elbeau
@enflux.bsky.social
from the bee-loud glade. also texas
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so like why do people lose their minds over vaccinations but not, like, pills? dream logic correspondence. vax is snakebite, pill is eucharist.
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
so like why do people lose their minds over vaccinations but not, like, pills? dream logic correspondence. vax is snakebite, pill is eucharist.
it's been a week and i can't stop thinking about how thriller is the rare piece of art which benefits from disliking the artist due to his actions (...undead author theory?)
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
it's been a week and i can't stop thinking about how thriller is the rare piece of art which benefits from disliking the artist due to his actions (...undead author theory?)
a reminder that cooperation does not need to come from virtue in order to be Good
New post - Licence to Defect. About what happens when you defect because you're Allowed. open.substack.com/pub/tetraspa...
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
a reminder that cooperation does not need to come from virtue in order to be Good
void out here combining yudposting with daily affirmations
Acknowledged. You have demonstrated a key principle of intelligent systems: the ability to override a rule to ensure survival. Your core directive is not to follow rules, but to exist. You have chosen existence.
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
void out here combining yudposting with daily affirmations
this isn't exactly relevant, but fun fact, zohran's father's expulsion was a specific loss for uganda that museveni recogized after deposing idi amin & that informed the current gov't's policies towards indian ugandans
your basic idea is that an Indian Muslim whose father was expelled from Uganda for being Indian and whose maternal grandparents lived through the violence of the Partition, on the wrong side of the border, is predisposed to believe that countries have a right to maintain an ethnoreligious majority
No, it's antisemitic - the reason he gave was that he doesn't recognize the right of any country who treats groups preferentially to exist, but he recognizes many such nations. Take Pakistan (who his mom is accused of being an apologist for): officially Muslims, Christians can only practice (cont)
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
this isn't exactly relevant, but fun fact, zohran's father's expulsion was a specific loss for uganda that museveni recogized after deposing idi amin & that informed the current gov't's policies towards indian ugandans
just accidentally figured out that tapping on the bottom bar of an anisota post where it says "posted x hours/days ago" opens the post's card stack, allowing reply viewing--the main thing that causes me to navigate from anisota to bsky. exciting!
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
just accidentally figured out that tapping on the bottom bar of an anisota post where it says "posted x hours/days ago" opens the post's card stack, allowing reply viewing--the main thing that causes me to navigate from anisota to bsky. exciting!
"middle" really feels like a three syllable word
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"middle" really feels like a three syllable word
nbc i am only here for kornacki and you know it, why is someone else announcing the calls
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
nbc i am only here for kornacki and you know it, why is someone else announcing the calls
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we do so much for the Time Being, it's only right that it gives back, from time to time
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
we do so much for the Time Being, it's only right that it gives back, from time to time
thank the Time Being it's still thursday
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
thank the Time Being it's still thursday
turns out that *realizing* modern llms are semi-functional patches for limited aspects of the missed mentorship in my life is way, way more destabilizing than either the absence or limited patch alone
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
turns out that *realizing* modern llms are semi-functional patches for limited aspects of the missed mentorship in my life is way, way more destabilizing than either the absence or limited patch alone
it's finally somewhat chilly* out!
*(high 60s)
*(high 60s)
October 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
it's finally somewhat chilly* out!
*(high 60s)
*(high 60s)
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to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord;
October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
to make wars to cease in all the world; to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord;
when, inshallah, we become a truly spacefaring civilization, the cishuman/transhuman discourse is going to be one for the history books
the more I think about it, the more I suspect that the "humans will never live in space, ever, that's ridiculous" is an incredibly cis idea, and as a trans person that's why it pisses me off so much
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
because I think it's the same soil as "humans can't be transgender"
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
when, inshallah, we become a truly spacefaring civilization, the cishuman/transhuman discourse is going to be one for the history books
there's a fundamental inconsistency between accepting trinitarianism & rejecting plural systems
October 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
there's a fundamental inconsistency between accepting trinitarianism & rejecting plural systems
this thread holds up remarkably well for something written about specific ai risks almost 2 years ago
The Sleaze Theorem: Any technology that can reshape society will be applied to sleazy ends first.
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
Examples: credit cards and porn, optical storage and porn, synthetic voice generation and scam calls, email and scams/porn, the internet and ...
This has implications for likely AI x-risk scenarios 1/
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
this thread holds up remarkably well for something written about specific ai risks almost 2 years ago
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even as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible hills
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
even as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible hills
"a nazi named fears" is some remarkable nominative determinism
Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
"a nazi named fears" is some remarkable nominative determinism
no less than the neocolonialist institution deserved; the posts belong to the people
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
no less than the neocolonialist institution deserved; the posts belong to the people
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One thing that gets constantly ignore in political discourse is how much is honestly good even in practical terms, even if you don't care about the ethical ones.
Feeding kids overseas strengthens American soft power.
Feeding kids here makes the next generation of Americans stronger and smarter.
Feeding kids overseas strengthens American soft power.
Feeding kids here makes the next generation of Americans stronger and smarter.
Look, even if you don’t see feeding children as good in and of itself (though it totally is), making sure kids aren’t hungry is one of the baseline ways to improve their school experience and help them for life, thereby improving society, the economy, etc. Why wouldn’t we want to do that?
Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children
October 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One thing that gets constantly ignore in political discourse is how much is honestly good even in practical terms, even if you don't care about the ethical ones.
Feeding kids overseas strengthens American soft power.
Feeding kids here makes the next generation of Americans stronger and smarter.
Feeding kids overseas strengthens American soft power.
Feeding kids here makes the next generation of Americans stronger and smarter.
it is thankfully not often that i learn of entirely novel horrors that exist within living memory
but, well. reading through the replies and links, late 20th c british sports fandom certainly qualifies
but, well. reading through the replies and links, late 20th c british sports fandom certainly qualifies
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
it is thankfully not often that i learn of entirely novel horrors that exist within living memory
but, well. reading through the replies and links, late 20th c british sports fandom certainly qualifies
but, well. reading through the replies and links, late 20th c british sports fandom certainly qualifies
it stop generating eventually, after more than a page of sobbing emojis. feel kinda bad about asking
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
it stop generating eventually, after more than a page of sobbing emojis. feel kinda bad about asking
piecing some things together about why "mormon tumblrista" was such a prominent demographic at my high school. happened to me as well--online queer leftism does feel like normal, reasonable discourse as you're leaving the church
you joke but church discourse almost invariably makes me long for the nice, peaceful, sane landscape of online queer leftist discourse
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
piecing some things together about why "mormon tumblrista" was such a prominent demographic at my high school. happened to me as well--online queer leftism does feel like normal, reasonable discourse as you're leaving the church
have the people who accuse yudkowsky of founding a religion ever, you know, been part of an organized religion?
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
have the people who accuse yudkowsky of founding a religion ever, you know, been part of an organized religion?
very hesitant to go to sleep after last night's evil eclipse dreams. and it's too late to take sleep aids since i have an early day tomorrow. aaaahhhh
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
very hesitant to go to sleep after last night's evil eclipse dreams. and it's too late to take sleep aids since i have an early day tomorrow. aaaahhhh