Spinoza at a bad dinner party.
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I’m just here for the canapés and free booze, but...
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Russia pumps money into Blackstone through a bunch of Epstein dudes. Steve Wicoff’s failing real estate investment takes that money.
I have this crazy idea that if we simply crushed all the money launderers and took their assets, we’d solve like 1/3 of all the problems in the US.
Millions of luxury apartments would become public housing.
Crypto would die.
No more ai or data center hype.
Silicon Valley eats shit.
Good stuff.
Millions of luxury apartments would become public housing.
Crypto would die.
No more ai or data center hype.
Silicon Valley eats shit.
Good stuff.
Anyone who has ever cooked in a cast iron pan on a warm summer night understands how this work. That tiny skillet adds noticeable heat to your entire kitchen and surrounding areas.
A 100 acre AI data center will add heat to its surrounding area. Anyone who disagrees is a liar.
A 100 acre AI data center will add heat to its surrounding area. Anyone who disagrees is a liar.
'"This is pretty simple physics,” Davies said. “This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.”'
AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
www.bloomberg.com
September 23, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Anyone who has ever cooked in a cast iron pan on a warm summer night understands how this work. That tiny skillet adds noticeable heat to your entire kitchen and surrounding areas.
A 100 acre AI data center will add heat to its surrounding area. Anyone who disagrees is a liar.
A 100 acre AI data center will add heat to its surrounding area. Anyone who disagrees is a liar.
California is slowly turning into Florida or Texas.
Having grown up here, it’s depressing to witness.
Having grown up here, it’s depressing to witness.
State requires antisemitism training in Berkeley schools after complaints about pro-Palestinian posters, assemblies
California’s Education Department ruled BUSD needs to remedy the harm done to Jewish kids by student-led assemblies and posters hung in a classroom describing the war in Gaza as a genocide.
www.berkeleyside.org
September 23, 2026 at 3:30 PM
California is slowly turning into Florida or Texas.
Having grown up here, it’s depressing to witness.
Having grown up here, it’s depressing to witness.
Translation: This “betrayal“ has nothing to do with Tish James. This “shameful monument to corruption” was made possible by the California dem establishment, Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom, and Xavier Becerra.”
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
I am grateful to Attorney General Tish James for the protections she secured for workers.
This decision is a shameful monument to corruption and a betrayal that the American people won't soon forget.
This decision is a shameful monument to corruption and a betrayal that the American people won't soon forget.
September 23, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Translation: This “betrayal“ has nothing to do with Tish James. This “shameful monument to corruption” was made possible by the California dem establishment, Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom, and Xavier Becerra.”
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
Ok, but you’re forgetting the best use-case for LLMs: quickly classifying people who believe it has “understanding” as pea-brains.
This is why I don't fear AI at all outside of morons getting addicted to jingling keys and falling for the scam. Silicon Valley drained the resources of the truly intelligent and visionary techies many years ago and funneled all the money to like 5 guys who are all hucksters that don't know shit
Our dumbest scientists have yet to discover if computers are alive, or how they work.
September 21, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Ok, but you’re forgetting the best use-case for LLMs: quickly classifying people who believe it has “understanding” as pea-brains.
The people on bluesky who are upset that trump changed his mind and didn’t bomb Yemen today are showing their whole asses.
September 21, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The people on bluesky who are upset that trump changed his mind and didn’t bomb Yemen today are showing their whole asses.
Francis Fukuyama: "People misunderstood my stupid essay from 1989, so here's an even dumber take to clarify just how dumb I am."
Are We Living After “The End of History?” Francis Fukuyama Explains | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
www.youtube.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Francis Fukuyama: "People misunderstood my stupid essay from 1989, so here's an even dumber take to clarify just how dumb I am."
The kids are alright.
Ed Sheeran tried to do just enough to give people who don’t care about Palestine permission to listen to his music. This is my favorite take on sheeran’s speech tonight
September 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM
The kids are alright.
Time to download the top 10 open weight models from China. There is a non-zero chance they’ll be banned by our government while they attempt to keep pumping the markets.
TRUMP:
“Al is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!”
Says he’s setting up an “AI Force” and appointing an “AI Czar.”
“Al is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful, possibly as much as 25% of our Country's GDP. We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!”
Says he’s setting up an “AI Force” and appointing an “AI Czar.”
September 19, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Time to download the top 10 open weight models from China. There is a non-zero chance they’ll be banned by our government while they attempt to keep pumping the markets.
“Tom!!! Tommm! Are you running hot cuz you’re in danger or did they have you run super gnarly transforms on a large data set again?!
Tom! Stay cool for .0317 ms if you’re in danger!
Fuck! What am i doing?!! Tom can’t hear me!! I know, I’ll run super hot to communicate. Let me do some transforms.”
Tom! Stay cool for .0317 ms if you’re in danger!
Fuck! What am i doing?!! Tom can’t hear me!! I know, I’ll run super hot to communicate. Let me do some transforms.”
Air gapping apparently wouldn't work in alignment tests because, I shit you not according to this OpenAI guy, one computer could run the CPU hot and tell the other airgapped one it is in trouble.
I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard
I wish I could get paid $10m a year to say the stupidest cybersecurity thing you've ever heard
September 18, 2026 at 9:28 PM
“Tom!!! Tommm! Are you running hot cuz you’re in danger or did they have you run super gnarly transforms on a large data set again?!
Tom! Stay cool for .0317 ms if you’re in danger!
Fuck! What am i doing?!! Tom can’t hear me!! I know, I’ll run super hot to communicate. Let me do some transforms.”
Tom! Stay cool for .0317 ms if you’re in danger!
Fuck! What am i doing?!! Tom can’t hear me!! I know, I’ll run super hot to communicate. Let me do some transforms.”
Accurate.
When it comes to AI, Americans can't trust Trump or tech CEOs, so who should they believe?
September 17, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Accurate.
Folks, the idea that an LLM (ai) will become conscious and wreak havoc on civilization is an absurd lie. They spread these lies to enrich themselves and to convince the government to regulate their competitors (open weight models, mostly from China).
That said, your disgust around AI is 100% valid.
That said, your disgust around AI is 100% valid.
With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat:
There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent.
Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.
There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent.
Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.
In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI.
The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”
The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”
September 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Folks, the idea that an LLM (ai) will become conscious and wreak havoc on civilization is an absurd lie. They spread these lies to enrich themselves and to convince the government to regulate their competitors (open weight models, mostly from China).
That said, your disgust around AI is 100% valid.
That said, your disgust around AI is 100% valid.
BEHOLD! I have seen a vision from the future!
Protests break out across Syria over fuel price increases
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
BEHOLD! I have seen a vision from the future!
Our tax dollars once again being used for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Can Ed Sheeran’s opening acts run for president? Finneas?
Can Ed Sheeran’s opening acts run for president? Finneas?
September 16, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Our tax dollars once again being used for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Can Ed Sheeran’s opening acts run for president? Finneas?
Can Ed Sheeran’s opening acts run for president? Finneas?
I wonder if the dem campaign consultants who got paid millions of dollars to help Kamala Harris lose in 2024 see this news and think: “Ed Sheeran should have written more songs about unleashing abundance. That’s why those acts left.”
September 16, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I wonder if the dem campaign consultants who got paid millions of dollars to help Kamala Harris lose in 2024 see this news and think: “Ed Sheeran should have written more songs about unleashing abundance. That’s why those acts left.”
Yet most physicists agree that the sound that was made at the moment of the big bang was a mega powerful fart noise that lasted for nearly 800 years.
Even today, with special microphones, you can hear remnants of that sound as background fart noises in space.
Even today, with special microphones, you can hear remnants of that sound as background fart noises in space.
September 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Yet most physicists agree that the sound that was made at the moment of the big bang was a mega powerful fart noise that lasted for nearly 800 years.
Even today, with special microphones, you can hear remnants of that sound as background fart noises in space.
Even today, with special microphones, you can hear remnants of that sound as background fart noises in space.
Reposted by Spinoza at a bad dinner party.
lee stuart's rendition of Ed Sheeran's The A Team following Sheeran dropping Macklemore over Palestine
via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn...
sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)
via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn...
sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)
September 15, 2026 at 10:26 AM
lee stuart's rendition of Ed Sheeran's The A Team following Sheeran dropping Macklemore over Palestine
via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn...
sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)
via www.instagram.com/reel/DdSi1yn...
sharing this here bcs I don't think they're on Bluesky (pls lemme know if I missed them)
This post is part of a solid thread on fascism and settler colonialism, but this bit about refusing "internal redistribution" and choosing to conquer/plunder to alleviate "class pressure," stood out.
Unrepentant growth - that's what feeds fascism. It's also perhaps the mother of fascism. Growth.
Unrepentant growth - that's what feeds fascism. It's also perhaps the mother of fascism. Growth.
Fascism does not engage in internal redistribution but conquers and plunders to alleviate class pressure. This is probably even a parochial critique of her argument, but I am Libyan; the Italian Fascists put Libyans in extermination camps and killed and exiled half the population of Libya.
September 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This post is part of a solid thread on fascism and settler colonialism, but this bit about refusing "internal redistribution" and choosing to conquer/plunder to alleviate "class pressure," stood out.
Unrepentant growth - that's what feeds fascism. It's also perhaps the mother of fascism. Growth.
Unrepentant growth - that's what feeds fascism. It's also perhaps the mother of fascism. Growth.
No need. Just tell them it‘s a super exclusive burning man/longevity camp. Lure them with promises of fresh organs for transplants.
Most are so k-holed or drugged out that they’ll be there for weeks before realizing what happened.
The ones who decline the invite we can just tax properly.
Most are so k-holed or drugged out that they’ll be there for weeks before realizing what happened.
The ones who decline the invite we can just tax properly.
Can we just Clear The Billionaires and Politicians into the countryside, take their stuff, and make them do hard labor...
It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid
September 15, 2026 at 4:48 AM
No need. Just tell them it‘s a super exclusive burning man/longevity camp. Lure them with promises of fresh organs for transplants.
Most are so k-holed or drugged out that they’ll be there for weeks before realizing what happened.
The ones who decline the invite we can just tax properly.
Most are so k-holed or drugged out that they’ll be there for weeks before realizing what happened.
The ones who decline the invite we can just tax properly.
Reposted by Spinoza at a bad dinner party.
Here I thought that we're upset because the powerful are using their levers of power to censor someone and provide cover for a genocide. I thought WHO was getting censored was less important than the WHY and HOW.
I guess not. I guess we're upset about this dude's racist costume from 12 years ago.
I guess not. I guess we're upset about this dude's racist costume from 12 years ago.
September 14, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Here I thought that we're upset because the powerful are using their levers of power to censor someone and provide cover for a genocide. I thought WHO was getting censored was less important than the WHY and HOW.
I guess not. I guess we're upset about this dude's racist costume from 12 years ago.
I guess not. I guess we're upset about this dude's racist costume from 12 years ago.
Reposted by Spinoza at a bad dinner party.
When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is.
Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event with 9/11 'mastermind' attorney; organizers push back
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...
www.latimes.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:32 AM
When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is.
Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
9/11 Wasn't a single tragedy, but a cascading series of tragedies that continues today.
Rather than mourn the loss of 2977 people and support the first responders who waded through poison to rescue folks, we leaned into racist bloodlust, started amoral wars, & began tearing up the US constitution.
Rather than mourn the loss of 2977 people and support the first responders who waded through poison to rescue folks, we leaned into racist bloodlust, started amoral wars, & began tearing up the US constitution.
September 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
9/11 Wasn't a single tragedy, but a cascading series of tragedies that continues today.
Rather than mourn the loss of 2977 people and support the first responders who waded through poison to rescue folks, we leaned into racist bloodlust, started amoral wars, & began tearing up the US constitution.
Rather than mourn the loss of 2977 people and support the first responders who waded through poison to rescue folks, we leaned into racist bloodlust, started amoral wars, & began tearing up the US constitution.
Dems should just offer $5001.
Price is Right his ass.
Price is Right his ass.
Stop stop stop treating this $5k check thing like it’s real.
It’s just…not.
It’s just…not.
September 11, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Dems should just offer $5001.
Price is Right his ass.
Price is Right his ass.
Interesting. So are neera tanden and the neolib mafia of bluesky gonna lose their minds at this new batch of “undecideds?”
New CNN poll of Michigan has El-Sayed up 47/44 in the Senate race, & Benson 50/41 in the gov race.
I was interested in who the undecideds are; in the Senate race, 6% of Dem respondents don't pick one of the two candidates (compared to 2% in gov race) versus 0% of Republicans in the Senate race.
I was interested in who the undecideds are; in the Senate race, 6% of Dem respondents don't pick one of the two candidates (compared to 2% in gov race) versus 0% of Republicans in the Senate race.
September 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Interesting. So are neera tanden and the neolib mafia of bluesky gonna lose their minds at this new batch of “undecideds?”
If you believe that LLMs are sentient or that we’re in “danger from AI itself,” you are mistaken. People who work in this field know that the real dangers are from its misuse by humans.
Also, ChatGPT and Claude were built with stolen IP.
Also, misuse atrophies and rewires parts of your brain.
Also, ChatGPT and Claude were built with stolen IP.
Also, misuse atrophies and rewires parts of your brain.
Your read is correct. Ppl who believe LLMs are sentient, have been misled. They are static data structures.
The training process is what creates the data structure. It does not change. A new one is created via training or fine tuning.
“Reasoning” and “memory” are simulated by clever architecture.
The training process is what creates the data structure. It does not change. A new one is created via training or fine tuning.
“Reasoning” and “memory” are simulated by clever architecture.
September 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
If you believe that LLMs are sentient or that we’re in “danger from AI itself,” you are mistaken. People who work in this field know that the real dangers are from its misuse by humans.
Also, ChatGPT and Claude were built with stolen IP.
Also, misuse atrophies and rewires parts of your brain.
Also, ChatGPT and Claude were built with stolen IP.
Also, misuse atrophies and rewires parts of your brain.
Labor day jam.
Woody Guthrie- This Land Is Your Land
YouTube video by rutaloot
youtu.be
September 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Labor day jam.