Leif Hancox-Li, PhD
@struthious.bsky.social
Applied scientist working on LLM evaluation and publishing in AI ethics. Formerly: technical writing, philosophy. Urbanism nerd in my spare time. Opinions here my own. he/they 🏳️⚧️. https://boltzmann-brain.github.io/
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Just a human here 🙏 Writing this with my actual hands—no AI involved ✨
Key takeaways:
- Authenticity matters
- Connection is key
- I have real emotions
At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇
Key takeaways:
- Authenticity matters
- Connection is key
- I have real emotions
At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Just a human here 🙏 Writing this with my actual hands—no AI involved ✨
Key takeaways:
- Authenticity matters
- Connection is key
- I have real emotions
At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇
Key takeaways:
- Authenticity matters
- Connection is key
- I have real emotions
At the end of the day, genuine expression is what sets us apart 🫶 Thoughts? 👇
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Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.
A remarkably large portion of American elites, even among the supposedly progressive and moderate ones, actually seems to not-so-secretly entertain fantasies of Imperial Grandeur.
January 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.
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Why are supermarket prices actually so high in New York City? The great @stephenjacobsmith.com does a deep dive into the real-world forces that keep many grocery stores out. We promise you'll learn a thing or two or five.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...
Vital City | The Real Reasons New Yorkers’ Groceries Cost So Much
Mamdani’s public supermarket proposal is a distraction. To get cheaper apples, the Big Apple must correctly diagnose why prices are high.
www.vitalcitynyc.org
January 14, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Why are supermarket prices actually so high in New York City? The great @stephenjacobsmith.com does a deep dive into the real-world forces that keep many grocery stores out. We promise you'll learn a thing or two or five.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/nyc...
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"May your house be on CNN" —Bosnian proverb from 1990s
January 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
"May your house be on CNN" —Bosnian proverb from 1990s
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They’re literally acting like fucking Russians
take a second to really wrap your head around this.
January 13, 2026 at 11:53 PM
They’re literally acting like fucking Russians
density enables resistance!
Lots of cynical lefties on here been arguing there's no way for Confederate terrorists to wage effective war against the US because there's not enough of them, and it's a big country.
Misses the point. A suburban populace is remarkably easy to put down with a mid-sized militia.
Misses the point. A suburban populace is remarkably easy to put down with a mid-sized militia.
It's 10am in Minneapolis and rapid response is underwater, reports of chemicals deployed already.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
As others have pointed out, the ratio of feds (with more arriving) to residents and square mileage here is extreme compared to what we experienced in Chicago.
We are in freefall.
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
density enables resistance!
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Broke: Moderate goals with moderate rhetoric
Woke: Radical goals with radical rhetoric
Bespoke: Radical goals with moderate rhetoric
Woke: Radical goals with radical rhetoric
Bespoke: Radical goals with moderate rhetoric
January 13, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Broke: Moderate goals with moderate rhetoric
Woke: Radical goals with radical rhetoric
Bespoke: Radical goals with moderate rhetoric
Woke: Radical goals with radical rhetoric
Bespoke: Radical goals with moderate rhetoric
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Insane framing. City Council forced the apps to pay the workers an actual wage. So they raised prices and did that, then stopped guilting customers into tipping so hard. If you want delivery cyclists to earn $35/hour, have the courage of your convictions and advocate for that as a minimum wage.
The average tip for a worker making deliveries for UberEats and DoorDash decreased from $3.66 per delivery to 93 cents per delivery in just one week after the companies moved the tipping option, the DCWP found. The average UberEats or DoorDash tip has since dropped to just 76 cents.
Delivery Apps Have Stolen $550M From Workers By Changing How Customers Tip: Mamdani Admin. Report - Streetsblog New York City
Uber and DoorDash have cost workers half a million dollars in lost tips, the Mamdani administration charged.
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Insane framing. City Council forced the apps to pay the workers an actual wage. So they raised prices and did that, then stopped guilting customers into tipping so hard. If you want delivery cyclists to earn $35/hour, have the courage of your convictions and advocate for that as a minimum wage.
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It's ALL really just misogyny all the way down, and being unable to admit that is part of the problem.
"Cringe" and "woke"-as-perjorative are both just versions of "Don't be such a GIRL/p***y/gay!" rebranded for Millennials who didn't want to sound like (outright) slur-using Xers and Boomers.
"Cringe" and "woke"-as-perjorative are both just versions of "Don't be such a GIRL/p***y/gay!" rebranded for Millennials who didn't want to sound like (outright) slur-using Xers and Boomers.
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 AM
It's ALL really just misogyny all the way down, and being unable to admit that is part of the problem.
"Cringe" and "woke"-as-perjorative are both just versions of "Don't be such a GIRL/p***y/gay!" rebranded for Millennials who didn't want to sound like (outright) slur-using Xers and Boomers.
"Cringe" and "woke"-as-perjorative are both just versions of "Don't be such a GIRL/p***y/gay!" rebranded for Millennials who didn't want to sound like (outright) slur-using Xers and Boomers.
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ngl I don't know why environmentalists didn't seem super concerned about China shifting from American soybeans to Brazilian/Argentinian ones. Surely Nebraska is a better place to grow them than clearing out the Amazon...
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
ngl I don't know why environmentalists didn't seem super concerned about China shifting from American soybeans to Brazilian/Argentinian ones. Surely Nebraska is a better place to grow them than clearing out the Amazon...
I have an international vacation planned for march but I’m unwilling to plan any international vacations beyond that because *waves at everything*
i can’t be the only one thinking this. airlines can cry harder
i can’t be the only one thinking this. airlines can cry harder
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I have an international vacation planned for march but I’m unwilling to plan any international vacations beyond that because *waves at everything*
i can’t be the only one thinking this. airlines can cry harder
i can’t be the only one thinking this. airlines can cry harder
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We took a taxi from the hotel to Taipei's airport MRT station. After security checks our passport pic & boarding pass (phone), we place our luggage in this machine. After it is weighed, it prints a luggage tag. After we put it on, the bag disappears to go through xray.
January 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
We took a taxi from the hotel to Taipei's airport MRT station. After security checks our passport pic & boarding pass (phone), we place our luggage in this machine. After it is weighed, it prints a luggage tag. After we put it on, the bag disappears to go through xray.
This is reminiscent of how collecting demographic data in order to test for fairness increases legal risk for banks, so they'd rather not collect it and instead try to guess your demographics in various ways.
I have an op-ed in the NYT today about the Grok scandal, sharing my research from last year finding that legal risk hinders AI companies from making their models safer against CSAM - an echo of the years where white-hat hackers were chilled from good-faith research. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
Opinion | There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
This is reminiscent of how collecting demographic data in order to test for fairness increases legal risk for banks, so they'd rather not collect it and instead try to guess your demographics in various ways.
Yes please. Ditch the New Left or we will never get anything done
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
January 12, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Yes please. Ditch the New Left or we will never get anything done
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Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
I'd be worried about the influx of transphobes tbh
hope the UK follows through and blocks twitter but bsky is simply not prepared for becoming disproportionately British
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd be worried about the influx of transphobes tbh
we love multipolarity
How many nuclear weapons states do we think there will be by the end of the century? My money is on around thirty.
January 12, 2026 at 2:42 PM
we love multipolarity
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I only ask how much more anyone would want to see before deciding on maximal obstruction against this administration
January 12, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I only ask how much more anyone would want to see before deciding on maximal obstruction against this administration
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I want to be clear here that fascistic regimes don't really need a pretext to kill people who oppose them. But we make it a whole lot easier when we force everyone into a 4,000 pound vehicle that governments can credibly claim could be weaponized at any moment, or not, as suits their purposes.
When the Government Says You're 'Weaponizing' Your Car — Streetsblog USA
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers have been brutalizing and killing people who they perceive as threats. Is mass automobility multiplying their pretext to do it?
usa.streetsblog.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I want to be clear here that fascistic regimes don't really need a pretext to kill people who oppose them. But we make it a whole lot easier when we force everyone into a 4,000 pound vehicle that governments can credibly claim could be weaponized at any moment, or not, as suits their purposes.
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This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
January 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍
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Even just that first paragraph hits too close to home, I'm afraid.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
January 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Even just that first paragraph hits too close to home, I'm afraid.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.
![Screenshot of a BI Global Rates & FX chat on Bloomberg
MEMBER 58738
03:21:51 only plan master is project 2025, worth keeping that in mind as it has big implications for policy (google project 2025 observer for a live tracker)
MEMBER 18207
03:24:09 GM!
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03:24:48 Wow I didn't know they wanted to get rid of Finra, lol
03:25:25 "Consider if the FTC should enforce antitrust "or even continue to exist""
03:25:33 Interesting stuff, thanks for that 738
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04:41:30 738, thanks for that, this objective is interesting: "abolish the Federal Reserve..."
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04:45:23 Return to the gold standard: The plan advocates reviving commodity-backed currency—a gold standard—as opposed to modern fiat money. [blog.uwsp.edu], [econbrowser.com]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pnx2fjuannbdpy3337ggthpp/bafkreic3xkl65ajvme3j4wfo22x55tcrrxqqkygccrx5kz3sx4axdslrpm@jpeg)
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
European bond traders are discovering Project 2025 for the first time.
can things stop happening
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
can things stop happening
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff