behold.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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