dawnlight melody (⏸️🤖,⏩🏳️⚧️)
@dawnlightmelody.bsky.social
she/it | 22 | "garden variety social failure" | aspiring delver | LGBTESCREAL+ | Aiel, not Jenn Aiel | 進めば二つ
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I sincerely believe it is far more productive to form alliances than to alienate people who seriously care about suffering in order to score cheap dunks against techbros.
the reason i am trying to make LGBTESCREAL a meme is that i think leftists and EAs have a lot more in common than they might think, and were they to learn from each other, both would be stronger
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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This is why Diversity Of Tactics isn't always just a scam we pull to try and get libs to tolerate militant actions.
Sometimes someone is going to see being more soft touch with someone as strategic and someone else won't... and both people can be operating under the best of intent.
Sometimes someone is going to see being more soft touch with someone as strategic and someone else won't... and both people can be operating under the best of intent.
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is why Diversity Of Tactics isn't always just a scam we pull to try and get libs to tolerate militant actions.
Sometimes someone is going to see being more soft touch with someone as strategic and someone else won't... and both people can be operating under the best of intent.
Sometimes someone is going to see being more soft touch with someone as strategic and someone else won't... and both people can be operating under the best of intent.
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
i think this post may have singlehandedly flipped my opinion on prediction markets (from positive to negative)
December 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
i think this post may have singlehandedly flipped my opinion on prediction markets (from positive to negative)
it's almost like AIs have a cutoff date to their training material and will gladly tell you this, as will their documentation
The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
it's almost like AIs have a cutoff date to their training material and will gladly tell you this, as will their documentation
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Yup, here's the less-academic explanation of one of the major datasets: "persistent pseudonyms" (ie, self-chosen usernames) is the most stable and least abusive configuration. Link to academic paper is in there somewhere. theconversation.com/online-anony...
Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
A higher quality discussion emerged among commenters allowed to use personas instead of their real names.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Yup, here's the less-academic explanation of one of the major datasets: "persistent pseudonyms" (ie, self-chosen usernames) is the most stable and least abusive configuration. Link to academic paper is in there somewhere. theconversation.com/online-anony...
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I think there's way too much pessimism about the possibility of convincing people to change their object level views. On AI and the environment, animal welfare, and mainstream econ, my experience has been that 9 out of 10 people are open to good arguments.
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think there's way too much pessimism about the possibility of convincing people to change their object level views. On AI and the environment, animal welfare, and mainstream econ, my experience has been that 9 out of 10 people are open to good arguments.
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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One day all turkeys will be pardoned
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
One day all turkeys will be pardoned
omg i won twitter
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
omg i won twitter
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
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MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke...
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.
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it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
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a specter is haunting the libs of bluesky, the specter of anarchism
November 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
a specter is haunting the libs of bluesky, the specter of anarchism
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everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result
finally wrote a piece for inkhaven-lite! this time, a personal essay on the john von neumann discourse
asongforthestars.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
asongforthestars.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
I Am Not A Demigod
why biographers should disbelieve the odd supergenius tales about me and others
asongforthestars.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
finally wrote a piece for inkhaven-lite! this time, a personal essay on the john von neumann discourse
asongforthestars.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
asongforthestars.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
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“This can’t continue” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“This can’t continue” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
“This can’t get worse” yes it can
“This can’t be fixed” yes it can
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Wrong. You give them all lifeboats. Do not incentivize them to keep the ship afloat. Once the ship has sunk then you can hit em as hard as you want.
the scramble for GOP hopefuls to distance themselves from Trump as the ship goes down is going to be crazy and the most important thing to do is sink all the lifeboats
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
none of them are allowed to escape his legacy
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Wrong. You give them all lifeboats. Do not incentivize them to keep the ship afloat. Once the ship has sunk then you can hit em as hard as you want.
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
my most woke opinion is definitely youth liberation. every child ought to have the right to choose who raises them and to have control over how they use their time. furthermore, the Interstate Runaway Compact must be destroyed
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
my most woke opinion is definitely youth liberation. every child ought to have the right to choose who raises them and to have control over how they use their time. furthermore, the Interstate Runaway Compact must be destroyed
i am having to repeatedly tell *rationalists* that our primary focus should be on believing true things to cut through the deep tangle of rationalizations for tolerating people who repeatedly and clearly say false things
i have been arguing with people on twitter about this all day. dear god. you'd really think people who talk about motivated reasoning all the time would notice when they're doing it
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
i am having to repeatedly tell *rationalists* that our primary focus should be on believing true things to cut through the deep tangle of rationalizations for tolerating people who repeatedly and clearly say false things
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if you've ever had to organize IRL or just like ... operate in a subcultural scene having basic litmus tests like "no nazis tattoos" is good actually because the costs of getting rid of certain people is so much harder than just barring them from entry upfront
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you've ever had to organize IRL or just like ... operate in a subcultural scene having basic litmus tests like "no nazis tattoos" is good actually because the costs of getting rid of certain people is so much harder than just barring them from entry upfront
today on rationalist twitter, people are being extremely nitpicky about how von neumann was totally a godlike genius with the biggest brain IQ after this post debunked a lot of the obviously exaggerated legends about him
www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/john-von-n...
www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/john-von-n...
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
www.theintrinsicperspective.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
today on rationalist twitter, people are being extremely nitpicky about how von neumann was totally a godlike genius with the biggest brain IQ after this post debunked a lot of the obviously exaggerated legends about him
www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/john-von-n...
www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/john-von-n...