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Gabe Chase

@spicoli323.bsky.social

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"Sed qui influet ipso influeres?" #STEM bro by day, chaos/order agnostic #wizard by night, #humanism and liberal arts #education always. Elder millennial cis bi White male; he/him #AI; #PopCulture; #Science; broadly #Left/ #LGBT/#DEI-friendly politics

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · Jun 1

#AI #neuroscience #MachineLearning #ANNs

In terms of the #evolution of the #human brain, #language is a very recent cognitive acquistion.
Other #GreatApes seem to have most of the hallmarks of intelligence we have: a sense of #self, #tool use, even forms of #culture and #politics. (1/4)

Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 2h

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master—that's all.'

Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 22h

🍌🍌🍌🍌

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Daniel Harper @danielharper.bsky.social · 1d

This one is loose but fun. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years btw.

Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 1d

NEW IDSG News Roundup: ICE, Antifa Roundtable, No Kings 2, etc. @danielharper.bsky.social & I catch up. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-roundup...

I Don't Speak German: News Roundup: ICE, Antifa Roundtable, No Kings 2, etc

We're back with a news roundup.  One or two things have happened since we last talked.   Episode Notes: Katie Daviscourt on Poso's podcast, playing the video she recorded alongside their dra...

idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

I'd feel a lot better about him if he were a cranberry farmer, but oyster farmer? I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.

Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

Worse than Speer, not as bad as Goebbels, I'd say. 🤔

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Three young children fled from an ICE raid in Idaho and managed to reunite with their family.

"I didn't get caught," boy says

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

Now do the four-body problem!

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 1d

NEW IDSG News Roundup: ICE, Antifa Roundtable, No Kings 2, etc. @danielharper.bsky.social & I catch up. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-roundup...

I Don't Speak German: News Roundup: ICE, Antifa Roundtable, No Kings 2, etc

We're back with a news roundup.  One or two things have happened since we last talked.   Episode Notes: Katie Daviscourt on Poso's podcast, playing the video she recorded alongside their dra...

idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

#NightmareonElmStreet 2: Freddie barely shows up until the last twenty minutes or so, having been channeled thru a Very 80s Teen Dude before then. In that time, he demonstrates that he's apparently stolen Drew Barrymore's powers from Firestarter and it's awesome. But for the most part this sucked.

Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

No, no, it's all a misunderstanding.

"Prompt" just means "show up on time cuz we're not saving any wine for you."

Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, but if you ask a random person on Signal if they're a cop they have to tell you if they're a cop, right?

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Lydia Rose @lydzrose.bsky.social · 2d

Bisexual.

Cee Jay (On Hiatus) @ceejayup2nogood.bsky.social · 2d

Question:

What do you call someone that's bisexual but only been with guys?

Just curious

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 2d

My time in Silicon Valley included MDMA, psilocybin, and LSD, so this helps me make sense of why I didn't fall in with a bad crowd, thank you.

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reclaimourflag.bsky.social @reclaimourflag.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Exactly. It’s an action to RECLAIM it. 💪🇺🇸

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Jupiter8 @jupiter8.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. We will reclaim it.

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Sarah: Consultant + Event Designer + Content Creator @sarahsofiapro.bsky.social · 3d

Agree, I’ve lost faith in the American flag over the past few years but reclaiming is powerful moment.

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Jupiter8 @jupiter8.bsky.social · 3d

Reclamation of the flag is important. For years I saw an American flag and my stomach dropped. These Nazis don't deserve to call themselves Patriots. The flag is for all of the No Kings protesters.

The GOP are and have been the evil in this and they will continue to be.

We own patriotism.

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings #POTUS
"I wear this crown of shit
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair."
#NineInchNails

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 3d

The key strategic weakness of Trumpism is and always will be Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...

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Gabe Chase @spicoli323.bsky.social · 3d

@otsumamiboy.bsky.social #NYT opinion today wishing everybody a good morning except Dodgers fans and then NY-splaining about how this year's Dodgers are so good that that's what's wrong with them, actually.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 3d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 3d

Trumpism is fascism but it is post-ideological fascism, fascism as pure form, emptied of content. To the extent it has any content, it is hopeless, despairing, vengeful nihilism. This is fascism as it appears after the neoliberal cultural counter-revolution reduced politics to process & structure.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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