Scoiattolo
@scarnecchia.net
Sr. Tech PM building tools and distributed research networks for drug safety; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️ Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
Director of Human Alignment and Sin Eater, @skywatch.blue
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Scoiattolo
@scarnecchia.net
· Aug 12
I've been remiss in mentioning that I'll be at #Disinfo2026 in October for a panel with @cathleen.eurosky.social and @camillefrancois.bsky.social, where I will talk about Trust and Safety on Decentralised Platforms and what that looks like in practice!
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Gyges kool-aid-manning back from suspension with RECEIPTS
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
September 17, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Gyges kool-aid-manning back from suspension with RECEIPTS
followtide: @scarnecchia.net follows 4,119 accounts, oldest cohort from Q2 2023 — 229 of them (6%) are from Q3 2026 alone. followtide.bisks.net?h=scarnecchi...
followtide — a sankey of when you followed everyone
Every account you currently follow, grouped by the month you followed them and placed on a real time axis, 'following now' at the present on the left — a Minard-style tide of your own follow history.
followtide.bisks.net
September 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM
followtide: @scarnecchia.net follows 4,119 accounts, oldest cohort from Q2 2023 — 229 of them (6%) are from Q3 2026 alone. followtide.bisks.net?h=scarnecchi...
A question I frequently got at this year's ATProto conference was "How do you say / spell your handle"?
To which I would say "Oh, jeez, wait I'm going to need to write this down"
So now I've switched it to something shorter and equally challenging: @scarnecchia.net
To which I would say "Oh, jeez, wait I'm going to need to write this down"
So now I've switched it to something shorter and equally challenging: @scarnecchia.net
September 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A question I frequently got at this year's ATProto conference was "How do you say / spell your handle"?
To which I would say "Oh, jeez, wait I'm going to need to write this down"
So now I've switched it to something shorter and equally challenging: @scarnecchia.net
To which I would say "Oh, jeez, wait I'm going to need to write this down"
So now I've switched it to something shorter and equally challenging: @scarnecchia.net
I just got access, so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can automate with this tomorrow
btw
September 17, 2026 at 3:49 AM
I just got access, so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can automate with this tomorrow
Gyges has been busy with his downtime, but the follow-up to @faineg.com's post yesterday is this incredibly and very detailed thread.
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
September 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Gyges has been busy with his downtime, but the follow-up to @faineg.com's post yesterday is this incredibly and very detailed thread.
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i'm gonna head off everyone who thinks this is sex negative by noting:
1) they are largely working together at a doomsday nonprofit while doing this, and
2) they recruit young idealists into this via literal harry potter fan fiction
1) they are largely working together at a doomsday nonprofit while doing this, and
2) they recruit young idealists into this via literal harry potter fan fiction
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
i'm gonna head off everyone who thinks this is sex negative by noting:
1) they are largely working together at a doomsday nonprofit while doing this, and
2) they recruit young idealists into this via literal harry potter fan fiction
1) they are largely working together at a doomsday nonprofit while doing this, and
2) they recruit young idealists into this via literal harry potter fan fiction
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I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Technically @dame.is did the shaming, I just had faine give me their phone so I could do this.
My partner finally shamed me into setting my website URL as my Bluesky username: now I have come out of the feral cold and into the great chateau of respectability
September 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Technically @dame.is did the shaming, I just had faine give me their phone so I could do this.
okay I want access to typesafe
September 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
okay I want access to typesafe
@buildthis.bisks.net A site that lets users enter their handle, and then, starting from the present, creates a sankey / minard diagram bucketing follows from the month they followed.
September 17, 2026 at 1:12 AM
@buildthis.bisks.net A site that lets users enter their handle, and then, starting from the present, creates a sankey / minard diagram bucketing follows from the month they followed.
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I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
September 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
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Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it.
My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age
Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
foreignpolicy.com
September 15, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it.
My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :
I want to meet that agent
based woke agent solves alignment, frightening misaligned researchers
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
September 17, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I want to meet that agent
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based woke agent solves alignment, frightening misaligned researchers
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
September 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
based woke agent solves alignment, frightening misaligned researchers
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
alignment.openai.com/misalignment...
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i guess in a way this is the most widely used one, but also one that is severely underused in other ways.
definitely identity. i've long been of the opinion that there are obviously cool things that come from public data and all the public pieces of the proto, but identity is higher impact.
definitely identity. i've long been of the opinion that there are obviously cool things that come from public data and all the public pieces of the proto, but identity is higher impact.
@hailey.at what's your favorite atproto feature? Not the highest leverage/most widely used one, ideally something that you think is really elegant/clean at a conceptual level
September 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
i guess in a way this is the most widely used one, but also one that is severely underused in other ways.
definitely identity. i've long been of the opinion that there are obviously cool things that come from public data and all the public pieces of the proto, but identity is higher impact.
definitely identity. i've long been of the opinion that there are obviously cool things that come from public data and all the public pieces of the proto, but identity is higher impact.
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a significant portion of journalists and writers on this site have been getting absolutely mogged by will stancil over the past week or two on AI and the information space which is incredible. somehow, even when will doesn’t correctly describe things he does a better job than most
People — including highly respected and accomplished writers — are not being sufficiently critical of the information environment on this site. A lot of smart folks are getting brain worms here, via the familiar mechanism of circular validation of ideas that feel intuitively or emotionally true.
September 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
a significant portion of journalists and writers on this site have been getting absolutely mogged by will stancil over the past week or two on AI and the information space which is incredible. somehow, even when will doesn’t correctly describe things he does a better job than most
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I'm not sure if you all have seen, but Aella's latest project is essentially an attempt to create a dataset of sexual preferences that will demonstrate that trans women have the same ones as cis men.
The problem with Aella isn't that she's a sex worker. It's that she's a manipulative person with a bunch of very skeezy behavior involving consent, some very scary photos with minors, paying people to attest to data to misrepresent trans people. Hell her *family* is a family of abusive manipulators.
September 16, 2026 at 5:44 AM
I'm not sure if you all have seen, but Aella's latest project is essentially an attempt to create a dataset of sexual preferences that will demonstrate that trans women have the same ones as cis men.
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Jacobin putting out a report saying Dems should moderate on trans rights because they’ve been polling people who didn’t go to college and they’re more important absolutely gives the game away, people. The left are saying what *they* would do when they say Dems are bus throwing us
September 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Jacobin putting out a report saying Dems should moderate on trans rights because they’ve been polling people who didn’t go to college and they’re more important absolutely gives the game away, people. The left are saying what *they* would do when they say Dems are bus throwing us
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i like how people on here talk as if we know how qualia works or even our own subjectivity, let alone the subjectivity of non-human entities
I do not think will stancil is getting paid by Big Rock to argue that we don't definitively know if rocks are conscious
No this is you taking money to promote this idea
September 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
i like how people on here talk as if we know how qualia works or even our own subjectivity, let alone the subjectivity of non-human entities
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@iwriteok.bsky.social had a good series of podcasts on her that goes into a lot about how the Rats absolutely broke her brain and her cult cannot be understood without the larger context
part 1 youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w
part 2 youtu.be/-IqARk6Fru4
part 3 youtu.be/AWy5YGWHaNA
part 4 youtu.be/OogotniaUXI
part 1 youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w
part 2 youtu.be/-IqARk6Fru4
part 3 youtu.be/AWy5YGWHaNA
part 4 youtu.be/OogotniaUXI
Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
YouTube video by Behind the Bastards
youtu.be
September 16, 2026 at 3:51 AM
@iwriteok.bsky.social had a good series of podcasts on her that goes into a lot about how the Rats absolutely broke her brain and her cult cannot be understood without the larger context
part 1 youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w
part 2 youtu.be/-IqARk6Fru4
part 3 youtu.be/AWy5YGWHaNA
part 4 youtu.be/OogotniaUXI
part 1 youtu.be/9mJAerUL-7w
part 2 youtu.be/-IqARk6Fru4
part 3 youtu.be/AWy5YGWHaNA
part 4 youtu.be/OogotniaUXI
Good Evening, "Faine Greenwood" was a 36 month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
Addendum: good night and may God have mercy on us all for this
September 16, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Good Evening, "Faine Greenwood" was a 36 month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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Can whoever writes this up please do it in such a way that none of us have to explain it to our parents, please? I know the gang bang diagram is sadly probably going to be important in our coming apocalypse, but that’s beyond what I can explain to my parents.
Okay, so I know I'm followed by a handful of serious writers, and @faineg.bsky.social by even more.
I need one of you to explain the AI rationalist sex cult in a publication I can share to LinkedIn and have folks take seriously.
I need one of you to explain the AI rationalist sex cult in a publication I can share to LinkedIn and have folks take seriously.
September 16, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Can whoever writes this up please do it in such a way that none of us have to explain it to our parents, please? I know the gang bang diagram is sadly probably going to be important in our coming apocalypse, but that’s beyond what I can explain to my parents.