Mr Wa
@ngsmcphrsn.bsky.social
state of disrepair, and bats
also hack the planet
#yyyy-mm-dd
also hack the planet
#yyyy-mm-dd
For the love of god will someone please confiscate Don’s laptop. This man should not be writing op eds.
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Opinion: Introducing the next era of the digital age: Identic artificial intelligence
If our digital identities are controlled by centralized corporations, our discourse and democracy will be shaped by incentives we do not influence
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November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For the love of god will someone please confiscate Don’s laptop. This man should not be writing op eds.
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“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
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November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
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This is so disingenuous.
No one is angry about AI being used for intense processing of data for scientific and medical uses, we’re angry that the hypemen claim it can *think* or make art or replace human workers. Conflating all of this is the problem.
No one is angry about AI being used for intense processing of data for scientific and medical uses, we’re angry that the hypemen claim it can *think* or make art or replace human workers. Conflating all of this is the problem.
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is so disingenuous.
No one is angry about AI being used for intense processing of data for scientific and medical uses, we’re angry that the hypemen claim it can *think* or make art or replace human workers. Conflating all of this is the problem.
No one is angry about AI being used for intense processing of data for scientific and medical uses, we’re angry that the hypemen claim it can *think* or make art or replace human workers. Conflating all of this is the problem.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Doug Ford finally destroys one of the world’s best recovery and refill systems. Beer store commits to having a location within 10 km of the population- that’s the distance from the CN Tower to Yorkdale. Everything this man touches turns to shit.
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Doug Ford finally destroys one of the world’s best recovery and refill systems. Beer store commits to having a location within 10 km of the population- that’s the distance from the CN Tower to Yorkdale. Everything this man touches turns to shit.
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
I love this story. And also the photography. Lomax seems cool as heck.
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CEO of the Year: Bill Lomax takes his bank shot
When Bill Lomax was lured home to run the First Nations Bank of Canada, he understood the assignment: to help fulfill the economic part of reconciliation
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November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I love this story. And also the photography. Lomax seems cool as heck.
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Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble
YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble
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November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
what is the horrible Transit App and why is the TTC giving it free advertising on the website
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
what is the horrible Transit App and why is the TTC giving it free advertising on the website
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Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trust me, I'm not calling because I *want* to talk to a human. I'm calling because I have to.
This is so goofy. Obviously it will require expropriation power. Obviously that will precede actually funding and starting the thing. C'mon.
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is so goofy. Obviously it will require expropriation power. Obviously that will precede actually funding and starting the thing. C'mon.
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
This. *Trust* is the crux of the problem with AI.
I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
aftermath.site/the-alters-ai-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This. *Trust* is the crux of the problem with AI.
I am *shocked* to learn that cryptocurrency may have been used for money laundering.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I am *shocked* to learn that cryptocurrency may have been used for money laundering.
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Great thread demolishing the Bill Gates / Abundance / climate-isn't-everything narrative.
“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Great thread demolishing the Bill Gates / Abundance / climate-isn't-everything narrative.
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
apart from everything, this plan doesn't seem...very well thought through
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
apart from everything, this plan doesn't seem...very well thought through
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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The Pras Michel story has everything. Jho Low. Goofnugget counsel filing ChatGPT motions. Random Les Mis references. A midnight pardon.
apnews.com/article/prak...
apnews.com/article/prak...
Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contribu...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Pras Michel story has everything. Jho Low. Goofnugget counsel filing ChatGPT motions. Random Les Mis references. A midnight pardon.
apnews.com/article/prak...
apnews.com/article/prak...