Wannabe Apparatchik
@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social
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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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like, as a world view, the guy who just thinks Sam Altman is a god and swallows every piece of swill that openai's marketing department puts out is more correct than the average critic. it is legitimately shocking how low a bar people manage to get under
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
like, as a world view, the guy who just thinks Sam Altman is a god and swallows every piece of swill that openai's marketing department puts out is more correct than the average critic. it is legitimately shocking how low a bar people manage to get under
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but i think we as liberals have been similarly remiss in refusing to understand the social dynamics--we liked the results, so we didn't look too closely at the machine. but what were the social-structural dynamics that made this movement of cultural change go?
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
but i think we as liberals have been similarly remiss in refusing to understand the social dynamics--we liked the results, so we didn't look too closely at the machine. but what were the social-structural dynamics that made this movement of cultural change go?
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indeed it's a question that baffles conservatives. curtis yarvin made his bones in the reactionary thinksphere by putting together the "cathedral" conspiracy theory to explain it!
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
indeed it's a question that baffles conservatives. curtis yarvin made his bones in the reactionary thinksphere by putting together the "cathedral" conspiracy theory to explain it!
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the culture did change, the culture changed on many fronts, this change was in some ways driven by an amorphous movement we call "woke 1." but how did that happen? it's a real question--for such changes are never inevitable!
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
the culture did change, the culture changed on many fronts, this change was in some ways driven by an amorphous movement we call "woke 1." but how did that happen? it's a real question--for such changes are never inevitable!
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like i dunno to take just one personally salient case, it's really hard to express the level of everyday transphobia and homophobia i grew up with. "that's gay" was like everyone's go-to way of talking shit. now the other day a random bartender apologized for misgendering me
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
like i dunno to take just one personally salient case, it's really hard to express the level of everyday transphobia and homophobia i grew up with. "that's gay" was like everyone's go-to way of talking shit. now the other day a random bartender apologized for misgendering me
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today's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam
February 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM
today's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam
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You're not going to believe this, but closed borders are racist. They always have been. They always will be. You can indulge in smoke-filled dorm room discussions of hypothetically non-racist immigration restrictions, but in the real world closed borders are racist af.
February 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
You're not going to believe this, but closed borders are racist. They always have been. They always will be. You can indulge in smoke-filled dorm room discussions of hypothetically non-racist immigration restrictions, but in the real world closed borders are racist af.
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It’s INCREDIBLE that a. Nothing else is missing or even moved between these photos and b. The only person who actually truly cared about Charlie Kirk is Candace Owen’s
SHE REMOVED THEIR WEDDING PHOTO LMAOOOOOO
Oh she HATED his guts
Oh she HATED his guts
February 11, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It’s INCREDIBLE that a. Nothing else is missing or even moved between these photos and b. The only person who actually truly cared about Charlie Kirk is Candace Owen’s
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>story about how a new measure has made transit better for everyone
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
>story about how a new measure has made transit better for everyone
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
But have you considered the feelings of the I-Should-Be-Allowed-To-Freebase-And-Jack-Off-On-Public-Transit Caucus?
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we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1
People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies
February 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
we're not doing the stuff in the image anymore, we're leaving "actually anti-social behavior is fine" in the dustbin of woke 1
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I feel like it's very understated how the availability of standardized widgets and doohickeys influences engineering and design decisions in a way that it didn't a century ago
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I feel like it's very understated how the availability of standardized widgets and doohickeys influences engineering and design decisions in a way that it didn't a century ago
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I think the funniest part is that Dunn may be resigning due to a case of Long COVID. the first Long COVID Congressman is a Republican from Floribama
oh my god
this puts us at 217-214 with 4 vacancies
Mejia’s swearing in will have us at 217-215
what majority?
this puts us at 217-214 with 4 vacancies
Mejia’s swearing in will have us at 217-215
what majority?
February 11, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I think the funniest part is that Dunn may be resigning due to a case of Long COVID. the first Long COVID Congressman is a Republican from Floribama
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The far-right and the far-left both basically believe that all crimes are committed by the poor, with the former believing the solution to be harass the poor, and the latter believing it to be abolish society.
But actually crime is generated by a tiny group of antisocial people of all backgrounds.
But actually crime is generated by a tiny group of antisocial people of all backgrounds.
San Francisco’s new anti-fare-dodging gates haven’t just increased revenues, they’ve dramatically reduced vandalism and the cost of maintaining the network
February 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The far-right and the far-left both basically believe that all crimes are committed by the poor, with the former believing the solution to be harass the poor, and the latter believing it to be abolish society.
But actually crime is generated by a tiny group of antisocial people of all backgrounds.
But actually crime is generated by a tiny group of antisocial people of all backgrounds.
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The Workers, collectively, don't want socialism
the Workers want theocracy and nativism
the people who do work who want an inclusive society overwhelmingly are educated people like teachers who are underpaid for the value they provide, but not considered "labor" culturally
the Workers want theocracy and nativism
the people who do work who want an inclusive society overwhelmingly are educated people like teachers who are underpaid for the value they provide, but not considered "labor" culturally
February 11, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The Workers, collectively, don't want socialism
the Workers want theocracy and nativism
the people who do work who want an inclusive society overwhelmingly are educated people like teachers who are underpaid for the value they provide, but not considered "labor" culturally
the Workers want theocracy and nativism
the people who do work who want an inclusive society overwhelmingly are educated people like teachers who are underpaid for the value they provide, but not considered "labor" culturally
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the real world projects its shadows into our phenomenal consciousness, and then we make shadow-puppets of the things we see and project it down into Claude's.
February 11, 2026 at 4:47 PM
the real world projects its shadows into our phenomenal consciousness, and then we make shadow-puppets of the things we see and project it down into Claude's.
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a LLM is like an ant living on a map of your hometown. the relations between landmarks in the universe it lives in correspond to the landmarks in your hometown, but it does not live in your hometown. it lives in a two-dimensional embedding of your hometown.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
a LLM is like an ant living on a map of your hometown. the relations between landmarks in the universe it lives in correspond to the landmarks in your hometown, but it does not live in your hometown. it lives in a two-dimensional embedding of your hometown.
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my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.
I have very strong and I believe well-justified scientific opinions about what LLMs have and don't have and how that relates to human cognition but to claim that anything about this is settled or inarguable or not debatable is in fact super wild and people should be real careful about it.
"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
February 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.
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Cannot wait for Republicans to rediscover the federal debt in 1074 days
February 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Cannot wait for Republicans to rediscover the federal debt in 1074 days
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"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
February 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"LLMs raise absolutely no philosophical questions whatsoever, because the issue of what intelligence consists of was settled a long before they existed" is an insane statement even if you cede the incorrect "it was a settled question" point to the other side.
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perhaps the funniest thing, though, about the "simultaneously strong and weak = fascist" thing is that this particular enemy image is.....extremely common in anti-fascists writing about fascists
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a lot of 'classic' writing about the aesthetics of fascism has aged extremely poorly. for example: "only fascists believe the enemy is simultaneously implacably evil and impossibly weak"
A significant percent of all Bad Politics Discourse is downstream of the belief that Donald Trump is Easy To Defeat, Actually and Dem simply lack the Will and Spine to do it (which bizarrely tends to share brain matter with “President Donald Trump is an unstoppable force” for some reason)
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
perhaps the funniest thing, though, about the "simultaneously strong and weak = fascist" thing is that this particular enemy image is.....extremely common in anti-fascists writing about fascists
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Bro ZERO VOTES ON THE NO BILL LMAO
No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
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No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers
None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration’s pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the
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February 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Bro ZERO VOTES ON THE NO BILL LMAO
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I honestly think we could help a lot of ppl in this boat (high language ability, low natural arithmetic and/or spatial sense *in math*) by actually teaching formal logic.
Truth-functional logic runs our lives, and is really useful for both analyzing language and for mechanizing linguistic commands.
Truth-functional logic runs our lives, and is really useful for both analyzing language and for mechanizing linguistic commands.
Another aspect of this: I always had astonishingly good test scores in language (and the science ACT). I was reading at a college level, including science books, by 1st grade.
For a long time as a kid, I felt like *none of that really mattered* because I sucked at standardized math testing.
For a long time as a kid, I felt like *none of that really mattered* because I sucked at standardized math testing.
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I honestly think we could help a lot of ppl in this boat (high language ability, low natural arithmetic and/or spatial sense *in math*) by actually teaching formal logic.
Truth-functional logic runs our lives, and is really useful for both analyzing language and for mechanizing linguistic commands.
Truth-functional logic runs our lives, and is really useful for both analyzing language and for mechanizing linguistic commands.
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it’s really crazy how, in the course of three weeks, we’ve gone from “wow he’s really out there chasing ICE” to it being a point of total consensus among many that I am “working with the feds.” a bizarre demonstration of how social environments Online just microwave people’s brains
"If I keep working with the feds people might get mad that I work with the feds, what can I do!?"
I’m telling you, eventually someone could actually take a shot at me if this “he’s a fed!” lunacy continues. It’s not safe, it’s genuinely scary
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
it’s really crazy how, in the course of three weeks, we’ve gone from “wow he’s really out there chasing ICE” to it being a point of total consensus among many that I am “working with the feds.” a bizarre demonstration of how social environments Online just microwave people’s brains