Ryan Moulton
@moultano.bsky.social
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I don't think Elon has gamed out what happens when every woman who isn't promoting their onlyfans leaves the site.
This is why not to focus overmuch on the CSAM angle. It’s easy for X to say that this is due bad actors abusing the product and pretend to take a strong stand against this. But as Elon is willfully makes clear, when people use it to sexually harass adult women, they are using the product as intended
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
I don't think Elon has gamed out what happens when every woman who isn't promoting their onlyfans leaves the site.
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This is why not to focus overmuch on the CSAM angle. It’s easy for X to say that this is due bad actors abusing the product and pretend to take a strong stand against this. But as Elon is willfully makes clear, when people use it to sexually harass adult women, they are using the product as intended
January 4, 2026 at 8:13 AM
This is why not to focus overmuch on the CSAM angle. It’s easy for X to say that this is due bad actors abusing the product and pretend to take a strong stand against this. But as Elon is willfully makes clear, when people use it to sexually harass adult women, they are using the product as intended
Watching this and thinking about what it means to spend labor on art when, or once, it is entirely unnecessary. It is sacralization, in the Gettysburg sense. A portion of people's lives have been spent on these objects, and so they are sacred.
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碁盤・将棋盤ができるまで。１つ作るのに５年以上の時間が掛かる日本職人の高級碁盤・将棋盤
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January 4, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Watching this and thinking about what it means to spend labor on art when, or once, it is entirely unnecessary. It is sacralization, in the Gettysburg sense. A portion of people's lives have been spent on these objects, and so they are sacred.
youtu.be/RVuDM9jQQ1s?...
youtu.be/RVuDM9jQQ1s?...
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Putting this out there to the journalists who follow me. Why am I hearing barely a peep about this? This is atrocious!
I know this is yesterday’s news and feels relatively unimportant now but just want to note that this is ongoing and X and xAI continue to do absolutely nothing about it despite being able to end it by pressing a single button.
January 4, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Putting this out there to the journalists who follow me. Why am I hearing barely a peep about this? This is atrocious!
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I enjoyed reading this, and you might, too.
You may not have kids yourself, but there is a truth of life here that this has captured in this piece - that a lot of the joys of life are found in creating that same joy for other people.
You may not have kids yourself, but there is a truth of life here that this has captured in this piece - that a lot of the joys of life are found in creating that same joy for other people.
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I enjoyed reading this, and you might, too.
You may not have kids yourself, but there is a truth of life here that this has captured in this piece - that a lot of the joys of life are found in creating that same joy for other people.
You may not have kids yourself, but there is a truth of life here that this has captured in this piece - that a lot of the joys of life are found in creating that same joy for other people.
When you are on solid legal footing.
January 3, 2026 at 6:37 PM
When you are on solid legal footing.
Physical shelf heights dictate this most of the time. I can't even necessarily keep authors together.
Broke - arranging your books by colour
Woke - arranging your books by height
Woke - arranging your books by height
January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Physical shelf heights dictate this most of the time. I can't even necessarily keep authors together.
He's not saying "we're the baddies," he's saying that those particular people, Trump and Musk, are baddies.
Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.
January 3, 2026 at 1:09 AM
He's not saying "we're the baddies," he's saying that those particular people, Trump and Musk, are baddies.
I wonder if they are framing it this way because an apology is the easiest way to neutrally write in a headline that something is immoral.
1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes."
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize.
Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.
January 3, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I wonder if they are framing it this way because an apology is the easiest way to neutrally write in a headline that something is immoral.
My job has historically consisted of writing a small amount of code at the end of a long process of figuring out wtf is going on. This has left me in a poor state to evaluate coding models on my day to day, because I don't even know how I'd instrument the "wtf is going on" step.
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
My job has historically consisted of writing a small amount of code at the end of a long process of figuring out wtf is going on. This has left me in a poor state to evaluate coding models on my day to day, because I don't even know how I'd instrument the "wtf is going on" step.
Does anyone know the relevant case law for "fictional" child porn? (Scare quotes because synthesizing it from a real person's photo puts it in an intermediate state that existing case law may not cover.)
Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Does anyone know the relevant case law for "fictional" child porn? (Scare quotes because synthesizing it from a real person's photo puts it in an intermediate state that existing case law may not cover.)
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thoughtful and moving essay. i think it actually has an urgent message about how adults conceptualize childhood, but it's also just a really nice way to describe what it has actually felt like to be a parent so far.
Finished the essay. moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
January 2, 2026 at 8:23 PM
thoughtful and moving essay. i think it actually has an urgent message about how adults conceptualize childhood, but it's also just a really nice way to describe what it has actually felt like to be a parent so far.
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January 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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This essay captures nicely why I can’t imagine ever leaving the classroom/why I feel so intensely defensive of doing right by the kids who come into our school
“Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create childhoods for others.”
“Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create childhoods for others.”
January 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
This essay captures nicely why I can’t imagine ever leaving the classroom/why I feel so intensely defensive of doing right by the kids who come into our school
“Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create childhoods for others.”
“Life, then, is the creation of childhoods. You have yours, and then you get to create childhoods for others.”
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The Everything App now considers atheism to be hate speech, but not Nazism.
January 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The Everything App now considers atheism to be hate speech, but not Nazism.
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“Most directly, we should not waste children’s time. The motivation for making school more rewarding and less stultifying should not primarily be its effect on outcomes later in life, but rather that childhood is itself part of life, a very important part.”
January 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
“Most directly, we should not waste children’s time. The motivation for making school more rewarding and less stultifying should not primarily be its effect on outcomes later in life, but rather that childhood is itself part of life, a very important part.”
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this is great moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
Children and Helical Time
If childhood is half of our subjective life, how should that change how we live?
moultano.wordpress.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
this is great moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...
What was the best photo you took this year?
January 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
What was the best photo you took this year?
I hope to write earnestly enough that I'm embarrassed by half of it 5 years later.
January 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I hope to write earnestly enough that I'm embarrassed by half of it 5 years later.
When you're trying to get over jet lag, this is a terrible forecast.
January 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
When you're trying to get over jet lag, this is a terrible forecast.
I started writing a lot more because someone I respect told me they really liked my writing. If you like things, tell people. It's free.
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I started writing a lot more because someone I respect told me they really liked my writing. If you like things, tell people. It's free.
I would hope a lawsuit here could extract substantial damages, well beyond what just using an image without permission would ordinarily warrant.
Japanese artist Hiroshi Nagai, famous for his illustration work for City Pop album covers (by extension the “city pop” aesthetic), has had his art used without permission by the official USA Department of Homeland Security Twitter account to promote mass deportations.
January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I would hope a lawsuit here could extract substantial damages, well beyond what just using an image without permission would ordinarily warrant.
The second day of getting over jetlag is somehow way harder than the first.
January 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The second day of getting over jetlag is somehow way harder than the first.
If you think my essay on parenthood and time was dour, you should read this one. hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/y...
January 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
If you think my essay on parenthood and time was dour, you should read this one. hmmdaily.com/2018/10/18/y...