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If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you want to read the full @propublica.org investigation into CIA-backed Afghan Zero Units, here's Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
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New from me in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: the media seem determined to mainstream the ideas of Eliezer Yudkowsky, but they can't reckon with his bizarre (and very unserious) ideas about death.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
The guru of the AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity
www.newstatesman.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
New from me in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: the media seem determined to mainstream the ideas of Eliezer Yudkowsky, but they can't reckon with his bizarre (and very unserious) ideas about death.
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The year is 2025. The rarest skill in the world is acting normal for like 15 minutes. For me of course it's effortless
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The year is 2025. The rarest skill in the world is acting normal for like 15 minutes. For me of course it's effortless
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
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we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements
UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements
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Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.
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Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.
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Villager Bernard: Greetings, traveler. Headed west, are ye? I have a gift for you.
[1 Lobster has been added to your inventory]
[1 Lobster has been added to your inventory]
September 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Villager Bernard: Greetings, traveler. Headed west, are ye? I have a gift for you.
[1 Lobster has been added to your inventory]
[1 Lobster has been added to your inventory]
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Related, from Walter Benjamin, before he died fleeing the Nazis:
August 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Related, from Walter Benjamin, before he died fleeing the Nazis:
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Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
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the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things
August 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things
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He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.
August 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
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History will look upon the lost interregnum as an era when the hard work of preventing a return of Trump to power after the violent failed coup was seen as already done, and that every action to secure democracy was treated by the administration as unwarranted provocation rather than vital medicine
August 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
History will look upon the lost interregnum as an era when the hard work of preventing a return of Trump to power after the violent failed coup was seen as already done, and that every action to secure democracy was treated by the administration as unwarranted provocation rather than vital medicine
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ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ironically the education for its own sake, Enlightenment-coded, Great Books-ass liberal arts degree is one of the better employment bets you can make. learn how to read, write, think critically, develop curiosity so you can pick up new skills quickly, etc etc
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I wish my fellow Americans could understand that America is at fault for all of this. We've been saying it for years but it's like they can't hear it. Listen to this man. Israel is only doing what it's doing because America protects it. They are using the US as cover for absolute supervillainy.
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I wish my fellow Americans could understand that America is at fault for all of this. We've been saying it for years but it's like they can't hear it. Listen to this man. Israel is only doing what it's doing because America protects it. They are using the US as cover for absolute supervillainy.
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Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
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"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
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"Participants consistently rated the employees who used AI as lazier, less competent, less diligent, and less independent than those in the other two conditions... These results show that people really do hold negative views of AI users, even when the help received is essentially the same."
People who use AI may pay a social price, according to new psychology research
Worried that using AI tools like ChatGPT at work makes you look lazy? New research suggests you might be right. A study finds employees who use AI are often judged more harshly, facing negative percep...
www.psypost.org
July 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Participants consistently rated the employees who used AI as lazier, less competent, less diligent, and less independent than those in the other two conditions... These results show that people really do hold negative views of AI users, even when the help received is essentially the same."
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Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞
July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞
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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
July 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
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This rocks. Wasn’t prepared for this.
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This rocks. Wasn’t prepared for this.
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We were never going to get a say in this.
June 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
We were never going to get a say in this.