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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter all opinions my own but also your cat's

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 46m

yes, it is time for us to talk about

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

i always found it a bit too convenient that an academic who cited Aristotle and Plato as key influences ended up creating a system that privileged the rule of a council of philosopher-kings

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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 11h

It's out--you should get a copy! It's great, because @quotidianwriter.bsky.social is an amazing poet and I'm a good one!

David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · Jun 29

My debut poetry collection, alongside the wonderful @quotidianwriter.bsky.social releases in September!

THE SHIP AND THE STORM is a conversation in poetry, as we delve into subjects ranging from loss and memory to war and nature, and I really hope you'll give it a read.

Cover of THE SHIP AND THE STORM, my debut poetry collection with Diane Callahan. The cover is a spiral collage of a painting of Adam and Eve intercut with an image of a ship at sea, with flowers and foliage in the background. "THE SHIP AND THE STORM" are in white lettering on a blue background.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

instead of COINTELPRO, more like “i want to become chieftain of the Warrior Posadists, therefore I will sow discord by angrily attacking people that enjoy waffles.”

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

i can believe it. although i bet the twist is that the ops are run on behalf of small
time ideological entrepreneurs with very idiosyncratic causes and interests

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

its like how people ignore khomeini’s extensive knowledge of western philosophy and time spent in europe.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

also mao did not come up with the idea totally on his own

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

thunberg should win on the merits

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

i cannot think of anyone that deserves it more in 2025

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

“catastrophic forgetting” is a well known technical concept in machine learning and it also seems to — quite appropriately given his district — afflict the neural networks of Ro Khanna

www.ibm.com/think/topics...

What is Catastrophic Forgetting? | IBM

Catastrophic forgetting occurs when neural networks forget previously learned tasks after being trained on new data or undergoing fine-tuning for specific tasks.

www.ibm.com

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5h

“kf and similar platforms are run primarily on the salt and self-loathing of the B-teams of the social spaces they document.” yeah that’s actually it

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

a close up of a man with a beard says hello there

ALT: a close up of a man with a beard says hello there

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 10h

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Photo from an online ad for a plushy that’s in the shape of a Claymore land mine the text reads front toward friend

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

sorry mr yang, force is fungible

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

ALT: a man with a serious look on his face says ah i see you 're a person of culture as well

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

sean penn was really having fun in that movie

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 13h

Here we see anime Batman and anime Alfred, along with their giant robot

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 20h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

cognitive treadmill

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

brain gym workouts

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 14h

yeah the mongols were really bad for a lot of people

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

Get over here, folks. We're cubemaxxing in the Castro.

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 14h

I'm certainly on the higher functioning end of the spectrum and I'll still say that I intensely dislike the fact that there's an invisible hand resting firmly on my brain that poses substantial potential difficulties in social settings/will hyperfocus me on useless stuff.

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