Erik Moeller
@eloquence.bsky.social
My main profile is https://social.coop/@eloquence
I am currently working on https://permacommons.org/ - a permanent home for useful shared resources maintained with AI assistance.
I am currently working on https://permacommons.org/ - a permanent home for useful shared resources maintained with AI assistance.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
For the airplane + red aurora + big dipper fans. 😍
Real cruelty against folks who aren't white not enough for you? Facebook dot com has you covered with their new offering: SaaS - Sadism as a Service.
There is a sickness here, and it's not just about the use of AI.
There is a sickness here, and it's not just about the use of AI.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Real cruelty against folks who aren't white not enough for you? Facebook dot com has you covered with their new offering: SaaS - Sadism as a Service.
There is a sickness here, and it's not just about the use of AI.
There is a sickness here, and it's not just about the use of AI.
You are permitting the DHS to post authoritarian propaganda on this app and suspending a journalist and scholar of authoritarianism for riffing on Johnny Cash in response to an article about Johnny Cash. You are silly and unserious people.
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
You are permitting the DHS to post authoritarian propaganda on this app and suspending a journalist and scholar of authoritarianism for riffing on Johnny Cash in response to an article about Johnny Cash. You are silly and unserious people.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
My companion piece explains the film’s context: USAID’s dismantling is estimated to have already killed 600,000 people, ⅔ of them children. Officials simply deny any harm, while halting data monitoring and firing inspectors general who’d have documented it. 2/
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Reposted by Erik Moeller
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Hi there. Time for a proper #introduction.
Permacommons is a new initiative to build shared resources with #AI assistance. We're starting with open source software.
We've expanded on our motivation in this inaugural blog post:
permacommons.org/posts/2025-0...
Permacommons is a new initiative to build shared resources with #AI assistance. We're starting with open source software.
We've expanded on our motivation in this inaugural blog post:
permacommons.org/posts/2025-0...
Beyond UBI: Inching towards post-scarcity
A permanent commons as an alternative to (hoping for) Universal Basic Income
permacommons.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Hi there. Time for a proper #introduction.
Permacommons is a new initiative to build shared resources with #AI assistance. We're starting with open source software.
We've expanded on our motivation in this inaugural blog post:
permacommons.org/posts/2025-0...
Permacommons is a new initiative to build shared resources with #AI assistance. We're starting with open source software.
We've expanded on our motivation in this inaugural blog post:
permacommons.org/posts/2025-0...
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I just published Chabeau 0.6.0, an open source chatbot TUI. For now you still need the Rust toolchain to install it (`cargo install chabeau`).
New in this release: in-place message refinement, and editing of assistant responses.
github.com/permacommons...
#AI #LLM
New in this release: in-place message refinement, and editing of assistant responses.
github.com/permacommons...
#AI #LLM
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I just published Chabeau 0.6.0, an open source chatbot TUI. For now you still need the Rust toolchain to install it (`cargo install chabeau`).
New in this release: in-place message refinement, and editing of assistant responses.
github.com/permacommons...
#AI #LLM
New in this release: in-place message refinement, and editing of assistant responses.
github.com/permacommons...
#AI #LLM
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Reposted by Erik Moeller
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
Reposted by Erik Moeller
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.
IRS to States: Direct File Tool Is a No-Go for Next Tax Season
The IRS told its state partners this week that the Biden-era Direct File tool won’t be offered for the 2026 tax filing season.
news.bloombergtax.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Yet another way Trump is screwing working families: this was a FREE tool we set up so folks could file taxes directly, without paying an expensive service. So who does cancelling it benefit? The answer is not working Americans, but it sure is big corporations who profit off them.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 AM
this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.
The billionaire class uses its power to persuade ordinary people that it is rational and sensible to let the hungry starve and the sick suffer and die.
One version of that story is that any politics other than the privatization of the social contract is doomed to fail.
It is a lie.
One version of that story is that any politics other than the privatization of the social contract is doomed to fail.
It is a lie.
26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money.
That is how we win.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The billionaire class uses its power to persuade ordinary people that it is rational and sensible to let the hungry starve and the sick suffer and die.
One version of that story is that any politics other than the privatization of the social contract is doomed to fail.
It is a lie.
One version of that story is that any politics other than the privatization of the social contract is doomed to fail.
It is a lie.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet.
Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!
Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Folks, my team at @boltsmag.org is bringing you all the results all night... but they're not at 100K followers yet.
Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!
Let's get it there! If you've been enjoying our election coverage, press that follow button!
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Reposted by Erik Moeller
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
Reposted by Erik Moeller
What if, and stay with me, the barbaric and imperious way the United States responded to 9/11 is an enormous part of how we got here
SecDef announcing another illegal strike in the Caribbean against “narco-terrorists.”
Says the Pentagon will treat these alleged drug smugglers “EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.”
I can think of a few relevant differences between the two, eg 9/11, etc.
Says the Pentagon will treat these alleged drug smugglers “EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda.”
I can think of a few relevant differences between the two, eg 9/11, etc.
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What if, and stay with me, the barbaric and imperious way the United States responded to 9/11 is an enormous part of how we got here
Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".
I had a bug in my new ML-DSA implementation that caused Verify to reject all signatures. I gave up after half an hour. On a whim, I threw Claude Code at it. Surprisingly (to me!) it one-shotted it in 5 minutes.
A small case study of useful AI tasks that aren't generating code that requires review.
A small case study of useful AI tasks that aren't generating code that requires review.
Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography
Surprisingly (to me) Claude Code debugged my new ML-DSA implementation faster than I would have, finding the non-obvious low-level issue that was making Verify fail.
words.filippo.io
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Frankly, there are now many such stories among folks doing highly complex technical work. AI exhibits, as @emollick.bsky.social and others have noted, "jagged" capabilities (sometimes remarkably good, sometimes catastrophically bad). That's a more complex story than "useless hype" or "AGI soon".
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes, I’ve been indicted. But I don’t want people to lose sight of what got us here.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
Thank you for having me, @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social to discuss why these atrocities need to end and why there needs to be real accountability.
Funding nonprofit news -- investigative outlets like @propublica.org, specialized ones like @insideclimatenews.org, or carefully edited newsletters like HEATED -- has never been more important or more urgent.
A scoop that I’m not happy to report:
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.
heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Funding nonprofit news -- investigative outlets like @propublica.org, specialized ones like @insideclimatenews.org, or carefully edited newsletters like HEATED -- has never been more important or more urgent.
Reposted by Erik Moeller
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
This is the refugee policy of an aspirational ethnostate.
NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is the refugee policy of an aspirational ethnostate.
Judge exposed as political operative threatens journalist by alluding to connections with criminal gang that has gained control of US government.
NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Judge exposed as political operative threatens journalist by alluding to connections with criminal gang that has gained control of US government.