Rach
@readbyrach.bsky.social
I would eat his heart in the marketplace | women’s soccer, politics, and some original-ish thoughts.
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Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
September 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
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“I think adults bullying and demanding to see children’s’ genitals on command is bad.”
Look at that. It’s that easy.
Look at that. It’s that easy.
wait fr??
September 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
“I think adults bullying and demanding to see children’s’ genitals on command is bad.”
Look at that. It’s that easy.
Look at that. It’s that easy.
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ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously
❌ it’s terrible for the climate
❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data
❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations
❌ it’s often just wrong
❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides
✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
❌ it’s terrible for the climate
❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data
❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations
❌ it’s often just wrong
❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides
✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
September 15, 2026 at 1:39 PM
ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously
❌ it’s terrible for the climate
❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data
❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations
❌ it’s often just wrong
❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides
✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
❌ it’s terrible for the climate
❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data
❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations
❌ it’s often just wrong
❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides
✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
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this is a damn good post from a U.S. Senator and I wish all of them could figure out how to talk like this
Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.
September 15, 2026 at 2:11 AM
this is a damn good post from a U.S. Senator and I wish all of them could figure out how to talk like this
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Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence
September 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence
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I’m just thinking about the guy saying Claude is gonna jump from computer to computer if you try to unplug it, and laughing. It’s just the most ludicrous thing and yet some people are probably terrified of it now.
September 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
I’m just thinking about the guy saying Claude is gonna jump from computer to computer if you try to unplug it, and laughing. It’s just the most ludicrous thing and yet some people are probably terrified of it now.
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The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess.
CHESS.
It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
CHESS.
It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
That rock skipping, yes tossing stones across a pond or river, is a gender segregated sport, should tell you something about how gendered sports are not about fairness of physical ability, and is instead about the male ego
September 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess.
CHESS.
It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
CHESS.
It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.
once again, as a Southern fan, I am begging @nwslsoccer.com commentators to learn how to pronounce Louisville
September 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
once again, as a Southern fan, I am begging @nwslsoccer.com commentators to learn how to pronounce Louisville
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Podcasts should go back to being audio only.
September 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Podcasts should go back to being audio only.
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5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished.
Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
September 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
5 years of writing, research, and reporting. 4 continents traveled to. 12 drafts. 18 months of revision. New subtitle. Finally finished.
Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
Can’t wait for you all to read it. More coming very soon.
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Newsflash. Water's wet. Fire's hot. Ice is cold.
A new report from Luminate has found that long gaps between seasons of streaming TV shows are leading to major losses in viewership.
More than a 1 year gap is seen to largely cause a significant loss in viewership.
(Source: luminatedata.com/reports/2026...)
More than a 1 year gap is seen to largely cause a significant loss in viewership.
(Source: luminatedata.com/reports/2026...)
September 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Newsflash. Water's wet. Fire's hot. Ice is cold.
okay but actually it’s easier for me to drive to Cincinnati from Tennessee
September 11, 2026 at 2:36 AM
okay but actually it’s easier for me to drive to Cincinnati from Tennessee
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I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard
yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is
yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is
September 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard
yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is
yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is
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We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.
Slop does not refer to criticism or mere dislike. You can use even the most colloquial of definitions for slop and all of them at least minimally refer to volume and machine produced.
September 10, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We must hold the line on this. Slop doesn't equal "bad" it means slop, the byproduct of some automated process. There's plenty of human-generated "content" that is not great, but that's not slop.
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This. This was the peak of a folding phone.
Nothing you do now will compete.
Nothing you do now will compete.
September 10, 2026 at 10:14 AM
This. This was the peak of a folding phone.
Nothing you do now will compete.
Nothing you do now will compete.
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"I know they don't support separate drinking fountains in New York and California and other coastal states but if a Democrat needs to back separate but equal facilities in Alabama to win, progressives should just hold their tongues" - how you sound defending Democrats opposing trans equality
September 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"I know they don't support separate drinking fountains in New York and California and other coastal states but if a Democrat needs to back separate but equal facilities in Alabama to win, progressives should just hold their tongues" - how you sound defending Democrats opposing trans equality
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welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.
www.wired.com
September 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
welcome to 2020s tech. we got
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
- pervert glasses
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- wiretap
- the button that does nothing
- we outta ram
- we outta hard drives
- we outta graphics cards
- ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses
- wiretap
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What makes you think that they won't be highly rewarded for doing things like this?
There is billions of AI safety money out there for the taking... Like Ilya Sustekever got $2b for a company called Safe Superintelligence that doesn't even have a product
There is billions of AI safety money out there for the taking... Like Ilya Sustekever got $2b for a company called Safe Superintelligence that doesn't even have a product
I love how AI researchers are putting their careers on the line to warn the public about the dangers and they're just summarily dismissed as marketing gimmicks.
September 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
What makes you think that they won't be highly rewarded for doing things like this?
There is billions of AI safety money out there for the taking... Like Ilya Sustekever got $2b for a company called Safe Superintelligence that doesn't even have a product
There is billions of AI safety money out there for the taking... Like Ilya Sustekever got $2b for a company called Safe Superintelligence that doesn't even have a product
Well. There goes the Talarico campaign. Trans girls belong in sports!
Talarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
September 9, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Well. There goes the Talarico campaign. Trans girls belong in sports!
Girl bye
BREAKING: Cathy Engelbert has decided to retire as #WNBA commissioner at the end of the 2027 calendar year. She spoke to our @howardmegdal.bsky.social about this decision: www.theixsports.com/features/bre...
Cathy Engelbert talks retiring as WNBA commissioner | The IX Sports
For Cathy Engelbert, the decision to step away as WNBA commissioner has been in the works for several years.
www.theixsports.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Girl bye
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L'Arc de Participationne
A triumphal arch, that's gonna be cool. And definitely not a hilarious way to remember losing the war with Iran
September 4, 2026 at 2:01 AM
L'Arc de Participationne
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If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
I see on-the-ground evidence *on a daily basis* of how people's involvement in No Kings, Indivisible, 50501 has grown into ICE monitoring, flock camera protests, city council blowups over data centers and running for office. THAT was the point of No Kings, all along, from my perspective.
September 4, 2026 at 1:10 AM
If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power
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The general response of "get a fucking life, losers" remains undefeated
September 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The general response of "get a fucking life, losers" remains undefeated
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there was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishing
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by Harry Potter
www.youtube.com
September 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
there was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishing
tickets have been on sale for less than an hour and everything left is a verified resale ticket wtf
The time has come!!!! 🥳🎟️ Tickets to the 2026 NWSL Championship, presented by Google Pixel are officially on sale.
The biggest match of the season is coming to the nation’s capital on Saturday, November 21 at 8 p.m. ET. Secure your seats: www.ticketmaster.com/event/150065...
The biggest match of the season is coming to the nation’s capital on Saturday, November 21 at 8 p.m. ET. Secure your seats: www.ticketmaster.com/event/150065...
September 2, 2026 at 2:52 PM
tickets have been on sale for less than an hour and everything left is a verified resale ticket wtf