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both are true
tons of people use + will continue to use it
AND
the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics
it's not that hard people
tons of people use + will continue to use it
AND
the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics
it's not that hard people
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
both are true
tons of people use + will continue to use it
AND
the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics
it's not that hard people
tons of people use + will continue to use it
AND
the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics
it's not that hard people
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So after listening to multiple talks by philosophers of mind who defend consciousness as the substrate of the entire universe, and physicists who invoke quantum mechanics as the source of consciousness, the conclusion is clear: they have no idea about neuroscience, nor any interest to know about it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
So after listening to multiple talks by philosophers of mind who defend consciousness as the substrate of the entire universe, and physicists who invoke quantum mechanics as the source of consciousness, the conclusion is clear: they have no idea about neuroscience, nor any interest to know about it.
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A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
How life begins and where it might happen again
A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began. Instead of trying to replay Earth’s exact history, the issue’s authors lo...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.
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What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Context Collapse and Halloween Traditions REAL VIDEO MOSTLY NO AI (Hotline 79/81)
youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0
youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0
Context Collapse and Halloween Traditions REAL VIDEO MOSTLY NO AI (Hotline 79/81)
YouTube video by Noah Kalina
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Context Collapse and Halloween Traditions REAL VIDEO MOSTLY NO AI (Hotline 79/81)
youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0
youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0
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I can't even read this "great read" without wanting to rescue an 8-year-old son from his father's effort toughen him up and exploit him for a Times byline.
I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...
I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...
I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned.
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I can't even read this "great read" without wanting to rescue an 8-year-old son from his father's effort toughen him up and exploit him for a Times byline.
I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...
I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
Poetry made by bots and outrage
October 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Poetry made by bots and outrage
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confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work
October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work
I think Faine is right
the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves
you win the information game by playing a different game
the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves
you win the information game by playing a different game
I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.
Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I think Faine is right
the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves
you win the information game by playing a different game
the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves
you win the information game by playing a different game
I still think declarative quoted posting instead of conversation is a net societal negative
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I still think declarative quoted posting instead of conversation is a net societal negative
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October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
expanding on this
the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection
I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally
the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection
I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally
I keep thinking about how powerful our phones have gotten and how almost all of that power is used to process cloud-hosted UIs instead of processing anything locally
correct
i’ve been saying this for a couple months. RL is driving towards specialization
my hunch is it’s temporary and something will shift again back towards generalization, but for now.. buckle up!
i’ve been saying this for a couple months. RL is driving towards specialization
my hunch is it’s temporary and something will shift again back towards generalization, but for now.. buckle up!
October 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
expanding on this
the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection
I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally
the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection
I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally
I keep thinking about how powerful our phones have gotten and how almost all of that power is used to process cloud-hosted UIs instead of processing anything locally
correct
i’ve been saying this for a couple months. RL is driving towards specialization
my hunch is it’s temporary and something will shift again back towards generalization, but for now.. buckle up!
i’ve been saying this for a couple months. RL is driving towards specialization
my hunch is it’s temporary and something will shift again back towards generalization, but for now.. buckle up!
October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I keep thinking about how powerful our phones have gotten and how almost all of that power is used to process cloud-hosted UIs instead of processing anything locally
"The dollar is no longer the reserve currency of American capitalism. Digital data is.
Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one."
open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one."
open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.
If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
"The dollar is no longer the reserve currency of American capitalism. Digital data is.
Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one."
open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one."
open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
I agree but also think that defying the sort of thinking steadily programmed into civic society by algorithms that thrive off of outrage might have something to do with why not that many people realize it's an option
we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.
we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.
I swear to fucking god the exceptionally shitty loss of nuance is not something you can blame 100 percent on the UX of social media, you still have a fucking option to not be an asshole
October 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I agree but also think that defying the sort of thinking steadily programmed into civic society by algorithms that thrive off of outrage might have something to do with why not that many people realize it's an option
we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.
we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.
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the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making.
1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden
it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead
1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden
it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead
October 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making.
1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden
it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead
1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden
it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead
Unironically keep doing this.
BC&BB
BC&BB
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Unironically keep doing this.
BC&BB
BC&BB
next step is nuclear sovereignty for the Diné nation
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2
Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border
“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."
ino.to
October 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
next step is nuclear sovereignty for the Diné nation
oh wow the Atlantic wrote an article about poster's syndrome
October 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
oh wow the Atlantic wrote an article about poster's syndrome
honestly I get the waffles thing because it feels the same as how anyone reasonable has started to feel about the AI thing
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
honestly I get the waffles thing because it feels the same as how anyone reasonable has started to feel about the AI thing
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The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here
October 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here
can we seriously please stop screenshot-posting
it's giving fear of consequences
it's giving fear of consequences
October 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
can we seriously please stop screenshot-posting
it's giving fear of consequences
it's giving fear of consequences
My conclusion after the last 24 hours of discourse on this app about AI is that maybe reading comprehension is something that we should really be investing in as a society just maybe.
October 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My conclusion after the last 24 hours of discourse on this app about AI is that maybe reading comprehension is something that we should really be investing in as a society just maybe.