Paul M. Cray
@pmc.bsky.social
"A plain, unvarnished Preston man." Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Interests: AGI, books, food, futurology, historiographic metafiction, ideas, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity, writing
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Paul M. Cray
@pmc.bsky.social
· Dec 20
I have a blog that I post to most days these days as part of my strategy for psychic survival in the last days of man on Earth": atomicrazor.blogs.com. Strictly, it's @daveon.bsky.social's and my blog, which is why it is called Atomic Razor and not Nuclear Razor
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I sat next to a 25 year old on Monday night who controls an online audience the size of most nation states and he just sat as he heard about the idea of “the internet pre-MySpace” and asked if the pre-platform forum-based world was “just like the dark web?”
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I sat next to a 25 year old on Monday night who controls an online audience the size of most nation states and he just sat as he heard about the idea of “the internet pre-MySpace” and asked if the pre-platform forum-based world was “just like the dark web?”
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whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
whereas you know - I still vividly remember once spending something like seven straight hours rewriting the full HTML of my blog from scratch, just because I fancied a change - our experiences of the internet have been so different that we're essentially different species now
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you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
you saw it/still see it very clearly with this place - I'm happy to be here but many people have stayed on Twitter, even while admitting that Twitter is now rubbish, because the idea of purposely spending *hours and hours* curating a follow list from scratch just feels completely alien to them
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I stand by my original assessment that Quidditch is just a version of Rollerball.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I stand by my original assessment that Quidditch is just a version of Rollerball.
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Maybe a trip to Chateau Ste Michelle is in order.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Maybe a trip to Chateau Ste Michelle is in order.
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The real buzz must come from within
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The real buzz must come from within
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Buzz is IME always extremely localised (and I suspect even in the places it allegedly exists is largely fake / illusory / imaginary)
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Buzz is IME always extremely localised (and I suspect even in the places it allegedly exists is largely fake / illusory / imaginary)
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New national motto just dropped
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New national motto just dropped
I got, unexpectedly, the other day a free t-shirt from Mercor. It's not much, bit it's almost nothing!
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I got, unexpectedly, the other day a free t-shirt from Mercor. It's not much, bit it's almost nothing!
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Maybe you need to move to the bay for a while?
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Maybe you need to move to the bay for a while?
@jasmine.bsky.social writes"There are a million startups creating RL environments, recruiting is really hard, and hot takes are one reliable way to stand above the fray." But is "recruiting" "really hard"? Maybe it is in San Francisco, but it's a wasteland in Seattle
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
@jasmine.bsky.social writes"There are a million startups creating RL environments, recruiting is really hard, and hot takes are one reliable way to stand above the fray." But is "recruiting" "really hard"? Maybe it is in San Francisco, but it's a wasteland in Seattle
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“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target. n.pr/4qMrN7P
People want to avoid ultra-processed foods. But experts struggle to define them
The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big hurdle: experts can't agree on what they are and which to target.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”
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I think a lot of the boarders are more from international UHNW families these days. I married into a family that was exclusively publicly educated and for our generation, across cousins and siblings, I think only one person is sending their kids (partial) board at a public school.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think a lot of the boarders are more from international UHNW families these days. I married into a family that was exclusively publicly educated and for our generation, across cousins and siblings, I think only one person is sending their kids (partial) board at a public school.
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Middle Middle may send kids to private school but not to a public school, I'd say.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Middle Middle may send kids to private school but not to a public school, I'd say.
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Unreal. As the vote count rolled in, progressive candidate Katie Wilson has overtaken Bruce Harrell by 91 votes for Seattle’s mayor. She is 0.04% ahead after having been down by more than 7 points on election night.
Katie Wilson pulls ahead of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell – by 91 votes
www.kuow.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Unreal. As the vote count rolled in, progressive candidate Katie Wilson has overtaken Bruce Harrell by 91 votes for Seattle’s mayor. She is 0.04% ahead after having been down by more than 7 points on election night.
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This is perhaps one my hottest take:s
Any election within, say, 0.1% should be declared a statistical tie and resolved via coin flip.
No recount, no litigation. None of these processes is perfect. Accept the unknowability, admit the indeterminacy, and flip a coin.
Any election within, say, 0.1% should be declared a statistical tie and resolved via coin flip.
No recount, no litigation. None of these processes is perfect. Accept the unknowability, admit the indeterminacy, and flip a coin.
Unreal. As the vote count rolled in, progressive candidate Katie Wilson has overtaken Bruce Harrell by 91 votes for Seattle’s mayor. She is 0.04% ahead after having been down by more than 7 points on election night.
Katie Wilson pulls ahead of Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell – by 91 votes
www.kuow.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is perhaps one my hottest take:s
Any election within, say, 0.1% should be declared a statistical tie and resolved via coin flip.
No recount, no litigation. None of these processes is perfect. Accept the unknowability, admit the indeterminacy, and flip a coin.
Any election within, say, 0.1% should be declared a statistical tie and resolved via coin flip.
No recount, no litigation. None of these processes is perfect. Accept the unknowability, admit the indeterminacy, and flip a coin.
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Nah. She’s middle/lower middle. I come from the same place she did. I know people who went to school with her. It’s a place that pretends to be better than it is but it’s all ‘new’ money with pretensions.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nah. She’s middle/lower middle. I come from the same place she did. I know people who went to school with her. It’s a place that pretends to be better than it is but it’s all ‘new’ money with pretensions.
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I’m 66, and I left the UK in 1995, so my reference points are likely out of date. Middle class used to be a hybrid of education and white collar employment, including “professions” - teachers, solicitors, doctors. Many, but not all, middle class people were university educated.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I’m 66, and I left the UK in 1995, so my reference points are likely out of date. Middle class used to be a hybrid of education and white collar employment, including “professions” - teachers, solicitors, doctors. Many, but not all, middle class people were university educated.
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Respectfully, I don’t think this can be right. Some 7% of British children are educated in public schools, and obviously many families send more than one child to public school.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Respectfully, I don’t think this can be right. Some 7% of British children are educated in public schools, and obviously many families send more than one child to public school.
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Tell me you're english without telling me you're english
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Tell me you're english without telling me you're english
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I mean, it’s only 7% of people.
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I mean, it’s only 7% of people.
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(As an outsider) Does lower-middle-class equate to a French/German petit bourgeois? And maybe there is cross-contamination in the concept?
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
(As an outsider) Does lower-middle-class equate to a French/German petit bourgeois? And maybe there is cross-contamination in the concept?
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Imx a near-50/50 between the Perse and Netherhall
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Imx a near-50/50 between the Perse and Netherhall
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Yep, but maybe also transgressing class distinctions in order to seem aspirational.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Yep, but maybe also transgressing class distinctions in order to seem aspirational.