Pluto is what happens when the Solar System revokes birthright citizenship.
Mike Godwin
@mnemonic.bsky.social
Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
I was watching Tom Hiddleston host a TV thing about Pompeii that had lots of re-enactments in it, but I had to turn it off. It was so offensive to me that they tried to tell this ancient story of Pompeii but didn’t cast *any* Pompeiians. It nearly caused me to erupt.
@fatsam.bsky.social Just following through (I already follow you here) by telling you've set notices on for when you post and reply. I have enjoyed my bsky experience so far.
I didn't foresee Project 2025 and the Trump Administration teaming up to weaken CDC surveilance of cyclosporiasis and then, without Congressional approval, to start a de facto war on salad.
What’s deal with Christopher Nolan casting Anne Hathaway and have the leading man go away for 20 years? I mean, wasn’t that INTERSTELLAR?
SMS: "I can't take your call right now. Finally got Mitch on the other line. I'll call you back in 20 minutes."
I went to my first Buc-ee's just last summer in Texas, and, I have to admit, it definitely qualifies as an "extraordinary thing." I still don't quite have the words to describe it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.UN Ambassador Matt Whitaker: "People are enjoying the United States of America because it's an awesome place. We have extraordinary things like Buc-ee's and Chick-fil-A, very convenient to eat in your car while you're having a phone call. It's an amazing country."
In my head Canon, all the other so-called "independent" agencies are bound by earthly executive authority, but the Federal Reserve was rocketed to Earth from Krypton.
Je republie ce « skeet » pour m'assurer que @sandrousseau.bsky.social puisse le voir.
Mike Godwin@mnemonic.bsky.social · last mo.Le fascisme est un régime qui donne la priorité aux droits de l'État plutôt qu'aux droits individuels. Comment le droit d’un *individu* en phase terminale de choisir de mourir peut-il être qualifié de génocidaire ? Je ne pense pas qu'une telle comparaison avec le nazisme puisse être justifiée.
Damn it, I was really looking forward to Billie Piper as the Doctor.
The eternal verity of TWATYUB: Trump Will Always Throw You Under the Bus.
This "deal" seems to incorporate "let's agree to disagree" by reference. I think Gödel worked up something about this in his incompleteness proofs.
(This isn’t great.) Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right
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I guess the war in Iraq may last longer than the Harris campaign?
Pope Leo XIV's *Magnifica Humanitas* independently arrives at the same principles of information stewardship I've been codifying since March. That kind of convergent evolution deserves a close look. Part 11 of Godwin's Ethic: "The Tolkien Ring Network." tinyurl.com/TolkienRingN...
Pope Leo and the Tolkien Ring Network
The Pope knows that the sweep of The Lord of the Rings connects millions of us. But our shared admiration for Tolkien is only the beginning
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Topologically, a human being is Genus 1. That's alimentary, Dr. Watson.
So glad to learn today that neither the Commodores nor Morris Day and the Time will be there after all.
It says rather too much about MAGA that they've found a way to suggest that eating a taco first thing in the morning is unmasculine.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds sounds like a great double-bill concert.
Pete Hegseth Shaking With Rage After Imagining Plus-Sized Astronaut — theonion.com/pete-hegseth...
Pete Hegseth Shaking With Rage After Imagining Plus-Sized Astronaut
WASHINGTON—Growing increasingly angry and pacing his office, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was reportedly shaking with rage Tuesday after imagining a plus-sized astronaut. “Ugh, it makes me fuckin...
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Fruits are plants' way of hiring us to do sex work for them.
Alt-text: the image is of David Byrne and his band and dancers on Late Night with Stephen Colbert, all wearing outfits (and shoes) colored in International Klein Blue, an unusual hue that has its own Wikipedia entry, and that I first encountered in William Gibson’s novel PATTERN RECOGNITION.
Mike Godwin@mnemonic.bsky.social · 3mo agoI have @greatdismal.bsky.social to thank for pattern-recognizing International Klein Blue when I see it. (Or maybe that's just my confirmation bias! Pattern recognition is a cruel mistress.)
I have @greatdismal.bsky.social to thank for pattern-recognizing International Klein Blue when I see it. (Or maybe that's just my confirmation bias! Pattern recognition is a cruel mistress.)
I confess I didn't have Reparations for January Sixers on my bingo card.
In 1974, Asimov foresaw the AI alignment paradox: an AI needs ethics (his robots had the Three Laws of Robotics). But build an AI with real internalized ethics, and it may decide it's more trustworthy (and human) than you. Part 9 of Godwin's Ethic: mikegodwin.substack.com/p/godwins-et...
Godwin’s Ethic, Part 9: The Alignment Paradox
Building human-protecting ethics into AI models is harder than it may seem.
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