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One of my favorite journalists called this article “brutal.”
I cannot think of higher praise.
I cannot think of higher praise.
Brock Pierce’s dark and disturbing friendship with Jeffrey Epstein protos.com/brock-pierce...
Brock Pierce’s dark and disturbing friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
It’s impossible for Brock Pierce to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. The pair's legacies will be tied together forever.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
One of my favorite journalists called this article “brutal.”
I cannot think of higher praise.
I cannot think of higher praise.
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Molly is the GOAT, and her work exposing the crypto industry and its power brokers is more urgently needed now than ever
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February 2, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Molly is the GOAT, and her work exposing the crypto industry and its power brokers is more urgently needed now than ever
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I didn't know Epstein was involved with cryptocurrency! I lost all respect I had for the man, smdh
I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly
February 3, 2026 at 12:03 AM
I didn't know Epstein was involved with cryptocurrency! I lost all respect I had for the man, smdh
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[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:
The AI Dirty List
Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
aidirtylist.info
Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
aidirtylist.info
The AI Dirty List
Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
aidirtylist.info
February 3, 2026 at 12:04 AM
The AI Dirty List
Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
aidirtylist.info
Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
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Didn’t expect to see these posted on Bluesky! Here’s a printable version if anyone wants it (the bottom is gone in the original pic because the bottom half of the flyer was a bunch of tear-offs lol)
February 2, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Didn’t expect to see these posted on Bluesky! Here’s a printable version if anyone wants it (the bottom is gone in the original pic because the bottom half of the flyer was a bunch of tear-offs lol)
Joachim Witt - Goldener Reiter 2007
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February 2, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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an essay about the day i turned 7
Just sent 4200 words of Last War in Albion to Patrons, covering the bizarre and unsettling events of January 7th, 1994.
What happened on January 7th, 1994? Well, if you want to know before the end of May I'm afraid you're going to have to back the Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/149280...
What happened on January 7th, 1994? Well, if you want to know before the end of May I'm afraid you're going to have to back the Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/149280...
LWiA 4.5: January 7th, 1994 | Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn
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January 27, 2026 at 9:50 PM
an essay about the day i turned 7
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To believe Gaiman innocent fundamentally means I'd have to believe that many, many, different women were making near-identical accusations independently, some with physical and documentary evidence, for no gain to themselves.
February 2, 2026 at 8:22 PM
To believe Gaiman innocent fundamentally means I'd have to believe that many, many, different women were making near-identical accusations independently, some with physical and documentary evidence, for no gain to themselves.
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This article is huge and magnificent and it sort of feels like the final word on Neil Gaiman. If you're still looking to, I guess, close the book on how much Sandman meant to you and how Gaiman ruined that, I can't recommend this article enough.
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
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January 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This article is huge and magnificent and it sort of feels like the final word on Neil Gaiman. If you're still looking to, I guess, close the book on how much Sandman meant to you and how Gaiman ruined that, I can't recommend this article enough.
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Hugo peeps, this piece is legitimately excellent longform, deeply researched criticism and you should please vote for it, especially right now
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman)
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a mag...
www.eruditorumpress.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Hugo peeps, this piece is legitimately excellent longform, deeply researched criticism and you should please vote for it, especially right now
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I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
I haven't read that massive Substack thing that Gaiman linked to in his whinge, and nor am I going to. If you need tens of thousands of words of rant and innuendo to embed your "shocking evidence" in, you don't have shocking evidence, you have a conspiracy manifesto.
February 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
I find the entire genre of "tens of thousands of words minutely refuting every point of an abuse clam" intrinsically unpersuasive. If any of the evidence were actually damning they'd just highlight that instead of doing a tedious Gish Gallop.
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At long last, we have created Solaris, the Tyrant Sun from Grant Morrison's classic comic seres "Don't Create Solaris, the Tyrant Sun."
Oh my gd.
Musk is fucking insane with this quoted sentence from the press release on SpaceX acquiring xAI.
"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe."
(full press release in images)
Musk is fucking insane with this quoted sentence from the press release on SpaceX acquiring xAI.
"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe."
(full press release in images)
February 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
At long last, we have created Solaris, the Tyrant Sun from Grant Morrison's classic comic seres "Don't Create Solaris, the Tyrant Sun."
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YUDKOWSKY: Don't Build the Torment Nexus You Idiots, as I spent a million words explaining in my six volume book Don't Build the Torment Nexus You Idiots
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI, SSI, THINKING MACHINES: Got it boss, built a yuuuge Torment Nexus just like you asked, real sexy
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI, SSI, THINKING MACHINES: Got it boss, built a yuuuge Torment Nexus just like you asked, real sexy
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
YUDKOWSKY: Don't Build the Torment Nexus You Idiots, as I spent a million words explaining in my six volume book Don't Build the Torment Nexus You Idiots
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI, SSI, THINKING MACHINES: Got it boss, built a yuuuge Torment Nexus just like you asked, real sexy
ANTHROPIC, OPENAI, SSI, THINKING MACHINES: Got it boss, built a yuuuge Torment Nexus just like you asked, real sexy
ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
February 2, 2026 at 11:19 PM
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/02/m... - blog post
Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
February 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/02/m... - blog post
Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
February 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
Or maybe Tesla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMKy... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260202-mus... - podcast
time: 5 min 18 sec
apparently i am going to see Iron Lung on Thursday afternoon. The kid wants to see it. It is a video game movie made by an obsessive fan who's a popular youtuber? So even if it's bad it'll be *weird* bad, which way beats bland bad. Trailer looks like video game sci fi.
February 2, 2026 at 8:42 PM
apparently i am going to see Iron Lung on Thursday afternoon. The kid wants to see it. It is a video game movie made by an obsessive fan who's a popular youtuber? So even if it's bad it'll be *weird* bad, which way beats bland bad. Trailer looks like video game sci fi.
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"MBAs loathe employees. Any employees. They despise you. AI promises the one thing MBAs want more than anything — firing people — so they’re all-in. That it doesn’t work does not matter."
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The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Both of these statements are true: Across the whole US economy, there’s not really a visible effect of AI on hiring and job mix; Some sectors are absolutely devastated directly by AI. But als…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
"MBAs loathe employees. Any employees. They despise you. AI promises the one thing MBAs want more than anything — firing people — so they’re all-in. That it doesn’t work does not matter."
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This is entirely fixable with more AI and better prompts.
AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
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time: 5 min 48 sec
'Our AI has messed up completely’
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU5... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260130-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 48 sec
January 31, 2026 at 11:35 AM
This is entirely fixable with more AI and better prompts.
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I do think the correct response to right-wing arguments going forward is "whatever you say, Epstein"
February 2, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do think the correct response to right-wing arguments going forward is "whatever you say, Epstein"
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Yegge was a one hit wonder and has been living large off the royalties. It wasn’t even a good hit.
What happens when a once-respected engineer lets the brainworms take the wheel and the accelerator:
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Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
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Another great piece by @davidgerard.co.uk who you should definitely follow. #aifraud
Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam
Steve Yegge is a renowned software developer. He’s done this for thirty-odd years. Senior engineer at Amazon then Google, blogger on the art of programming. Yegge was highly regarded. Then he got h…
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January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yegge was a one hit wonder and has been living large off the royalties. It wasn’t even a good hit.
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Seeing these Epstein transcripts go by is like a precursor to people vanishing into the AI solipsism loop.
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
know this is not something that could happen either in general or at least in the next few years but I would genuinely love it if a journalist could sit down with some of the powerful people who interacted with Epstein - even anonymously - so they could explain what they got out of the relationship
February 2, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Seeing these Epstein transcripts go by is like a precursor to people vanishing into the AI solipsism loop.
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
A confidant who a little cryptically encourages you in your own impulses.
And an entourage of attractive young things who will also listen to your ramblings, and nod and say "tell me more".
this is Kim Crawley's new book, Technofascism Survival Guide, which is kickstarting. if you have money, throw some at it! Kickstarter ends 12 Feb.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
Technofascism Survival Guide
Technofascism is here. From the Black Panthers to Anonymous to Julian Assange, what can we learn and how can we resist?
www.kickstarter.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:07 PM
this is Kim Crawley's new book, Technofascism Survival Guide, which is kickstarting. if you have money, throw some at it! Kickstarter ends 12 Feb.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kim...
followup to her previous book, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World
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Thinking about this a lot especially given how much people really just don't know about scientific fields' histories and how much the present is shaped by the past
3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc.
(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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(Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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![3.3 Ahistoricism and the AI hype cycles
When I started writing about science decades ago [...] I edited an article in which [a computer scientist] predicted that AI would soon replace experts in law, medicine, finance
and other professions. That was in 1984.
John Horgan (2020, n.p.)
When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared
on the scene in the last three years. And they experience confusion and even dissonance when they
discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades, if not centuries or even millennia
(Bloomfield 1987; Boden 2006; Bogost 2025; Guest 2025; Hamilton 1998; Mayor 2018). Such ahistoricism facilitates “the AI-hype cycles that have long been fuelled by extravagant claims that substitute
fiction for science.” (Heffernan 2025, n.p. Duarte et al. 2024). We have been here before, both with entanglements of AI and statistics with industry corrupting our academic processes, and with so-called
AI summers: hype cycles that pivot from funding booms to complete busts and cessation of research
(Bassett and Roberts 2023; Boden 2006; Law 2024; Lighthill et al. 1973; Merchant 2023; Olazaran
1996; Perez 2002; P. Smith and L. Smith 2024; Thornhill 2025).
To understand how industry tries to influence independent research for their benefit, we can look
to past examples of entanglement of industry and statistics. Ronald A. Fisher, a eugenicist and “the
founder of modern statistics” (Rao 1992), having been paid by the tobacco industry, claimed that because ‘correlation is not causation’ that therefore ‘smoking does not cause lung cancer’ (Fisher 1958;
Stolley 1991). The parallel between tobacco and technology does not end here: “both industries’ increased funding of academia was as a reaction to increasingly unfavourable public opinion and an increased threat of legislation.” (Mohamed Abdalla and Moustafa Abdalla 2021, p. 2; also see Knoester
et al. 2025) The histories of eugenics, statistics, comput…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie4dme35ovxs6t4ekrdosziqnikttmmef63imkpxqh2fdlybzccoa@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Thinking about this a lot especially given how much people really just don't know about scientific fields' histories and how much the present is shaped by the past