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@manicpixiepoolboy.bsky.social

lie to your therapist, eat sardines straight from the tin, drink 8 cups of black coffee everyday, burn down a bank, start a noise band, and most importantly become a communist 🇵🇸⚒️

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sundome@manicpixiepoolboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

the libertarian candidate for north carolina senate is currently live tweeting his armed standoff with the cops in the woods outside a suburban whole foods, and he looks exactly like you would expect this state sucks a lot but usually for different and less funny reasons

sundome@manicpixiepoolboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's very funny that these guys choose to sit on bean bags and talk about ai bullshit instead of what normal people do on ketamine, which is listen to dj shadow and try some butt stuff

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Roose does a very nice job signaling in the second paragraph what sort of book this will be. He decided to write it the night after partying with ketamine-snorting effective accelerationists. He isn’t e/acc himself, but he hangs with that crowd and accepts their premises as newsworthy,

Prologue I decided to write this book in February 2025, sitting in traffic on the Bay Bridge, when I realized that I was living through the strangest time la ever known. I'd stayed up too late the previous night at an Al-themed party in the Mission, where tech workers affiliated with a movement known as Effective Accelerationism lounged on beanbags in an art loft, snorting ketamine while debating the singularity. I dragged myself out of bed, made coffee, and went to report on an Al safety conference, where panicked experts proclaimed that Al systems were rapidly approaching human-level intelligence and that we were running out of time to figure out how to prevent them from going rogue. In my car on the way home, I got a text from a researcher at one of the big Al labs, who said that due to a recent breakthrough he couldn't tell me about, he now expected superhuman Al to arrive in a year or two, rather than in five or ten years. I'm a San Francisco-based tech columnist and podcast host (most recently at The New York Times, where I worked from 2017 to 2026), and my job has always involved talking to people with weird visions of the future. But those visions got significantly weirder in the mid-2020s as the tech industry reoriented around a single, all-consuming idea-a quest that half I the other half thought