Malnormalulo (any pronouns)
I think too much, but sometimes it comes in handy.
"Any pronouns" in my case means "surprise me".
I don't click Substack links.
Profile picture adapted from art by Don Cabanza.
- Just saw someone imply not only that morality is universal like mathematics, but that believing it to be otherwise means you lack a basic understanding of what morality even is. Kindly fuck off. If you believe that, fine, but there are other meta-ethical positions and it isn't a settled field.
- So, like, I agree with most of this clip, but also most of these things are absolutely stuff I may in some cases be willing to delegate to another human being. The problem isn't that these must be done personally, but because AI is not currently at a point where it deserves high trust.
- While some are convinced that Moltbook represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other, a researcher has found an exposure that lets anyone take control of any AI agent on the site. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on why anyone would even use this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcO...
- At least some of the people jumping into using AI as a personal assistant are experimenting to see how close it is, and willing to take risks to do that. Which is fine. Some have been falsely convinced though that it's fully ready for this use case, which is not great.
- I mean, this is the propaganda they're feeding their base: that Democrats only win elections because non-citizens are illegally voting. That's why they offered to withdraw if they got access to voting records. That's why they raided GA's elections office. Is it surprising some agents believe it?
- sounds great now when are you introducing articles of impeachment
- In any science deserving of the name, this should be borderline career-ending not only for the study authors, but also for the reviewers.
- "But some of the numbers in the data tables did not add up correctly” Their results relied on incorrect ADDITION, which lay in plain sight for anyone who actually looked at the tables.
- Beyond parody
- After demanding ICE and other federal agents be banned from wearing face coverings, Schumer and Jeffries added caveats: "no masks, except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.” trib.al/0fN3kmP
- anarchism can easily be distorted into "everything the government does is bad", which is objectively not true. the FDA, for instance, was a huge boon for public health before this admin got ahold of it. the problem is not that these government programs exist, but that they depend on the government.
- our dependence on these government services buttresses the ideology that we depend on the repressive state apparatus (we need roads, so we need taxes, so we need courts and prisons for tax enforcement), but this does not make the service itself bad
- a much more constructive and reasonable anarchism affirms the importance of public services and looks for ways to decouple them from the state, construct a community-driven alternative, or obviate the need for them entirely by tackling more fundamental problems
- Okay serious question: what is the best way to keep track of what your own Rep/Senators are doing? Their votes, at minimum, but ideally also their procedural actions, their committee participation, their public statements.
- Open question so boosts are welcome
- > “Senator, I don’t have any idea where that number would come from,” Sarandos replied. “I don’t believe that’s been your personal experience.” Good on him, honestly, for straight up calling Hawley a liar.
- Netflix aren't exactly allies, but I'm here for anyone calling out straight up disinformation.
- Orthodontics sounds like quackery made up in the 1800s that should not work, like smoke enemas or milk transfusions. "Let's just push on your teeth constantly and they'll literally reposition in your jawbone."
- It was in fact invented thousands of years ago (but became far more common and standardized in, indeed, the 1800s)
