James Knott
@knotty68.bsky.social
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
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It may be understandable for people in a small village to wonder about the impact of 1,000 mainly young men suddenly moving into the area, but I've never heard of any village voting to leave the UK because an army barracks (to take a random example) was built nearby.
September 16, 2026 at 10:43 AM
It may be understandable for people in a small village to wonder about the impact of 1,000 mainly young men suddenly moving into the area, but I've never heard of any village voting to leave the UK because an army barracks (to take a random example) was built nearby.
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Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
September 16, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.
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Billionaires are uniquely vulnerable to being driven into rabbit holes of delusion by generative AI because it talks exactly like how all their meat sycophants talk.
They've long, long since forgotten what it is like to talk to someone who is not simpering bullshit at them.
They've long, long since forgotten what it is like to talk to someone who is not simpering bullshit at them.
September 15, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Billionaires are uniquely vulnerable to being driven into rabbit holes of delusion by generative AI because it talks exactly like how all their meat sycophants talk.
They've long, long since forgotten what it is like to talk to someone who is not simpering bullshit at them.
They've long, long since forgotten what it is like to talk to someone who is not simpering bullshit at them.
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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But if it’s smart enough for all that, why isn’t it smart enough that you can just say “control the temperature in the usual way that one would expect of a thermostat, without hurting anyone or doing anything weird”? “Make a normal amount of paperclips, not too many, and don’t wipe out humanity”.
September 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
But if it’s smart enough for all that, why isn’t it smart enough that you can just say “control the temperature in the usual way that one would expect of a thermostat, without hurting anyone or doing anything weird”? “Make a normal amount of paperclips, not too many, and don’t wipe out humanity”.
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I know there are problems with the metaphor, but fire is a good way to think about AI. It’s a fundamental, culture-transforming technology that empowers people to destroy or create. Without fire, so many horrible things would never have happened, as would so many great things.
September 13, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I know there are problems with the metaphor, but fire is a good way to think about AI. It’s a fundamental, culture-transforming technology that empowers people to destroy or create. Without fire, so many horrible things would never have happened, as would so many great things.
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All the money in the world won’t make Reform’s moronic policies workable. It won’t make their people less racist or idiotic. It won’t sort out their ridiculous egos or end the investigations. It won’t make the majority of us loathe them any less. In fact, the money may well bury them. Let’s hope so.
September 13, 2026 at 7:33 AM
All the money in the world won’t make Reform’s moronic policies workable. It won’t make their people less racist or idiotic. It won’t sort out their ridiculous egos or end the investigations. It won’t make the majority of us loathe them any less. In fact, the money may well bury them. Let’s hope so.
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£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy.
I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long.
So how do we fix it?
My plan:
I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long.
So how do we fix it?
My plan:
September 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy.
I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long.
So how do we fix it?
My plan:
I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long.
So how do we fix it?
My plan:
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What’s scary about “AI” people isn’t “AI” but that they are allowed to vote and operate cars
Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
September 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
What’s scary about “AI” people isn’t “AI” but that they are allowed to vote and operate cars
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I think the statistically likelihood of venal, old men, psychotic billionaires, and racists in positions of power within nuclear-armed states of killing some or all of us is substantially higher than AI.
September 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I think the statistically likelihood of venal, old men, psychotic billionaires, and racists in positions of power within nuclear-armed states of killing some or all of us is substantially higher than AI.
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If a big rock fell from the sky this afternoon and killed the correct couple of dozen people, most of this shit would just go away.
September 5, 2026 at 10:54 AM
If a big rock fell from the sky this afternoon and killed the correct couple of dozen people, most of this shit would just go away.
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Why on earth does Lee Anderson have reading glasses?
August 26, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Why on earth does Lee Anderson have reading glasses?
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So fun that Meghan is going to be next James Bond
August 21, 2026 at 6:02 AM
So fun that Meghan is going to be next James Bond
Tried to rewatch The West Wing and it’s too optimistic to be watchable now. The Handmaid’s Tale, meanwhile, hits different — not because it’s gotten less bleak, but because the gap between “warning” and “documentary” has shrunk.
August 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Tried to rewatch The West Wing and it’s too optimistic to be watchable now. The Handmaid’s Tale, meanwhile, hits different — not because it’s gotten less bleak, but because the gap between “warning” and “documentary” has shrunk.
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Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
August 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Every six months a writer goes on parental leave, is driven insane by watching 10,000 hours of Paw Patrol, and writes another one of these articles, and they're always great.
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Zuck's sludge empire, working as designed.
"The Facebook page for [an] Australian white supremacist site has been making money through the revenue program since November 2025."
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"The Facebook page for [an] Australian white supremacist site has been making money through the revenue program since November 2025."
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
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August 9, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Zuck's sludge empire, working as designed.
"The Facebook page for [an] Australian white supremacist site has been making money through the revenue program since November 2025."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
"The Facebook page for [an] Australian white supremacist site has been making money through the revenue program since November 2025."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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this is just the plot bladerunner dude
$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
August 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
this is just the plot bladerunner dude
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CHAFETZ PLANS TO LOSE WEIGHT ON ALL-FRENCH-FRY-AND-GIN DIET
SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
August 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
CHAFETZ PLANS TO LOSE WEIGHT ON ALL-FRENCH-FRY-AND-GIN DIET
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I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
August 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
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The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
July 29, 2026 at 10:47 PM
The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
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I think it's bad that we're led by conspiracy theorists who are attacking an 85-year-old public health expert who tried to save our lives because they think they might go viral
July 29, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I think it's bad that we're led by conspiracy theorists who are attacking an 85-year-old public health expert who tried to save our lives because they think they might go viral
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All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
July 29, 2026 at 10:23 PM
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.