Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made)
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🏳️🌈 Writing, reading, and watching detective fiction and scifi. Hobbies include nerding out on botanical subjects and paying rent at Bay Area rates. They/them. More at harbourfordyce.com/links/
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AI is comfortably in its NFT era
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AI is comfortably in its NFT era
A Rhetoric major asked me to share w/students info on"meaningful internships..." at a program in "AI & Machine Learning, healthcare, finance, and biotech" and run by people from "Y Combinator, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey."
Oh honey, you're in the wrong major. Try Nazi Studies.
Oh honey, you're in the wrong major. Try Nazi Studies.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A Rhetoric major asked me to share w/students info on"meaningful internships..." at a program in "AI & Machine Learning, healthcare, finance, and biotech" and run by people from "Y Combinator, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey."
Oh honey, you're in the wrong major. Try Nazi Studies.
Oh honey, you're in the wrong major. Try Nazi Studies.
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The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
This is what drives crypto evangelism, the desire to create a retail "dark bank" system that at any time can be converted back out as legal money. Legitimized crypto as a parallel system would avoid incidents like these.
It was sold as transparent but in practice it functions as a black box
It was sold as transparent but in practice it functions as a black box
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking
🧵
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is what drives crypto evangelism, the desire to create a retail "dark bank" system that at any time can be converted back out as legal money. Legitimized crypto as a parallel system would avoid incidents like these.
It was sold as transparent but in practice it functions as a black box
It was sold as transparent but in practice it functions as a black box
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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I shall be posting this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged on my screen, and I—
I took the bait, I hit reply,
And that has made zero difference.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged on my screen, and I—
I took the bait, I hit reply,
And that has made zero difference.
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I shall be posting this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged on my screen, and I—
I took the bait, I hit reply,
And that has made zero difference.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two posts diverged on my screen, and I—
I took the bait, I hit reply,
And that has made zero difference.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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This feels like a subtwee... err subskeet?--but if one's response to criticism is "those who can't, cruticize," one is not a serious person.
This is true even if "one" has a Ph.D. and tenure.
This is true even if "one" has a Ph.D. and tenure.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This feels like a subtwee... err subskeet?--but if one's response to criticism is "those who can't, cruticize," one is not a serious person.
This is true even if "one" has a Ph.D. and tenure.
This is true even if "one" has a Ph.D. and tenure.
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.
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ICE is basically the comments section with weapons.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
ICE is basically the comments section with weapons.
JFC, Altman doesn't even know HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS.
No wonder he thinks he is building the singularity or whatever
No wonder he thinks he is building the singularity or whatever
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
JFC, Altman doesn't even know HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICS.
No wonder he thinks he is building the singularity or whatever
No wonder he thinks he is building the singularity or whatever
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Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
Email from a student who turned in a ChatGPT essay. Not even looking at the ChatGPT output in the apology 🥴
![Dear [Professor’s Name],
I want to sincerely apologize for my actions regarding my midterm submission.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fs6z2b756buwsdsjkle6utfi/bafkreiecvhzfgr4tlwyy2mvpbvjncqkysytwsxvidaoressh7peonoso3y@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"
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some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
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Delighted to hear Cory Doctorow refer to tech monopolies as “a handful of inbred companies with corporate Hapsburg jaws”
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Delighted to hear Cory Doctorow refer to tech monopolies as “a handful of inbred companies with corporate Hapsburg jaws”
Damn right
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Damn right
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OMFG. I feel you. Here’s some beautifully written hate.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
OMFG. I feel you. Here’s some beautifully written hate.
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
Dear 21st Century Hollywood: Where is the horror movie where Namcy Pelosi follows you everywhere asking for $25...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Dear 21st Century Hollywood: Where is the horror movie where Namcy Pelosi follows you everywhere asking for $25...?
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All these horrible Epstein emails being in GMAIL means he was getting ads based on his crimes and that's pretty fucked.
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All these horrible Epstein emails being in GMAIL means he was getting ads based on his crimes and that's pretty fucked.
This is just as true in the U.S. and goes a ling way to explaining our heritage obsessions
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is just as true in the U.S. and goes a ling way to explaining our heritage obsessions
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Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Until we have replicators, we will need wealth redistribution.
Minds have brains, bodies..They exist in space. They need water, food, shelter. These things cannot be waved away.
The O.G. Nazis made plenty of fictiona about themselves, their claims of racial superiority and destiny. It was powerless before Allied bullets,.bombs,.and shells.
The O.G. Nazis made plenty of fictiona about themselves, their claims of racial superiority and destiny. It was powerless before Allied bullets,.bombs,.and shells.
In 2022, Peter Thiel protégé Balaji Srinivasan—formerly of Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase—envisioned a Second American Civil War.
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
He predicted it would be triggered by Bitcoin.
This is how it would work:
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Minds have brains, bodies..They exist in space. They need water, food, shelter. These things cannot be waved away.
The O.G. Nazis made plenty of fictiona about themselves, their claims of racial superiority and destiny. It was powerless before Allied bullets,.bombs,.and shells.
The O.G. Nazis made plenty of fictiona about themselves, their claims of racial superiority and destiny. It was powerless before Allied bullets,.bombs,.and shells.
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Frustrated with or angry about artificial intelligence? You need the Sterling Analog Shut Down Kit! Read Bret Nelson's quick start guide and you, too, can be shutting down AI left and right.
Sterling Analog Shut Down Kit: Quick Start Guide - Small Wonders
If you suspect your robot, doorbell, or smart appliance is actively plotting against you, it’s time to put the contents of this box to use.
smallwondersmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Frustrated with or angry about artificial intelligence? You need the Sterling Analog Shut Down Kit! Read Bret Nelson's quick start guide and you, too, can be shutting down AI left and right.