Gar W. Lipow
@garlipow.bsky.social
small d democrat, socialist, environmentalist, hate war but not a pacifist, support Palestinian rights, pronouns he/him they/them is also OK if you prefer that.
In work aimed at popular audience, mention broken campaign promises undermining democracy. Studies claim politicians keep most promises. Later studies that show they break 70% of important promises & keep trivial one. Skip complexity? discuss in footnote? Discuss in main text?
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
In work aimed at popular audience, mention broken campaign promises undermining democracy. Studies claim politicians keep most promises. Later studies that show they break 70% of important promises & keep trivial one. Skip complexity? discuss in footnote? Discuss in main text?
I managed to punch myself in the face with my cell, while neither touching the phone with my hands nor moving my head. Now, that is professional level klutziness!
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I managed to punch myself in the face with my cell, while neither touching the phone with my hands nor moving my head. Now, that is professional level klutziness!
If you want some of the best class analysis of AI, one grounded upon a social and material basis, read this long Corey Doctorow transcript. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... Yes, it has points much AI criticism misses.
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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December 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you want some of the best class analysis of AI, one grounded upon a social and material basis, read this long Corey Doctorow transcript. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... Yes, it has points much AI criticism misses.
Corey Doctorow on AI pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... "The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Corey Doctorow on AI pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p... "The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job."
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Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
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When you discover the use case through critique
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
When you discover the use case through critique
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just going to point out that there's a difference between "Trump is betraying me and maybe Dems are right" and "Trump is betraying me because the Jews have him under mind control"
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
just going to point out that there's a difference between "Trump is betraying me and maybe Dems are right" and "Trump is betraying me because the Jews have him under mind control"
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
If you don't understand why people are angry at Schumer as at the Republicans: we are defending ourselves against a brutal gang out to beat the bleep out of us, and suddenly the person beside us does a leg sweep that knocks us to the ground. Yeah, we are mad at them too.
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If you don't understand why people are angry at Schumer as at the Republicans: we are defending ourselves against a brutal gang out to beat the bleep out of us, and suddenly the person beside us does a leg sweep that knocks us to the ground. Yeah, we are mad at them too.
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Mamdani should l take Tisch's demand for "autonomy" as a condition of staying, as a "No." The NYPD will be out to destroy him. He needs a police commissioner who will take his side against police insubordination, sabotage, and refusal to do their jobs.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Mamdani should l take Tisch's demand for "autonomy" as a condition of staying, as a "No." The NYPD will be out to destroy him. He needs a police commissioner who will take his side against police insubordination, sabotage, and refusal to do their jobs.
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The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.
October 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.
Having been routed after conducting a truly dirty campaign, we will see if Cuomo's concession speech will attempt to be gracious, or if it will be more along the lines of "The people have spoken, damn them!"
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Having been routed after conducting a truly dirty campaign, we will see if Cuomo's concession speech will attempt to be gracious, or if it will be more along the lines of "The people have spoken, damn them!"
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Nobody is asking for Dem politicians to issue fawning statements about Dick Cheney.
Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing.
The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.
Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing.
The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Nobody is asking for Dem politicians to issue fawning statements about Dick Cheney.
Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing.
The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.
Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing.
The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.
Kipling's Epitaph for a dead statesman
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Kipling's Epitaph for a dead statesman
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Justified outrage over Trump spending millions while cutting off SNAP accompanied by videos of "dancers." But secondary point: how unhappy and spiritless the dancers look. www.facebook.com/reel/1547990...
13K views · 176 reactions | Guests cheer on women dancing for them at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
This is the same group of people that gets offended by NFL halftime shows. | John Smith Marketing
Guests cheer on women dancing for them at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
This is the same group of people that gets offended by NFL halftime shows.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Justified outrage over Trump spending millions while cutting off SNAP accompanied by videos of "dancers." But secondary point: how unhappy and spiritless the dancers look. www.facebook.com/reel/1547990...
If you are in WA state, please vote no on 8201. Our state currently has nearly 29% of its pensions invested in private equity. That won't end well, and should not be extended to the long term care trust fund.
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you are in WA state, please vote no on 8201. Our state currently has nearly 29% of its pensions invested in private equity. That won't end well, and should not be extended to the long term care trust fund.
If the Adams appointed rent board members stop his rent freeze, firing them would, at the least, be tied up in court. But he has another option. Ask the majority of the city council who endorsed him to expand the size of the rent board, and appoint his own majority.
October 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If the Adams appointed rent board members stop his rent freeze, firing them would, at the least, be tied up in court. But he has another option. Ask the majority of the city council who endorsed him to expand the size of the rent board, and appoint his own majority.
Blue Sky is no paradise. It has plenty of problems including an anti-Palestinian bias. But it does *not* muffle posts with links. So please, just put your link a post, not a photo of your link. Don't link in first reply. Just, please post the damn link.
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Blue Sky is no paradise. It has plenty of problems including an anti-Palestinian bias. But it does *not* muffle posts with links. So please, just put your link a post, not a photo of your link. Don't link in first reply. Just, please post the damn link.
coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/f... In a way an example of artificially enhance human stupidity being a greater threat than artificial intelligence. In another, example AI working exactly as the user prefers. This cop pretty clearly cared more about closing a case than factual guilt or innocence.
After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence
Chrisanna Elser spent days collecting evidence, from apps on her phone to dashcam footage in her vehicle, to prove her whereabouts
coloradosun.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/f... In a way an example of artificially enhance human stupidity being a greater threat than artificial intelligence. In another, example AI working exactly as the user prefers. This cop pretty clearly cared more about closing a case than factual guilt or innocence.
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Why Are You Singling Out Israel?
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October 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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US residents: If you pay attention to local politics, and you have followers local to you and there are elections in your area, post your recs! Shockingly many don't pay attention to local stuff. Local elections is the single most likely place for your posts to actually influence votes!
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
US residents: If you pay attention to local politics, and you have followers local to you and there are elections in your area, post your recs! Shockingly many don't pay attention to local stuff. Local elections is the single most likely place for your posts to actually influence votes!
I'm sure there are exceptions, and even entire contexts where the following does not apply. But referring to human women and girls as "females" in ordinary discourse is usually a sign that someone is an awful person.
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I'm sure there are exceptions, and even entire contexts where the following does not apply. But referring to human women and girls as "females" in ordinary discourse is usually a sign that someone is an awful person.
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
To keep my Medicaid, I have to complete an interview before November 13th. However, I cannot start the review before November 3rd, and interviews are only done 8-2, Interviewers are always swamped; so I need to call or show up right at eight then wait in person or on hold for a few hours.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
To keep my Medicaid, I have to complete an interview before November 13th. However, I cannot start the review before November 3rd, and interviews are only done 8-2, Interviewers are always swamped; so I need to call or show up right at eight then wait in person or on hold for a few hours.