@alexpez.bsky.social
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👇🎯 Non-fascist politicians in Western democracies simply cannot be posting at the Nazi Bar anymore. No one who claims to be a democrat, in fact, can be posting at the Nazi Bar anymore.
“As your European customers, we are watching you.”
Yeah, that’s the problem. You pay Musk money and use his website. You see him help your enemy Russia against your partner Ukraine, and you keep paying him money and using his website.
That communicates approval or indifference. It’s encouragement.
Yeah, that’s the problem. You pay Musk money and use his website. You see him help your enemy Russia against your partner Ukraine, and you keep paying him money and using his website.
That communicates approval or indifference. It’s encouragement.
Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.
October 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
👇🎯 Non-fascist politicians in Western democracies simply cannot be posting at the Nazi Bar anymore. No one who claims to be a democrat, in fact, can be posting at the Nazi Bar anymore.
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One of the most fascinating (and telling) charts I've seen in a long time.
Great read as always from @warringfictions.bsky.social - this time on scarcity and fairness (parables.substack.com/p/scarcity-a...)
October 14, 2026 at 11:43 AM
One of the most fascinating (and telling) charts I've seen in a long time.
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cpu is dogshit slow for inference, and self-replicating worms already exist (you may know them as rVPNs or botnets) alas
they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of everyone's ai except ours"
they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of everyone's ai except ours"
Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down
Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down
Anthropic says that AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devices.
yhoo.it
October 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
cpu is dogshit slow for inference, and self-replicating worms already exist (you may know them as rVPNs or botnets) alas
they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of everyone's ai except ours"
they're just repackaging an existing problem as "you should be afraid of everyone's ai except ours"
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Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
“Musk then prevented any community notes from appearing on Sortor’s post for many hours, ensuring that no one could debunk the bogus claim before it reached tens of millions of people, and suspended accounts that dug into its veracity”
@lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...
@lebassett.bsky.social
www.laura-bassett.com/p/anatomy-of...
Anatomy of a fake scandal
WSJ obtained video of Ken Paxton partying with literal fugitives in Dubai, so Republicans panicked and invented a story about Talarico checking into a psych hospital. It backfired.
www.laura-bassett.com
October 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.
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i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece
October 12, 2026 at 11:04 AM
i really am not convinced the Telegraph isn’t a massive satirical art piece
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Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses:
H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left.
H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent.
Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left.
H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent.
Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
October 11, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses:
H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left.
H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent.
Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left.
H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent.
Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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Elon Musk encouraging violence against his political opponents. There is no good reason to continue using his website.
This is a call for the retrospective execution of politicians and journalists (fantasising about trials after the revolution)
Here he has a shared project with the radicalised X site owner Elon Musk on socialising action against "traitors" + preparing for civil war
Here he has a shared project with the radicalised X site owner Elon Musk on socialising action against "traitors" + preparing for civil war
October 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Elon Musk encouraging violence against his political opponents. There is no good reason to continue using his website.
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an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
September 25, 2026 at 12:36 PM
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
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over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
‘Our models took actions we did not intend,’ ChatGPT maker admits after latest outrage
trib.al
September 24, 2026 at 8:12 PM
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions.
The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
October 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions.
The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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This is great news, and look at that *lovely extra news* in the chyron below - 2 billion CAD to retrofit homes w heatpumps!
Mark Carney: "In three weeks, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, António Costa, will be in Montreal. And that is when Canada will launch a new transformative alliance with the European Union."
October 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
This is great news, and look at that *lovely extra news* in the chyron below - 2 billion CAD to retrofit homes w heatpumps!
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A common vaccine meant to ward off shingles may be doing something even more extraordinary: protecting the brain.
Shingles vaccine may actually slow down dementia, study finds
Research has shown that the vaccine may reduce dementia risk. Now a study has found that vaccinated individuals are almost 30 percent less likely to die of dementia.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A common vaccine meant to ward off shingles may be doing something even more extraordinary: protecting the brain.
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Privatize the gains and socialize the apocalypse.
September 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Privatize the gains and socialize the apocalypse.
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Higher education is good, actually.
The evidence is clear: countries with lower NEET rates than the UK get there almost entirely through higher rates of post-18 education. In these countries, more young people stay in education for longer and often combine it with work.
September 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Higher education is good, actually.
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Speaking as a journalist: I would really like to see more of my colleagues asking this question. If we take money from tech companies we can't report on them, and if somehow we do we have to disclose it. Yet when we interview academics about AI, I almost never see disclosures of their funding.
Re: “plenty of philosophers and neuroscientists”, how many of the ones you’re thinking of either receive money (employment or funding) from deepmind/openai/Anthropic or effective altruist charities etc?
September 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Speaking as a journalist: I would really like to see more of my colleagues asking this question. If we take money from tech companies we can't report on them, and if somehow we do we have to disclose it. Yet when we interview academics about AI, I almost never see disclosures of their funding.
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i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it:
"But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
"But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."
September 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!
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This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire.
I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).
I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).
two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8
September 17, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire.
I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).
I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).
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"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush." www.economist.com/britain/2026...
The misanthrope party
Reform UK’s miserabilist streak is Nigel Farage’s asset, and his problem
www.economist.com
September 16, 2026 at 9:13 AM
"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush." www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
September 16, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.
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It's so lovely when someone picks up on ideas that you and others have been trying to develop and brings them further.
A very interesting and clear (and reassuring?) piece relating the Farrell et al (www.science.org/doi/full/10....) idea of LLM's as cultural technology to the recent developments in AI Mathematics.
terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...
terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h...
Happy, those able to know the causes of things
[This is a guest post by Nestor Guillen, crossposted from his blog. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Keywords: LLMs, cultural tech…
terrytao.wordpress.com
September 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
It's so lovely when someone picks up on ideas that you and others have been trying to develop and brings them further.
Make a band edible:
Art of Noisette
Art of Noisette
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Almond Joy Division
Almond Joy Division
Make a band edible
The Bean-52s
The Bean-52s
September 13, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Make a band edible:
Art of Noisette
Art of Noisette
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When A City on Mars came out, I kept having tech geeks say I was overly pessimistic. And I started saying "make me a bet." E.g. how many people will be living/working in space by 2035. Will we have a Mars base by 2040, etc.
I put up an open request for bets of this kind.
No takers. Ever.
I put up an open request for bets of this kind.
No takers. Ever.
September 7, 2026 at 11:07 AM
When A City on Mars came out, I kept having tech geeks say I was overly pessimistic. And I started saying "make me a bet." E.g. how many people will be living/working in space by 2035. Will we have a Mars base by 2040, etc.
I put up an open request for bets of this kind.
No takers. Ever.
I put up an open request for bets of this kind.
No takers. Ever.