sujato
@sujato.bsky.social
Buddhist mendicant.
Pali translations at https://suttacentral.net.
I talk suttas at https://discourse.suttacentral.net.
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io/.
Writings: https://sujato.me/
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Pali translations at https://suttacentral.net.
I talk suttas at https://discourse.suttacentral.net.
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io/.
Writings: https://sujato.me/
repost = read this!
🚫 AI
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
Always two there are; no more, no less: the abuser and the enabler.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Always two there are; no more, no less: the abuser and the enabler.
Amazing essay, please read it.
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Amazing essay, please read it.
“For a moment it felt like maybe things mightn’t be too bad. The moon shed her light over land and sea, over the living and the lifeless, knowing no distinction of race or color or country or creed. Once, men strode upon her as conquering heroes and planted the flags of their proud nations. 1/x
The Harbingers
A cli-fi novel of despair and enlightenment for the reasonably hopeless.
sujato.me
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“For a moment it felt like maybe things mightn’t be too bad. The moon shed her light over land and sea, over the living and the lifeless, knowing no distinction of race or color or country or creed. Once, men strode upon her as conquering heroes and planted the flags of their proud nations. 1/x
Yesterday a young guy mentioned how is mum is always at the blokes to do the recycling properly. I realized, albeit belatedly, that since recycling is domestic drudgery, it ends up being women’s work. So recycling is basically men dumping crap on women to clean up.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Yesterday a young guy mentioned how is mum is always at the blokes to do the recycling properly. I realized, albeit belatedly, that since recycling is domestic drudgery, it ends up being women’s work. So recycling is basically men dumping crap on women to clean up.
Fun tip for Buddhists: when someone new shows up, say hello.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fun tip for Buddhists: when someone new shows up, say hello.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
It was a mistake to imagine we could sit down with oil companies and develop climate policies. They are not partners to be negotiated with, but enemies to be defeated.
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was a mistake to imagine we could sit down with oil companies and develop climate policies. They are not partners to be negotiated with, but enemies to be defeated.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
Something AI gurus have in common—they grew in a womb, were nurtured by milk, and were held in mother's arms. So now they are dedicating their lives to making sure no-one has to do that in the future.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Something AI gurus have in common—they grew in a womb, were nurtured by milk, and were held in mother's arms. So now they are dedicating their lives to making sure no-one has to do that in the future.
and there it is
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
and there it is
More than anything, today is a victory for expressive fonts.
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
More than anything, today is a victory for expressive fonts.
Has advertising somehow gotten even worse? Just saw a billboard with the slogan "big statement" and it's literally a guy wearing a beige tshirt and beige pants.
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Has advertising somehow gotten even worse? Just saw a billboard with the slogan "big statement" and it's literally a guy wearing a beige tshirt and beige pants.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
And a very good day to all nurses, teachers, housekeepers, janitors, and service staff! You're doing a great job, and you deserve more pay.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
And a very good day to all nurses, teachers, housekeepers, janitors, and service staff! You're doing a great job, and you deserve more pay.
AI is epistemic suicide, wiping out knowledge in the blink of an eye. #banai #butlerianjihad
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
AI is epistemic suicide, wiping out knowledge in the blink of an eye. #banai #butlerianjihad
I think I’ve solved a tricky problem with Pali verse. As so often, the key is understanding how it draws on Vedic precedents, in this case, the very strong association between divinities and celestial bodies.
On the most obscure verse of the Āṭānāṭiyasutta
I do like a challenge. There’s a verse in the Āṭānāṭiyasutta that resists easy analysis, containing multiple words that are often assumed to be meaningless, corrupt, or onomatopoeic. I recently made a...
discourse.suttacentral.net
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I think I’ve solved a tricky problem with Pali verse. As so often, the key is understanding how it draws on Vedic precedents, in this case, the very strong association between divinities and celestial bodies.
I am begging people to understand that when these technologies are used to harass women it is not an incidental misuse. Misogyny is a key step in the path of dehumanization.
People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers
“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”
www.404media.co
November 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am begging people to understand that when these technologies are used to harass women it is not an incidental misuse. Misogyny is a key step in the path of dehumanization.
Happy Halloween!
👻BOO‼️
I can't think of anything scarier than this.
The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.
I can't think of anything scarier than this.
The greenhouse gases we have added to the atmosphere now force over a billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heat into the Earth system every year.
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Happy Halloween!
The new BoM website uses Inter, a nicely designed, readable sans with multiple weights and optical sizes. It’s a rare font that fully supports Pali/Sanskrit characters. And it’s free!
rsms.me/inter/
rsms.me/inter/
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The new BoM website uses Inter, a nicely designed, readable sans with multiple weights and optical sizes. It’s a rare font that fully supports Pali/Sanskrit characters. And it’s free!
rsms.me/inter/
rsms.me/inter/
The statistical delusion machine is less successful at fooling people into thinking it is “reasoning” when it appropriates the work of unreasonable people.
The next step will be increased pressure to appropriate quality work from journals, publishers, students, scientists, and the like.
The next step will be increased pressure to appropriate quality work from journals, publishers, students, scientists, and the like.
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The statistical delusion machine is less successful at fooling people into thinking it is “reasoning” when it appropriates the work of unreasonable people.
The next step will be increased pressure to appropriate quality work from journals, publishers, students, scientists, and the like.
The next step will be increased pressure to appropriate quality work from journals, publishers, students, scientists, and the like.
(Hot take: The new BoM website is pretty good actually; claimed deficiencies are overblown and will be gradually rectified; the cost overrun of 10% is normal; and it is good that we are investing in science communication and education.)
www.bom.gov.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
(Hot take: The new BoM website is pretty good actually; claimed deficiencies are overblown and will be gradually rectified; the cost overrun of 10% is normal; and it is good that we are investing in science communication and education.)