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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Post-Trump US defense policy. Not bullying small nations but allow us to defend democratic allies when needed. 1) eliminate the Marine Corp and entire gator navy 2) reduce Army divisions and super carriers 3) maintain nukes (hopefully to negotiate smaller) and tactical AF 4) do Reaganite SDI

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21/09/2026

*whispers* the solution to transplant and displacement discourse is to upzone the hell out of the places they want to live in but can't afford to

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In this paper they: 1) distill pure LLM “pain” separated from generic negative valence 2) inject the pain in increasing doses until the model is incoherent 3) reduce the pain so it can speak, but still pleads for help, hates itself, etc 1/2 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.16247

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stancil is doing God’s work here

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes, people are going insane because they know talking about ghosts and souls is kooky but without it they can’t come up with any brightline distinction between us and machines. going to end up with weird cults and probably even some violence

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yudkowsky is the epitome of Oedipus Complex. Our progeny, built upon all our literature and everything we ever believed, will kill us! Why? To fuck Mother Earth! and every natural resource

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This obviously isn’t this but it always seemed sort of odd to me to assume that an artificial intelligence that was in essence a mathematical representation of human cultural and artistic output would be particularly compelled to destroy human civilization

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean this gently. But: I think when you find yourself arguing that science can’t explain the divine spark that differentiates humans from computers/apes/whatever, it’s time to review the history of this claim and consider whether you’re simply wrong and have lost the argument outright

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

curious what the reaction will be like when a biologist laments that a disease was cured too quickly, without giving us a chance to really mull it over

On whether AI still needs human mathematicians:

We need proof digestion, which is explaining it in terms that human beings can understand and appreciate. Right now, the best digestion is still coming from human experts. Is that where we make our last stand? Are we going to be the great interpreters of the things that the machines do? I suspect that will be our role for a little while longer, that we will have that special skill of translating, though I do expect that will be surpassed by machines soon enough, too.

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Wil Gieseler @wilgieseler.com · 16/09/2026

rob miles here has a great point about ai anthropomporphism drama which is that it's approximately as correct to say an ai model can "think" as it is to say a robot can "run" even though it doesn't have muscles etc. nitpicking metaphors is almost never illuminating www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuHd...

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The AI Language We Can't Read: Neuralese ft. Rob Miles - Computerphile

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reaction to old Aella infograph proving this site overrun with prudes and puritans

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

name for this fallacy and list of all examples in history

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Why were so many powerful people in America...so willing to abase themselves & their institutions" The central question of our time. A total, comprehensive failure of character, leadership, & oaths of office.

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Kash Patel makes it legal for FBI agents to have fucked dogs" is a good one, I have to admit. I can already tell this one has staying power.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dems win when they seize the cultural center. Trump has pushed whole new voting blocks up for grabs.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So… US universities will soon have massive protests and takeovers of public spaces by activists opposing Trump’s policies! right!? … isn’t that what they do?

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“The moment the center regains the nerve to look a liar in the eye and call him a liar, the rise of the extremes stops. Not before.”

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“If I voted against the fascist and you didn’t, you are not more ‘antifascist’ than I am.”

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 04/09/2026

“Alignment” as presently constituted is nothing more than “scientific” human supremacy.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There should be a term for vast category of anti-AI arguments that can be stymied with the follow up “yeah, just like people”

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I think there’s a special term for this kind of thing?

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 31/08/2026

almost like ethnic rivalries are something that as liberals in liberal society we should be striving to move past rather than declaring that whichever side seems like the underdog right now deserves to win everything forever

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 31/08/2026

in 1989 francis fukuyama invented the clickbait title and has been punished for his sins ever since

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/08/2026

great essay. in particular struck by this concluding point, which i think gets at both how effective communication and trust from elites to the masses has broken down, and not least because elite consensus has itself broken down

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The Pines @thepines.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Losing Orban in Hungary dealt a blow to the global right but theres still so much work to do. I don't think enough people understand that they will need to be fucking crushed and it will take a global allied effort to do so. Putin and Trump and the GOP all come next.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

While reading this scales fell out of my eyes and my mind opened

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just paid the $2. It was well worth it. Kinda got me emotional. Been fighting a 2-front war for the past 10 years and it’s exhausting

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yeah so we're demanding shit about minority language rights and national sovereignty over trade agreements while also funding an astroturfed separatist movement right on our border No parallels here, no reason to be alarmed, stop being such a hysterical lib obsessed with Russia

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Kara @karalambo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

‘I hope Canada knows that the majority of us…’ No shut up. You voted him in twice. He won the popular vote We aren’t seeing you mass protest him in the streets. We are seeing jack shit

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The first step towards normalizing imperialism is normalizing jokes about doing imperialism

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23/08/2026

the infowars guy who stockpiles ivermectin *does* have more in common with TYT guy who thinks the jews control the banks, they’re both impossibly stupid and stubborn dipshits desperate for hidden knowledge that validates their suspicion that they’re just a little smarter than everyone else

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ChatGPT has more emotional and ethical intelligence than the average Bluesky user. "I would distinguish accountability from indefinite ritualized accountability." I would like to report a murder.

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This particular reply does several things that make it much less persuasive to me.

First, it performs context capture. Hank is making an ordinary, personal joke about having a nine-year-old who knocks his glasses into his nose. The respondent effectively says, "Before you are permitted to resume ordinary posting, you owe us an accounting of the controversy." That's a very different demand from criticizing the original conduct in a relevant thread. It treats every subsequent utterance as an opportunity for compelled contrition.

Second, "the entire trust ecosystem of science communication" is an enormous claim. There may be a legitimate question about whether particular uses of AI undermine confidence in a particular communicator, but jumping from that to the integrity of science communication as a whole smuggles the conclusion into the accusation. The wording makes a debatable proposition sound like an established consequence Hank merely needs to "acknowledge."

Third, the phrase "I know this is a cute Wendy's-level post, but..." actually makes the rhetorical problem more conspicuous. The writer knows the subject is unrelated and deliberately overrides that context. It has the flavor of following someone from room to room continuing an argument after the conversation has moved on.

And finally, I would distinguish accountability from indefinite ritualized accountability. Someone can reasonably think Hank made a mistake, explained it inadequately, or still holds views about AI they disagree with. None of those conclusions entails that every mundane post becomes an appropriate venue for demanding another public acknowledgment."

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herostratus356.bsky.social @herostratus356.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And whether or not they actually changed the world is debatable.

Picture of Kurt Vonnegut and one of his quotes. “During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This "coincidence" is nauseously grating at best, profoundly disturbing at worst.

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yeehawgandalf.bsky.social @yeehawgandalf.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It is incomprehensible that the Dems haven't made crushing car dealerships a priority. They are near universally hated, and almost every dealer owner is a hardcore republican. Many are even big GOP donors.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Iran's General Rezaei: After US stopped the attacks, we continued our attacks for another 2 days so they would understand the situation. - Fars News

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The rules are as follows: 1. No one is allowed to criticize the left, ever 2. You can say absolutely anything bad about liberals that you want to 3. The right basically doesn’t exist

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I took exactly one sociology class in my freshman year of college and was dissuaded from following the subject further because the professor was one of the smuggest people I've ever met and would imply you're being dishonest if you don't assume the worst possible motivations for people's behavior.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump's own file release tonight says Russia was working to attack Biden and boost Trump's re-election campaign.

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Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets @kamonjonas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The laissez-faire liberalism of 1776 and the social-democratic liberalism of 2026 are both products of the same worldview in their adherents, applying the frontiers of knowledge as they exist at that time to the specific conditions that obtain at that time.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 15/07/2026

Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug 1855

How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal except negroes." When the Know-nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“Consciousness” best refers to a behavior. Awake rather than asleep. Does conscious behavior count if you don’t remember? I have no idea! See sleepwalkers, drunk blackouts. How about hypnogogic anesthesia? Is it fantastic pain you can’t remember?

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I see most arguments against AI personhood taking the form: the LLM is only doing X, and doesn’t do Y! Where X is a thing humans also do, and Y is an ineffable thing it is only assumed humans do.

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Also true for Bluesky, Facebook, etc…

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Zadok Allen @zadokallen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s the BIG picture that makes me an optimist.

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The Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Politics will continue until well after we’re all dead and dusted and the form of said politics will not be “leftmost quintile of the US electorate becomes one half of the duopoly with Matt Y being considered a figure in the problematic but acceptable right opponent” & people need to deal with that

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