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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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"Is there a technology the left is excited about?"
Let's see, off the top of my head:
- libraries
- solar power
- community-owned, community-run [noun], for example
• power grids
• communications networks
- e-bikes
- voting by mail
- vaccinations
- affordable health care
Notice any patterns?
Let's see, off the top of my head:
- libraries
- solar power
- community-owned, community-run [noun], for example
• power grids
• communications networks
- e-bikes
- voting by mail
- vaccinations
- affordable health care
Notice any patterns?
February 18, 2026 at 2:17 AM
"Is there a technology the left is excited about?"
Let's see, off the top of my head:
- libraries
- solar power
- community-owned, community-run [noun], for example
• power grids
• communications networks
- e-bikes
- voting by mail
- vaccinations
- affordable health care
Notice any patterns?
Let's see, off the top of my head:
- libraries
- solar power
- community-owned, community-run [noun], for example
• power grids
• communications networks
- e-bikes
- voting by mail
- vaccinations
- affordable health care
Notice any patterns?
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if you need something, get it now before consumer electronics becomes another sacrifice we make to the AGI gods
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
if you need something, get it now before consumer electronics becomes another sacrifice we make to the AGI gods
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Peter Thiel and company actively slowing down actual research. Yet again.
Not just RAM and SSDs, AI datacenters are now scoping up all of the hard drives
wccftech.com/western-digi...
wccftech.com/western-digi...
Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!
HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
wccftech.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Peter Thiel and company actively slowing down actual research. Yet again.
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Beware the risk of drowning in #AISlop: all generated at great environmental cost
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.
www.nature.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Beware the risk of drowning in #AISlop: all generated at great environmental cost
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
February 17, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
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government by and for the most incompetent men you know:
February 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
government by and for the most incompetent men you know:
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Zoomed out. Warm Slough near Rexburg, Idaho, USA.
February 17, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Zoomed out. Warm Slough near Rexburg, Idaho, USA.
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I wonder at what point health insurance companies are going to stop covering people who elect to not get their vaccinations. From a financial perspective, it's kind of like home insurance companies not covering anything in Florida...
Do we have that on the 2026 BINGO card?
(grim shit)
Do we have that on the 2026 BINGO card?
(grim shit)
February 17, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I wonder at what point health insurance companies are going to stop covering people who elect to not get their vaccinations. From a financial perspective, it's kind of like home insurance companies not covering anything in Florida...
Do we have that on the 2026 BINGO card?
(grim shit)
Do we have that on the 2026 BINGO card?
(grim shit)
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AI isn’t going to resist authoritarianism.
AI isn’t going to fight fascism.
AI isn’t going to connect people in a grassroots movement.
AI isn’t going to quell your anger through action.
AI isn’t going to mobilize the fight for science and democracy.
AI isn’t going to fight fascism.
AI isn’t going to connect people in a grassroots movement.
AI isn’t going to quell your anger through action.
AI isn’t going to mobilize the fight for science and democracy.
February 17, 2026 at 1:05 PM
AI isn’t going to resist authoritarianism.
AI isn’t going to fight fascism.
AI isn’t going to connect people in a grassroots movement.
AI isn’t going to quell your anger through action.
AI isn’t going to mobilize the fight for science and democracy.
AI isn’t going to fight fascism.
AI isn’t going to connect people in a grassroots movement.
AI isn’t going to quell your anger through action.
AI isn’t going to mobilize the fight for science and democracy.
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The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 16, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
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yeah, seeing so much invested into a very theoretical good while causing widespread real harm is driving me insane
The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.
I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
yeah, seeing so much invested into a very theoretical good while causing widespread real harm is driving me insane
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enjoy bsky.app/profile/oliv...
From the moment we know a technology steals/obfuscates people's labour to perform task X, it matters 0 how effective the people's labour you steal to do X is. They will likely get better at X over time and you will get better at stealing. Nothing of this justifies the theft. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
February 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM
enjoy bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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@vivaldi.com is chrome without ai, try it out.
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
@vivaldi.com is chrome without ai, try it out.
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ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
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Kaolinite is not bauxite. Essentially every common mineral that's not quartz or olivine has "significant" amounts of aluminum.
They are not actually sources for aluminum.
They are not actually sources for aluminum.
February 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Kaolinite is not bauxite. Essentially every common mineral that's not quartz or olivine has "significant" amounts of aluminum.
They are not actually sources for aluminum.
They are not actually sources for aluminum.
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Here is a quotation to absolutely live by.
R.I.P. Rev. Jesse Jackson
“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.”
“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.”
February 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Here is a quotation to absolutely live by.
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Another aspect, same area.
February 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Another aspect, same area.
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Junction of the Greybull and Bighorn rivers in the northern Bighorn Basin, as seen in a seasonal composite SAR image. Irrigated fields and terraces along the Greybull R, and the Bighorn flowing through the Sheep Mountain anticline are all visible. Could spend a lot of time looking around this image.
February 17, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Junction of the Greybull and Bighorn rivers in the northern Bighorn Basin, as seen in a seasonal composite SAR image. Irrigated fields and terraces along the Greybull R, and the Bighorn flowing through the Sheep Mountain anticline are all visible. Could spend a lot of time looking around this image.
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I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
“As some universities and journals adopt AI-text detectors, they risk creating a feedback loop that constrains how authors express themselves. I have seen colleagues intentionally simplify their grammar or break down complex rhetorical structures to avoid arousing algorithmic suspicion.”
Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Writing produced using artificial intelligence is becoming more common in academia, which has prompted institutions to look for ways to detect it. Bo Hu warns that an overreliance on fixed linguistic ...
www.nature.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
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We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society.
We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.
We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.
February 16, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society.
We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.
We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.
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Truly weird — both my grandfathers fought to defend the multicultural economic zones of the US and Europe from people with beliefs like Musk’s. If his point is he would have taken Hitler’s side, he should just say that
Billionaire racist Elon Musk, erasing the fact that millions of “multicultural Americans” have died defending multicultural America, often while white supremacists like Elon Musk fought tooth and nail to deny them the basic civil rights accorded to white Americans.
February 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Truly weird — both my grandfathers fought to defend the multicultural economic zones of the US and Europe from people with beliefs like Musk’s. If his point is he would have taken Hitler’s side, he should just say that
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to add to this:
-DOGE dismantled on Day 1 of the next administration; former DOGE employees tried for treason
-blanket hiring authority for all
-increased retention and relocation incentives
-DOGE dismantled on Day 1 of the next administration; former DOGE employees tried for treason
-blanket hiring authority for all
-increased retention and relocation incentives
i agree with everything in this article, but we cant just restore the rights federal employees had pre-Trump, they must be unequivocally *expanded*
-telework for all, no position excluded
-master bargaining agreements that cover entire agencies
-guaranteed annual & competitive pay increases
-telework for all, no position excluded
-master bargaining agreements that cover entire agencies
-guaranteed annual & competitive pay increases
House Democrats warned in a hearing Thursday that Trump’s federal workforce cuts are harming employees and agency missions. Former civil servants shared personal stories of layoffs, chaos, and lost trust under the current administration.
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
to add to this:
-DOGE dismantled on Day 1 of the next administration; former DOGE employees tried for treason
-blanket hiring authority for all
-increased retention and relocation incentives
-DOGE dismantled on Day 1 of the next administration; former DOGE employees tried for treason
-blanket hiring authority for all
-increased retention and relocation incentives
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Here’s the full announcement:
February 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Here’s the full announcement: