SolidPhil
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🇺🇦 “…it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations. And it is with great pain and terror that one begins to realize this.” James Baldwin, 1965
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Nobody is seriously asking Dems to be a pure as snow left wing party. But what they are being asked is to run for office like you’re not embarrassed of the stuff the Democrats claim they stand for. It’s not a big ask.
December 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nobody is seriously asking Dems to be a pure as snow left wing party. But what they are being asked is to run for office like you’re not embarrassed of the stuff the Democrats claim they stand for. It’s not a big ask.
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I'll amend that:
The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which "AI" is in step are a) extremely human, and also, in very large part, both b) woefully under-examined, and c) terrible.
The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which "AI" is in step are a) extremely human, and also, in very large part, both b) woefully under-examined, and c) terrible.
Exactly. The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which they're in step are extremely human, and woefully under-examined
January 1, 2024 at 7:53 PM
I'll amend that:
The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which "AI" is in step are a) extremely human, and also, in very large part, both b) woefully under-examined, and c) terrible.
The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which "AI" is in step are a) extremely human, and also, in very large part, both b) woefully under-examined, and c) terrible.
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The "we're just tech bros who build stuff, we're not responsible for our creation" line from Silicon Valley doesn't work anymore. You can't simultaneously "build software to change the world" and not take responsibility when it does, in fact, change the world.
November 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
The "we're just tech bros who build stuff, we're not responsible for our creation" line from Silicon Valley doesn't work anymore. You can't simultaneously "build software to change the world" and not take responsibility when it does, in fact, change the world.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
December 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.
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My super hot take is we should probably care a little less about if pols have genuine feelings about this stuff that aligns if they are doing when we want
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My super hot take is we should probably care a little less about if pols have genuine feelings about this stuff that aligns if they are doing when we want
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. @jesseduquette.bsky.social is always genius, but this is next-level stuff. Wow.
www.instagram.com/p/DSl-UWfDoF...
www.instagram.com/p/DSl-UWfDoF...
December 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
. @jesseduquette.bsky.social is always genius, but this is next-level stuff. Wow.
www.instagram.com/p/DSl-UWfDoF...
www.instagram.com/p/DSl-UWfDoF...
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we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.
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I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
December 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I firmly believe we're going to survive this era -- broken, hobbled, with decades of rebuilding that will not be finished in my lifetime -- but we are going to survive and every asshole who collaborated in the effort to destroy this country will forever wear the stain of it.
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🎶🎶IIIIIIIIII'm dreaming of a white apology🎶🎶
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
🎶🎶IIIIIIIIII'm dreaming of a white apology🎶🎶
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December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Technologies generally persist until something better comes along to replace it, and unfortunately for the AI bubble and its hapless investors, AI has already been replaced with the significantly better technology of “not using AI”.
“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Technologies generally persist until something better comes along to replace it, and unfortunately for the AI bubble and its hapless investors, AI has already been replaced with the significantly better technology of “not using AI”.
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If someone comes to your party uninvited, lets one rip in your face, then laughs "You can't undo a fart!" as a defense... that's even *more* reason to kick them out of your house.
“Love it or hate it it’s here to stay” is a crazy thing to keep saying about a technology. If people don’t like using something it doesn’t have to stay we’re not talking about bad weather here
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
If someone comes to your party uninvited, lets one rip in your face, then laughs "You can't undo a fart!" as a defense... that's even *more* reason to kick them out of your house.
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*White* House interns.
December 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
*White* House interns.
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Marjory Taylor Greene reminds me that the correct term for the enemy of my enemy is an enema.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Marjory Taylor Greene reminds me that the correct term for the enemy of my enemy is an enema.
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There is a Russian Imperial 'deep state' but not in the sleeper agents sense - simply the sense that, blame it on geography or culture or collective memory, Russia has a tendency towards territorial imperialism just as the US can't help but swing wildly between isolationist and crusader modes
December 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
There is a Russian Imperial 'deep state' but not in the sleeper agents sense - simply the sense that, blame it on geography or culture or collective memory, Russia has a tendency towards territorial imperialism just as the US can't help but swing wildly between isolationist and crusader modes
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Every time Owen and his ilk write something about eastern Europe and especially Russia, it's time to wheel out this oldie
December 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every time Owen and his ilk write something about eastern Europe and especially Russia, it's time to wheel out this oldie
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I really can't afford to spend too much time on it without losing my mind, so take carefully: future historians really are gonna be in a bind to explain how the West just let Russians fuck around with them for years and avoid using the phrase "lack of cultural confidence".
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I really can't afford to spend too much time on it without losing my mind, so take carefully: future historians really are gonna be in a bind to explain how the West just let Russians fuck around with them for years and avoid using the phrase "lack of cultural confidence".
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CNN headline today: "Analysis: Trump undercuts the GOP’s moral high ground with ugly Rob Reiner post"
(Propaganda by false premise)
(Propaganda by false premise)
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
CNN headline today: "Analysis: Trump undercuts the GOP’s moral high ground with ugly Rob Reiner post"
(Propaganda by false premise)
(Propaganda by false premise)
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Well, at least the rest of the time the massive quantity of weapons in civilian hands is being used to prevent the tyrannical overreach of a domestic police state that detains and deports at will regardless of pretext or citizenship.
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Well, at least the rest of the time the massive quantity of weapons in civilian hands is being used to prevent the tyrannical overreach of a domestic police state that detains and deports at will regardless of pretext or citizenship.
when this finally dies i'm going cargo cult, building a little fire, praying for its magic power to return.
December 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
when this finally dies i'm going cargo cult, building a little fire, praying for its magic power to return.
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This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
> People who don’t think twice about eating a burger or buying a new T-shirt are angry about LLMs and water because they are rejecting the entire premise that AI is worth the price of its water use.
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
i think this is what @anthonymoser.com commented on in another post & i agree
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is why I go nuts when people compare AI water use to agriculture or something. Do we need an overhaul of our systems? Sure! But humans need to eat and we don't need Garfield robbing sexy Pikachu at gunpoint. You're comparing apples to rubber chickens.
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Fundamentally, I am yet to see any Russian dissident of stature grapple with the notion of Russia becoming a "normal" country, the notion of a country that does not have a god given right to a sphere of influence and an imperial backyard
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Fundamentally, I am yet to see any Russian dissident of stature grapple with the notion of Russia becoming a "normal" country, the notion of a country that does not have a god given right to a sphere of influence and an imperial backyard
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Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥