Impactful writing and a good reminder for academics. Don’t talk to journalistic cops.

Making AI more intelligent isn’t going to make it conscious. It will make it increasingly indistinguishable from consciousness, and that’s gonna be a huge problem.

It’s just Nazism, all the way down.

No matter how bad you think this article is based on the title, the reality is so much worse. Setting aside all the blood on his hands and the destabilizing effects of radical wealth inequality, claiming he’s worth it as long as he “pays his taxes” and “behaves responsibly” is absurdly credulous.

So many people get convinced it’s their fault. That they deserve to be poor. We gotta help folks kill that illusion so they feel okay asking for help.

Swinging wildly from speed running Nazi Germany to speed running the French Revolution.

Abu Ghraib 2.0

FIFA has the chance to do the funniest thing. Just give it to Obama.

If you have lifetime appointments with no other option of removal, you can’t complain when folks want that individual to do the only thing that would make them stop hurting people with impunity. If that’s literally the only option, that’s where the hopes gonna go. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t know how you would better convey a total inability to have concern for others.

Make weirdness discourse great again!

Value centered community, it’s what plants crave.

What is this feeling? Is this…dopamine? Serotonin? Come closer old friends I barely recognize you.

For folks not in CA, this was literally the only thing on the ballot. And 10 mil folks felt it was worth checking that one box.

So many racist brains gonna melt down extra good.

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This backlash feels a lot like Obama getting elected president.

Got politely turned down for another job that would have been a great fit. Pretty deeply bummed. I knew my path was gonna make this next jump hard, but there’s no preparing for watching the worst people in the world make everything infinitely harder every day while I just wanna help.

“The American conservative project, the old dream of making the world into a place awful enough to justify American conservatism, never had a better champion.” The obit everyone needs.

Sure, all of this is wrong, but the most wrong to me is Supes, as 40k is one of the few universes where he very likely wouldn’t dominate. We know canonically how things go for godlike humans in 40k, and the average is not great! @lastpositivist.bsky.social come suffer in solidarity.

These are terrible people who enjoy suffering they believe to be justified. I think it’s important to add that this is caused by the Conservative Protestant Work Ethic, just world illusion, and deservingness judgments, not just pure sadism. Dismantling those permission structures is essential.

lol, she looks like the hilarious Jewish lady who gets high and does super sardonic monotone shtick while prepping food. They’re so cooked.

Not only that they’re implying it is more lethal at point blank range, which would suggest some sort of explosive accelerant capacity.

Between this, Shapiro, and Wu, it has been a banner week for face eating leopards.

To paraphrase, preferring a negative peace which is the absence of a stated position over positive peace which is the presence of truth.

A few things seem off here: 1. I can’t find a link to the full poll to check the questions. 2.This appears to be a one off poll yet they’re claiming it shows an increase in support for violence, with no citing of prior data. 3. As described, I’d be in that 24% because I know who John Brown was.

Conservatism remains utterly ideologically and morally bankrupt.

What if the real Torment Nexus was the friends we made along the way?

After feeding many other people’s faces to the leopards, I have learned that doing so does not, as I initially hypothesized, make them stop wanting to eat people’s faces. So, I’m abandoning that approach and seeking solidarity against the leopards from the former-face-havers. Gonna assume we cool.

There is a kind of perpetual hopefulness where the desire to always leave the door open for people to come around turns into the framing that they haven’t yet fully committed to their horrible views. It’s not “giving up on someone” to recognize their firmly held horrible views.

Probably shouldn’t have confirmed someone with a Deus Vult tattoo to be Defense secretary if we didn’t want to do some crusading.

Yeah interdimensional aliens/demons are real hot right now. Avoids all the annoying arguments about the vastness of space. I’m sad we don’t still call them the machine elves, so much more distinct.

This is why we founded the Creator Accountability Network. Laws aren’t enough, people need ethics.

Libertarians really did win the messaging fight over prohibition.

That void bump!

Not trying to slut shame, just saying I don’t think I could take sloppy seconds from a sectional.

Y’all reckon she wore pleather to remind him of his favorite couch?

The Galileo gambit is a helluva drug.

“Electing a creeper is how you help men feel welcome again” I dunno feels like a take men should take offense to, but not in the woke way. Manly offense. Threaten to punch someone. That kind of thing.

As Elizabeth Anderson points out, a major consequence of the Conservative Protestant Work Ethic is the belief that it is better for 1000 deserving people to go without aid than for a single undeserving person to receive it.

The end of this thought is “I’m cool with my loving wife and mother of my children burning in hell for all eternity cause free will”. I don’t know how better to convey the horror of the free will and divine justice illusions working in tandum.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Comparing immigrants to a horde of identical baddies never goes poorly…

Everyone focuses on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep when it’s A Scanner Darkly that’s gonna get us.

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

Also out for everyone today (because I’m behind on everything), our episode of Philosophers in Space on Sinners! Ursa obliges me as I work through all the possible things the vampires could stand for in relation to the color line and class. Also, afrofuturism and the origin of bluegrass!

It’s really important to not memory hole that this dipshit got elected stoking racist pogroms by accusing immigrants of stealing and eating people’s pets. That should hang around his neck forever.

New episode out for everyone! I'm joined by @lastpositivist.bsky.social to discuss the philosophy of Warhammer 40k, why it's a fun universe to write in, and why it feels like our politics is increasingly 40k these days. Enjoy! www.voidpod.com/podcasts/2025/10/29/40k-philosophy-with-liam-kofi-bright

Part of me really worries some folks can only recognize a Nazi if they’re in black and white.

This thing is clearly a cogitohazard that broke containment.