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not exactly the voice of reason. scaffolding @eff. centroamericana. escribiendo en https://www.cartasalabismo.com/

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one of my red flags is that I finished and absolutely loved Infinite Jest. never date me.

11.03.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

David Foster Wallace had it

11.03.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

eating an amount of salad that has to be considered unhealthy

10.03.2026 23:45 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

don't worry, I would be trolled until the end of time

10.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I foresee no problems

10.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so far Claude has given me one delusion and it's that I, your manager's manager, could contribute to this code base

10.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

everybody calm down

10.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cuba: la isla de la fantasΓ­a, la tierra de la desesperaciΓ³n En plena ola de titulares sobre Cuba, Eliezer habla con cuatro periodistas cubanos en el exilio para entender la crisis mΓ‘s allΓ‘ del ruido y las ideas preconcebidas.

there’s an English transcript for this episode elhilo.audio/podcast/cris...

10.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes I wonder if all these people in the bsky left have ever talked to a real-life Cuban. not the "Castro took my grandpa's plantation" gusanos, but the children and the grandchildren of the people who stayed. the heartbroken ones who have left in the last 30-20yrs.

10.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s like smiling at strangers in eastern europe

10.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

i’m not posting much because i’m happy. happyposting is frowned upon.

10.03.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

05.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 4389 πŸ” 1554 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 75

oh cool! I'll try to find some. this one is a little old fashioned, I'll try to find more.

09.03.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
POEM XV (poem) - Pablo Neruda - Chile - Poetry International Me gustas cuando callas porque estΓ‘s como ausente, y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca. Parece que los ojos se te hubieran volado y parece que un beso te cerrara la … I like for you to be still...

I think I like this translation poetryinternationalweb.org/pi/site/poem...

09.03.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

el mejor insulto latinoamericano continΓΊa siendo "me gustas cuando callas porque estΓ‘s como ausente"

09.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

we're just liable human avatars for the robot, like the guy who just sit there in the self-driving car. organic fault-absorbers.

09.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s a Netflix 4-part narrated by Morgan Freeman

09.03.2026 00:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

satisfied that my favs (stegosaurus) are depicted as cool herbivores who take no shit

09.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

i started watching the documentary about Dinosaurs and, in retrospect, i should have considered it includes the relentless tragic death of all dinosaurs, which is the opposite of what i wanted

09.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

bluesky psychosis

08.03.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
Cognitive science in Chomsky's mold, Al risk, and AI ethics share the theoretical move that backs us into a "humanist" corner, an ever-shrinking area of things that "computers can't do." The political motivations of some of these proposals are anodyne and well intentioned, but the theories are too weak to cope with the actual intersection of culture and capitalism with which we live today. This is because they have no way of conceiving of the concrete interaction of language and compu-tation. Lacking that, the insistence on "the human" becomes a fetish that siloes meaning where we hope, wish, and want it to come from. It is sentimental semantics, the core of remainder humanism.

Cognitive science in Chomsky's mold, Al risk, and AI ethics share the theoretical move that backs us into a "humanist" corner, an ever-shrinking area of things that "computers can't do." The political motivations of some of these proposals are anodyne and well intentioned, but the theories are too weak to cope with the actual intersection of culture and capitalism with which we live today. This is because they have no way of conceiving of the concrete interaction of language and compu-tation. Lacking that, the insistence on "the human" becomes a fetish that siloes meaning where we hope, wish, and want it to come from. It is sentimental semantics, the core of remainder humanism.

yes. thank you (from www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932...)

08.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading:

WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME
THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE

Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out-
stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red

Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

08.03.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 4967 πŸ” 1972 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 70

how dare you come for me, an International Woman, in my day

08.03.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
08.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 103 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

i ask tall people for favors all the time, as i lavishly compliment their verticality

08.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

right, but even if by some measure we decided they were conscious (good luck with finding consensus on that one), it doesn’t make them β€œhuman” in any meaningful sense.

08.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œif an LLM is conscious then it’s a slave” well, no. your dog is conscious and you walk them on a leash, they’re not allowed to roam the streets. is your dog a slave?

08.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

plenty of other non-human beings are obviously conscious in whatever ways humans are. why is consciousness suddenly being talked about as a proxy for humanity?

08.03.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

MEN ARE DONE Getting Their HAIR CUT And Are WANDERING AROUND In THE WOODS Because They DON'T LIKE How It TURNED OUT But They Didn't SAY ANYTHING To The SUPERCUTS LADY And Now It FEELS LIKE It's TOO LATE So They're STUCK With This OLD MAN HAIRCUT Instead Of LOOKING COOL Like They IMAGINE THEMSELVES

07.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 325 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

generally a bad idea to eat creatures potentially smarter than us

07.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0