Geoff A.
@pseudonymice.bsky.social
Been ill, missed the conversations. He/him. Have degrees in history and law. Had a career in politics and research. Mostly just coping with matters beyond my control these days.
A friend or mine with a physics PhD was complaining recently of a boss who had discovered AI. It's trained stochastically on hype for techs that ultimately didn't pan out, so his job is increasingly researching why yesteryear's grear tech turned out to be unfit for adoption.
December 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A friend or mine with a physics PhD was complaining recently of a boss who had discovered AI. It's trained stochastically on hype for techs that ultimately didn't pan out, so his job is increasingly researching why yesteryear's grear tech turned out to be unfit for adoption.
I can see why the artist might find it super annoying. In a sense, AI empowers the ignorant to boss around experts. If there are technical or aesrhetic reasons to do it a different way, there could be a lot of "but the AI showed you how to do it!"
December 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I can see why the artist might find it super annoying. In a sense, AI empowers the ignorant to boss around experts. If there are technical or aesrhetic reasons to do it a different way, there could be a lot of "but the AI showed you how to do it!"
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The prize goal for Stephen Miller and others who surround Trump is to trigger both the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act - formal bases for unlimited executive power.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The prize goal for Stephen Miller and others who surround Trump is to trigger both the Alien Enemies Act and the Insurrection Act - formal bases for unlimited executive power.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
A great deal of what is being done is simply them working backwards from that objective.
As an American, just wanted to say fuck you and your dogshit values.
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
As an American, just wanted to say fuck you and your dogshit values.
Mass oppression, I think....
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Mass oppression, I think....
I suppose that means a toddler whose tantrums could curl your hair is engaged in behavioral conditioning.
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I suppose that means a toddler whose tantrums could curl your hair is engaged in behavioral conditioning.
Apparently God and the Devil are back in divorce court again. Apparently there's a dispute over who should get soul custody.
December 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Apparently God and the Devil are back in divorce court again. Apparently there's a dispute over who should get soul custody.
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You can defeat your opponents without converting them. Demobilization matters.
When there's a leadership vacuum and people in a movement are fighting each other, it saps energy. They lose organizational power. Fewer of them take action. Fewer vote.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
When there's a leadership vacuum and people in a movement are fighting each other, it saps energy. They lose organizational power. Fewer of them take action. Fewer vote.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
The Erika Kirk and Candace Owens feud is tearing MAGA apart
The widow vs. the podcaster drama reveals the right's biggest weakness
www.salon.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You can defeat your opponents without converting them. Demobilization matters.
When there's a leadership vacuum and people in a movement are fighting each other, it saps energy. They lose organizational power. Fewer of them take action. Fewer vote.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
When there's a leadership vacuum and people in a movement are fighting each other, it saps energy. They lose organizational power. Fewer of them take action. Fewer vote.
www.salon.com/2025/12/15/t...
"Critics contend that the absence of any laws authorizing such a move - and a litany of laws expressly prohibiting it - render the proposal unlawful. Republicans respond, 'suck it libs'"
December 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Critics contend that the absence of any laws authorizing such a move - and a litany of laws expressly prohibiting it - render the proposal unlawful. Republicans respond, 'suck it libs'"
I remember thinking at the time "Cornhusker Compromise" will absolutely be the answer to a question on AP US History exams some day.
December 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I remember thinking at the time "Cornhusker Compromise" will absolutely be the answer to a question on AP US History exams some day.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I can guarantee you're machine watchable, and shouldn't that be close enough?
December 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can guarantee you're machine watchable, and shouldn't that be close enough?
My mother was birn in Holland and was just explaining to me the difference in dialect between Hollanders and Limbergers, over how they pronounce "ui". It's sort of a "wee" to her and an "oy" to them, apparently.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My mother was birn in Holland and was just explaining to me the difference in dialect between Hollanders and Limbergers, over how they pronounce "ui". It's sort of a "wee" to her and an "oy" to them, apparently.
What if The Left was never a Great Crusade at all? What if "leftism" was simply an emergent property of stimulating and civil discourse?
December 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
What if The Left was never a Great Crusade at all? What if "leftism" was simply an emergent property of stimulating and civil discourse?
"Unleash the doves of war!"
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Unleash the doves of war!"
I guess whining after the fact that a public interview wasn't treated as confidential is... a broken record?
December 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I guess whining after the fact that a public interview wasn't treated as confidential is... a broken record?
Can't really fashion a braggart ex nihilo.
December 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Can't really fashion a braggart ex nihilo.
Give us any chance - we'll take it. Read us any rule - we'll break it. Doin' it our way!
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Give us any chance - we'll take it. Read us any rule - we'll break it. Doin' it our way!
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A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
December 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A nuclear-armed U.S. under full totalitarian control is an existential threat to billions of people. To life on this planet.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
It's up to us, U.S. citizens living here in the imperial core, to stop it. Nobody is coming to save us. Not the U.N., not the ICJ. It's us or it's nobody.
Mine is that I shouldn't have licked the bowl so much.
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Mine is that I shouldn't have licked the bowl so much.