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Not even a smug snake with a crown and two staffs complete with two extra, smaller snakes. May be a smug woman without crowns or staffs, lacking even small snakes. Have dogs and opinions, which seems less cool.

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · Jan 15

This poem came to mind again today so I’ll share it with you all: Izumi Shikibu ‘Why did you vanish into the empty sky?’

Why did you vanish
into the empty sky?
Even the fragile snow,
when it falls,
falls in this world.

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 6h

The normal person gets over school and exam grades except the fact they got an a in physics a level when their husband got a b.

charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 6h

Showing just how poor his judgement is- farage has wrecked every party he’s ever been in. He’s very good at promoting himself but hes very bad at creating structures around himself - and he cannot let go enough to hire someone to do it.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19h

This is what I’m fucking talking about with it being ok to just dislike Hamilton. I didn’t really care for it. You thought it was cringe and disliked it. Other people with different tastes liked it. Neither of you are wrong. It doesn’t Say Anything About Society.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

This is a post somebody made on this website about the broadway musical Hamilton.

I think it should be ironically enjoyed as camp.
The fact that it was a mainstream success and was lauded by a certain class of liberal punditry does deserve ridicule. Very much
Springtime for Hitler but real.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

I will write more about this Policy Exchange report when I’m back from holiday, but broadly speaking I think it’s the most serious thinking from the British right on how you’d cut spending and the test for Con and Reform is “if you don’t like this, shut up about tax rises”.

Beyond Our Means - Policy Exchange

Download Publication Online Reader The UK faces a twin-pronged fiscal crisis. At about 100% of GDP, public debt is inordinately high and is set to rise a good deal further. Debt interest alone account...

policyexchange.org.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7h

It’s because no-one likes admitting they’ve got older: if states were having to spend more for the same results because, say, AI meant that students needed to stay in school much longer, wouldn’t be as much widespread denial about it IMO.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9h

“Someone else can pay for it”ism seems to have infected huge swathes of British politics. Left variants include wealth tax, more tax on the ultra rich, “debt doesn’t matter”, etc. Right variants include deporting people on welfare, “efficiency” cuts, etc.

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 7h

Wolves domesticated themselves tho- and for example current wolf populations are probably less tame because all the wolves that were more likely to become domesticated did so, leaving the wild population more wild …

charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 7h

I think the hatred is partly because baristas can have blue hair but Rw people want their servants to visibly have less freedom. forcing conformity of looks that they impose on their servants is the desire.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

truly cursed game idea: Retirement Home Polycule. It's a card-based game where you have to build the most sustainable set of relationships before the clock ticks down.

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Luke Smith Morgan @slukemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

increasingly toying with the idea that this is the root of all "rule of law" issues. A democratic theory of the rule of law should begin with the idea that the rule of law emerges from the average citizen's lived experience. And that experience today is being ruthlessly ripped off at all times.

Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · Aug 7

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · Aug 6

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 1d

My English ancestors when they learned about the uk getting nukes
so Franice is gone then yeah? Yeah????

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

What makes is difficult in the current media environment is that Democratic politicians can say all the right things about being willing to hunt Glonzo, but there’s this expectation that someone like Jamelle Bouie should also not be allowed to say in a column “Glonzo isn’t real, you fucking morons”

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

this is true, but at a certain point enough people believe in Glonzo that you have to acknowledge that’s the terrain and maybe promise something minimally harmful like armed guards at power stations rather than just screaming that they’re morons.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

Starting in Moscow and drawing spheres of influence.

a computer screen shows a triangle and the word geogebra classic on the top left

Alt: a computer screen shows a triangle and the word geogebra classic on the top left

media.tenor.com

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 1d

It would also have forced the guy to learn how to edit his shit

charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory that lesswrong and all the many many problems with the world that it made worse wouldn’t have happened if pulp sci fi magazines that paid living wages to writers still existed.

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moo @doom2.zip · 2d

Moreover, most of their critiques apply to powerful humans too and I don't see them having any plan there for human derived hyper objects

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17d

Napster was supposed to overthrow copyright. Technology is inevitable and it’s OUT THERE! So the content industry would just have to adapt or perish.

And then the RIAA said “fuck you we have so many lawyers.” And, instead, the technological future *bent around their demands.*

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18d

But even if we grant that AIs are something like intelligent, and say "well y'see its ALIEN intelligence because it's not like us," the next step is to argue for them being conscious.

Do AIs have a sense of the self, though? Do they have wants/desires, independent of their programmed directions?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19d

Next up on my reading list.

…I am already regretting this choice.

IF ANYONE BUILDSIT, EVERYONE DIES
WHY
SUPERHUMAN AI
WOULD
KILLUS ALL
ELIEZER
YUDKOWSKY &
NATE SOARES

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

"i want to appeal to both pedophiles and necrophiles," says someone's grandmother

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

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charliefraggle.bsky.social @charliefraggle.bsky.social · 3d

Kim Kardashian doesn’t care about the moon one or the other. However by taking a ‘controversial’ stance she is being talked about! People are linking to her videos! Even when those people mock her she makes money!

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3d

Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 3d

Time for my annual dilemma between being someone who thinks that modern Halloween trends deprive people of a chance to spend time with their dead and mentally 'build an immunity' against the presence of death, and not being a massive party pooper

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since reading the Silmarillion for the first time I've been convinced it's actually a post-colonial work.

It's often not read as that because it's post-colonialism filtered through the lens of a deeply conservative British man, who has extremely strong moral & religious convictions...

Dunland National Party 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it's just the fact that I'm not a Westerling but it is very hard for me to take seriously if people try to envision racism in those bits of Tolkien's legendarium which are most straightforwardly readable as, first of all, anti-imperialist.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 3d

The fundamental problem:

58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased.

67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut.

In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.

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