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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't really understand what the battle is supposed to be here. As far as I can tell people still buy and learn and record and listen to instruments. And more importantly, music isn't about just how it sounds, it's about a connection to the human making it. Too much generation and you sever that.

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

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Anyone else find it concerning that the CTO of this website just had an insane crashout about "anti-ai people" or is it just me

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we just want people who don't want to use ai to stop harassing us. it's not a complicated ask

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I think if this is the ask then these tortured metaphors are not really even in the ballpark of expressing it, because the message that comes across is just smug and truculent

if someone is an asshole to you -- well, you're an adult. at some point someone has to say 'well, this hurt and anger stops with me' and stop simply behaving the way they think they've earned an excuse to

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that's abuser logic

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You just called me delusional, or a liar. Is harassing really the problem, because it sure sounds like you actually have a problem with the very existence of someone who is anti-ai, regardless of how they act about it.

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wouldnt be beef if anti ai people didnt keep harassing devs

Devin Spikowski

I don't harass or endorse doing so but just to make sure we're on the same page, you don't consider my reply harassment do you?

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do you have a problem with people trying to set boundaries

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

all cars are bastards

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wait... "Anti-bedtime leftism" was real all along??

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's fine -- if they're not sure what Skype refers to they can just ask Jeeves

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

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Bebop, Rocky, and Floor's Human @misserinrenee.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you love displaying Confederate flags, want to name military bases after Confederate generals, and oppose teaching kids about slavery, the civil war, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement because it might make white kids uncomfortable, you don't get to call your party "The Party of Lincoln."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If you see an abduction keep your wits about you and focus on: -recording it -getting a name The first one I saw I went into a red rage and started screaming “GO HOME.” The second I was better but I didn’t get to the key question fast enough (I had less than 20 seconds). Next time I’ll do better

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I think a lot of Americans have (understandably) assumed that this kind of brutal randomized street-level "papers please" enforcement has been how ICE has always done business. It very much was not, until the past year.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

The theory of power that says conservatives as a whole, and young right-wing men in particular, are victims repressed by the left-wing forces dominating society is, in a word, insane. It cannot possibly be addressed, because it's not true. It's just rationalization for hatred and hurting others.

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The New Right's Theory of Power is Insane

It is simply not true that radical leftists took over all major institutions and use them to crush the right, and mainstream figures should stop being afraid to say so

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Sure but this is also a post-scarcity society where artists don't have to worry about income. And how do you know the holodeck databank isn't based only on properly-licensed works used with permission? I think Picard would have a problem with plagiarism so why not a plagiarism machine?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/10/2025

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Is this the "death threats against the devs" we've been hearing so much about? If so this is extremely weak, and barely calls for any moderation action at all much less a permanent ban. I can only conclude the CEO here has Muskian influence over moderation decisions which is extremely concerning

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

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How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

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Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

again, you are *posting on a public forum.* spreading panic and paranoia is antithetical to the solidarity and organization needed at this stage of resistance. And, bluntly, the opinion of *any* American is less useful than talking to South Koreans or Ukrainians and others at this point.

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Brianomite 🧨 @brianomite.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Tapping the sign again

SOME PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO APPEASE TRUMP. HOPING HE WILL BACK OFF AND NOT HUMILIATE THEM FURTHER

WELL DID IT WORK FOR THOSE PEOPLE?

NO, IT NEVER DOES, I MEAN, THESE PEOPLE SOMEHOW DELUDE THEMSELVES INTO THINKING IT MIGHT, BUT...

...BUT IT MIGHT WORK FOR US.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

At this point I can only assume people still arguing about "opsec" when going to one of these huge mainstream "nokings" style protests -- wear a mask! Use a burner phone! Don't use your real name! Etc -- haven't actually bothered going to any.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Somehow I've been mixing up Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Why the fuck is this so much more salient to everybody than when a literal democratic state lawmaker was assassinated 3 months ago?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2025

📽️ Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window and slammed Daniel Flores-Martinez to the ground while his wife and children sobbed: propub.li/3IbPftA

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I'm canceling my monthly donation to @cayimby.bsky.social until they come out with a statement denouncing this travesty of a conference and permanently cutting ties with the "abundance" movement

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Saw a raven just out and about!

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Bluesky should have a feed that shows you the news before showing you people's reactions to the news so you know what the heck everyone's taking about

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A message to people whose cynicism has gotten the best of them: Data from KFF Health News illustrating how successful lawsuits have spared the blue states from a great deal of the blow to public health infrastructure funding. Red states sat back and are now royally screwed.

Red states hit hardest by cdc grant terminations
before democratic-led jurisdictions filed lawsuits in april to retain their centers for disease control and prevention grants, terminations more closely resembled the distribution of cdc funding across the nation. after injunctions were issued in may and june, red states lost a greater share of public health infrastructure funding and support.

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Does anyone else hum the king of the hill theme when they take out the trash

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Ken @whatabouttheken.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Exactly which American is he referring to here, the Human Genome Project was pretty famously an international collaboration

It was an American who mapped the human genome, cracking the code of life itself.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Two things can be true: 1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings 2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I’m back! I saw your messages on here & elsewhere—thank you all <3. I’m deeply disappointed in @bsky.app moderation; equating pushback against people like JKR with the harm they cause to trans ppl only enables more violence. I’ll talk more soon but even a day away from social media has been healthy.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This should be obvious, but I’m going to say it anyway because the internet has a way of making obvious things less obvious: You cannot substantively care about every worthy cause out there. If your response is “Maybe YOU can’t, but I can!” you are confusing feeling with actually caring.

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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

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Bryan Harnsberger @psychhype.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My big thing of recent has been perscribing Play. Being playful, doing playful acts is what helps. It encourages self-expression. It desensitizes you of failure and allows you mulligans. Unfortunately, we've forgotten how to play. We're all work. Little love. But mostly, we've been work-centric.

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