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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 11h

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 9h

I only open my Short Story Cohort applications a handful of times a year. If you apply and are accepted, you'll receive three months of short story coaching and critique with other writers. Applications are open now: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 1d

No food coma, but the happy afterglow of my son's first birthday yesterday is good enough for me.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like @kierongillen.bsky.social has made his name on this phenomenon

Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 2d

This depends heavily on how integrated or colluding the market actors are, however.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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S'Caren with a C @caren.bsky.social · 2d

We need to put a cap on C-suite salaries. Say 10-20x average salary, ratcheting down over a few years, including ALL compensation.

You can pay people whatever you want, but every dollar over that 10% is taxed at 100%. Every dollar over 15% is taxed 150%. And so on.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 3d

I've always favored the term vice signaling for that and its various adjacent nonsense.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 3d

When AI safety folks talk, this element of unsafe behaviour gets short shift, but this is absolutely the thing I am most worried about. We can see that imposing a worldview on these systems is possible - necessary, in some ways - and we need to talk about how that happens and under what conditions.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 4d

Not just regular politicians you absolute emptiness of a human being.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 4d

I think that you're drawing an equivalence between nazis and politicians, and I find it deeply abhorrent.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 4d

What the fuck are you talking about now?

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 4d

Trans people are in danger for their lives, American troops are on city streets, fishermen in the gulf are being murdered, and progressives are in the crosshairs for imprisonment and worse. But do go on about how mean some people (not me) are to your favourite mayoral candidate.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

For those wondering, there are a lot of technical folks who feel basically the same way about these tools.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

Democracy is not a system of everything you want, ever. If progressives cannot vote for the lesser evil sometimes, well, things get bad. As they have. You didn't have the choice of everything you wanted or a compromised vision. You had a pale vision of progress or evil and fucking darkness.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, cause nobody was screaming Biden wasn't electable in 2020.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 5d

"Heat pumps help narrow the energy gap between high- and low-income households (that is, the energy equity gap) by making cooling more affordable and indoor environments more comfortable."

Nice new paper in Nature Energy by @destenie.bsky.social and friends.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heat pumps can help alleviate residential energy insecurity in the USA - Nature Energy

In the USA, households with heat pumps tend to cool their homes earlier, and this adoption helps narrow the income-based disparities in cooling usage. Heat pumps can help to alleviate residential energy insecurity and contribute to making energy more affordable and homes more comfortable, especially in the summer.

www.nature.com

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

Yeappp

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 6d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

But I've got some Galaxy Brain Nincompoop screaming at me that the party has No Policies, which is just the dumbest, most childish take I've heard in years, so maybe it's time to take a look in the mirror and ask "Could I maybe be asking for things that don't exist at the cost of human lives?"

Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

At this point, I think that an electoral strategy built around convincing the "good" dems to switch sides is destined to fail. Y'all don't have much appetite for the shit sandwich that is democratic compromise.

Like, I get it. None of the options are awesome. But that's democracy.

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

*dance fighting

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

It's amazing how allergic some folks are to the barest hint of compromise. Folks don't want democracy, they want personal sovereignty for me with authoritarian shit for thee.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 6d

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Mike Murphy-Burton @mikemurphyburton.bsky.social · 5d

"They have not policies" isn't teaching. But that's ok, you're getting added to the plonk file.