Just as many Pro Israel people have no clue about the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza, I wonder how many people are aware of the atrocities Hamas committed and the intimate nature of it.
Dov Waxman@dovwaxman.bsky.social · 2d agoExcellent piece in Haaretz by Joshua Leifer: "In the Jewish Diaspora, It's Still October 8" www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-...
With a different font and tagline, this would play perfectly well in San Francisco for completely opposite reasons
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17h agoElon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle
if you're not Jewish you might not be familiar with Hillel, its the largest Jewish student organization in the US, it helps Jewish students meet and also celebrate holidays away from home (since we don't get our holidays off)
Gabrielle🇸🇨@djangoroo.bsky.social · 2d agoNothing to see here. Move along www.thecollegefix.com/video-protes...
The media widely covered the stakes of the 2024 election as being that Biden and Harris supported endless forever wars and Trump opposed them, despite literally the opposite being true
Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21h agoNEW: US President Donald Trump told reporters on October 10 that he is considering whether the United States will conduct offensive strikes against the Houthis in response to recent Houthi attacks on Saudi airports and other civilian infrastructure. (1/2) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate10...
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.
CalMatters@calmatters.org · 16h agoGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
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Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
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Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 19h agoMichael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...
Michael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥 www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJord...
Michael I. Jordan on AI: “Superintelligence is science fiction”
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Elon Musk’s PAC is running anti-lgbtq+ midterm ads on X. Not surprising but incredibly unsubtle
Almost every hobby or passtime I've had my entire life - comic books, action figures, trading cards, personal computers, even *the movies* - has been consumed by a bunch of gambling addicts desperate for some new speculative market and we should make gambling illegal because it's their fucking turn
"But Achilles wanted glory!" No, he didn't. He very explicitly says, "fuck this, I hate Agamemnon, and I'm going home," until Patroclus dies. The entire point of the poem is his rage and grief. Can anyone read a fucking book, holy shit.
AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 19h agoI read Rubio’s speech where he does a Prager U recap of Ancient Greek history, and the funniest part is where he praises Achilles for seeking glory in Troy even though it means his death. Yeah, Marco, the Iliad is great. What’s Achilles up to in the sequel?
I'm looking at this speech now, and that is absolutely not the fucking hero of Greek myth. The hero of Greek myth is almost always a dramatically tragic figure who is undone by their own character flaws. In fact, that's basically every single Greek hero. What the fuck are you talking about man.
Like leaving aside the assumption that people who have chosen to dedicate their lives to politics lack ideological motivation, you are also assuming they lack any egoistic investment in *a referendum on themselves personally*
No, because Hamas needs to be destroyed. And until the Government of Gaza, aka Hamas, stops firing rockets into Israel, says they'll never attack Israel ever again, and releases the remains of the hostage they took and raped on October 7th, Israel has a right to defend itself.
AI is doing such a good job of disaggregating abstractions we assumed were fundamental (writing, intelligence, &c) that I don't know why this isn't everyone's default assumption
rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 18h agoi think the more plausible implication is that consciousness is a family of related reflexive models of future states which are not always aggregated in the way that they are in humans, and "are LLMs conscious" is not even a well-posed question
i think the more plausible implication is that consciousness is a family of related reflexive models of future states which are not always aggregated in the way that they are in humans, and "are LLMs conscious" is not even a well-posed question
bree bird 🇨🇦@goose.ski · 7mo agothe major implication LLMs have for consciousness is that the coherent and meaningful manipulation of human language doesn’t actually require it at all
my twitter feed is all these people saying that AI might be conscious, but instead of making a particular case for that, they just say, well u know I mean consciousness is pretty weird. how do u know people are conscious. robots COULD be conscious, etc. And I wonder who this is persuasive for
Charlie Brown had hoes I was a teenager during the Reagan Administration, child. No. He was not.
I try to be fairly open-minded but if you sincerely believe that a person who has chosen to spend months of 18-hour days running for electoral office doesn’t care if they win that office: you’re just dumb. Your brain don’t work. Your thoughts are bad.
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2d agoThe idea that people who have chosen to devote their entire lives to partisan electoral politics are indifferent to electoral outcomes is just facially insane
So like hot-take, I'm by no means anti-AI, but I do suspect that once budget constraints on AI go from soft to hard, all the predictions of Total Human Job Extinction are gonna go up in flames.
Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade@thorgisarcade.bsky.social · yesterdayYour daily reminder that paying actual artists and writers and programmers isn't just the morally correct choice, it's also often cheaper.
We need a Downfall parody ASAP @i-bresnick.bsky.social @elisennesh.bsky.social @loudpenitent.bsky.social @henmazzig.bsky.social @madisonkittay.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social @marbleliberal.bsky.social @bluelion70.bsky.social @jkfecke.bsky.social @jmdc88.bsky.social @ocjoseph424.bsky.social
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h agoNew Hitler just dropped…and he’s left of centre.
just to be absolutely clear: Terrence Tao is not only not an anti-AI person, but has been one of the most prominent advocates for formal methods via the Lean proof language and autoformalization with AI I strongly encourage people to read the slides: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/m...
Math 2.0
I am uploading my slides to my public lecture “Math 2.0” that I gave yesterday evening at Caltech. (The talk was planned over a year ago, and was initially titled “Machine Assiste…
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Hélianthe@helianthe.net · yesterdaymuch respect for Professor Tao, but there are so so so many medical therapies that work without anyone really understanding how or why they work one of the great things about science is that we can use empirical knowledge in practice far ahead of when theoretical frameworks catch up to refine it
Alex Karp really is the perfect spokesman for neurodivergent people online, in that can’t fucking do anything beyond self medicate with cocaine and yap about how much smarter he is than everybody else
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 22h ago“‘There are basically two ways to know you have a future,’” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said. ‘One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.’” 3/25/26 share.google/BSpEdevJ0wx9...
I suspect that I'm still actually better at implementing things well and cleanly than the models are, but at least professionally the demand is usually for quantity over quality at this point. And admittedly, if I have seven ideas and don't know which is worth the effort, the slop-shotgun helps.
Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · yesterdayyour entire job becomes making progressively higher level decisions. there is no point where you get to go head down and implement things because "implementing things" means "providing direction to the robot"
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 21h agoRepublican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this won’t happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.
