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espiers.bsky.social
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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arrontk.bsky.social
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September 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
evamae.bsky.social
My kid pointed out this morning on the way to middle school that we've been waiting for Hollow Knight Silksong since he was three.
September 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
evamae.bsky.social
At 10am EST, Hollow Knight Silksong's Nintendo page changed from Releases TBD to (drumroll pleeeeeease) UNAVAILABLE.

Well, I guess I will be getting things done today them. Humpft.
Hollow Knight Silksong product screen on Nintendo Switch store indicating that the game is "unavailable."
September 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
evamae.bsky.social
The man with the Trump Train hat is Kevin Krebs IG:blazeftb. Arrested with a loaded Sig Sauer .32 caliber semi-auto handgun, 3 loaded Sig sauer handgun magazines, six loaded assault rifle magazines, bayonet, pepper spray,... at No Kings Rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Kevin Krebs: Trump Train from IG blaze ftb
June 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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swin24.bsky.social
After the assassination, murder, and attempted murder in Minnesota, the Dem governor — who was also reportedly also on the alleged killer’s hit list — urged his state’s people not to go out to the No King’s protest, fearing that the gunman would target them as well. People showed up in droves anyway
June 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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maxread.info
this week's newsletter is about the lessons of our departed friend white genocide grok maxread.substack.com/p/regarding-...
And yet: What stands out about White Genocide Grok is how poorly it worked. It’s not just that the patched prompt accidentally created a chatbot obsessed with “Kill the Boer”--it’s that the substance of the responses were decidedly not agreeable to Musk’s own white-paranoia politics, and in some cases Grok even contradicted him by name. Whatever behind-the-scenes political manipulation was being attempted here failed on at least two levels, and not solely because xAI is staffed and run by dummies. The fact is that large language models as they currently exist are difficult to manipulate from the top down in clean, discrete, non-obvious ways. Patching the system prompt might nudge your chatbot slightly in one direction or another, but rarely to the precise effect you want, and a subtly bad prompt can suddenly render your chatbot unusably obsequious or obsessed with South African politics. Re-training your entire model along different lines, as an alternative, is likely to have even larger and stranger effects on its responses: Earlier this year, researchers fine-tuned an L.L.M. on “insecure code,” and found that, as an unexpected aftereffect, the model produced text that Hitler and suggest its interlocutor commit suicide. This is not the same thing as saying that the models as they currently exist are accurate, or “truthful,” or that their “judgment,” such as it is, is worth deferring to. Simply that these are enormous, complex systems whose interactions and outputs are still difficult to identify, interpret, and even reproduce. There’s an irony at play here. It’s been clear for a long time now that one attraction of “A.I.” to reactionaries like Musk is the idea that, in its (purported) capacity as an all-knowing, automated truth and decision-making machine, it might provide what Peter Thiel once memorably called “an escape from politics in all its forms”--a way to bypass contestation, negotiation, compromise, and other messy political processes like “democracy.” To people for whom A.I. or A.G.I. heralds a new, post-political world, the almost mystic unknowability of large language models is a feature, not a bug, in the same way that the un-plan-ability of markets was regarded by Hayek and Von Mises as their greatest strength. But this mystic attitude toward A.I. cuts both ways: What happens when the black-box super-intelligence appears and doesn’t actually agree with you on the question of White Genocide? If you’re a member of the right wing of the A.I. research community, you suggest that some kind of bias has been injected into the models that must be corrected. One problem, as White Genocide Grok demonstrates, is that “correcting” an L.L.M. (or “eliminating bias,” or what you might call “consensus,” in an astonishingly large corpus) is a complex problem that you can easily fat-finger into widespread ridicule. The other problem is that in pursuing strategies for “correction,” you’re de-mystifying precisely the supposedly un-manipulable qualities of A.I. that made it a philosophically and ideologically attractive technology in the first place.
May 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
evamae.bsky.social
Funny, Fidelity hasn't called me lately to chastise me for pulling all my money out of the market right before Inauguration Day.
April 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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jkuznicki.bsky.social
As long as we’re doing French Revolution takes, let’s all remember that Mark Twain’s is undefeated:
Screenshot of text: “66 THERE were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror-that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves. —Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”
April 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
evamae.bsky.social
Trying to stay on budget while incurring medical expenses that feel like they're decided by a random number generator is soul crushing.
April 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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wigu.org
I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning
A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME
April 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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thebulwark.com
Van Hollen: "As the federal courts have said, we need to bring Mr. Abrego Garcia home to protect his constitutional rights to due process...If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone else in America."
April 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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mattjay.com
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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dfeldman.org
It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service

Just incredible grift
"Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles," reads the lawsuit. "In so doing, Defendants can, and do, accelerate the rate of depreciation of the value of Tesla vehicles and also the expiration of Tesla vehicle warranties to reduce or avoid responsibility for contractually required repairs as well as increase the purchase of its extended warranty policy."
April 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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beyondmeatofficial.bsky.social
Did you know: one of the biggest ways to make a positive environmental impact is to eat plant-based every now & then and also to not go to space
April 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Apr 14
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.

We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.

That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
evamae.bsky.social
Currently fueled by spite and SQQQ and I don't feel great about it.
April 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social has another story of a family torn apart by Trump sending a man to a Salvadoran mega-prison without due process.

His family, like others, says he was misidentified as a gang member because of benign tattoos.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Her husband is trapped in a Salvadoran prison. She has no idea how to get him back.
Ripped apart by Trump, one Venezuelan family endures another hell: silence.
www.motherjones.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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murshedz.bsky.social
"Trump’s lawlessness and his economic destruction are the same story: The former doesn’t just enable the latter; the two are inextricably entangled with each other."

Smart reflections from @gregsargent.bsky.social on how President Obama is giving Dems a way to converge the two crucial narratives.
Obama’s Blistering New Takedown of Trump Gives Dems a Way Forward
In an appearance on Thursday, the former president laid out the connection between Trump’s lawlessness and—yes—the price of eggs. Will other Democrats follow?
newrepublic.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
evamae.bsky.social
Thinking about how a whole human at Fidelity was tasked with calling me to try to guilt and pressure me into putting my IRA money back into the stock market after I pulled it before the inauguration. Thoughts and prayers to anyone listening to these goons.
April 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my offer to america: we bring woke back
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
evamae.bsky.social
Today's sign of the apocalypse: I wholeheartedly agree with Rand Paul.

wapo.st/4iaAEL1 [gift article because I paid for a whole year and can't unsub until May.]
"I am a Republican. I am a supporter of Donald Trump. But this is a bipartisan problem," Paul said. I don't care if the president is a Republican or a Democrat. I don't want to live under emergency rule. I don't want to live where my representatives cannot speak for me and have a check and balance on power."
April 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM