This is well worth reading- a takedown of the politics and economics of big tech written for a knowledgeable audience cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech...

If thought leaders are so smart, why haven't they thought of a better term than "thought leader"?

@philipgoff.bsky.social After years of casual study of various theories of consciousness, I've adopted panpsychism as the most likely explanation but only because I found each of the the other explanations to be inferior in some aspect.

WTH @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team ? Please reinstate author and historian Sarah Kendzior. #booksky #authors

I see a big opportunity after the AI crash. Buy up the data centers at a discount, sell the hardware to China, sell the building as warehouse space (or add windows and use for housing), fill the land with solar/turbines, and use the high capacity grid connection to distribute power @volts.wtf

I ❤️ Viz

@frankconniff.bsky.social is blocking me and I have no idea why

I'm beginning to understand Dune's Butlerian jihad against AI and that's before they are embodied.

As part of this piece, Tom Murphy wrote this compassionate explanation of why people cling to scientifically unsound opinions (like the flat earth folk): www.resilience.org/stories/2025... 1/2

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This is excellent. Worth the 10 minutes. youtu.be/ImxyrifP6AQ

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I've been assuming that military actions in major cities were another one of Trump's outrages, horrifying but random But what if Trump et al are preparing for civil unrest over an event we don't expect #stopice @sarahkendzior.bsky.social #sarahkendziore

Another in my dystopian predictions. Trump will mandate the use of the Mercator projection for all global maps #maps

I think trans rights are a canary issue, anyone willing to capitulate rightward shows they are willing to capitulate in other areas too. Also, it shows their willingness to align with a party narrative, instead of a dedication to human rights. Trans rights was the first scapegoat after the 2024

Gaza City Mutual Aid - Help Us Provide For Local Families chuffed.org/project/1368...

Let's keep in mind that they are only being charged with genocide because they are GUILTY AS HELL open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

It just occurred to me that the whole "first they came for the [fill in the blank]" logic of "eventually they will come for you" kinda sucks. Defend that first group because it's the right thing to do, not because your ass is eventually going to be on the line

This is always a good sign for the stock market

Or, hear me out, maybe he is mad

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

What is a favorite status symbol of the rich and an incredibly delicate piece of technology whose failure has catastrophic consequences.

Is this supposed to make me feel better about moon dust or worse about urban pollution?

New York Times passes the parody singularity.

Studies like this one : All-Cause Mortality and Life Expectancy by Birth Cohort Across US States share.google/lxYqZAMnpzke... are simply mind boggling. Study after study shows that red states, especially in the deep South, have dramatically lower life expectancies than blue states

Switching back and forth between my "Following" feed and the "Science" feed gives me whiplash. My hope for human life rises and crashes every time I go back and forth.

You heard it here first: I predict Republicans will work to ban iodine in salt.

@climatecasino.net I'm looking for a comprehensive reference on the psychological mechanisms that allow people to ignore the current and future impacts of climate change in their lives. Can you assist?

Is there going to be a black market for vaccines? If so, a friend is looking to get in on the ground floor.

Let's take a moment to remember that mRNA vaccines are as close to a real life miracle as we are likely to see. Less than a year to develop a COVID vaccine and, if preliminary studies like this one pan out, a medical advance as consequential as any we have developed.

Why not send that "delicious' food to the Palestinians that Israel is starving in Gaza? How out of touch do you have to be to post this? www.linkedin.com/posts/afhu_t...

How have I missed out on water voles? They are so charismatic but I've never heard of them. www.yahoo.com/news/scienti...

@tahtone.bsky.social @tahtone.bsky.social Have you considered basing a script on "Climate Criminals". It could be an important cultural landmark in the fight against climate change and it would be a great film.

This is the prosecutor's response to the SBF guilty verdict. When I read it, I hear Jack Webb's voice :

Has anyone read "Climate Criminals" by Tristan Ahtone? It was published in HCN on 8/19/19 as part of their fictional futures issue. I tells the story of a group of soldiers that belong to "an internationally funded joint task force developed to hunt down and arrest fugitive climate criminals"...