sujato
@sujato.bsky.social
Buddhist mendicant.
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
One of my beliefs is that the evil north is deliberately accelerating climate change. It’s rare to see this mentioned in public, though, because it's just so evil.
But it seems it was on Epstein's mind years ago, as he suggested that “Canada perhaps favored global warming, since it’s cold”. 1/x
But it seems it was on Epstein's mind years ago, as he suggested that “Canada perhaps favored global warming, since it’s cold”. 1/x
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
One of my beliefs is that the evil north is deliberately accelerating climate change. It’s rare to see this mentioned in public, though, because it's just so evil.
But it seems it was on Epstein's mind years ago, as he suggested that “Canada perhaps favored global warming, since it’s cold”. 1/x
But it seems it was on Epstein's mind years ago, as he suggested that “Canada perhaps favored global warming, since it’s cold”. 1/x
Weird weather in Sydney. Train outages because of storms. Meanwhile in Sydney
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Weird weather in Sydney. Train outages because of storms. Meanwhile in Sydney
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
Cruel, stupid children playing with matches.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Cruel, stupid children playing with matches.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
The Buddha wasn’t an effective altruist.
“Sir, where should a gift be given?”
“Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.”
“But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?”
“Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24
“Sir, where should a gift be given?”
“Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.”
“But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?”
“Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Buddha wasn’t an effective altruist.
“Sir, where should a gift be given?”
“Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.”
“But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?”
“Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24
“Sir, where should a gift be given?”
“Wherever your heart feels inspired, great king.”
“But sir, where is a gift very fruitful?”
“Where a gift should be given is one thing, great king, but where a gift is very fruitful is another.” — the Buddha, SN 3.24
‘More than a quarter of young New South Wales men who participated in a recent survey agreed that “men should use violence to get respect if necessary”, and over one-third admitted to sexually harassing a woman in the past month.’
Labor pledges action as survey reveals how many young NSW men admit to sexually harassing women
Exclusive: ‘Man box’ stereotype of appearing tough and believing in rigid gender roles linked to likelihood of committing acts of abuse, new report finds
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
‘More than a quarter of young New South Wales men who participated in a recent survey agreed that “men should use violence to get respect if necessary”, and over one-third admitted to sexually harassing a woman in the past month.’
The more you know it, the less you trust it.
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The more you know it, the less you trust it.
“Every vision of the future is really a theory of human nature and the one I choose is the one that says we can create larger than life flights of fancy when we really see each other, and that's how we lift everyone into the light.”
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Every vision of the future is really a theory of human nature and the one I choose is the one that says we can create larger than life flights of fancy when we really see each other, and that's how we lift everyone into the light.”
Good article, I've seen these claims floating around and didn't quite know what to make of them.
tl;dr: the reason it seems there are more deaths from cold than hot is that cold countries keep better records.
tl;dr: the reason it seems there are more deaths from cold than hot is that cold countries keep better records.
There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot
Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Good article, I've seen these claims floating around and didn't quite know what to make of them.
tl;dr: the reason it seems there are more deaths from cold than hot is that cold countries keep better records.
tl;dr: the reason it seems there are more deaths from cold than hot is that cold countries keep better records.
Proposal to “clear 50,000 ha” of “critical habitat” impacting “water resources in arid region”; not for “communities experiencing energy poverty and injustice” but for “sustainable” “green industry” AKA “hyperscale” AI data center.
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI data centres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader, but critics are concerned about scale
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Proposal to “clear 50,000 ha” of “critical habitat” impacting “water resources in arid region”; not for “communities experiencing energy poverty and injustice” but for “sustainable” “green industry” AKA “hyperscale” AI data center.
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
The extreme right are just nazis and we should stop pretending otherwise. Use the word for the thing.
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The extreme right are just nazis and we should stop pretending otherwise. Use the word for the thing.
I am begging people to understand that claims about reduced emissions are routinely based on dodgy accounting like this.
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I am begging people to understand that claims about reduced emissions are routinely based on dodgy accounting like this.
His every word is a debasement. Don't use his language, not as a joke, not ironically, not to turn it around.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
His every word is a debasement. Don't use his language, not as a joke, not ironically, not to turn it around.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Things were sooooo different way back in the 80s, sex-wise! Boys were boys and no-one thought twice about it. Or so they say.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Things were sooooo different way back in the 80s, sex-wise! Boys were boys and no-one thought twice about it. Or so they say.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
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"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'A national humiliation': Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero.
johnmenadue.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
In body text on the web, never use:
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
In body text on the web, never use:
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
This lil fella appeared to me today. Who is it?
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This lil fella appeared to me today. Who is it?
Government by AI is a direct path to global oligarchical totalitarianism.
Government using machine learning to help create draft plans for NDIS participants, documents reveal
Exclusive: NDIA defines machine learning as a subset of AI that uses algorithms to learn from data and make decisions or predictions
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Government by AI is a direct path to global oligarchical totalitarianism.
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.