@smikes.bsky.social
So I just read Aristophanes /The Clouds/ and it was a banger, but I really struggle to think how its .. useful perspective could be used in today’s media environment
July 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So I just read Aristophanes /The Clouds/ and it was a banger, but I really struggle to think how its .. useful perspective could be used in today’s media environment
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I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
July 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
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I'm muting this because there are only so many hundred times a guy can bear having the words "What in the ACTUAL fuck" in his mentions
but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-...
here's a rough summary:
but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-...
here's a rough summary:
July 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm muting this because there are only so many hundred times a guy can bear having the words "What in the ACTUAL fuck" in his mentions
but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-...
here's a rough summary:
but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-...
here's a rough summary:
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I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
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A reminder to any who think they aren't affected by any of these "porn bans" need to read up on history. Purges of purity like this led to the Comics Code Authority, and the demonization of Horror as a genre across all mediums. "Smut" to the fascist is a pretty wide net for anything they dislike.
July 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A reminder to any who think they aren't affected by any of these "porn bans" need to read up on history. Purges of purity like this led to the Comics Code Authority, and the demonization of Horror as a genre across all mediums. "Smut" to the fascist is a pretty wide net for anything they dislike.
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The Ugly Laws, a series of state laws at the turn of the 20th century, banned disabled, mentally ill and unhoused people from public places. This + other eugenic law like forced sterilization and interracial marriage bans were such comprehensive body of legislation the Nazis studied and cited them.
July 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Ugly Laws, a series of state laws at the turn of the 20th century, banned disabled, mentally ill and unhoused people from public places. This + other eugenic law like forced sterilization and interracial marriage bans were such comprehensive body of legislation the Nazis studied and cited them.
Oops, I did it again?
well how does that admission help anyone now senator
NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship.
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Oops, I did it again?
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well how does that admission help anyone now senator
NEW: Sen. Angus King admits he made "a mistake" when he voted Tuesday to confirm Josh Divine, an 35-year-old archconservative with a long record of attacking abortion rights, to a lifetime federal judgeship.
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
“I took Josh Hawley’s advice." www.huffpost.com/entry/angus-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social
Oops! Pro-Choice Senator Admits Vote For Anti-Abortion Judge Was ‘A Mistake’
The Maine senator says he was "not fully” aware of Josh Divine’s record, but "took Josh Hawley’s advice” to confirm him to a lifetime federal judgeship.
www.huffpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
well how does that admission help anyone now senator
Executive orders aren’t laws.
July 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Executive orders aren’t laws.
So here’s a thing. A contact (college friend’s spouse) just blew themself up on Facebook over .. the tone, I guess? .. of how my partner posted a news article.
“I’m mad that you said, ‘your house is on fire’ instead of ‘excuse me, may I please tell you your house is on fire’!”
Is my best analogy
“I’m mad that you said, ‘your house is on fire’ instead of ‘excuse me, may I please tell you your house is on fire’!”
Is my best analogy
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So here’s a thing. A contact (college friend’s spouse) just blew themself up on Facebook over .. the tone, I guess? .. of how my partner posted a news article.
“I’m mad that you said, ‘your house is on fire’ instead of ‘excuse me, may I please tell you your house is on fire’!”
Is my best analogy
“I’m mad that you said, ‘your house is on fire’ instead of ‘excuse me, may I please tell you your house is on fire’!”
Is my best analogy
Louder for the people in back..
Optimization requires stability, most processes never even get to the stage where they are stable.
Even getting a process under control is distressingly rare.
Optimization requires stability, most processes never even get to the stage where they are stable.
Even getting a process under control is distressingly rare.
We should, in fact, develop reflexive skepticism of “optimization”
LRT: we should be willing to tolerate inefficiencies and redundancies to add slack and hedge against risk
July 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Louder for the people in back..
Optimization requires stability, most processes never even get to the stage where they are stable.
Even getting a process under control is distressingly rare.
Optimization requires stability, most processes never even get to the stage where they are stable.
Even getting a process under control is distressingly rare.
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The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?
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We’re at the part in the rise of fascism where the official Homeland Security account is posting neo-Nazi propaganda. Update your clocks accordingly!
official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized
groyper occupied government
groyper occupied government
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
We’re at the part in the rise of fascism where the official Homeland Security account is posting neo-Nazi propaganda. Update your clocks accordingly!
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YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VERSIONS OF YOU THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE CREATED IN THEIR OWN MINDS.
July 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VERSIONS OF YOU THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE CREATED IN THEIR OWN MINDS.
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A viewer sent me an email, asking me to look over a schematic for an autofire circuit that he had a generative AI create for him.
This is the circuit he sent me.
It doesn’t make any sense.
I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before.
Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.
This is the circuit he sent me.
It doesn’t make any sense.
I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before.
Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.
July 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A viewer sent me an email, asking me to look over a schematic for an autofire circuit that he had a generative AI create for him.
This is the circuit he sent me.
It doesn’t make any sense.
I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before.
Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.
This is the circuit he sent me.
It doesn’t make any sense.
I sent him a circuit that works from an old magazine I used before.
Don’t fricking trust AI with anything.
We are selling our home in Edmonton, Alberta; it’s close to the University of Alberta, so might appeal to faculty escaping the USA..
DM for the listing.
DM for the listing.
July 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We are selling our home in Edmonton, Alberta; it’s close to the University of Alberta, so might appeal to faculty escaping the USA..
DM for the listing.
DM for the listing.
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Trump's detention plans depend on ICE leasing (or buying) cages from states or counties. We need to monkeywrench those processes and destroy those cages -- or as @silkys13.bsky.social puts it, "Unbuild Walls"
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...
Unbuild Walls
www.haymarketbooks.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Trump's detention plans depend on ICE leasing (or buying) cages from states or counties. We need to monkeywrench those processes and destroy those cages -- or as @silkys13.bsky.social puts it, "Unbuild Walls"
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...
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To everyone affected by the recent Microsoft (and other) layoffs, you didn’t deserve this. Let’s be clear: the state of the industry right now is not your fault.
July 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
To everyone affected by the recent Microsoft (and other) layoffs, you didn’t deserve this. Let’s be clear: the state of the industry right now is not your fault.
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current projections:
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
elon musk’s body count will end up being higher than most wars and most of the worst most oppressive regimes in history
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
current projections:
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
1) mao
2) stalin
3) hitler
4) roughly a tie between leopold II and elon musk
5) winston churchhill
6) pol pot
7) idi amin
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If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
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bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this
June 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
bad news for Mamdani: i just imagined him shooting at my feet with two revolvers while shouting "dance! dance, ya varmint, dance!!" and then cackling so maniacally that his cowboy hat falls off. When will he go on TV to apologize for doing this
Jonathan Swift describing LLMs in Gulliver’s Travels:
“by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.”
“by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.”
June 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Jonathan Swift describing LLMs in Gulliver’s Travels:
“by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.”
“by his Contrivance, the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with a little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philosophy, Poetry, Politicks, Law, Mathematicks, and Theology, without the least Assistance from Genius or Study.”