CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

Also everything about this is framed in terms of what might happen, as if everything so far hasn’t been a result of the recklessness and unlimited resources of the frontier labs. We are nowhere near recursive self improvement! What’re they all on about?

None of the stuff about “AI slowdown” actually explains what that means or what’s being slowed down. Anthropic’s blog about it says they’ll still train new models. I guess if it’s a “slowdown” maybe that’s how hyperscalers could reconcile with letting them out of compute deals?

would love to hear even a single actual argument about how AI "changes the nature of humanity" not based in fanciful speculation

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 3w ago

It’s weird how everyone is having big apprehensive reaction about a technology that changes the nature of humanity

truly, spoken like a man who doesn't know what trains or bicycles are

P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com · 3w ago

People who aren’t using AI to code at this point are delusional or lying, trying to ride a horse down the highway and backing up the traffic instead of asking “what can we do to make cars safer and electric.” They have no ethical high ground

Episode 53: The Body Keeps The Score In 2014, a Dutch researcher revolutionized our understanding of trauma with insights like "don't talk about it" and "get a massage."

The Body Keeps The Score

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · June 18 · 1h 50m

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This is epic games ceo tim sweeney objecting to steam making people tag their games if they used ai to make them. It’s weird how much work people do to treat people having preferences as fucked up or harmful

Some of us just don't like getting colds

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Since I guess Bluesky doesn’t have polls, this one didn’t make it through the bridge, but if you have a fediverse account you can vote over there: mastodon.social/@glyph/11654...

Bumping this in case you know anyone who can speak to the science in "The Body Keeps The Score" or works with patients who've experienced trauma. Thanks!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's weird how little critical engagement I've seen with this book. The only academic who has fact-checked its claims is a right-wing freak. If you know someone who has expertise in this area and can help me figure out the academic consensus on trauma biology and treatment, let me know!

Also I guarantee it still says "great question" and "you're absolutely right" all the time because this is simply too many instructions for the chatbot to reliably implement simultaneously.

And even the "good parts" are mostly nonsense. FMRIs, norepinephrine addiction and the triune brain model have been debunked for years! The only redeeming feature of the book is the title.

@dioiioib.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The good parts of the book aren't a fortunate coincidence or signs that there is some good mixed with the bad; they're there to trick you into believing all the other parts.

Part of the core thesis of the book is that you should not talk about your trauma! You should suppress your feelings and pursue things like dance and equine therapy to get at the "root cause" of your symptoms. It's 1950s garbage repackaged as New Age forbidden wisdom.

As well as its myriad factual errors, the book claims: - We're wasting taxpayer dollars on abused children - Trauma is the cause of autoimmune disorders - Most fat people were sexually abused as children. It's stunningly, shockingly bad! People should not be reading or recommending it.

Both *can* be true but they aren't in this case! The text of "The Body Keeps The Score" is fundamentally unscientific and reactionary. If you've taken something good from it I'm happy for you, but that's despite the message of the book, not because of it.

@theraquizt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“The Body Keeps the Score” as a book is an incredibly important 102-level primer on the impact of trauma and possible treatments that has helped me and many others. Bessel Van Der Kolk as an individual has a reputation for being a jerk and a bit of a crank, and also has allegations. Both can be true

pip 26.1 is an incredible release, thank you to the pip maintainers!! 💜 – Relative dependency cooldown support! – Installing from pylock.toml – Multiple security fixes Read the full blog post by Richard Si: ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04... #python #pypi #pip #security #oss #opensource

Telling people to subscribe/check out your links when you make a video is important. People might get annoyed, but it's important. The amount of hits on my patreon i get when i do vs don't explicitly say so in my videos (cause i forget) is night and day. Shill for yourself people, it's important.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

I remain convinced that one of the most important things the next Democratic president can do to avoid falling victim to a Biden-style vibecession is to mercilessly, relentlessly crack down on crypto and organized gambling. Just go full scorched-earth.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 6mo ago

"Scammers are writ large doing better than honest people who play by the rules" also doesn't actually have to be true (I don't know if it is) for the sentiment to absolutely destroy the national vibes.

for the American left to be “illiberal” it would need to have any institutional power at all and since there’s no non-laughable case to be made that it does I think we don’t need to worry about it very much

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i think one of the roadblocks people feel like they’re running into when deciding to donate to mutual aid funds is figuring out what’s trustworthy. i find it helps to outsource that vetting - i trust ian completely, and ian knows & trusts their community in minneapolis.

so where does the next generation of talent come from? who are the young journalists, and how are they paid? every career incentive, both economic and prestige-wise, now points to the olivia nuzzi route

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

The public values authenticity in public figures above almost everything else. The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one. Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?

David Kissling@xtdave.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A major reason that Gavin Newsom will not be the Democratic nominee is that it's very clear that he read the same stuff we all did last year about swing voters not liking orthodox social liberals and is "pivoting" on certain issues to try and pretend that he didn't have an entire career being one

“I vocally supported immigration for years but then turned on immigrants to win votes” does not endear you to pro-immigrant voters or anti-immigrant voters. It’s the same with every other issue. This is *the* reason people hate politicians, they’re wormy and fake.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad