Gwern’s guardian angel project (agents that’re digital twins, deeply aligned with you in particular) is probably more dangerous than a frontier model going rogue & launching the nukes. Your preferences, your abilities, are made legible to the state & corp, who can even more subtly massage your

@allo-nothing.bsky.social reading your article w/ Irish on em neurodiversity, & omfg IT’S SO SO SO GOOD!! Really really helpful in thinking through long 18c neurodiversity

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

For Swetnam, a mind inclined to mischief is a defining feature of women, and sets the course for all subsequent gender relations: human history thus takes as a starting point Eve's misaligned mind

Average message I send to the work group chat

can nobody read in the year of your lord 2026

Dan Waterfield@danwaterfield.bsky.social · 2d ago

that's very much not what he said at all

The cylinder must remain unharmed.

The ‘anti-corporate’ angle of this is so fucking dumb too; congratulations, you are lining the pockets of quacks and small time con men selling ‘alternative treatments’ instead of Big Pharma, how virtuous

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Reckon I can make an exception for ‘don’t speak ill of the dead’ for liddle. May he rot.

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In ‘ageing’ news, son of my brother’s friend from university is now a newham Green councillor.

No matter how science fiction you think EUV lithography is, it's more science fiction than than that. (Even just the free portion of this post on EUV optics is mind-blowing.) frontiermap.substack.com/p/zeiss-and-...

ZEISS and the Optics of ASML’s EUV Machines

Every ASML EUV scanner uses ZEISS illumination and projection optics to shape the beam and form the image on the wafer

frontiermap.substack.com

lmao this is a truly world class Take she isn’t even talking just video games here, this is a blanket ban on sports, board games, cards, darts, all of it

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3d ago

This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

We had a discussion at teatime about Augustine's theodicy, and I was able to throw in that I'd watched Nolan's last week

lol 3 guys on motorbikes were definitely trying to either mug or carjack. They were driving very slowly, hazards on, with one joining behind and another attempting to get to the right hand side down a country road.

Penguin tracks

(Ate a delicious meal, hands swelled up for some reason)

oh i get it, they’re horny on Maine

PETA@peta.org · last wk.

We put a human “lobster” on a plate outside Maine Lobster Festival to force people to see the victim behind the tradition🦞💔

Lads, I drank river water because I was thirsty.

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

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