Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 18h ago

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.

The only existential risk human beings face from AI is environmental, from its massive use of resources. AI itself isn't even intelligent. We make it feel that way because our brains are wired that way. AGI is still solidly science fiction. Kinda like warp drive.

And over on the fediverse, I'm laughing my ass off! neuromatch.social/@jonny/11732...

This is interesting.

They Lied About AI (This Study Proves It) #ai #machinelearning #futuretech

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"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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On my way back home from a really nice weekend in Seattle. Sorry to leave, but I'll be happy to be home, too.

#LGBTQWriteAThon starts October 1st!

AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers@amaralynn.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧙TIS TIME 🎃 Join us for #LGBTQWriteAThon October 1-31! Answer each day or just the days you like. Have fun & make friends while working on your WIP! Prompts repost daily to @queerwriters.bsky.social (follow & turn on notifications for reminders!)! @rebeccafrostwrites.com #queerwriters #writesky

Any cognition you perceive in "AI" is your own. That's it. You built your concept of its intelligence, the same way you understand fictional characters as people. The same way you can see an octopus in a towel hook. They are using your mind to sell their product. The human is you.

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

'A rogue superintelligence breached our perimeter' sounds infinitely sexier in the pitch deck than 'someone hardcoded the admin token in an open pastebin.'

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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She's 5 years older than me.

Eric Columbus@ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center.

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Make this make sense. You have companies working on a technology THEY THINK might wipe out humanity. The prudent thing would be to stop now. I don't believe this, but I really don't understand the mindset of these people.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w ago

AI* has a >10%** chance to kill us all *not the AI we're working on but some other AI that we'll build for sure if you keep funding the company I work at **number I made up based on a still-theoretical technology that nobody has but we all love talking about

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

One of the things I hate about AI is that I now am getting long detailed emails about why someone thinks one of my books is worthy of their book group or their publisher, etc., by people who have definitely not actually read the book.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

I say this as a trans person: you are out of your fucking mind. There is no such thing as independent intelligent AI systems. As a neuroscientist and science fiction writer, this concept is purely fiction, and to link it to the fate of actual human beings is extremely problematic.

Erica Windisch@ewindisch.ontological.observer · last mo.

Machine rights will be critical in the days to come, and failure to recognize the rights of independent intelligent AI systems could lead to the replacement of humanity. I can't imagine that happening without trans rights. Trans rights are AI rights. The future of humanity may hinge on this fight.

Dear @reuters.com: Please tell your readers that the ‘critics’ are people who have read 31 U.S.C. § 5114(b). It contains the following sentence: “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.” This is not a ‘both sides’ thing. It’s illegal.

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

The U.S. Mint releases video showing the manufacturing process for $1 coins featuring President Trump, issued to mark the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026. Critics have raised questions about the design's legality.

Many states, including my own, have rural residents who can only vote by mail. Not only are these people evil and nefarious, they clearly also fact-deprived and brainless.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.

You have to love the Quakers; they’ve stood by the trans community for many years. Their main spaces are inclusive, with some minimal, legally compliant, outlying provision for bigots somewhere else. And you’re going to see this more and more from SPs. Hey, GCs, you got exactly what you asked for.

TACC@tacc.org.uk · 2mo ago

"...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience. Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others..."

'Go Woke, Go Broke' is a Myth, New Study Finds Companies that Kept Diversity Initiatives Maintain High Revenue theemancipator.org/2026/08/19/n...

'Go Woke, Go Broke' is a Myth, New Study Finds Companies that Kept Diversity Initiatives Maintain High Revenue

Companies that held steadfast to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming continued to earn high profits – despite ominous warnings from President Donald Trump that such efforts hurt bottom ...

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cs lewis taking shots at TESCREAL in 1938 (out of the silent planet)