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Michael Honey

@michaelhoney.bsky.social

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Thinking about ecosystems, natural and cultural; scheming for a bright future. Lutruwita/Tasmania.

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · Nov 7

just be glad that you exist now, in this infinitesimal sliver of opportunity between the birth of stars and the heat death of the universe

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12h

You’re right that we’re just not equipped to tell the difference

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone is in danger AI, it’s Facebook boomers being bombarded with hyperstimulating outrage imagery

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I _should_ read this, so I know how to fight him, but giving him any attention feels like too much

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 2d

I drew a quoll

Simple black & white illustration of a spotted-tailed quolls head

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 2d

Most books written in the 20th century are now only useful as historical fiction

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 2d

apart from the blatant lies, there’s also not understanding “begs the question”. This is what happens when you forgo liberal education

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 5d

🎵 I see a little Pavarotto of a man

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 5d

TIL that “pueblo”’means “people” as well as “village”, and I love it

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 6d

stopping people from defecting is not a sign that you are a healthy democracy

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

my most cancelable opinion!

It’s not sport per se: it’s pro sport as a self-mythologising commercial juggernaut, wound up with alcohol and gambling, which extracts $millions from communities. Being a fan can be both the most meaningful thing in your life and the thing which holds you back

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

- Hume's association of ideas
- substrate independence in general
- pretty much anything from Hofstadter & Dennett's "The Mind's I"

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

Can’t entertain lobbyists in a private box at the homeless shelter

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

also gambling, alcohol, concussions, and the sense that all of it is circenses to distract from the ongoing disaster of politics, climate etc

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

hot #politas take:

yes, the stadium is bad because it's a waste of money

but also because professional football is bad

for every player living their dream, there are thousands of punters who trade participation for spectacle, who watch but don't do

there are better ways to spend your weekend

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 8d

What if you froze some citrus-infused blocks and ran them through afterwards. Add sage for a herbal hint

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 9d

makes you wonder why they bother being in politics

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 11d

I think the official drag racing light sequence has a human-comprehensible cadence

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12d

is this a rating or a progress report

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12d

oh yeah

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 12d

civilisational epitaph:

we knew what to do,
but it wasn’t profitable
so it was impossible

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 13d

I get why people are scared of AI takeover

but our societies are already subject to forces we don't control, inhuman systems whose goals ignore human and planetary flourishing

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 13d

Honest titles for me would be:
- I Liked How This Ended Up Kinda Furry
- I Started Doing Something Else, But This Is What I Got

(on reflection, this is excellent and I think I’ll start doing it)

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Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 16d

wanker thinks he’s Steve Bannon when he’s really more Steven Seagal

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 16d

whyyyy did you tell me that

Michael Honey @michaelhoney.bsky.social · 17d

mind as a semi-random walk through messy n-dimensional embeddings

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