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@aiun.bsky.social
"Become plural like the universe" -Pessoa. (they/them)
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New display name for the Dutilleux heads.
Is this platform still massively against the Red Goddess Sedenya, or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Is this platform still massively against the Red Goddess Sedenya, or has it moved more towards acceptance?
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Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
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The state does not actually get to presumptively make "making it possible for someone to talk to a minor" a crime, even though the obvious figleaf of calling it an "unfair or deceptive trade practice"!
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The state does not actually get to presumptively make "making it possible for someone to talk to a minor" a crime, even though the obvious figleaf of calling it an "unfair or deceptive trade practice"!
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there’s lots of good food
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
there’s lots of good food
Terra Ignota. As many movies as it takes. All actors are nonbinary except Madame D'Arouet, who is played by the hottest cis person we can find. It's still most gazey about Sniper.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Terra Ignota. As many movies as it takes. All actors are nonbinary except Madame D'Arouet, who is played by the hottest cis person we can find. It's still most gazey about Sniper.
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A four-part adaptation of Dykes to Watch Out For. A 260-minute CinemaScope epic on the life of Julie d'Aubigny. Cel-animated depictions of the Battles of Balaclava, North Cape, Chancellorsville, and Mobile Bay.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
A four-part adaptation of Dykes to Watch Out For. A 260-minute CinemaScope epic on the life of Julie d'Aubigny. Cel-animated depictions of the Battles of Balaclava, North Cape, Chancellorsville, and Mobile Bay.
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did looking up when the branagh movie come out reveal to me for the first time that there was a 2011 stage production of MUCH ADO w/catherine tate and david tennant as beatrice and benedict? incredibly, yes
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
did looking up when the branagh movie come out reveal to me for the first time that there was a 2011 stage production of MUCH ADO w/catherine tate and david tennant as beatrice and benedict? incredibly, yes
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i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
At least once a month, Anthropic puts out an alignment paper d AI behavior where, if you saw it in a science fiction film, you‘d be screaming at the idiot scientists onscreen to stop development
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
www.anthropic.com/research/eme...
From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
i'm going to sound sarcastic here but genuinely one of the most interesting aspects of LLMs is that they are proving that evil is real, by which i mean if you train them to do one bad thing they start doing other bad things that you have not trained them to do
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when we say “Glorantha is mean to be Bronze Age” this is what we mean.
Thinking of the Helmand Culture woman from Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran with the sick ass golden artificial eye again.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
when we say “Glorantha is mean to be Bronze Age” this is what we mean.
Wrote 4000 words today for @effinvicta.bsky.social to read... a good day. :D
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Wrote 4000 words today for @effinvicta.bsky.social to read... a good day. :D
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I am amazingly proud to have inspired this
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I am amazingly proud to have inspired this
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if I had a nickel for every time I've encountered a Statue of Liberty in Japan I'd have two nickels, et cetera, et cetera
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
if I had a nickel for every time I've encountered a Statue of Liberty in Japan I'd have two nickels, et cetera, et cetera
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"No," I said. "I was your defense attorney, remember? [Name] was the prosecutor."
"That's impossible," said Client. "You told me the truth the whole time. [Name] lied on my name nonstop. Only defense attorneys do that. I've watched Law and Order.
"That's impossible," said Client. "You told me the truth the whole time. [Name] lied on my name nonstop. Only defense attorneys do that. I've watched Law and Order.
November 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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so I went to that weird vending machine corner in Akihabara and the disclaimer on the machine is raising a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer
November 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
so I went to that weird vending machine corner in Akihabara and the disclaimer on the machine is raising a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
🤯
If this is leaving you wondering why objects made of the same material don't just fuse together when they touch - that's a better question than you think because the answer is really complicated and sometimes it DOES happen, causing, say, a door on a space station to randomly weld itself open
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🤯
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November 22, 1983: Portland scores on five layups/dunks in the last 0:51 after Denver coach Doug Moe tells his team to let the Blazers break their single-game scoring record of 150 PTS.
Moe was fined $5K and suspended 2 games for "ordering (the Nuggets) to quit playing defense."
Moe was fined $5K and suspended 2 games for "ordering (the Nuggets) to quit playing defense."
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
November 22, 1983: Portland scores on five layups/dunks in the last 0:51 after Denver coach Doug Moe tells his team to let the Blazers break their single-game scoring record of 150 PTS.
Moe was fined $5K and suspended 2 games for "ordering (the Nuggets) to quit playing defense."
Moe was fined $5K and suspended 2 games for "ordering (the Nuggets) to quit playing defense."
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Crazy aura farming to go to a meeting about how your invention is impossible with a working version of your invention
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Crazy aura farming to go to a meeting about how your invention is impossible with a working version of your invention
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me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
me: oh god it can't get worse can it
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
roblox ceo: we are innovating ways to get kids addicted to gambling
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one thing I like about this account is that the context is so ephemeral
Resign it then and leave thine insolence.
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
one thing I like about this account is that the context is so ephemeral
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Yes, the Renaissance (& many eras) are full of examples of the pattern that the very rich try to turn wealth into power. If the system won’t let them, they’ll break the system to do it. Contrast the instability of Genoa (no new families could join the elite) with Venice (the 0.01% could be voted in)
In which TPM reminds me of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Reinventing the Renaissance
"But it’s also an effort by those who have had a vast run-up in wealth over the last quarter century wanting to use that wealth to lock in that wealth by the acquisition of direct political power."
tinyurl.com/5fb38p9j
"But it’s also an effort by those who have had a vast run-up in wealth over the last quarter century wanting to use that wealth to lock in that wealth by the acquisition of direct political power."
tinyurl.com/5fb38p9j
The Brittle Grip of Ultra-Wealth
Just before I began writing this post, I saw this article from...
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Yes, the Renaissance (& many eras) are full of examples of the pattern that the very rich try to turn wealth into power. If the system won’t let them, they’ll break the system to do it. Contrast the instability of Genoa (no new families could join the elite) with Venice (the 0.01% could be voted in)
Proof positive that BEOWULF (2007) was a war crime:
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Proof positive that BEOWULF (2007) was a war crime:
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If the words "Great Barrier Reef" provoke a twinge in your gut - "no, please, not more bleaching" - let that twinge release. A new technique of collecting and redeploying unspawned coral larvae holds exciting promise for reef restoration.
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If the words "Great Barrier Reef" provoke a twinge in your gut - "no, please, not more bleaching" - let that twinge release. A new technique of collecting and redeploying unspawned coral larvae holds exciting promise for reef restoration.
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm
tinyurl.com/2bmkbwdm