Paul Konstant
@progpk.bsky.social
Retired scientist/ technologist. Diverse interests, few of them mainstream, fewer overlap. I like to follow specialists. Rational, romantic, mystic, cynical, idealist. He/him.
📍València, España
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Paul Konstant
@progpk.bsky.social
· Nov 10
New folks on Bluesky, I *beg* you to fill out your profiles with enough info we can tell you're a real person.
I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots.
If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.
I get dozens of new followers a day. At least half are scams and bots.
If your avatar isn't personalized, you never post, but follow thousands, you're getting blocked.
The epistemic crisis described here is the underlying crisis of our time.
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 14, 2025 ~ Long time passing.
"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"It didn’t happen by accident. It’s the product of a deliberate and systematic assault on knowledge by some of the richest people on Earth."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The epistemic crisis described here is the underlying crisis of our time.
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This seems to have come and gone a little too quietly www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
JPMorgan Alerted U.S. to Epstein Transfers Involving Wall St. Figures
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This seems to have come and gone a little too quietly www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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BREAKING: We're suing to force the Trump administration to disclose how it's considering new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion in secrecy.
Our access to medication abortion must be based on science, not propaganda or political whims.
Our access to medication abortion must be based on science, not propaganda or political whims.
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
BREAKING: We're suing to force the Trump administration to disclose how it's considering new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion in secrecy.
Our access to medication abortion must be based on science, not propaganda or political whims.
Our access to medication abortion must be based on science, not propaganda or political whims.
How was this was not disqualifying?
"In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio."
"In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio."
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
How was this was not disqualifying?
"In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio."
"In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio."
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
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As I told Marie Claire about the Epstein case recently... “There is a lucrative industry in character assassination for hire that powerful and wealthy individuals and companies can deploy to dredge up dirt and minimise the damage of assault allegations...” bsky.app/profile/emma... The Receipts... 🧾
So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour.
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
As I told Marie Claire about the Epstein case recently... “There is a lucrative industry in character assassination for hire that powerful and wealthy individuals and companies can deploy to dredge up dirt and minimise the damage of assault allegations...” bsky.app/profile/emma... The Receipts... 🧾
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
After the Supreme Court tied on religious charters, Alliance Defending Freedom asked a Colorado school district lawyer to initiate a "parallel case," according to emails obtained by Chalkbeat. A self-described Christian public school opened a few months later. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
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After years of widespread speculation about Clinton’s involvement with the alleged sex trafficker, this revelation is particularly notable. trib.al/hTywuVJ
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
After years of widespread speculation about Clinton’s involvement with the alleged sex trafficker, this revelation is particularly notable. trib.al/hTywuVJ
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SWALWELL: “.. the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me.”
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
SWALWELL: “.. the only thing I am surprised about is that it took him this long to come after me.”
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
@ericswalwell.bsky.social
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Megyn Kelly redefining Epstein’s child rape as “barely legal” is ontological warfare—a defense of Trump’s psychological need to flip the moral polarity of the collective mind from order to entropy, growth to trauma, and good to evil.
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
“Barely Legal”: When the Hinge Becomes a Crack-Up
The Epstein files don’t just threaten Trump; they threaten the entire ontological universe of his movement.
www.mind-war.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Megyn Kelly redefining Epstein’s child rape as “barely legal” is ontological warfare—a defense of Trump’s psychological need to flip the moral polarity of the collective mind from order to entropy, growth to trauma, and good to evil.
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
www.mind-war.com/p/barely-leg...
Devastating loss
Today's 🇪🇺Parliament vote has transformed the government of the EU.
🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy.
A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban
As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:
🇪🇺President Von der Leyen's party has abandoned the centrist governing majority. We now have a new coalition driving EU policy.
A huge victory for Meloni, Le Pen, Wilders & Orban
As @alemanno.bsky.social put it today:
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Devastating loss
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We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
We should have started doing the elite accountability thing in 1865, & kept doing it & then we wouldn’t be here. We should have finished Reconstruction & become an actual Republic of laws & equal rights for everyone. We still could do that now. It’s long past time.
🧵 The racist traitor, Robert Edward Lee, who was totally owned by Ely Parker at Appomattox, should have spent the rest of his life in prison & was an utterly horrible human being. We would know this if we observed Union Day as a federal holiday & had finished Reconstruction like a serious country.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025
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Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
The Miami Herald journalist whose helped break the Epstein case story took issue with MSNBC's framing of Epstein documents and the mention of Trump's name.
The post Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Key Epstein Investigative Journalist Dings MSNBC Framing On Trump’s Connection to Epstein
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Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”
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Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.
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Given the scale of the operation, the fact that no-one has been charged can be seen both as a grotesque mismanagement of resources and a desire to focus on creating images of military domination.
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Given the scale of the operation, the fact that no-one has been charged can be seen both as a grotesque mismanagement of resources and a desire to focus on creating images of military domination.
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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3 things to keep in mind:
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3 things to keep in mind:
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
1) While much of this is awful, much of it is also not criminal (or provable beyond reasonable doubt)
2) Trump got elected by exploiting email dump like this, & milked similar dump from Hunter Biden hard drive & Twitter files
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Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Media standards:
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention.
2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing.
Way too many think that’s journalism.
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Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
Mike Johnson is really committed to covering up for Trump and Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
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Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
Mike Johnson is really committed to covering up for Trump and Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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