in other words, "participating in group social-norm–breaking is a strong signal that someone can be successfully isolated from wider society and convinced to ignore the advice and concerns of outsiders" this is uhhhhhh not an uncommon dynamic for high-control groups

Ivy@poisonivy.bsky.social · 3d ago

i love when these creeps are stupid enough to fuck up their own PR all the 'well there's no proof the CNC orgy is an AI networking event' people in shambles

Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

man I have complicated feelings about capital punishment generally but if we are going to do it we have to do it a lot better than this, just mechanically

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

these are deliberate aesthetic choices. they are intended to overwhelm your senses, to unsettle you, to make you question the nature of God and the goodness of man.

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 4d ago

Michael Tracey is 38 years old. Being this hateful and misogynistic has aged him terribly.

Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.

I think it's bad for public discourse and the reputation of journalism that newsrooms continue to give people like Linehan fuzzy puff-pieces, while turning a blind eye to their abhorrent conduct online It is, if nothing else, a double-standard compared with how other public figures are treated

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3d ago

Graham Linehan is calling the people who murdered a trans man in cold blood, heroes.

As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility.

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.

Jaec from Tw@jaec.bsky.social · 5d ago

I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 6d ago

I regret to inform you all that Bernie Sanders is in fact taking meetings with noted rationalist wacko Eliezer Yudkowsky over what AI regulations should look like. x.com/SenSanders/s...

Algorithm that decides what you like reinforces what you like and optimizes for the delta

It’s a crime that he was allowed to reach this level of influence and scrutiny. We should create laws, binding norms that protects individuals from the massive brain damage incurred from this kind of situation. I am happy to endorse such measures, Elon can get on board or go down with the ship.

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

Ok, are ppl ready for the fallout?

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

I have not clout nor constitution to sway the public, but I wildly, emphatically, and wholeheartedly support the widespread adoption of “rats” as a shorthand for “rationalists”as it refers to the absolute nonsense that’s been swirling around in circles in currently privileged weirdo communities.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · last wk.

As someone with AuDHD, this can mean the difference between life or suicide. And they just decided people can wait *at least* 2 years. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

the future tech bros are dreaming of

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last wk.

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘 The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

This is one of those things that has always impressed and frustrated me about the culture in the US. You do something shameful, then shrug your shoulders, apologize and move on. In other cultures the stigma attaches to you and your family for generations. There needs to be a balance.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

"Across the wide-ranging discussion, Carlson repented for his decades as a cable TV partisan, saying he called too much attention to the wrong issues." It would be good to have criteria for attributing "repentance" for decades of behavior beyond saying sorry once. www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

ELON: tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix ST CLAIR: I could use a little more clarity on this

You really do need to read the full, bracingly insane, space laser text message exchange between Elon Musk and Ashley St. Clair in 2024: www.npr.org/2026/09/10/g...

Paul Verhoeven would be all “no, that’s too unbelievable.”

Brian Kibler@bmkibler.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Financial services"

good explanatory thread but I know in my heart there's going to be some airport self-help bestseller called THE SECOND BRAIN: WHY YOU'RE ONLY USING HALF OF YOUR POTENTIAL in the next two years

John Timmer@jtimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

doomsdayscenario.co

We really are getting into 'The Death of Stalin' and "Der Untergang' ('Downfall') territory.

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

apnews.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

I think we need to take seriously that ordinary folks aren't meant to have audiences in the tens of thousands or more. This is novel and disruptive in human experiences

Scammers gonna scam. Trump understands that courts give him huge leeway if he hand-waves “national security,” eg his ballroom, and so now he’s trying to pretend there’s a security imperative for his arch.

Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 2w ago

lol what