Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism
I think many hope that when things get bad enough, someone powerful will say "no." I tested that for months. Anthropic defended its red lines, Google did not. Pledges of conscience often vaporize on contact with power. My full account: turntrout.com/why-i-left-g...
Why I Left Google DeepMind
I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
turntrout.com
gets closer to describing why i find this site so tedious more than most other attempts
Whelan Route@jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 4w agoblusky is debate club for hall monitors.
dick's nice and all but clean your room you nasty bitch!
you would believe a callout post about yourself if it got five likes
"It’s a warning to the wider tech industry: comply, or we can shut you and your products down." techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/t...
The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak | TechCrunch
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro...
techcrunch.com
Oddest part of the current AI moment on bsky is seeing lots of fairly prominent people get easily verifiable stuff wrong (lie or mistake? unclear) and then never acknowledge or correct it
The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”
Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.
Replying to @REDACTED O, what a strange and tender thing is man! To fear a laugh more than a broken bone. I have seen the storm's fury, yet the heart's own tempest is the harder to weather.
if you want to read about the election violence may I suggest foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/t... by my second-oldest friend! (since we were like six months old)
What Went Wrong in Tanzania?
How the “island of stability” in a turbulent region descended into chaos—and where it goes from here.
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"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025
Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals
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Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
South Korea is doing quote-post diplomacy
President Lee drew a parallel between occupied Korea and Palestine
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heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times
one trait that i had previously associated with the far left but seems pretty common among bsky libs is the belief that merely interacting with content from someone evil is dangerous and that acknowledging any points of common ground is betrayal or weakness
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere is no safe level of exposure to content on X. Toxic effects present within days as you mistakenly retweet a "good point" by an anti-semite you never heard of. Sound political views are compromised within months. After a year, brain poisoning has taken hold and you're promoting Tucker Carlson.
![@jonfavs on X: The entire monologue is worth watching
[Tucker Carlson]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreig6mbimoalirlxv4vnoxwsv3aysk2aqjhjxywmbqyhzxbudxuqcvm)
you have committed a climate crime by posting on an app that is backed by data centers, I'm calling antifa
At a certain point this is just spiking the football, but “our model can 0day almost every piece of open software on the internet” is not something a stochastic parrot is capable of and also not indicative that capacities are plateauing or have no economic value
Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10mo agoAre people mad at the Bluesky ceo for a real reason or an internet madness reason?
I think this is basically the correct take on Hasan discourse - I think it's pretty obvious that he's much better than the median and has improved the politics of a lot of people. At the same time, he says dumb shit constantly and I hope no one important listens to him
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think the actual tension with streamers is that it’s a medium by and for dumbasses, and it’s simultaneously true that (1) you need to try and prevent the audience-dumbasses from finding worst dumbasses to watch, and (2) it’s bad for a streamer-dumbass to get anywhere close to policy or strategy
I find this attitude from Will very frustrating. Bluesky gives us a more sophisticated suite of tools to identify and block bad actors than any other social media site, and many people simply refuse to use them! I don't want Bluesky to police the bounds of acceptable discourse.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhen you’re the subject of this kind of dogpile blocking doesn’t matter nearly as much as people think. A lot of what circulates is screenshots. You’re not a person they’re engaging with, you’re a device they’re using for a kind of ritualized sadism they find enjoyable.
One interesting thing about this dogpile of a guy who really didn't do anything wrong is how effective @segyges.bsky.social 's @antiantiai.bsky.social labeler is at predicting the bad actors. There are a couple notable exceptions, but otherwise it's pretty 1:1
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 4mo agoFYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.
FED CHAIR POWELL SAYS THE GYRE IS WIDENING; ANTICIPATES COORDINATION CHALLENGES BETWEEN FALCON AND FALCONER
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4mo agoFED CHAIR POWELL SAYS THERE ARE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE FED'S TWO GOALS.
Sorry for not ever responding on here. I just come over to copy+paste my Tweets, because I don't care about BlueSky and I find everyone on it insufferable and unworthy of my attention
Uncovering the race of lizardmen who secretly control society and being insanely relieved they're German coded
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5mo agoBREAKING: KRISTI NOEM IS OUT AT DHS. TRUMP SAYS HE'S REPLACING HER WITH SEN. MARKWAYNE MULLIN.
