Emily Bulba
@bulbafreb.bsky.social
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i mean sure, it's always been fake. it's always been a fragile and hypocritical set of norms that the western powers sort of agreed to pretend applied. now that everyone's more or less stopped pretending, well. we shall see
January 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM
i mean sure, it's always been fake. it's always been a fragile and hypocritical set of norms that the western powers sort of agreed to pretend applied. now that everyone's more or less stopped pretending, well. we shall see
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i can't help but think that october 7 and the response thereto really put the final nail in the "rules based international order" - by totally capitulating to the express and overt idea that "international law is fake," western states let the fig leaf fall and in so doing left themselves exposed
January 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
i can't help but think that october 7 and the response thereto really put the final nail in the "rules based international order" - by totally capitulating to the express and overt idea that "international law is fake," western states let the fig leaf fall and in so doing left themselves exposed
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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
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The Kill Bill siren is going off in my head looking at this
I'm not a young man. I've been watching the weather for 50+ years. This may be the most significant winter storm I've seen.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 AM
The Kill Bill siren is going off in my head looking at this
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
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This is it. The elites are the media and Congress and Governors and Mayors. And everyone in those positions are weak yappers, do nothing empty politicians and scared losers pushing out Republican press releases as reporting. Trump knows it.
at some point you have to see it as a psychological issue. the people who run this country are cowards. the media who reports on them are cowards. they have never been able to face what is happening, they are committed to a project of persuasion: pretend everything is fine and it magically will be!
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is it. The elites are the media and Congress and Governors and Mayors. And everyone in those positions are weak yappers, do nothing empty politicians and scared losers pushing out Republican press releases as reporting. Trump knows it.
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The Decade of Data Center Buildout™ that started in 2023 & is already ending in 2026 will be the single largest misallocation of Capital in human history
China has made it ostensibly impossible to continue due to silver export controls
But every AI company is acting like it hasn't imploded already
China has made it ostensibly impossible to continue due to silver export controls
But every AI company is acting like it hasn't imploded already
There have already been 25 data center cancellations or postponements this month, according to @macroedgeres.bsky.social.
That's nearly as many as the previous 6 months combined.
That's nearly as many as the previous 6 months combined.
January 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The Decade of Data Center Buildout™ that started in 2023 & is already ending in 2026 will be the single largest misallocation of Capital in human history
China has made it ostensibly impossible to continue due to silver export controls
But every AI company is acting like it hasn't imploded already
China has made it ostensibly impossible to continue due to silver export controls
But every AI company is acting like it hasn't imploded already
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Finally we've reached the 'Frenchmen kidnapping buses full of people and hurtling onwards into the long dark night' bit of the collapse of civilization. This is what we were promised. This I can be a part of.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Finally we've reached the 'Frenchmen kidnapping buses full of people and hurtling onwards into the long dark night' bit of the collapse of civilization. This is what we were promised. This I can be a part of.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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You’re gonna see so many columns in the UK press deducing Starmer’s master strategy but the truth is Europe let Gaza, Iran, Venezuela etc. happen because they wanted it, now the beast is coming for them, the EU has just enough clout to respond as a bloc but the UK is out in the cold and fucked.
the europeans Fucked Around (at best quietly sat around during or at worst actively abetted our utterly lawless sponsored genocide in gaza) and now theyre Finding Out (getting the other end of the utterly lawless US stick)
January 19, 2026 at 11:15 PM
You’re gonna see so many columns in the UK press deducing Starmer’s master strategy but the truth is Europe let Gaza, Iran, Venezuela etc. happen because they wanted it, now the beast is coming for them, the EU has just enough clout to respond as a bloc but the UK is out in the cold and fucked.
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the europeans Fucked Around (at best quietly sat around during or at worst actively abetted our utterly lawless sponsored genocide in gaza) and now theyre Finding Out (getting the other end of the utterly lawless US stick)
January 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM
the europeans Fucked Around (at best quietly sat around during or at worst actively abetted our utterly lawless sponsored genocide in gaza) and now theyre Finding Out (getting the other end of the utterly lawless US stick)
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I remember playing D&D with some randos when I was about 16 and one of the guys was this tedious, half-smart, shameless little rules-lawyer who ground every scene to a halt to eke out some marginal, usually pointless advantage. I remember thinking clear as day, "this sort of person runs the world."
incredible stuff
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I remember playing D&D with some randos when I was about 16 and one of the guys was this tedious, half-smart, shameless little rules-lawyer who ground every scene to a halt to eke out some marginal, usually pointless advantage. I remember thinking clear as day, "this sort of person runs the world."
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Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits
we live in a sick society that thinks preventing problems is a waste of time and effort and hey, guess why everything sucks now
January 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits
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cities to things like the way the flow of recruits into American science has been destroyed as higher education programs nuke their phds and turn their campuses over to the president's ideology enforcers, forces have been unleashed here that cannot be put back.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 19, 2026 at 9:18 AM
cities to things like the way the flow of recruits into American science has been destroyed as higher education programs nuke their phds and turn their campuses over to the president's ideology enforcers, forces have been unleashed here that cannot be put back.
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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back, there is no turning back from this things have been broken that will stay broken forever. On everything from the President straight up starting wars on a whim to having his political enemies prosecuted in the open to deploying federal snatch squads to occupy
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
back, there is no turning back from this things have been broken that will stay broken forever. On everything from the President straight up starting wars on a whim to having his political enemies prosecuted in the open to deploying federal snatch squads to occupy
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I really don't think the people doing politics, and this ranges from the level of Senators and governors down to like the people following elections on social media, understand that the country that existed a year ago simply does not exist anymore. It is not coming
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
I really don't think the people doing politics, and this ranges from the level of Senators and governors down to like the people following elections on social media, understand that the country that existed a year ago simply does not exist anymore. It is not coming
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hunter S. Thompson on 9/11
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the dem base is getting better on trans shit since now it's baked in to opposing whatever bad orange man does while the actual electeds are getting worse because they automatically adopt at least half of whatever republicans say they want. absolutely absurd party lol
January 19, 2026 at 6:02 AM
the dem base is getting better on trans shit since now it's baked in to opposing whatever bad orange man does while the actual electeds are getting worse because they automatically adopt at least half of whatever republicans say they want. absolutely absurd party lol
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I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”
January 19, 2026 at 6:28 AM
I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”
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Pretty much every non-hype defense of LLM products begins with "first you must already understand your work extremely well, have ironclad ethics, and also verify all of its outputs in their entirety" and these are simply not realistic conditions for a product to *require* before it can be useful.
January 18, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Pretty much every non-hype defense of LLM products begins with "first you must already understand your work extremely well, have ironclad ethics, and also verify all of its outputs in their entirety" and these are simply not realistic conditions for a product to *require* before it can be useful.
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Without the original ChatGPT accidentally tapping into the ELIZA effect, LLMs would have remained a curiosity, with extremely niche backend applications.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
January 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Without the original ChatGPT accidentally tapping into the ELIZA effect, LLMs would have remained a curiosity, with extremely niche backend applications.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
But now we are living in the AI hype era, and any conversation about LLMs divorced from the parameters of the AI hype era is fanfiction.
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Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
What many of us have been saying for a while: AI*-related technologies are tools like any other technology, useful in some places, not in others. If it had been presented (and funded) as such, we'd be in a better place.
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
Instead, tech ideologues pushed AI* as the Second Coming, went all-in on it. /1
Insights from Ben Affleck on AI:
• AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies.
• Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations.
• ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x.
• Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.
• AI can help write scenes but can't create full movies.
• Job loss fears are overblown because adoption of new tech is slow; it's hype for startup valuations.
• ChatGPT v5 is ~25% better but costs 4x.
• Users actually preferred v4's sycophancy for companionship.
January 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Part of the struggle with the LLM discourse is that genuine (i.e. non-grifter) proponents talk exclusively about the possibilities of the transformer architecture in an ideal future with a rational business model.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.
Whereas opponents largely talk about the world we live in today, and its constraints.