"The knowledge that hubris leads to a fatal misstep. The hubris that glows with stupidity. The stupidity that is simply another name for malice..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
Sarah Kendzior in her usual excellent form.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
A short excerpt of uncritical statements and possible responses.
Well done @olivia.science, these are the concise responses many of us understand intuitively but may not be quick enough on our feet to articulate when necessary.
olivia.science/ai/#allies
This is a necessary read. Sarah saw this all coming literally a decade ago and no one wanted to listen.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
This is a phrase I’ll hold onto: “Nosotros no estamos solos—somos los primeros. Somos los primeros.”
Pope Leo XIV: “War is never holy!”
Box 1 — Implications of intractability
I had a realisation
Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources
My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*
I'm a sucker for really good interactive science visualizations.
Check out this one that lets you explore a map of the known universe. It's beautiful, engaging, and very well done.
mapoftheuniverse.net
This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]
Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.
i think this is an important point - not just the way ai coding tools can affect an individual programmer, but the way it interrupts a social practice / a community of people making software
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
Tragedy and farce, at the same time.
And I was just getting ready to say something about Austin, spinning, and graves.
All of this stuff is fundamentally about the erasure of consent. At the core of these products is the assertion that your very existence is a tacit agreement to feed the machine.
“Why Silicon Valley Supports Armageddon in the Middle East” * “When US military commanders are telling troops that strikes on Iran fulfil biblical prophecy, this is an expression of an apocalyptic network connecting the Pentagon, Silicon Valley & the Kremlin” By @peterjukes.bsky.social, 3/3/26 … 1/
“…freedom … an opportunity to do what is right.”
This is a monster:
At the risk of repeating myself, they don't actually care about Americans any more than Iranians, they don't think of us as people they have an obligation to. We're just chaff to be ground up as they scheme to get richer and seize power and kill their enemies. Like peasants to tsars.
Pls read actual news
This is why you don't let fans run the creative.
And that's not a joke.
These are people who think they know better than the god they claim to be fans of, and their creation is a monstrosity because of it.
Again: Not hyperbole, misinterpretation, or a joke that Christian Dominionism is a strain of apocalyptic accelerationism which VERY LITERALLY SEEKS to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world, & the people who believe this have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power
I said this a while ago but it bears repeating:
The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit.
Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).
"the word 'distraction' is so dangerous.
It lets us pretend we are watching a magic show when we are actually watching a demolition" says @timdunlop.bsky.social
We are in the middle of "a deeply organised—if chaotic—movement to end liberal democracy." #auspol
tdunlop.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.
One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…
We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.
The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.
(📸 Middle East Observer)
