Reminder—as @heidicuda.bsky.social and @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social told us back when, Wiles is another GOPnik deeply in Russian pockets, like her pal Bryan Lanza from Mercury who recently left the WH again to work for Lukoil—oh and she was on the Signalgate chat, bc why tf not?
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reminder—as @heidicuda.bsky.social and @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social told us back when, Wiles is another GOPnik deeply in Russian pockets, like her pal Bryan Lanza from Mercury who recently left the WH again to work for Lukoil—oh and she was on the Signalgate chat, bc why tf not?
Gopnik but make it gay
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gopnik but make it gay
i met the sgt at arms tom basgen. he is wearing a purple track suit. gopnik style
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
i met the sgt at arms tom basgen. he is wearing a purple track suit. gopnik style
Gopnik Techno with Sara Landry 👽
#edm #music #festivals #electronicmusic #rave #techno #dancemusic #nightclub #saralandry #trance #ibiza #housemusic
#edm #music #festivals #electronicmusic #rave #techno #dancemusic #nightclub #saralandry #trance #ibiza #housemusic
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Gopnik Techno with Sara Landry 👽
#edm #music #festivals #electronicmusic #rave #techno #dancemusic #nightclub #saralandry #trance #ibiza #housemusic
#edm #music #festivals #electronicmusic #rave #techno #dancemusic #nightclub #saralandry #trance #ibiza #housemusic
I have applied for jobs in the past that would potentially involve getting to do authority control work, and think I would genuinely enjoy this. (From the book At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik; a description of his first job in 1980s NYC at the Frick Art Reference Library.)
December 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I have applied for jobs in the past that would potentially involve getting to do authority control work, and think I would genuinely enjoy this. (From the book At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik; a description of his first job in 1980s NYC at the Frick Art Reference Library.)
I am german working class with slavic roots so I feel the gopnik stripes are most accurate representation 🙂↕️
them ADIDDAS stripes //
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I am german working class with slavic roots so I feel the gopnik stripes are most accurate representation 🙂↕️
when the waiter tries to take our bread and wine
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
when the waiter tries to take our bread and wine
What is your actual aim in playing Devil's advocate here? The Devil already has a ruling trifecta, the university president (a GOPnik so extreme he forbids his daughters to wear pants since it gives him an erection when they do), the Dowager Kirk, and this mother-daughter nightmare team.
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What is your actual aim in playing Devil's advocate here? The Devil already has a ruling trifecta, the university president (a GOPnik so extreme he forbids his daughters to wear pants since it gives him an erection when they do), the Dowager Kirk, and this mother-daughter nightmare team.
Currently reading:
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H Cline
“the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today."
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H Cline
“the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today."
![Authors Preface:
“According to Joseph Tainter, who literally wrote the book on the collapse of complex societies, "collapse is fundamentally a sudden, pronounced loss of an established level of sociopolitical complexity."' That was exactly what happened back in 1177 BC. We should note, though, that discussing "collapses" and comparing the rise and fall of empires is not new; scholars have been doing it since at least the 1700s, when Edward Gibbon wrote about the fall of the Roman Empire. A more recent example is Jared Diamond's book Collapse." However, both Gibbon and Diamond were considering how a single empire or a single civilization came to an end-the Romans, the Maya, the Mongols, and so forth. Here, we are considering a globalized system in antiquity, with multiple civilizations all interacting and at least partially dependent upon each other. There are only a few instances in history of such globalized world systems; the one in place during the Late Bronze Age and the one in place today are two of the most obvious examples, and the parallels-comparisons might be a better word-between them are sometimes intriguing.
To give just one illustration, Carol Bell, a British academician, has observed that the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today."5 At that time, tin is thought to have been available in quantity only from specific mines in the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan and had to be brought overland all the way to sites in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and north Syria, from where it was distributed to points farther north, south, or west, including onward across the sea to the Aegean. Bell continues, "The availability of enough tin to produce... weapons grade bronze must have exercised the minds of the Great King in Hattusa and the Pharaoh in Thebes in the same way that supplying gasoline to the American SUV driver at reasonable cost preoccupies an American President today!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbrpboqe5jxnjiqb7af2c7vz/bafkreidkjz56h73upptp5q5j76jm3cqelrpktin7y2ftmfhu2om2h6wctm@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Currently reading:
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H Cline
“the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today."
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H Cline
“the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today."
Fashion challenge: Loungewear for lazy time - Roger
Polish ancestry time XD Roger’s surname is Rensky, but even if he had any Poles in his family tree, it was loooong ago. Anyway, definitely he’s able to do a slav squat.
#slavsquat
#gopnik
Polish ancestry time XD Roger’s surname is Rensky, but even if he had any Poles in his family tree, it was loooong ago. Anyway, definitely he’s able to do a slav squat.
#slavsquat
#gopnik
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Fashion challenge: Loungewear for lazy time - Roger
Polish ancestry time XD Roger’s surname is Rensky, but even if he had any Poles in his family tree, it was loooong ago. Anyway, definitely he’s able to do a slav squat.
#slavsquat
#gopnik
Polish ancestry time XD Roger’s surname is Rensky, but even if he had any Poles in his family tree, it was loooong ago. Anyway, definitely he’s able to do a slav squat.
#slavsquat
#gopnik
If you’d like to independently investigate this for yourself, here’s one simple way:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you’d like to independently investigate this for yourself, here’s one simple way:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
“Gopnik explained…in our culture, intelligence is often seen as a mysterious, magical substance people are born with in varying quantities. “It’s this really funny kind of folk idea, and it’s very prevalent among AI researchers…and it doesn’t make any sense from the cognitive science perspective.””
AI Thinks It’s Smart. Chimps May Beg to Differ.
For something so admired, so synonymous with merit, the concept of intelligence is remarkably poorly understood. Our society operates on the assumption that people with greater intelligence deserve ac...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Gopnik explained…in our culture, intelligence is often seen as a mysterious, magical substance people are born with in varying quantities. “It’s this really funny kind of folk idea, and it’s very prevalent among AI researchers…and it doesn’t make any sense from the cognitive science perspective.””
Adam Gopnik, writing about French voters who hated Jacques Chirac, but voted for him in 2002 to stop the fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen. His "wise premise" has eroded even in France since. In the US, it simply isn't widely held.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Adam Gopnik, writing about French voters who hated Jacques Chirac, but voted for him in 2002 to stop the fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen. His "wise premise" has eroded even in France since. In the US, it simply isn't widely held.
He will block you if you point out he helped build this GOPnik monster or whitewashed Russian imperialism in the past too, and his issues now are that they’re crass and costing us, but he’s never repented his roles in either.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
He will block you if you point out he helped build this GOPnik monster or whitewashed Russian imperialism in the past too, and his issues now are that they’re crass and costing us, but he’s never repented his roles in either.
Good talks by Mitchell and Gopnik (title only says Mitchell).
Centering on the question of whether cognition is even the right frame to evaluate AI models.
youtu.be/yKbeCvOKvMc?...
Centering on the question of whether cognition is even the right frame to evaluate AI models.
youtu.be/yKbeCvOKvMc?...
Melanie Mitchell, Evaluating Cognitive Capacities in AI Systems | Natural Philosophy Symposium 2025
YouTube video by Hopkins Natural Philosophy Forum
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Good talks by Mitchell and Gopnik (title only says Mitchell).
Centering on the question of whether cognition is even the right frame to evaluate AI models.
youtu.be/yKbeCvOKvMc?...
Centering on the question of whether cognition is even the right frame to evaluate AI models.
youtu.be/yKbeCvOKvMc?...
trans-siberian train traders do business on the platform while the train has stopped. one time a Mongol guy was selling jeans when the gopnik he was talking to grabbed a bunch of them and ran away. he yelled and drew his knife to throw and the whole train went OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
trans-siberian train traders do business on the platform while the train has stopped. one time a Mongol guy was selling jeans when the gopnik he was talking to grabbed a bunch of them and ran away. he yelled and drew his knife to throw and the whole train went OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH
Adam Gopnik travelled to Kraków, the home of one of his favorite poets, the late Wisława Szymborska. Having seen all manner of extreme suffering from the Holocaust to Soviet rule, Szymborska turned to the heroism of daily life for succor and meaning.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lRKpPL
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lRKpPL
How to Endure Authoritarianism
A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of Eastern Europe’s dissidents.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Adam Gopnik travelled to Kraków, the home of one of his favorite poets, the late Wisława Szymborska. Having seen all manner of extreme suffering from the Holocaust to Soviet rule, Szymborska turned to the heroism of daily life for succor and meaning.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lRKpPL
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/lRKpPL
YES Lou Bega was sandblasting a gopnik. But that doesn’t mean you have to be mean.
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
YES Lou Bega was sandblasting a gopnik. But that doesn’t mean you have to be mean.
Day Three of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium kicked off with Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social talking about Evaluating Cognitive Capacities in AI Systems, with commentary by Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbe...
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Day Three of the #NaturalPhilosophy Symposium kicked off with Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social talking about Evaluating Cognitive Capacities in AI Systems, with commentary by Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKbe...
And here's the gopnik version, since my only other ITX motherboard is a H87 or whatever chipset with an i7 4770k.
But: it is nice and small and has a cup holder and cigarette lighter, which has become more relevant since cannabis has been legalized.
But: it is nice and small and has a cup holder and cigarette lighter, which has become more relevant since cannabis has been legalized.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
And here's the gopnik version, since my only other ITX motherboard is a H87 or whatever chipset with an i7 4770k.
But: it is nice and small and has a cup holder and cigarette lighter, which has become more relevant since cannabis has been legalized.
But: it is nice and small and has a cup holder and cigarette lighter, which has become more relevant since cannabis has been legalized.
told my therapist for the last month i’ve felt like a transfemme larry gopnik from A Serious Man (2009) kinda trying to make them laugh and they were like “that’s concerning”
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
told my therapist for the last month i’ve felt like a transfemme larry gopnik from A Serious Man (2009) kinda trying to make them laugh and they were like “that’s concerning”
And then he was SHOCKED to find bad faith in Bush—spare me! This babe in the woods/Mr Magoo act they try to play, being as disappointed their GOPnik colleagues keep pulling the football away as Susan Collins in Trump? Would be insulting—IFF Blue Dog hopium addicts didn’t keep “falling” for it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
And then he was SHOCKED to find bad faith in Bush—spare me! This babe in the woods/Mr Magoo act they try to play, being as disappointed their GOPnik colleagues keep pulling the football away as Susan Collins in Trump? Would be insulting—IFF Blue Dog hopium addicts didn’t keep “falling” for it.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s premise is very simple. You play as a delinquent Gopnik who's just broken into a fenced off exclusion zone in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Which is actually based on a fictional country, here in Europe.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s premise is very simple. You play as a delinquent Gopnik who's just broken into a fenced off exclusion zone in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Which is actually based on a fictional country, here in Europe.