Eirik Dentz Sinclair
@eiriks.bsky.social
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Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
Federal workers aren’t furloughed.
Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.
Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.
It puts the politicians jobs on the line.
They get the budget passed.
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How do we help kids and teens use social media, phones, and the internet in a healthier way? It’s by working with them instead of trying to ban or restrict their access.
Dr Pamela Wisniewski is the world’s leading researcher on how to protect kids online.
It’s by working with them not banning!
Dr Pamela Wisniewski is the world’s leading researcher on how to protect kids online.
It’s by working with them not banning!
Pamela Wisniewski, leading researcher at UC Berkeley’s ICSI, joins @rabble.nz to discuss how to protect teens online.
From age verification to anonymity and mental health, @pamwis.bsky.social says the solution isn’t restriction, it's teaching digital literacy.
Ep out now: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
From age verification to anonymity and mental health, @pamwis.bsky.social says the solution isn’t restriction, it's teaching digital literacy.
Ep out now: youtu.be/8Zfvyj40GTM
Banning Kids From Social Media Isn’t the Answer (with Pamela Wisniewski)
YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
How do we help kids and teens use social media, phones, and the internet in a healthier way? It’s by working with them instead of trying to ban or restrict their access.
Dr Pamela Wisniewski is the world’s leading researcher on how to protect kids online.
It’s by working with them not banning!
Dr Pamela Wisniewski is the world’s leading researcher on how to protect kids online.
It’s by working with them not banning!
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
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Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
October 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.
With me so far? 1/x
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
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Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!
- Brecht
- Brecht
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!
- Brecht
- Brecht
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adoring his little dance afterwards
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
adoring his little dance afterwards
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Jonathan Haidt is a charlatan whose conclusions are based on bias and not science. Real social scientists who study the effects of social media and the internet thinks his prescriptions for the internet have no grounding in evidence. Yet he’s driving a movement to outlaw open source social media.
now is not the time to ban phones
why Jonathan Haidt sucks
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jonathan Haidt is a charlatan whose conclusions are based on bias and not science. Real social scientists who study the effects of social media and the internet thinks his prescriptions for the internet have no grounding in evidence. Yet he’s driving a movement to outlaw open source social media.
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A friend writes:
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A friend writes:
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."
Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."
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50.000 movies about Nazis and here we are having to remind people that masked goons kidnapping non-anglo looking people off the street should be shamed and exiled...and that's after 2 years of reminding people that genocide should be a red line not to be crossed.
Complete failure.
Complete failure.
September 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
50.000 movies about Nazis and here we are having to remind people that masked goons kidnapping non-anglo looking people off the street should be shamed and exiled...and that's after 2 years of reminding people that genocide should be a red line not to be crossed.
Complete failure.
Complete failure.
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This is a great analysis of the value of moral standards and the power of shame as a deterent to uphold them. We need those norms and the social pressure to adhere to them. The alternative is violence and repression.
Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is a great analysis of the value of moral standards and the power of shame as a deterent to uphold them. We need those norms and the social pressure to adhere to them. The alternative is violence and repression.
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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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exhibit 478 on why all the LLM-as-AGI stuff is nonsense, they are very impressive prediction machines but they do not think and they’re never going to stop producing bullshit
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
exhibit 478 on why all the LLM-as-AGI stuff is nonsense, they are very impressive prediction machines but they do not think and they’re never going to stop producing bullshit
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*nodding and pointing upward sagely*
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
*nodding and pointing upward sagely*
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i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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"Here’s what the “just let tech bros run everything” crowd fundamentally misunderstands about how innovation actually works: It requires exactly the kind of chaotic, unpredictable, open ecosystem that authoritarianism systematically destroys."
I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Here’s what the “just let tech bros run everything” crowd fundamentally misunderstands about how innovation actually works: It requires exactly the kind of chaotic, unpredictable, open ecosystem that authoritarianism systematically destroys."
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Clement greenberg wrote that in 1939 about the fascist art starting to arise in Germany. To me it could easily be read about AI slop today The entire quote nails AI slop perfectly. "Kitsch demands nothing of us, not even our time"
My research has shown an alt right pipeline in AI slop on Facebook.
My research has shown an alt right pipeline in AI slop on Facebook.
July 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Clement greenberg wrote that in 1939 about the fascist art starting to arise in Germany. To me it could easily be read about AI slop today The entire quote nails AI slop perfectly. "Kitsch demands nothing of us, not even our time"
My research has shown an alt right pipeline in AI slop on Facebook.
My research has shown an alt right pipeline in AI slop on Facebook.
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The new ICE budget is $160 billion.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
July 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The new ICE budget is $160 billion.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
The Marine corps budget is $57 billion.
Try to imagine the graft and corruption that's going to be happening at DHS over the next couple of years. Nobody will be accountable. It's going to be a fascist candy store.
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i cannot wait for the wokeness blowback so bad. wokeness is going to be so much more widespread and powerful than ever before
June 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
i cannot wait for the wokeness blowback so bad. wokeness is going to be so much more widespread and powerful than ever before
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Israel is literally using food distribution sites as a trap to bomb starving people and we're supposed to be good little sycophants and pretend this is a "war" and not a campaign of extermination.
I refuse.
The blood of my people in the camps cries out in solidarity with Palestinians now.
I refuse.
The blood of my people in the camps cries out in solidarity with Palestinians now.
June 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Israel is literally using food distribution sites as a trap to bomb starving people and we're supposed to be good little sycophants and pretend this is a "war" and not a campaign of extermination.
I refuse.
The blood of my people in the camps cries out in solidarity with Palestinians now.
I refuse.
The blood of my people in the camps cries out in solidarity with Palestinians now.