This manifesto is an implicit threat of future violence and should be treated as such. Culture, discourse, law and voting have failed to answer such threats, and, to the contrary have elevated them to the highest levels of power. It is time for more direct action.

Honestly, I am taking it as a small stroke of luck that the TESCREALists are too high on their own farts and showing their power level too fast. With like only 10% more subtlety we'd be in a lotta fucking trouble; they're blowing their PR operation in a way that vindicates alarm raisers -

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

The worm connectome here isn't acting as a worm brain. It's acting as a generic network, much as random recurrent neural networks are used in reservoir computing, here repurposed by DRL for fly walking. Cell identities? Meaningless. Neural activity? Uninterpretable. Biology? Nowhere to be found.

Our digital sphinx shows that DRL is so powerful that it finds a solution even when the constraints are completely wrong: worm brain, fly body, zero cellular and circuit compatibility. Give it a target behavior, it fits. It doesn't care about biology Code: github.com/Brunton-Lab/DigitalSphinx2026

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is a core peril of connectome-body models: behavioral fidelity ≠ biological fidelity. Virtual animals are powerful, but ONLY if brain-body interfaces are grounded in biology. A model that walks like a fly might just be a worm in disguise. 👀

EAT SHIT AI AND TESCREALIST FREAKS! REALITY IS COMING FOR YOU!

Anyway the more time has passed the more my stance on the encroachment of predatory gambling across all elements of society has solidified into a hard "regulate it all into a smoking crater in the ground" stance. Loot boxes, gacha games, draftkings, Magic booster packs, scratch tickets, nuke it all

Of all the stupid things about this year, the Iran war reading like some Honor Harrington bullshit, with Iran as the Manticorans minus the idiot rightwing bullshit about welfarists in the america ref is the most idiotically surreal.

Dammit, what did @sixarmedsweater get got for?😿

So many of those isekai light novel adaptation bother me on the additional level beyond the normal "this sucks and is gross" level or even the "unoriginal or bad fantasy world building" level, but a "oh my god, this is horrific game design that doesn't understand the base principles" level

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Liberals have decided that trans people are the blood sacrifice necessary to ensure a bountiful harvest. Some of them are probably just bigots who agree with the nazis, but others have simply decided that SOMEONE needs to be sacrificed and it isn't gonna be them, and this is mature adult politics

No more half measures; after what the 'anti-wokes did' and who they ended up unwittingly serving, we have to make a clean damn sweep to survive.

It seems to be a longstanding move to diminish the role of the conscious, deliberate activist. I remember when I learned Rosa Parks was a trained and experienced activist and not, as I had been led to believe, just a lady who decided to Do Something one day.

yeah seeing the "Minneapolis took off because the so-called 'activists' got out of the way and let normal people in" takes is really frustrating. that's not at all an accurate look at what's happening in Mpls or anywhere else. All these movements rely on cores of people who have experience.

Stancil is a hero to the most lazy, malicious neoliberal cunts alive (YIMBundance dorks, pundits, consultants) because he's the first one of *their* class to ever *do anything* (ICE Watch) He's their champ So, they have to act like he's protesting *the right way* purely to left-punch protesters

I know many Normies who have seen someone, usually a guy, blow through thousands of dollars on sports betting Very much the origin story of a 21st-century temperance movement

the problem is that entire generation of dems and their younger disciples are all elitist pricks who think one of their main jobs is to discipline their base, NOT reflect that base's policy preferences. which is why we need to kick every last one of them out of office

I really just wish there wasn’t so much fearmongering about testosterone. It’s not some monster chemical that’s gonna turn you into an angry mutant, it’s a perfectly normal hormone that most adult human bodies produce on their own in at least some quantity. It’s literally fine lmao

so like beyond even "opsec" and boundaries, dude just straight-up ignored best-practices and invented his own rules to (apparently) grandstand/create-a-viral-moment with a journalist as good a reason as any to declare someone a risk imo

When I talked to patrollers about (possibly) getting into this, two of the first things they taught me were that you should always follow a suspect vehicle from half a block away (at minimum) and never roll your windows down for them He didn't do either of those things.

As a former hacker whom specialized in social engineering and OSINT, people underestimate how even small threads of information can compromise and endanger many, many people (and I got out of the game over a decade ago, that shit's even easier to crack now).

Ferguson taught me www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Weirdly this makes me think it more likely that he killed himself - he could see all the pieces that he'd put into play, and he could see that he was being hung out to dry and somebody else was going to claim the throne he was building for himself.

Me too. But I remember that dude showing up in the mentions of people talking about their personal struggles to argue that the economy was good, and therefore they were lying. Just absolutely demented behavior, but he built an audience of 100k followers by putting on that show.

literally any time he says something NOT overtly evil, possibly even tangential to "a correct take, actually", you have an army of braying dipshits ready to erect statues of him and kill people who know who he actually is and then 5 minutes later he does this kind of shit. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

fwiw, stancil boosters, i do not consider myself a "stancil enemy", i consider myself someone who tries as hard as possible never to have to give a shit about him whatsoever, and it is annoying how difficult he is making that for me at the moment

I think the other people miss about "opsec" is that it's not just about the state, it's about stuff like not letting Neo Nazi groups easily get photos of people or protecting internal data like contact details.

I agree that "opsec" is often used a shibboleth in leftist spaces to justify gatekeeping. At the same time, prosecutors move slowly and they WILL raid your fucking house out of the blue a year later. Don't assume the feds are stupid or not paying attention just because "everyone's been out there".

if only stancil were emotionally capable of hearing what a woman had to say

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@notsaved.bsky.social, @clivehenry.bsky.social ^^^ you seeing this? ^^^ Wrote a post elsewhere that I'll screengrab below. Realistic possibility that this connection hints at /pol/ being a deliberate psyop to bootstrap a vicious circle race to the bottom to test which shit might float.

I hate being reminded of the truth that sometimes, conspiracism is the most parsimonious form of logic.

Even Perverts Have Standards

When you get to a point as a white dude with a huge following where you are logging into an alt so you can screenshot a woman critic who has blocked you, at a point when she is now studiously avoiding even use of your name... It is time for some self-reflection.

1) we are going to win, etc 2) this is a dangerous point where regimes like this decide they can’t rely on the legitimate courts and start setting up some parallel system of tribunals, etc.

This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger. Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows. You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.

There's a bunch of keyboard warriors convinced Stancil was dropped from that Signal chat because it's run by Internet Marxists angry about how great he is and it's baffling, like these are just normal folks working on the ground IRL