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J.D. Moyer
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J.D. Moyer @jdmoyer.bsky.social · 10d
The Last Crucible (Book 3 of Reclaimed Earth) is out now on Flame Tree Press. "Best installment yet" "Favorite of the series" "Superb reading!" www.amazon.com/Last-Crucibl...
The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth)
The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth) [Moyer, J.D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth)
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I'm always learning new phrases and concepts from Cory Doctorow #reversecentaur www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqp...
Why The Economics of AI “Can’t Be Made To Pencil Out” - ft. Cory Doctorow | Capitalisn’t Clips
YouTube video by Capitalisn't
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December 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Nothing could better sum up where we are as a culture
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 5d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Last Crucible (Book 3 of Reclaimed Earth) is out now on Flame Tree Press. "Best installment yet" "Favorite of the series" "Superb reading!" www.amazon.com/Last-Crucibl...
The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth)
The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth) [Moyer, J.D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Last Crucible (3) (Reclaimed Earth)
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December 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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New post on the blog: www.jdmoyer.com/2025/12/21/i...
I'm Giving You Permission to NOT Make Short Form Videos - J.D. Moyer
Short-form videos (including TikTok, YouTube shorts, etc.) are the new ultra-processed food of the attention space. Bite-sized, super-engaging, effortless to consume, short-form videos melt your brain...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This!
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Trainium sounds like unobtanium
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Many will assume that Sora represents a new era of social media, but that's wrong. All it does is reanimate our current one. It's trying to hold on to something people have a diminishing use for. "We're certainly beyond the hashtag, clout- chasing, and desire-for-virality era of social media," Fraser says. Across social media, people have expressed that Sora is yet another example of techies manufacturing supply when there isn't even a demand. "What problem are we solving here? They're like, 'You can try the new app. You can make a moose have a spa day! I don't need to make a moose have a spa day," comedy writer Matt Buechele said on Instagram. "Like, cancer still exists." The uptick in artificial social networks, Fraser tells me, is being driven by the same tech egoists who have eroded public trust and inflamed social isolation through "divisive" algorithms. "[Theyl are now profiting on that isolation by creating spaces where folks can surround themselves with sycophantic bots."
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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If this proves safe, huge win for Chinese science and medicine www.ibtimes.sg/medical-brea...
Medical Breakthrough: Chinese Scientists Develop Bone Glue That Heals Fractures in Just Three Minutes
Chinese scientists in East China's Zhejiang Province have made a patented product called "Bone-02",a breakthrough medical glue that can mend fractured bones in three minutes. Mimicking oyster shells, ...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I have great memories of Disneyland and still enjoy going to parks, and the company owns incredible IP. But I sold DIS today, cancelled Disney+, and won't spend a dime on Disney products until they bring back Kimmel and start to show a little backbone #boycottDisney
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Good #blackpill explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcw0...
Blackpill Aesthetics: A Crash Course in Meme Extremism
YouTube video by Cy Canterel
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September 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Kirk's killer may be extreme right "groyper" (which I had to look up today) www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter
From what we know so far, the suspect seems to be part of the 'groyper' movement of far-right online agitators
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September 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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anti-vax stuff is toxically unpopular. everywhere, every time it is polled, every time it becomes a major election issue. to the extent MAHA and RFK Jr. don't have polling numbers as low as this it's because they've (with the media's help) lied about the extremism of their anti-vax position.
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Sep 7
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans.

As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA.

See this:
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 31
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness.

Dems should polarize this debate to the max.

Thoughts on this here:

newrepublic.com/article/1998...
September 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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If you're in California's 11th Congressional District and not yet familiar with Saikat Chakrabarti, I got a chance to meet him yesterday--here are my thoughts www.jdmoyer.com/2025/09/07/i...
If You're Looking for an Alternative to Nancy Pelosi... - J.D. Moyer
Yesterday I got the chance to meet Saikat Chakrabarti, who’s running against Nancy Pelosi in California’s 11th congressional district. He has my vote for the following reasons: I agree with the vast m...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A lot of other confusing things make sense when you internalize this somewhat non-intuitive part of the process.
izzz.bsky.social B. Otterlake @izzz.bsky.social · Jul 3
Wrote about what's really going on when you talk to an AI assistant
The system prompt defines the character Claude is supposed to play: an intelligent assistant with “depth and wisdom”, possessing its own thoughts and point of view, capable of emotions like interest and enjoyment. It’s told explicitly not to claim that it lacks sentience or subjective experience — rather, to treat the question of its own consciousness as intriguingly unknowable. How does Claude understand, purely on a language level, what any of this means? How does it know what a friendly, possibly-sentient AI is, or how such an entity is supposed to act? Like any LLM, it draws on what exists in its training data. And since an “intelligent assistant” is something which, until very recently, was only a speculative concept, Claude’s behavior — and the behavior of every AI assistant — is constructed largely from what exists in fiction. A chatbot’s system prompt is the invisible beginning of every conversation it has with a user. (The final line of Claude’s prompt is “Claude is now being connected with a person.”) When the user types a question or instruction, the text they enter is appended to the end of the system prompt, and the LLM is then made to generate more words — a few sentences or paragraphs that seem appropriate, on some deep-probabilistic level, as a continuation of the existing text — which are presented to the user as a response. To be totally clear about what’s happening here: the language model is doing next-token prediction on a document whose first several thousand words establish everything that follows as a conversation between a human and a highly advanced artificial mind — a type of mind that doesn’t really exist, but that the model is designed to roleplay. When a person uses Claude or ChatGPT, they’re meant to believe they’re interacting with a helpful AI assistant. What they’re actually doing is collaborating with a language model on writing a work of science fiction about a human talking to an AI.
July 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Nope Brigade speaking some truth www.youtube.com/watch?v=klSu...
Leftists Have to Stop Prioritizing Comfort
YouTube video by Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate
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June 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New role model in case I live to be 98 www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgoo...
From the chaoticgood community on Reddit: 98 year old WW2 veteran crushes a Tesla in with a tank - Fuck Elon
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May 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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New post on the blog, some thoughts on power and the desire for authoritarian rule www.jdmoyer.com/2025/05/03/f...
Four Types of Power, Revisited (a political framework) - J.D. Moyer
I’m still trying to understand why the United States has taken such a hard, apparently sudden turn towards authoritarianism. It’s not a new concern for anyone who’s been paying attention. Back in 2011...
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May 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Musk tried to warn us about AI. But I don't think he anticipated it would turn out like this... www.latintimes.com/musk-tried-c...
Musk Tried Censoring His AI Chatbot After Being Labeled 'Top Misinformation Spreader': 'I Stick to the Evidence,' Grok Says
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has named its own creator as a "Top Misinformation Spreader," despite alleged attempts to censor it.
www.latintimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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"We need to go to the anti-autocrat gym" - Vlad Vexler www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEG...
Does Kremlin actually have KOMPROMAT on Trump?
YouTube video by Vlad Vexler Chat
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March 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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New post on the blog, where I try to figure out what the fuck is going on www.jdmoyer.com/2025/03/22/v...
Vandals (can be resisted) - J.D. Moyer
Lately my mental cope regarding the current political situation has been to think of it as “the horribleness” and then do my best to briefly forget about it and go about my life. A few times a day Kia...
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March 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Did Trump just agree to make America Great Britain again? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth
"I Love King Charles," the president said in a Truth Social post.
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March 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Somewhere “Whitey on the Moon” continues to play, unironically. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon
Promise was central plank to space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027
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March 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Corporate crime is crime arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM