Ted Lemon
@abhayakara.bsky.social
Computer geek, meditation teacher (ish), deconditioning theorist.
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One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
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I'm re-reading The Big Con, by David Maurer, because I love the argot of early 20th century confidence men, but also because a book about how grifting works holds great explanatory power generations after it was written.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm re-reading The Big Con, by David Maurer, because I love the argot of early 20th century confidence men, but also because a book about how grifting works holds great explanatory power generations after it was written.
“Deciding that you will become an independent voter is not the smart move in response to your frustration. All that will do is disqualify you from voting in Democratic primary elections. That means you will have forfeited the opportunity to transform the Party”
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/now-what
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/now-what
NOW WHAT?
Part II - Real Talk for Voters, Advocates, & Dem Leaders in Congress
sherrilyn.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Deciding that you will become an independent voter is not the smart move in response to your frustration. All that will do is disqualify you from voting in Democratic primary elections. That means you will have forfeited the opportunity to transform the Party”
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/now-what
sherrilyn.substack.com/p/now-what
This showed up in the latest Crypto-gram, and I think is worth considering: spectrum.ieee.org/responsible-ai
Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI
Scientists have a unique role in guiding AI's future. Learn how they can steer it towards ethical and equitable outcomes.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This showed up in the latest Crypto-gram, and I think is worth considering: spectrum.ieee.org/responsible-ai
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Water utilities don’t emit carbon dioxide or sell guns, and therefore come up fairly frequently in ethical investment packages. That is, um, probably not ideal.
Despite some very stiff challenges the privatisation of water was probably the most disastrous policy of the past 50 years
We really do need to start sending Ministers to prison.
We really do need to start sending Ministers to prison.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Water utilities don’t emit carbon dioxide or sell guns, and therefore come up fairly frequently in ethical investment packages. That is, um, probably not ideal.
Same.
Every election cycle I say it so I’ll say it again. I make a monthly recurring donation to @runforsomething.net & it is the most effective use of my money in politics—attracting, organizing & developing young progressive leaders.
Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Same.
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Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.
One of the things that Elon Musk has done for me is to teach me the absurdity of reading science fiction. So many of the things he’s touted have seemed like science fiction, and then you see them realized (or attempted) and think, “Oh. No, that’s just a bad idea.” Sigh.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
One of the things that Elon Musk has done for me is to teach me the absurdity of reading science fiction. So many of the things he’s touted have seemed like science fiction, and then you see them realized (or attempted) and think, “Oh. No, that’s just a bad idea.” Sigh.
The idea that an argument can be “decisively won” is delusional and incredibly damaging. You win the argument, great. Now do the work to keep bringing the next generations on board and adapt to their new concerns. Otherwise your victory will be forgotten. This is what we are seeing 30 years on.
These arguments were decisively won by the late 90s. And then some people - perhaps people working for the Daily Express, among others - spent decades kicking fuck out of the left while screeching at the public about migrants stealing benefits and eating swans. It’s very clear who is to blame here.
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The idea that an argument can be “decisively won” is delusional and incredibly damaging. You win the argument, great. Now do the work to keep bringing the next generations on board and adapt to their new concerns. Otherwise your victory will be forgotten. This is what we are seeing 30 years on.
Dude, we are just happy for you. They have to do what works. There is no sorrow in that. May we all be so fortunate. :)
My skircle is all saints. I don't post because ion want yall to get mad that the saints all bang with me and not you
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Dude, we are just happy for you. They have to do what works. There is no sorrow in that. May we all be so fortunate. :)
This is an insanely great illustration of what a push poll is and why they are toxic to reason.
A STORY IN FOUR PARTS:
1. NRSC poll wording
2. NRSC poll results
3. SoCal poll wording
4. SoCal poll results
1. NRSC poll wording
2. NRSC poll results
3. SoCal poll wording
4. SoCal poll results
October 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This is an insanely great illustration of what a push poll is and why they are toxic to reason.
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Good grief why is Stellan Skarsgård cooking so hard?
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Good grief why is Stellan Skarsgård cooking so hard?
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This is part of my concern around the focus on who ICE recruits, because while the recruits are not good people, they are also easy targets. The people setting the budget and hopping onto cable news to defend the policies are harder targets, but they’re much more responsible.
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is part of my concern around the focus on who ICE recruits, because while the recruits are not good people, they are also easy targets. The people setting the budget and hopping onto cable news to defend the policies are harder targets, but they’re much more responsible.
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Love this!
🇨🇦 Canada is sending out agents into the streets of Toronto to deal with foreigners
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Love this!
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Platner could survive this scandal, but I doubt it. The reason I doubt it isn’t just the scandal itself. It’s that he’s used the scandal as a way to insist that any accountability for his behavior is unfair and part of a conspiracy. To me, that’s disqualifying. (And it is for many Dem voters.)
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Platner could survive this scandal, but I doubt it. The reason I doubt it isn’t just the scandal itself. It’s that he’s used the scandal as a way to insist that any accountability for his behavior is unfair and part of a conspiracy. To me, that’s disqualifying. (And it is for many Dem voters.)
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We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.
Great article in @lemonde.fr on asset inflation and what this does to people who do value-producing as opposed to asset-producing labor. Paywalled, but I recommend subscribing if you're in the US—we are so starved for decent journalism. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Patrick Artus: 'Wealth has grown faster than real production, disrupting economic balances'
COLUMN. In his column, the economist outlines the consequences of rising wealth relative to gross domestic product (GDP), both in the United States and in Europe.
www.lemonde.fr
October 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Great article in @lemonde.fr on asset inflation and what this does to people who do value-producing as opposed to asset-producing labor. Paywalled, but I recommend subscribing if you're in the US—we are so starved for decent journalism. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Even mildly annoying forms of public antisocial behavior are deeply corrosive to community building and destroy the consensus necessary for progressive policy.
Left anarchism is incompatible with social democratic economics because people vote their annoyances, not their material needs.
Left anarchism is incompatible with social democratic economics because people vote their annoyances, not their material needs.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Even mildly annoying forms of public antisocial behavior are deeply corrosive to community building and destroy the consensus necessary for progressive policy.
Left anarchism is incompatible with social democratic economics because people vote their annoyances, not their material needs.
Left anarchism is incompatible with social democratic economics because people vote their annoyances, not their material needs.
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The day you learn that nonfiction books are only fact-checked if the author has $10,000 of their own money to pay a fact-checker is the day you realize the world is full of goddamn lies
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The day you learn that nonfiction books are only fact-checked if the author has $10,000 of their own money to pay a fact-checker is the day you realize the world is full of goddamn lies
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I've meaning to transfer my playlists off of Spotify for a while, and the ICE ads finally gave me the nudge I needed.
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I've meaning to transfer my playlists off of Spotify for a while, and the ICE ads finally gave me the nudge I needed.
Really great video about the things that have frustrated me my whole life living in America. All the reasons that we are so much less free in America, despite the propaganda. He gets a bit choked up at the end about how his mom just can’t understand because she’s never left the country.
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Really great video about the things that have frustrated me my whole life living in America. All the reasons that we are so much less free in America, despite the propaganda. He gets a bit choked up at the end about how his mom just can’t understand because she’s never left the country.
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What could change that is any kind of clear positive feedback: a straightforward connection between a certain electoral outcome and an unambiguous positive impact on their material condition. This is something that vast majority of the electorate hasn’t experienced in quite some time.
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
What could change that is any kind of clear positive feedback: a straightforward connection between a certain electoral outcome and an unambiguous positive impact on their material condition. This is something that vast majority of the electorate hasn’t experienced in quite some time.