Addison Dunlap
@addisonaddendum.bsky.social
A Synthesizing Interdisciplinarian, blogging about public policy, applied economics, languages, games, and the intersections thereof.
Mostly following Starter Packs. Mostly.
Mostly following Starter Packs. Mostly.
Pinned
Generative AI slop is the tetraethyl lead of the infosphere.
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If your business can't survive not telling people to kill themselves, your business doesn't deserve to survive.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If your business can't survive not telling people to kill themselves, your business doesn't deserve to survive.
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OpenAI shouldn’t have a business, that’s correct
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
OpenAI shouldn’t have a business, that’s correct
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Your accounts on social media can be banned if someone misinterprets a photo as a death threat, but the billion dollar plagiarism machine is allowed to tell you to kill yourself in no uncertain terms.
Neat.
Neat.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Your accounts on social media can be banned if someone misinterprets a photo as a death threat, but the billion dollar plagiarism machine is allowed to tell you to kill yourself in no uncertain terms.
Neat.
Neat.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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I don’t really want to hear defeatism from people who don’t live in the U.S. or who have already left.
We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.
We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I don’t really want to hear defeatism from people who don’t live in the U.S. or who have already left.
We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.
We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.
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BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR
November 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR
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Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
November 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
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Want to be in politics in the future? Take an acting class. Improv skills will help you a lot. You will need to be on camera a lot more than any previous generation of politician and performing on camera is (mostly) a learned skill that you can get better at with deliberate practice.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Want to be in politics in the future? Take an acting class. Improv skills will help you a lot. You will need to be on camera a lot more than any previous generation of politician and performing on camera is (mostly) a learned skill that you can get better at with deliberate practice.
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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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November 5, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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One of my machine-gunners spoke Cambodian. One of my rifleman spoke Laotian and another spoke Cajun almost exclusively. No Marine I know gave AF because they all swore an Oath to our Nation that including "Up to and including my life." F*ck JD Vance and his prissy Yale Imperialistic view of America.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One of my machine-gunners spoke Cambodian. One of my rifleman spoke Laotian and another spoke Cajun almost exclusively. No Marine I know gave AF because they all swore an Oath to our Nation that including "Up to and including my life." F*ck JD Vance and his prissy Yale Imperialistic view of America.
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Discursively I've always found it odd that people will recite "only Jewish state" to me as if it's meant to mean anything of substance. What is the relevance of this to a Palestinian? We are opposed to the occupation because the occupation is happening to us.
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Discursively I've always found it odd that people will recite "only Jewish state" to me as if it's meant to mean anything of substance. What is the relevance of this to a Palestinian? We are opposed to the occupation because the occupation is happening to us.
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We are not Constitutionally BARRED from an expectation of privacy in public.
The Constitution, as courts have chosen to interpret it, simply does not ESTABLISH such an expectation.
There’s no reason we can’t create it via statute.
The Constitution, as courts have chosen to interpret it, simply does not ESTABLISH such an expectation.
There’s no reason we can’t create it via statute.
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We are not Constitutionally BARRED from an expectation of privacy in public.
The Constitution, as courts have chosen to interpret it, simply does not ESTABLISH such an expectation.
There’s no reason we can’t create it via statute.
The Constitution, as courts have chosen to interpret it, simply does not ESTABLISH such an expectation.
There’s no reason we can’t create it via statute.
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That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
October 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
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This is a cold civil war.
NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is a cold civil war.
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Ken Burns’s Civil War 2
“My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”
“My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”
October 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Ken Burns’s Civil War 2
“My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”
“My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”
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Trump ordered today another lethal strike in the Caribbean, killing everyone on board a vessel. The "elimination" of 6 more people is not law enforcement; it's extrajudicial murder. This illegal campaign, which has now claimed 27 lives, is part of war plan against Venezuela.
October 15, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Trump ordered today another lethal strike in the Caribbean, killing everyone on board a vessel. The "elimination" of 6 more people is not law enforcement; it's extrajudicial murder. This illegal campaign, which has now claimed 27 lives, is part of war plan against Venezuela.
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Also the ensuing power struggle will be absolutely insane.
October 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Also the ensuing power struggle will be absolutely insane.
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there is no solid proof he is in the checkout line, only circumstantial evidence. but there is much more circumstantial evidence than i expected
October 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
there is no solid proof he is in the checkout line, only circumstantial evidence. but there is much more circumstantial evidence than i expected
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he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
October 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office
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Digging into who they are is fine, but this piece overstates how unusual it is that they're not personally testifying, etc. Where the relevant standing is simply that they're affected voters, you'll have random plaintiffs with nothing else really particular to them. That part is totally normal.
Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Digging into who they are is fine, but this piece overstates how unusual it is that they're not personally testifying, etc. Where the relevant standing is simply that they're affected voters, you'll have random plaintiffs with nothing else really particular to them. That part is totally normal.
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This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.
Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.
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A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.