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literally this is not even the worst thing in that article

archive.is/hTUTZ
screenshot of a horrible new york times op-ed You might object that this is a verbal trick, that I’m arguing that A.I. will become conscious because we’ll start using the word “conscious” to include it. But there is no trick. There is always a feedback loop between our theories and the world, so that our concepts are shaped by what we discover. Consider the atom. For centuries, our concept of the atom was rooted in an ancient Greek notion of indivisible units of reality. As late as the 19th century, physicists like John Dalton still conceived of atoms as solid, indivisible spheres. But after the discovery of the electron in 1897 and the discovery of the atomic nucleus in 1911, there was a revision of the concept of the atom — from an indivisible entity to a decomposable one, a miniature solar system with electrons orbiting a nucleus. And with further discoveries came further conceptual revisions, leading to our current complex quantum-mechanical models of the atom. These were not mere semantic changes. Our understanding of the atom improved with our interaction with the world. So too our understanding of consciousness will improve with our interaction with increasingly sophisticated A.I.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
mullag.bsky.social
“On 7 September 2021, an interim government headed by Mohammad Hassan Akhund as Prime Minister was declared by the Taliban. The Taliban also requested to send a new envoy to the UN to represent Afghanistan in the future. If accepted, it would be a milestone towards…”
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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do you see
screenshot of the harpers magazine website front page
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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in news
“ On 30 August, the American comedian Tim Dillon took to his podcast, The Tim Dillon Show, to defend his decision to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. ‘I know that people are very upset about it, they’re angry that comedians are going ... Get over it,’ he said. ‘A lot of people are doing it. Like a lot. Like almost everyone. They bought comedy ... So what they have slaves? ... They’re paying me $375,000 ... enough money to look the other way.’ The Saudi government, unluckily for Dillon, was listening. Three weeks later, he released an episode called ‘Fired from Riyadh’. His agent had rung him up: ‘“They heard what you said about their having slaves.” And I said: “I was being positive about it. I was defending them.”’”
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
mullag.bsky.social
granted, watching Keir Starmer physically turn into Norman Tebbit is interesting
Norman Tebbit Keir Starmer
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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of course the advantage of a book’s being published on substack with no editorial review is that you can go and read for yourself that it’s self-important dreck
screenshot of the book in question: In their place: sleek white surfaces, cruelly bright lights, a gender-neutral sign. I tried two cubicles before finding one without pee on the seat. Emerging, I found myself face-to-face with a man. I washed my hands perfunctorily and ran out. In the café — filled with laughing young women and men, or the Guardian-reading middle-aged — it was business as usual. But for me, everything had changed. So that’s it, I thought. No more hanging out in a women’s space; young women will never get to know how that feels. The complicity. The whispers. The chance conversations as you paint your lips, the sympathetic glances in murky mirrors. The refuge from boys who mocked your body, from anxiety attacks, from the red stain at the back of your skirt — your best friend crouched beside you with a nail brush. For all of my youth, wherever I went, I knew the women’s toilets like travellers once knew sanctuaries along a dangerous road. And now, bit by bit, that map will be torn up. But this isn’t just about toilets, despite women’s toilets being among the few spaces ever carved out for women’s privacy in public life. It isn’t even about safety. This is the trap postmodern feminism has set: in erasing sex, it disarms the feminist project. We are left with no ground to stand on — and no shared name to rally under. It is symbolic. Something has been displaced. Overnight, it felt, I had lost my place on the earth. A small, concrete part of being a woman had quietly been erased. And sitting in that café, it seemed I was the only one who thought it mattered.
September 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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ok but on the other hand can you guess what 1970s-inspired t-shirt idea i just had which will get me on any no-fly list im not already on
sign at an airport reading “I have autism and I’m flying with you”
September 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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We are back in Medieval Europe

Gold is the currency of the land
master and commander title card April - 1905 Napoleon is Master of Europe Only the British Fleet stands before him Oceans are now Battlefields
September 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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See also palehorse-uk.bandcamp.com/album/lookin...
track titles: 1. Half Lizard, Half Lizard 2. Miserable Heroin Addict vs. Jehovah’s Witness Guy 3. Lambs to the Laughter 4. The Shower 5. Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary 6. 1893
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Gonna prove it by not looking up the fact i am about to quote before I actually write it into the post

(implicit premise: most of the subsequent problems with Fight Club can be laid at the feet of its authors)
David Fincher born 1962 Chuck Palahniuk born 1962
September 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
mullag.bsky.social
WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARLIE WE ARE CHARL
charlie kirk many, many, charlie kirk’s receding into the distance a ingle, individual, charlie kirk, huge
September 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Buff Doge / Sad Doge meme Buff label: “ lame slovenian liberals in Titoist paradise using the state itself to distribute samizdat Sad label: “ radical anti- capitalists using a Disney+ subscription to conclude that cultural production is impossible without direct access to the resources of capital
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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yh maybe who knows

who could possibly tell
September 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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i dunno…
September 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“we” do, huh?
August 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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wait

nathan, Nathan. NATHAN! Nate! Over here! Nathan! NATHAN! LOOK! OVER HERE! NATHAAAN!
Text reads: Rowling published her review on X alongside what appears to be an AI-generated image of Ms Sturgeon in the woods in front of a wolf and a vampire. the image “Rowling published her review on X alongside what appears to be an AI-generated image of Ms Sturgeon in the woods in front of a wolf and a vampire.“
August 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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satire is trans
screenshot of stodgy beloved book review website, text reads: “Satire without the Jokes [by] Colin Burrow To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of constantly multiplying targets would not be entirely wrong. The truly misanthropic, universally and riotously angry satirist can perform acts of harm which are also acts of self-harm, as their imagination fires itself up with a disgust that is also a form of self-disgust.” illustration is from Gulliver’s Travels or some shit
July 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Excuse the large question marks but I was *genuinely* shocked to see them transition from an illustration of Aristotelian essences and accidents to the claim about natural selection
screenshot of text. A sentence is highlighted towards the end and three large very surprised question marks have been drawn in highlighter around that sentence “Suppose that one cuts off the wings of a hawk. The hawk can no longer fly. One has not thereby made it more similar to a cheetah, even though cheetahs cannot fly either. Cutting the wings off a hawk creates one similarity between it and a cheetah, but it creates many differences too. In particular, a hawk that cannot fly is severely disabled, while a cheetah that cannot fly is not. Left to its own devices, the hawk will soon die; the cheetah is in no special danger. Before its wings were cut off, the hawk was like the cheetah in being able to move quickly and hunt prey. Now, it can do neither. [open highlight] The example reflects a central insight of the theory of evolution by natural selection [closed highlight]. Similar biological functions and abilities are realized differently in animals of different species.”
July 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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R Budd Dwyer dreams of being a woman
July 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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It’s easy to miss because the article is poorly written, but that bit refers to the previous Tory government’s *draft* guidance in 2024

This government has made changes to that guidance, but I haven’t yet been able to find whether they kept in the transphobic censorship / Section 28 stuff
screenshot showing a search engine link to a 2024 education conferences uk article about the previous draft guidance sample text of that article with “the contested topic of gender identity should not be taught” highlighted in a quote from the 2024 guidance report
July 15, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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domino effect meme small domino: “logical philosophers in the 1920s begin confusing themselves with linguists” big domino: “philosophers doing transphobia logic get owned by linguists in the 2020s”
July 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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THE GROWN FUCKING UPS IN THE FUCKING ROOM

FINALLY, SOME MUCH-NEEDED CLARITY FROM THE RESPECTABLE MUMS AND DADS OF SUBURBAN BRITAIN AND THE PEOPLE “FROM SOMEWHERE”

WILLIES GO IN THE LITTLE BOYS ROOM, KARYOTYPE TEST PLEASE

MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPRECIATIVE OF THE LAWSUIT

and …

FUCK OFF
the same words but it ends with “and you’d better let those Atomwaffen Boys have their day on campus because one of them might well be prime minister soon…
July 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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screenshot of an article “Some of those who identify as transgender may have a gender identity that is not exclusively that of a man or a woman, or that involves a mix of genders. These people are known as non-binary. Some claim to have a gender identity that involves no gender at all. They are agender. Some may not have a single, unchanging gender identity. For example, they can sometimes have the identity of a boy/man, sometimes that of a girl/woman, or go back and forth between non-binary and something else. These people are known as gender fluid. All of these various sorts of gender identity are classified as genderqueer.” screenshot of a video clip from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “A DOPE FIEND REFERS TO THE REEFER BUTT AS A ROACH, BECAUSE, IT RESEMBLES A COCKROACH”
April 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
mullag.bsky.social
this shit rules
cassette tape of Zhao Cong, “gear, gear” https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/gear-gear
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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*relating R to A.
Freedom of Speech guy standing up meme
October 2, 2024 at 8:36 AM