Elf M. Sternberg
@elfsternberg.bsky.social
Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
Hah! Yes, but I was trying to make a joke about AI's tendency to give people, er, "extra" features. Ah, well. Not every punch lands.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Hah! Yes, but I was trying to make a joke about AI's tendency to give people, er, "extra" features. Ah, well. Not every punch lands.
Every single such story, every one of them ever written, is a story in which the people agitating for AI rights are agitating for the extinction of humanity.
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Every single such story, every one of them ever written, is a story in which the people agitating for AI rights are agitating for the extinction of humanity.
You're making unwarranted assumptions. The first is that artificial intelligence will have the same moral infrastructure we do, and that we do not control that moral infrastructure when we construct it.
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You're making unwarranted assumptions. The first is that artificial intelligence will have the same moral infrastructure we do, and that we do not control that moral infrastructure when we construct it.
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Like, see: I grew up reading Cooper, Alexander, Tolkien*, Lewis; people born before at least one and occasionally two world wars. A lot of them wrote stories about the magic going away.
I *expressly* write books in conversation with those. I resented the *fuck* out of the magic going away.
I *expressly* write books in conversation with those. I resented the *fuck* out of the magic going away.
December 16, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Like, see: I grew up reading Cooper, Alexander, Tolkien*, Lewis; people born before at least one and occasionally two world wars. A lot of them wrote stories about the magic going away.
I *expressly* write books in conversation with those. I resented the *fuck* out of the magic going away.
I *expressly* write books in conversation with those. I resented the *fuck* out of the magic going away.
They're not pathologies. And being Furry is part of how we manage them, which is why we score higher than the general population on well-being.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
They're not pathologies. And being Furry is part of how we manage them, which is why we score higher than the general population on well-being.
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Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.