Roman Fire
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30s | he/him | generally boring and uncreative so this will be an outlet for that
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Las Cruces providers tell U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez they are worried immigration crackdowns are deterring domestic and sexual violence survivors from seeking help.
Fear of ICE encounters leaves abuse survivors silent, advocates say
www.abqjournal.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Las Cruces providers tell U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez they are worried immigration crackdowns are deterring domestic and sexual violence survivors from seeking help.
Gotta read past the headline people. You might think it's funny that Shinedown turned down going on tour or whatever with Kid Rock, but if you read the full article, you'll learn that Creed and Ludacris did as well.
February 7, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Gotta read past the headline people. You might think it's funny that Shinedown turned down going on tour or whatever with Kid Rock, but if you read the full article, you'll learn that Creed and Ludacris did as well.
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The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.
Breaking news: The Pentagon issued a warning to Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, saying the organization risks losing its long-standing partnership with the U.S. military unless it rapidly implements “core value reforms.”
Pentagon warns Scouts to restore ‘core values’ or lose military support
The relationship dates back decades, but Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has criticized the organization for allowing girls to join and changing its name from Boy Scouts.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
The fundamental thrust of totalitarianism is that the government dictates terms of how every aspect of every organization, as well as your own life, operates. The Soviet Union, the Nazis, the modern PRC, all have commissars in every org to ensure they follow the government political line.
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'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review
If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 AM
'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3
There's something kind of sad that there is this (purportedly) entirely artificial simulacrum of how people interact and writers question whether this is a new intelligence yet rather than reflect on why human discussions are capable of being more than what's on Moltbook.
Moltbook AI Social Network: 1.4 Million Agents Build A Digital Society
A new platform, Moltbook, claims to host 1.4 million AI agents in a closed society. Discover why this 'hive mind' signals a dangerous reversal in human cognitive skills.
www.forbes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:26 PM
There's something kind of sad that there is this (purportedly) entirely artificial simulacrum of how people interact and writers question whether this is a new intelligence yet rather than reflect on why human discussions are capable of being more than what's on Moltbook.
These people really want to have it both ways. They'll say things like this, act like Dubai is this pinnacle of excellence, then like a year from now talk about how decadent the suburbs of LA are because most of the essential work is being done by foreigners.
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM
These people really want to have it both ways. They'll say things like this, act like Dubai is this pinnacle of excellence, then like a year from now talk about how decadent the suburbs of LA are because most of the essential work is being done by foreigners.
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AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.
lots of people, especially on here, are fastened onto the idea that it's just AI bro marketing or whatever to consider it a fixture of the information landscape. it's easy to think that when everyone in your circles is an ethical AI refuser. but I'm afraid it really has been mass adopted.
January 29, 2026 at 9:09 AM
AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.
I get some mad schadenfreude watching all these bozos on LinkedIn right now. They spent 2024 talking about how AI could fully handle talent recruitment and whatever other industries, rebranded their companies with AI, the works. Now it's all, "Can AI replace human discernment? Of course not."
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I get some mad schadenfreude watching all these bozos on LinkedIn right now. They spent 2024 talking about how AI could fully handle talent recruitment and whatever other industries, rebranded their companies with AI, the works. Now it's all, "Can AI replace human discernment? Of course not."
Another exhibit supporting my theory that AI evangelism is being driven by a handful of highly influential people in tech desperately trying to prevent tech having seeped into everyday life from turning their tech job into a mostly low-prestige administrative/clerical role.
A sentence from hell:
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
“people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine.”
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Another exhibit supporting my theory that AI evangelism is being driven by a handful of highly influential people in tech desperately trying to prevent tech having seeped into everyday life from turning their tech job into a mostly low-prestige administrative/clerical role.
These people would fit right in with the NextDoor Karens in my town. Just substitute "high IQ" for "well raised" and these are empty nesting wine moms.
Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
January 25, 2026 at 10:04 PM
These people would fit right in with the NextDoor Karens in my town. Just substitute "high IQ" for "well raised" and these are empty nesting wine moms.
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Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
January 24, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
I should go to the store. I don't need anything. Just want to take it all in.
January 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I should go to the store. I don't need anything. Just want to take it all in.
I do wish world leaders would stop saying they won't engage with things like the Board of Peace because of things like Putin being involved and be more honest that these initiatives are structurally incapable of doing what they advertise.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK holds off joining Trump's peace board over Putin concerns
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says the Russian president has shown no commitment to peace in Ukraine.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I do wish world leaders would stop saying they won't engage with things like the Board of Peace because of things like Putin being involved and be more honest that these initiatives are structurally incapable of doing what they advertise.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I keep seeing a lot of posts from people I know who were in international development about the experience of having been laid off last year and as someone who is not built like them, it's bleak reading.
January 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I keep seeing a lot of posts from people I know who were in international development about the experience of having been laid off last year and as someone who is not built like them, it's bleak reading.
Stay tuned for the sequel next year: These Gen Z men supported a Democrat. Here's why they are now backing Vance for 2028.
This man's entire job is to classify one-dimensional right-wing movements as far too complicated to place on the ideological spectrum.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Stay tuned for the sequel next year: These Gen Z men supported a Democrat. Here's why they are now backing Vance for 2028.
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You may have heard that "social security is going to go bankrupt." Many younger people assume social security will not be there for them when they retire. In my latest paper I correct the record. SS is not going bankrupt but we'll need to revisit it soon 🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
“Will Social Security Run Out?” Is the Wrong Question: How Lawmakers Can Protect Beneficiaries and Strengthen OASI
Is Social Security really in crisis? This report examines the OASI Trust Fund, lessons from 1983, and policy options to secure benefits for the future.
rooseveltinstitute.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
You may have heard that "social security is going to go bankrupt." Many younger people assume social security will not be there for them when they retire. In my latest paper I correct the record. SS is not going bankrupt but we'll need to revisit it soon 🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
A bunch of these online chuds like talking about some overproduction of elites idea as a way of criticising intellectualism ruining media, but I kind of feel like they might have a point when it comes to AI getting shoved into everything.
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
A bunch of these online chuds like talking about some overproduction of elites idea as a way of criticising intellectualism ruining media, but I kind of feel like they might have a point when it comes to AI getting shoved into everything.
Yeah, the thing that gets me is that NYT has this totally flipped. It's the rural areas that wield disproportionate political power over the cities.
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
January 15, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Yeah, the thing that gets me is that NYT has this totally flipped. It's the rural areas that wield disproportionate political power over the cities.
Glad to hear from a very normie and offline person that they are also fed up with AI being forced into everything right now.
January 13, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Glad to hear from a very normie and offline person that they are also fed up with AI being forced into everything right now.
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New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
January 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
There's a segment of laptop-class tough guys who will go on LinkedIn to say unhinged things.
January 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
There's a segment of laptop-class tough guys who will go on LinkedIn to say unhinged things.
Unironically love how Dan Carlin does 2 podcast episodes this year and gets on these best of lists.
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025
This year’s selection balances humor with existential dread, snark with sincerity, and intellectual rigor—all while hangin' out, of course.
www.esquire.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Unironically love how Dan Carlin does 2 podcast episodes this year and gets on these best of lists.
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
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the whole AI panic is a grim reminder that nobody actually understands what humans care about: control of other humans. We are willing to pay for stuff that is crafted by other humans because we are animals in a social hierarchy. markets formalize and abstract this but it's what drives them.
December 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
the whole AI panic is a grim reminder that nobody actually understands what humans care about: control of other humans. We are willing to pay for stuff that is crafted by other humans because we are animals in a social hierarchy. markets formalize and abstract this but it's what drives them.
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We talk a lot about how race and gender grievance are offered to white men to distract them from exploitative working conditions that are in fact universal, and this piece is a beautiful example of how the work of that distraction gets done.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We talk a lot about how race and gender grievance are offered to white men to distract them from exploitative working conditions that are in fact universal, and this piece is a beautiful example of how the work of that distraction gets done.
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Also points to a culture that doesn’t prepare people for rejection or failure and no framework for handling it in a healthy way. Which also explains a lot.
December 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Also points to a culture that doesn’t prepare people for rejection or failure and no framework for handling it in a healthy way. Which also explains a lot.