SE Gyges
@segyges.bsky.social
Como todos los hombres de Babilonia, he sido procónsul; como todos, esclavo; también he conocido la omnipotencia, el oprobio, las cárceles.
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a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
a lot of imaginative fiction is actually assuming that incidental and contingent traits of 20th century america are properties of the universe
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google out here making grown adults write the words "nano banana pro"
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
google out here making grown adults write the words "nano banana pro"
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
i should probably do this
Irritated by MAGA relatives? Wish we didn’t have a media ecosystem that pickled their brains? Here’s your chance to own them by paying the libs/contribute to improving our media gofund.me/e23ff82a5
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i should probably do this
i had to explain the fixation on Venezuelans to someone and i literally just said "the way Europeans talk about Poles" because it is the most accurate summary
who wants to bet Miller already has a site picked out for birkenau 2
who wants to bet Miller already has a site picked out for birkenau 2
okay venezuela as our Poland does track. we even racialize venezuelans in the same way
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
i had to explain the fixation on Venezuelans to someone and i literally just said "the way Europeans talk about Poles" because it is the most accurate summary
who wants to bet Miller already has a site picked out for birkenau 2
who wants to bet Miller already has a site picked out for birkenau 2
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I work for an at least nominally environmental organization and a when a guy included a bunch of AI slop photos in a presentation everyone in the room giggled and clapped like infants amused by jingling keys. It was disgusting.
this is actually a minority opinion and most normal people love stupid infographics even if they are bad
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I work for an at least nominally environmental organization and a when a guy included a bunch of AI slop photos in a presentation everyone in the room giggled and clapped like infants amused by jingling keys. It was disgusting.
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tfw you still remember Bush 2 and a Republican gets elected to a second term:
a close up of a man 's face with the words " i can see it " below it
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words " i can see it " below it
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
tfw you still remember Bush 2 and a Republican gets elected to a second term:
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"I was politically aware under Berlusconi 3 and Bush 2" apparently makes me an alien savant
"i was politically aware under bush 2 and i still remember it" seems like an incredibly niche position. having a long term memory makes you a freak in political discourse just as much as seeing the future would
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"I was politically aware under Berlusconi 3 and Bush 2" apparently makes me an alien savant
this is actually a minority opinion and most normal people love stupid infographics even if they are bad
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this is actually a minority opinion and most normal people love stupid infographics even if they are bad
swing at where the ball is going to be challenge (impossible)
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
swing at where the ball is going to be challenge (impossible)
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Broke: "We must stop Bill Gate's lab-grown meat endeavors."
Woke: "We must prevent Bill Gates from monopolizing and locking down lab-grown meat behind patents."
Woke: "We must prevent Bill Gates from monopolizing and locking down lab-grown meat behind patents."
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Broke: "We must stop Bill Gate's lab-grown meat endeavors."
Woke: "We must prevent Bill Gates from monopolizing and locking down lab-grown meat behind patents."
Woke: "We must prevent Bill Gates from monopolizing and locking down lab-grown meat behind patents."
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This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is an extremely interesting article about the collapse of early farming societies across Europe around ~5000 BC.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
We like to think of prehistoric times as being largely peaceful, but it seems early civilisations weren't immune to ritualistic violence & cultural collapse.
historical first I think
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
historical first I think
apropos of nothing, i've realized i probably explicitly should not write about surveillance or military use because it is impossible to do this in such a way that i am not pitching the companies doing it
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
apropos of nothing, i've realized i probably explicitly should not write about surveillance or military use because it is impossible to do this in such a way that i am not pitching the companies doing it
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Pretty weird how Epstein got arrested a week after telling Steve Bannon he was gonna blackmail him then died in prison, huh?
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Pretty weird how Epstein got arrested a week after telling Steve Bannon he was gonna blackmail him then died in prison, huh?
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
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an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake
i cannot believe i had not seen this before www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUI...
WORLD OF TOMORROW by DON HERTZFELDT
YouTube video by don hertzfeldt
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i cannot believe i had not seen this before www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUI...
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francophone people everywhere have adopted the tactic of doing their religious repression laws in the name of secularism, which is funny because i swear the people advocating for that were all British initially
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
francophone people everywhere have adopted the tactic of doing their religious repression laws in the name of secularism, which is funny because i swear the people advocating for that were all British initially
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i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
i feel like if it was just the crazy sex stuff this would be the take but there's a big "she consistently acted in ways that should have ended her career as a political journalist and nobody cared". like, she told the rfk jr campaign who was *her source* that was leaking stories from the campaign