Ryan Lange
@langeryan.bsky.social
Media researcher interested in automated behaviors. I lift heavy things and put them down again. Sometimes I help someone learn something.
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It can't happen here
I'm not sure why not
I'm not sure why not
🇫🇷 Thousands of demonstrators were massing under heavy police surveillance across France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined high school students who for days have been demanding better conditions in protests punctuated by violent confrontations.
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October 6, 2026 at 12:06 PM
It can't happen here
I'm not sure why not
I'm not sure why not
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there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
October 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
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Thanks to generosity of Elmira College alums, Carl & Cindy Hayden, the Center for @marktwain.bsky.social Studies is offering two new Quarry Farm Fellowships for high school students & teachers.
Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.
Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.
Elmira College Alumni Establish Prize and Teaching Fellowships at Mark Twain’s Historic Quarry Farm
ELMIRA, N.Y. — High school students and educators in the Elmira area will soon have the rare opportunity to study at Quarry Farm — the historic summer home where Mark
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October 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Thanks to generosity of Elmira College alums, Carl & Cindy Hayden, the Center for @marktwain.bsky.social Studies is offering two new Quarry Farm Fellowships for high school students & teachers.
Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.
Part of our emphasis on involvement in scholarship for educators at every grade level & career stage.
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"The connection here is a fundamentally supremacist one. The response of Walsh and others I’ll detail below is that only male interests are of concern when a rape occurs—their reputations, their power, their dignity." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM
"The connection here is a fundamentally supremacist one. The response of Walsh and others I’ll detail below is that only male interests are of concern when a rape occurs—their reputations, their power, their dignity." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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Loved this article by @adithi-r1.bsky.social and team. Humanizes both the scientists and the journalists covering them. Just an adorable and admirable read. (AP) apnews.com/article/nobe... #SciComm #NobelPrize 🧪
California scientist wins a Nobel Prize, then makes school lunches for his kids
The kids were asleep in the family home in Stanford, where their father had been speaking in the middle of the night with journalists and well-wishers. Deisseroth, who is 54, shared this year’s medici...
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October 6, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Loved this article by @adithi-r1.bsky.social and team. Humanizes both the scientists and the journalists covering them. Just an adorable and admirable read. (AP) apnews.com/article/nobe... #SciComm #NobelPrize 🧪
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You’ve got a party of racist pedophiles funded by an apartheid fanboy and the Dems don’t take shots and the media is too busy signing book deals. Bloody hell.
October 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
You’ve got a party of racist pedophiles funded by an apartheid fanboy and the Dems don’t take shots and the media is too busy signing book deals. Bloody hell.
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“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”
Trump Rages over Sagging Rally Crowds as GOP Panics: “Five-Alarm Fire”
As Trump’s rallies fail to ally GOP midterm fears, the author of a piece on his diminishing stature explains how his cascading failures are driving away his supporters right when he needs them most.
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October 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
“The lifeblood of MAGA is sadism: a desire to inflict pain on women, minorities, LGBTQ people. A lot of people don't necessarily feel comfortable saying that on an individual basis, but when they go to a rally, they can chant hateful, racist things and get that glee, and they're kind of anonymous.”
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the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise
October 6, 2026 at 12:26 PM
the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise
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Tell President Maurie McInnis: Defend Yale’s public mission.
Email [email protected]. Ask her to reaffirm public service and an ethical, diverse community, protect academic freedom, and give faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents a meaningful voice in Yale’s future. 5/5
Email [email protected]. Ask her to reaffirm public service and an ethical, diverse community, protect academic freedom, and give faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents a meaningful voice in Yale’s future. 5/5
October 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Tell President Maurie McInnis: Defend Yale’s public mission.
Email [email protected]. Ask her to reaffirm public service and an ethical, diverse community, protect academic freedom, and give faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents a meaningful voice in Yale’s future. 5/5
Email [email protected]. Ask her to reaffirm public service and an ethical, diverse community, protect academic freedom, and give faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents a meaningful voice in Yale’s future. 5/5
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"You might expect something like this in countries where women don’t enjoy equal rights. But in a country where the Secretary of Defense is a testosterone-pushing reactionary who was credibly accused of rape?"
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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October 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
"You might expect something like this in countries where women don’t enjoy equal rights. But in a country where the Secretary of Defense is a testosterone-pushing reactionary who was credibly accused of rape?"
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new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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October 5, 2026 at 1:15 PM
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
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Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."
October 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Just last week the AI bros signed a voluntary, self policing safety pledge. Today here's yet another attack that -like others before it - "would likely result in criminal charges being filed had human hackers taken them."
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The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics.
The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
October 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics.
The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again
October 5, 2026 at 7:48 PM
When the bad man finally drops dead we can all move on. We'll still be sharing a country with countless people who gleefully aided and abetted his crimes but they probably won't do it again
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A few months ago, I wrote about our feeble, brittle laws against propaganda for @donmoyn.bsky.social’s substack. Especially when propaganda is linked to cash, it’s time that we revisit the pathetic quality of what passes for checks against executive overreach: open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
October 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
A few months ago, I wrote about our feeble, brittle laws against propaganda for @donmoyn.bsky.social’s substack. Especially when propaganda is linked to cash, it’s time that we revisit the pathetic quality of what passes for checks against executive overreach: open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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chat is this good
October 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
chat is this good
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Let's not linger on past suicides. Our best suicides are in front of us.
“‘Mark, we have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming,’ the publicist said.”
OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
“I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future,” the publicist said.
www.theverge.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Let's not linger on past suicides. Our best suicides are in front of us.
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It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.
October 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It's bonkers how "User agreements" are actually binding contracts where one party gets to change them whenever and however they wish and the other party has the options to agree or to stop using computers.
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“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
October 4, 2026 at 1:34 AM
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Good evening to Juan Linz.
Presidentialism was a grave mistake.
Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.
Presidentialism was a grave mistake.
Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.
October 4, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Good evening to Juan Linz.
Presidentialism was a grave mistake.
Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.
Presidentialism was a grave mistake.
Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.
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increasingly worried there's going to be a chernobyl-style event that forces AI regulation, and just hoping we survive it without damage that's too horrible
October 4, 2026 at 12:42 AM
increasingly worried there's going to be a chernobyl-style event that forces AI regulation, and just hoping we survive it without damage that's too horrible
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It's worth asking yourself why every day of the week the New York Times and pretty much every major legacy media outlet runs pieces espousing increasingly incoherent arguments for investing more in AI.
Columnist Stephen Rattner probably got screwed over by the headline writer, but I'm seriously floored at how poor a job these six charts do at showing that we need AI.
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I. (Gift Article)
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
It's worth asking yourself why every day of the week the New York Times and pretty much every major legacy media outlet runs pieces espousing increasingly incoherent arguments for investing more in AI.
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Dropkick Murphys—organized labor’s favorite band—just brought out IUPAT President Jimmy Williams at Power to the People Fest. Big cheer for unions!
October 4, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Dropkick Murphys—organized labor’s favorite band—just brought out IUPAT President Jimmy Williams at Power to the People Fest. Big cheer for unions!
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October 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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life would be better if every day felt like october
October 3, 2026 at 1:32 PM
life would be better if every day felt like october