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From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities."
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
September 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities."
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
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Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be.
Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote:
We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.
➡️ This is what they wrote:
September 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be.
Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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A New Color (1/5🧵)
August 24, 2026 at 11:16 PM
A New Color (1/5🧵)
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there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue"
1. product marketing misrepresentation
2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money
3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation
4. distracts from technofascism
5. distances execs from accountability
1. product marketing misrepresentation
2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money
3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation
4. distracts from technofascism
5. distances execs from accountability
July 29, 2026 at 4:23 PM
there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue"
1. product marketing misrepresentation
2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money
3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation
4. distracts from technofascism
5. distances execs from accountability
1. product marketing misrepresentation
2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money
3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation
4. distracts from technofascism
5. distances execs from accountability
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DOJ designates refusing to have cybersex with Grok AI as Domestic Terrorism
March 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
DOJ designates refusing to have cybersex with Grok AI as Domestic Terrorism
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McConnell has released a proof of life photo
July 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
McConnell has released a proof of life photo
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Happy Bastille Day
July 14, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Happy Bastille Day
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posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
November 30, 2023 at 3:53 PM
posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
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Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
July 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
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A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:
June 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A beautiful day for Zionists to project their blistering, bottomless self-hatred onto Jews who refuse to assimilate into fascist norms:
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Honestly we're like a year out from MAGA Lysenkoism
November 8, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Honestly we're like a year out from MAGA Lysenkoism
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"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
February 28, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
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February 28, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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From The Archives:
Chuck Schumer: ‘The American People Deserve A President Who Can More Credibly Justify War With Iran’
WASHINGTON—In a pointed critique of President Trump’s foreign policy leadership, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stated to members of the press Thursday that “the American people deserve a presid...
theonion.com
February 28, 2026 at 5:21 PM
From The Archives:
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With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
February 26, 2026 at 9:34 PM
With this salvo, Kansas has escalated what will be a federal effort to establish a Jim Crow system of lawfully enforced second-class citizenship aimed at trans American
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
It was already the case but now it's inarguable; anyone who doesn't fully support trans people is an enemy of all civil rights.
Claude, people don't believe that I'm productive because of you.
They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me
Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber
(1/100)
They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me
Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber
(1/100)
February 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Claude, people don't believe that I'm productive because of you.
They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me
Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber
(1/100)
They didn't believe it when I refused to measure and said they simply had to accept my conclusion because it's obvious to me
Tell me the scientific theory of why they're snowflakes in an echo chamber
(1/100)
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Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
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I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1