Honest J
@frangsbo.bsky.social
Epistemologist working in the trades.
Would like to be posting mainly about climate solutions but there's too much other $#!+ going down.
Would like to be posting mainly about climate solutions but there's too much other $#!+ going down.
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Honest J
@frangsbo.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Being right is necessary but not sufficient.
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
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the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
Pointing out that something is incorrect definitely isn't sufficient - the *culture* of "it is bad to make incorrect statements, good to promptly and clearly retract and apologize for them, and disqualifying to keep making them deliberately" is the framework needed for fact-checking to plug into.
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
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Thing is—they don't even have to be good faith members! They just have to believe not appearing that way will be punished!
The real damage of the horde of shameless public liars—& their successful impunity—is annihilating that mutual expectation that conforming to fair rules isn't just for suckers
The real damage of the horde of shameless public liars—& their successful impunity—is annihilating that mutual expectation that conforming to fair rules isn't just for suckers
at the the of the day, you can try to litigate and legislate lying, but you can’t force good faith and no amount of regulating the truth can fix society if its participants aren’t good faith members of the same project
the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thing is—they don't even have to be good faith members! They just have to believe not appearing that way will be punished!
The real damage of the horde of shameless public liars—& their successful impunity—is annihilating that mutual expectation that conforming to fair rules isn't just for suckers
The real damage of the horde of shameless public liars—& their successful impunity—is annihilating that mutual expectation that conforming to fair rules isn't just for suckers
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This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is narcissism masquerading as philosophy — the technophile elite are not recognizing a new soul in AI, they're falling in love with their creation, staring at their own reflection in a digital pool.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
It is the ultimate in solipsism and has its roots in a pathological fear and denial of death.
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Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Statement from President VanDassor on the actions of HSI in St Paul this morning
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Idk if I'm right. Here's what I think I'm seeing:
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Idk if I'm right. Here's what I think I'm seeing:
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
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guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
guys who have no belief in or respect for human rights are becoming oddly invested in whether robots have rights
It's somewhat understandable that people are fooled into thinking that LLM chatbots are conscious, because the only other things we've seen engage in fluid grammatical conversations are conscious human beings. BUT...
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It's somewhat understandable that people are fooled into thinking that LLM chatbots are conscious, because the only other things we've seen engage in fluid grammatical conversations are conscious human beings. BUT...
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
can’t help but notice it’s ‘they’ when a single mother might manage to use SNAP benefits for food that actually tastes good but it’s ‘we’ when a handful of ketamine addicts wanna ruin the economy
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Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
A reminder that capitalist PR in this country has successfully conflated free markets and entrepreneurship with capitalism, which are not the same. And if we actually target and restrict capitalism, specifically, and keep it from crushing the other two, we could possibly have nice things.
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A reminder that capitalist PR in this country has successfully conflated free markets and entrepreneurship with capitalism, which are not the same. And if we actually target and restrict capitalism, specifically, and keep it from crushing the other two, we could possibly have nice things.
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fellas is photosynthesis capitalist
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
fellas is photosynthesis capitalist
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Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all
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When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration."
—Lincoln
—Lincoln
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
When immigrants read "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,' and feel that that moral sentiment is the father of all moral principle in them, they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood of the men who wrote that Declaration."
—Lincoln
—Lincoln
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Duty Calls
xkcd.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
This is the main thing folks.
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 22, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is the main thing folks.
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If you occupy Palestinian territory and then cry it's antisemitic to protest that then you're just laundering your anti Palestinian bigotry
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If you occupy Palestinian territory and then cry it's antisemitic to protest that then you're just laundering your anti Palestinian bigotry
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Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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It’s a grok of shit.
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s a grok of shit.
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An executive order to ban state AI laws WOULD BE *FLAGRANTLY* UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT!
Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves.
It’s not hard to frame this correctly!
Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT!
Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves.
It’s not hard to frame this correctly!
An executive order to ban state AI laws would put the future of the technology in the hands of a few power players
A White House Power Grab on AI Would Be a Huge Mistake
The Senate’s overwhelming rejection in July of a plan to ban states from passing regulations on artificial intelligence — the vote was 99-1 — is now set to be brazenly ignored. The White House is pushing for the measure to be revived and added to the National Defense Authorization Act. If that fails, and it’s a longshot, the president stands ready to sign an executive order essentially forcing it through anyway.
bloom.bg
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
An executive order to ban state AI laws WOULD BE *FLAGRANTLY* UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT!
Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves.
It’s not hard to frame this correctly!
Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT!
Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves.
It’s not hard to frame this correctly!