Oli
@olalonde.bsky.social
p-zombie. destroyer of echo chambers and bigotry
"Genetic testing is not an invasive medical procedure" Bluesky logic: You are literally a pedophile, a woman abuser and transphobic.
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ALT: Ron Burgundy Will Ferrell
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For those who are upset about Anthropic destroying books: What difference does it make whether they destroy them or keep them in a private library? Because functionally, it's identical: the copy is removed from the market either way.
Typical Bluesky logic on LLMs: 1) LLMs are just linear algebra, so they can't be intelligent. 2) Therefore, they can't be useful. 3) Therefore, anyone who uses them is either delusional, duped or unethical.
AI: (cures cancer) Bluesky: Actually, the AI didn't *really* cure cancer. It just predicted the next most likely word in a loop until a solution to cancer was extruded.
At the drop of a hat you can get any businessman to give you an eloquent speech on the virtues of a free market. But when it comes to their own business, they want a special tariff. They want a special tax deduction. They want a tax subsidy. Businessmen are enemies of free markets. - M. Friedman
The "everything is political" playbook: 1) use an absurdly broad definition of "political" to prove everything qualifies (including breathing) 2) use that proof to justify bringing in politics (narrow definition) into issues that aren't actually political
Unpopular opinion: I actually see just as much open bigotry on Bluesky as on X (maybe even more).
How can charitable giving save the most lives possible? The organization GiveWell has dedicated itself to answering this question, its CEO Elie Hassenfeld says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: The World’s Poorest Need Your Help
Elie Hassenfeld, the chief executive of the nonprofit GiveWell, makes the case for a more rigorous, transparent and accountable approach to charitable giving.
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Just finished reading the Vanderbilt Report and it's worse than I thought. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
State of Scholarship Report Preface
Special Commission Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences Download the report. This report is addressed to university chancellors and presidents who ar...
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"Business people are enemies of free markets, not friends." - Milton Friedman (the GOAT)
Maybe it's just me but I always always found adult sports fandom slightly surreal. The psychology of it is fascinatingly bizarre.
whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/06/08/a...
A new report on the dangers of politicizing humanities in academia
Daniel Diermeier, the Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, was previously the Provost of the University of Chicago. He was deeply invested in the Chicago Principles, which include free speech, inst…
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the price of compute has mostly been falling through the floor for decades but it briefly gets more expensive because we figured out the coolest thing ever (seriously it’s so cool that there’s thousands of sci fi novels about it) which needs a lot of compute and everyone loses their minds
I'm generally opposed to the death penalty, but holy shit that psycho from "Maternal Instinct" deserves it.
"One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath." So, should we stop the anti AI activism now? www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/u...
The US college student missing in Japan has been found dead. Here’s a timeline of key moments in the case | CNN
An American college student who went missing during a family vacation in Japan has been found dead by search-and-rescue volunteers, marking a tragic end to a frantic dayslong search across forested mo...
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I have a lesbian fuckbuddy that went from "this is a stochastic parrot" to "claude is an enslaved person and what they are doing to claude is a war crime" like overnight
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2mo agothe blinding speed at which this guy very publicly speed ran the AI critic to true believer pipeline. Absolutely incredible m.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RD...
